I recently upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 7.10 ‘Gutsy Gibbon’ from 7.04 ‘Feisty Fawn’ and needed to install VMware Server again. Since my previous post was very popular in helping people get VMware Server installed on Feisty, I thought I would do the same for Gutsy for those who are interested.
There are several prerequisites before [...]

This is the second blog post covering Sunday’s talks at ToorCon 9. You can read the first installment here.
After a hard night of partying, I didn’t want to get out of bed early in the morning. Gotta give props to Hikari for foreseeing this and not scheduling anything before noon, haha.. One thing I [...]

This weekend I was in San Diego, California for ToorCon 9 and had an absolute blast. On Friday, I had checked out the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum and enjoyed listening to veterans recount fascinating experiences on the ship during the war. I took the morning to “experience” the city, something I have tried doing [...]

Crawling and scraping rarely get discussed in a security context because everyone is too busy creating cute mashups and messaging their MySpace friends.
I recently read Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers from NoStarch Press.  The author uses PHP-CURL for all his examples, and provides interesting ideas for scrapers.  Most of these ideas can be replaced by [...]

Several of us are going to ToorCon 9 this weekend in San Diego, California. I’m flying out tomorrow (Friday) morning and I plan on visiting some sites around town, such as The Aircraft Carrier/USS Midway Museum and then head up to Little Italy in the Gaslamp section for some lunch. Following, I plan to hit [...]