• First we installed 1 GB DIMMs into each of the toys. 8 screws on the bottom of the netbook, 6 more under the keyboard holding the upper faceplate then two remaining that held the motherboard down. Flip the motherboard over to access the memory slot. This was a royal pain, could not have done it without this guide (and pictures!). Even still, we had to drill out one of my screws I stripped on my first break-down attempt. Running 1.5 GB RAM now, happy time!
  
• Second I imaged some flash drives for USB booting: One with the Aspire factory image, one with flash-persistant ubuntu and a copy of Backtrack 3 on a directory in my everyday 4GB windows flash drive.

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Meant to compete with ASUS’ Eee PC, the Aspire one uses Intel’s 1.6GHz Atom CPU in all of its variations, along with an 8.9-inch, 1024×600 (WSVGA) display with integrated webcam and Intel’s Media Accelerator 950 graphics. While information and specs on the basic system were already known, Acer has revealed two other variations of its first mini laptop.

The basic one comes with 512MB of RAM memory and an 8GB solid-state drive. The flash drive’s storage space is expandable via an SD card reader. A 4-in-1 card reader lets users transfer large files to and from the nearly 2.2-pound UMPC. To keep the price low, the OS is Linpus Linux Lite, and a three-cell, roughly three-hour battery is in place. Accessories connect to the mini notebook via three USB 2.0 ports.

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• Reinstalling servers for work. Working on two servers at a team, each of the servers has 8+ network cables and 13 network ports. On recabling this made for some fun, as the OS installation changed the order of the network ports from the pre-rebuild state.
• Server installation means running of the team hardening scripts. Seems that I picked the wrong revision of the scripts, and all devices in the /dev tree were deleted. This brought me on a voyage of discovery for me:
• For recreating most of the devices under solaris, "devfsadm -C" works nicely. This is similar to a reconfiguration boot. But...
• The VERITAS storage devices are not created. This is awkward, since the boot drives are VERITAS (VXFS) devices. Google found me IT Resource Center forums - VxVM /dev/vx recovery - This thread ... which was enough information that I was able to extrapolate how to to rebuild the devices...
• I spent last week in Palo Alto training on Symantec Cluster Server. Then after landing Saturday afternoon at 4 PM I got to catch some sleep for the 1:30 AM change involving the failover of work's internal cluster from production to the BCP servers for a one-month switch. Things would have gone smoother if the SAN team had "put the LUN in the map group" the first time. I don't know what that means, except that it took me a couple hours of time (and manager abuse) to show that it was not my fault the cluster wasn't coming up before the SAN team could find their little oversight.
• The little Acer Aspire One netbook has been running nicely.
  
• Lisa used it when I was in class to handle her email and play web games and had no problems with it.
  
• This evening I had a bit of fun with Backtrack. I copied the files to a USB flash drive and was able to boot from that and use the network tools to scan the area wireless networks.
  

I actually logged into WoW for a little bit last night. I had my two thirty-something chars get their first ground mounts, which is now available at lvl 30 for 35g with patch 2.4. I think I might start playing on the horde side, as I haven't seen that story much at all. Though I might just switch to playing with my copy of Orange Box...

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• Fighting Organized Cyber Crime

  Thomas X. Grasso

• Remote Pair Programming and Test-driven Development Using Open Source

  Matt Hargett & Luis Miras

• Trusted Computing: Could it be... SATAN?

  Bruce Potter

• Hacking Malware: Offense is the new Defense

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