According to the report, ASUS and Toshiba are the most reliable. I'm very proud that 2 of the nine laptop brand are from Taiwan. But actually, many Taiwanese don't like to buy the products made by our country, most of them think the products from western countries or Japan have better quality. They just can't realize that the Taiwanese corporations already have the ability to make good quality products. We, Taiwanese don't have the patriot love and not united enough to support the local corporations, brands that hire the Taiwanese.
It's a good news to hear Asus is one of the best brand with good reliability. Keep going, Asus.
Highlights of the study include in the report:
- The first 3 years of ownership, 31% of laptop owners reported a failure.
- Two-thirds of this failure (20.4%) came from hardware malfunctions.
- One-third (10.6%) was reported as accidental damage.
- Netbooks are projected to have a 20% higher failure rate from hardware malfunctions than more
expensive laptop computers.
- ASUS and Toshiba were the most reliable manufacturers, with fewer than 16% having a
hardware malfunction over 3 years.
Where can I get BackTrack 4?
Download it from http://www.remote-exploit.org/
The latest version is an ISO file, what can I do?
The way I used is to download the software called unetbootin-windows. It helps you duplicate the whole Linux system in the ISO file to a USB drive. After this, just boot your computer by the USB drive.
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Below is the steps to crack a WEP protected AP, it teaches us that it's more safe to use the Ethernet instead of the Wireless. If you really want to use Wireless AP, exploiting a high security protection(WPA2) is very important. (WEP and WPA can already be cracked by aircrack-ng program. There's program that can spoof wireless card's MAC so it's still vulnerable to use MAC filter)
1. "airmon-ng" to find your wireless interface (said wlan0, ra0, etc..)
2. "airmon-ng start ra0" to enable monitor mode from managed mode (ra0 is your interface name)
3. "airodump-ng ra0" to get all APs within the area (Reference the table below to know the meaning of all the fields, http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airodump-ng)
Field
Description
BSSID
MAC address of the access point. In the Client section, a BSSID of ”(not associated)” means that the client is not associated with any AP. In this unassociated state, it is searching for an AP to connect with.
PWR
Signal level reported by the card. Its signification depends on the driver, but as the signal gets higher you get closer to the AP or the station. If the BSSID PWR is -1, then the driver doesn't support signal level reporting. If the PWR is -1 for a limited number of stations then this is for a packet which came from the AP to the client but the client transmissions are out of range for your card. Meaning you are hearing only 1/2 of the communication. If all clients have PWR as -1 then the driver doesn't support signal level reporting.
RXQ
Receive Quality as measured by the percentage of packets (management and data frames) successfully received over the last 10 seconds. See note below for a more detailed explanation.
Beacons
Number of announcements packets sent by the AP. Each access point sends about ten beacons per second at the lowest rate (1M), so they can usually be picked up from very far.
# Data
Number of captured data packets (if WEP, unique IV count), including data broadcast packets.
#/s
Number of data packets per second measure over the last 10 seconds.
CH
Channel number (taken from beacon packets).
Note: sometimes packets from other channels are captured even if airodump-ng is not hopping, because of radio interference.
MB
Maximum speed supported by the AP. If MB = 11, it's 802.11b, if MB = 22 it's 802.11b+ and higher rates are 802.11g. The dot (after 54 above) indicates short preamble is supported. Displays “e” following the MB speed value if the network has QoSenabled.
ENC
Encryption algorithm in use. OPN = no encryption,”WEP?” = WEP or higher (not enough data to choose between WEP and WPA/WPA2), WEP (without the question mark) indicates static or dynamic WEP, and WPA or WPA2 if TKIP or CCMP is present.
CIPHER
The cipher detected. One of CCMP, WRAP, TKIP, WEP, WEP40, or WEP104. Not mandatory, but TKIP is typically used with WPA and CCMP is typically used with WPA2. WEP40 is displayed when the key index is greater then 0. The standard states that the index can be 0-3 for 40bit and should be 0 for 104 bit.
AUTH
The authentication protocol used. One of MGT (WPA/WPA2 using a separate authentication server), SKA (shared key for WEP), PSK (pre-shared key for WPA/WPA2), or OPN (open for WEP).
ESSID
The so-called “SSID”, which can be empty if SSID hiding is activated. In this case, airodump-ng will try to recover the SSID from probe responses and association requests.
STATION
MAC address of each associated station or stations searching for an AP to connect with. Clients not currently associated with an AP have a BSSID of ”(not associated)”.
Lost
The number of data packets lost over the last 10 seconds based on the sequence number. See note below for a more detailed explanation.
Packets
The number of data packets sent by the client.
Probes
The ESSIDs probed by the client. These are the networks the client is trying to connect to if it is not currently connected.
4. Note down:
(1) Interface
(2) AP's name (ESSID)
(3) AP's BSSID
(4) AP's channel
5. "airodump-ng -w wep -c 11 --bssid 00:A0:C5:12:34:56 ra0" to lock down the AP you wanna crack (capture packet)
6. "aireplay-ng -1 0 -a 00:A0:C5:12:34:56 ra0" to associate you with the AP. (Fake authentication attack)
7. "aireplay-ng -3 -b 00:A0:C5:12:34:56 ra0"; wait until the #Data reaches 30000. Then "Ctrl+c" to break this command. The encapsulation file will be stored under the path where you are at. (ARP request replay attack)
8. "aircrack-ng wep.cap". The software will tell you the key has been found [05:61:31:AB:33] (aircrack-ng)
One more new service has been made by Google! Now, you can look up the information about what movies are showing in the theaters of your city. Just click this URL: http://www.google.com/movies, and tell it what city you are at. It'll tell you the movie, show time, theater. Once you click the movie, it also gives the review from the people about this movie.
Seems that the Google empire is gonna rule the world.
Copyright belongs to http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-11-12-n21.html
A new feature called Google Dashboard has been released by the Google team. Google provides tons of services to the users, you might forget services you have ever used and registered. With this dashboard, it tells you the services that you use and provide by Google (Blogger, Calendar, Docs, GMail.., etc)
Thanks for the effort the Google team has been making...
The picture below is an example (You can find a link to it in the "personal settings" of the "my account" page. or access this http://www.google.com/dashboard/ directly if you have logged in already)
Copyright belongs to http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/
Honestly, I like the companies who pay attention to the environmental issues and use part of their profit to do these scientific researches besides making money.
We've been told the Earth has suffered from the damage by human beings who consider themselves the smartest animal on the Earth. We don't know whether these warnings are announced for some intentions or not, the environment indeed is getting worse. I'm happy to hear this news from Toyota, at least there's a company contribute something to the Earth.
The flowers seem beautiful, I'm curious are there really three different kinds of colors in the picture below (really brightly colored), or just photoshopped, faked flowers.
Toyota has created two flower species that absorb nitrogen oxides and take heat out of the atmosphere.
The two new plants are part of a wide-ranging plan to reduce the impact of Prius manufacture on the environment. Since 1990, the plant has reduced CO2 emissions by 55 per cent.
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