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Hacking the Xbox 95 best websites you should bookmark today Google is the internet surfer's best friend and worst enemy. If you know what you're after, just type it into the search engine's famous little box and – hey presto – you'll be given a list of related sites in order of relevance. Such is Google's dominance that its name has become a synonym for search. And rightly so. When was the last time you Yahooed something? And good though Bing is, it's not ringing our bell just yet. Searching for something implies you know what you're looking for. How do you ask Google for some brilliant sites, sites which will feed your mind, soul or just let you waste time in style? Our experts have put their thinking caps on and come up with a list of their favourite sites. 20 websites that changed the world Best sites for learning Martin Cooper uncovers the best sites for discovering amazing facts and figures When you're after something to feed your mind, body or soul, you'll be sure to find something on the internet that will make you think. eHow www.ehow.com

Top 11 Packet Sniffers SecTools.Org: Top 125 Network Security Tools For more than a decade, the Nmap Project has been cataloguing the network security community's favorite tools. In 2011 this site became much more dynamic, offering ratings, reviews, searching, sorting, and a new tool suggestion form . This site allows open source and commercial tools on any platform, except those tools that we maintain (such as the Nmap Security Scanner , Ncat network connector , and Nping packet manipulator ). We're very impressed by the collective smarts of the security community and we highly recommend reading the whole list and investigating any tools you are unfamiliar with. 14 tools Wireshark (known as Ethereal until a trademark dispute in Summer 2006) is a fantastic open source multi-platform network protocol analyzer. version 1.8.2 on Aug. 15, 2012 (1 month, 2 weeks ago). sniffers UNIX users often smugly assert that the best free security tools support their platform first, and Windows ports are often an afterthought.

Library (VX heavens) Chat with Your Friends through ms dos Command Prompt -: Chat with Friends through ms dos Command Prompt :- 1) All you need is your friend's IP Address and your Command Prompt. 2) Open Notepad and write this code as it is.....! @echo off :A Cls echo MESSENGER set /p n=User: set /p m=Message: net send %n% %m% Pause Goto A 3) Now save this as "Messenger.Bat". 4) Open Command Prompt. 5) Drag this file (.bat file) over to Command Prompt and press Enter. 6) You would then see something like this: 7) Now, type the IP Address of the computer you want to contact and press enter You will see something like this: 8) Now all you need to do is type your message and press Enter. ShareThis

Unattended Installations On this page I'll collect (links to) sample scripts and commands for unattended and silent software installations (and migrations). My definition of an unattended installation is any installation that does not require user input but may display dialogs or progress bars etc. Silent installations are installations without any visible interface elements. The main focus will on installing software, drivers, etcetera in Windows (NT 4 and later, not 9*/ME), not on installing Windows itself, though some links will be provided. I won't restrict myself to a single script language, the goal is getting the job done. The installation commands or scripts are roughly categorized: General Harddisks Preparing harddisks for a new operating system is tricky, because it can be done only when you boot from another medium like a floppy disk, CD-ROM or bootable USB stick -- or another harddisk. • Probably the most well-known tool to (re)partition harddisks is FDISK. Network NETSH -f netsh.dhcp.script Windows Registry

What’s My Pass? » The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time From the moment people started using passwords, it didn’t take long to realize how many people picked the very same passwords over and over. Even the way people misspell words is consistent. In fact, people are so predictable that most hackers make use of lists of common passwords just like these. To give you some insight into how predictable humans are, the following is a list of the 500 most common passwords. If you see your password on this list, please change it immediately. Keep in mind that every password listed here has been used by at least hundreds if not thousands of other people. There are some interesting passwords on this list that show how people try to be clever, but even human cleverness is predictable. “…Approximately one out of every nine people uses at least one password on the list shown in Table 9.1! Lists the top 500 worst passwords of all time, not considering character case. Source: Perfect Passwords, Mark Burnett 2005

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