When you are busy, you are busy. Sorry for not posting on here in a while. I have really bitten off more that I can chew. To top it off, I have taken up a new hobby / mode of transportation. Yeah, you guessed it. I am getting my private pilots license. Well, back to my studies. 
This pic was borrowed from a September 11th memorial site. I thought it was awesome. I was at Fort Bragg, NC in the 7th Special Forces Group during September 11th. This was a scary time for me. I was young and didn’t really know what was about to come down the pipe for us. I was clueless. I stood there in front of a TV after my commander announced that all training exercises are canceled and everyone needs to report immediately for accountability and to see where we were going to go from there. My wife had flown home from Chicago the night prior and my mind was racing as I watched people jump from the towers and other run in terror from the debris cloud. Until I say the news footage of the arab woman dancing in the streets celebrating of the news of the attack on New York, it didn’t really sink in that someone, some force did this on purpose. Though I wasn’t in New York helping like those brave police, firefighters, medical workers, military personnel, and other people that volunteered, I wish I was and volunteered multiple times to go help. I was needed elsewhere though.
My heart goes out to the families of the victims on 9/11 and all the people the have sacrificed and or suffered from a result of 9/11. You should always be in our hearts and minds and let no man or woman cry out that they have suffered or endured as much as you have. I am proud the be an American and crushed to know that as an ex-soldier I am still feeling helpless and wish I could help you people more and offer protection like I vowed to when I raised my right hand and was sworn in as a Soldier. But, even though we lost so much we gained a new respect from the enemy. Our buildings may fall but the United States will not. The veins of our country run rich with the blood that our soldiers sacrificed on the battle field and we will tolerate no evil from our enemies. We have taken out Saddam and Osama and if someone steps into the lead where those two evil people were, we will get you too. The cost of freedom is blood. We have paid our share and have come to collect yours.
I have the majority of the helpdesk database and site framework built. It works beautifully with Mac and Droid tablets, not so much with IE though. Firefox, Chrome, and Opera are rockin’ though. I don’t really know if I care if it works in IE or not. Hrmmmmm….
Yup, the planning phase is complete and now begins development. This was originally going to be a PHP/MYSQL application that was going to be ported to M$SQL and ASP for the corporations that drank the blue coolaid and can’t break away from the Microsoft servers due to not hiring real talent that can handle a Unix environment. So, we are going to pour our hearts and souls out developing in the Windows environment first which makes sense since we will have to take more security precautions in ASP than PHP. We will NOT port this application to PHP. We will develop it from the ground up in PHP next to ensure the best performance. We are aiming for the ability to have a product that requires ZERO training to use and is super fast and reliable. More updates as we move along the process. Wish me luck, I am rusty in VBSCRIPT and ASP. After getting the login module coded I will be back up to par though.
If you are using my PHP code posted on this site for a WordPress you will notice that the direct links don’t work because of the masking. Well, there are a few easy fixes for that.
1. You can download the break out of frames add on for WordPress.. I would not recommend that though. It severely slows down your site and causes it to freeze on load intermittently. If you are using my code, stay away from this add on.
2. You can re-arrange your code to allow direct transfers without masking being a pain for you. You do this by adding an if statement ahead of your frames statement on your index.php file.
if ( $host == “whatever.com” || $host == “www.whatever.com” ) {
header (“Location: “. “filefolder”);
}
Then go into your redirect.php file and remove those entries for your site and you are all set. I set my default to a folder that has a single file that act sort of like a 404 page error file.
I will update the code in the software to accommodate WordPress sites as soon as I get a chance.
We are currently in meetings about a new line that we going to launch called SIMPLISTIX. All of them are simple, easy to use, but, FULL FEATURED PHP/MySQL based web applications designed to get the majority of data collection and processing in the hands of users via Droid and iPhone or Tablets. We are taking the usable highlights out of current systems and stripping all the corporate cool-aid out of them to give the corporations a series of products that are easy to use, easy to deploy, easy to manage, and easily scalable and up-gradable. Here is a list of the products we plan to offer:
SIMPLISTIX – HD ( IT Helpdesk / Inventory / Documentation management system / collaboration set / scheduling system )
SIMPLISTIX – MED ( Medical charting system / medication management system / Diet management / bed placement / Emergency System / Trauma system / surgery scheduling / patient tracking / patient billing / medical record processing system )
SIMPLISTIX – ERP ( CAD Drawing document management system / CNC Communication system / tool vending system / job + workflow system / Sales / Billing / and scheduling / Materials management )
SIMPLISTIX – SEC ( Security management system / Incident reporting system / scheduling system )
SIMPLISTIX – CON (Contractor scheduling / billing / materials management. )
This is enough projects for now. We will have more in the future to cover more systems. The shell for all these is the SAME so you can take modules from each one of these and mix and match. We are also talking about reporting systems for management and project management to be able to graph and print and bring to meetings. Each one of these projects will get deployed to it’s own website and will be pay for software. There is a free version and trial versions of this software. The trials are 90 days full featured and the free version is the shell with the Scheduling mod only.
The theme this month is geared towards the old timers. We are playing with Windows 3.11 and Dos 6.22. Mwahahahahahahaha.
Your primary objective is going to be defense with the amount of totally awesome vulnerabilities available this game. For some bonus, we are going to have a best BASIC script contest right along with this. Ahahaha! Blow off the dust from your QBasic book from college and lets have some fun. I will have a points availability list done by Wednesday this week so you can craft how you are going to rack up the points in the event and have some fun. Winner takes home a pot as usual. The pot is set at $1 for every registered and paid competitor. I have 1000 available seats. Cost to play is $10 and everyone gets a certificate of training and a certificate of participation for jumping in. Dates are still not set so stay tuned.
Here are some pics of the image building process. This event is going to be soooo much fun.
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1. Encrypt your hard drive. Set a difficult password that you will remember but can not be easily guessed on it.
2. Set a BIOS password startup password.
3. Disable booting from other devices in your BIOS and set a BIOS password.
"I recently wrote an article on how to hack into Windows in under 90 seconds. Well, Linux is even faster and easier. If you have local access to the PC, you have full access. Here is how you do it.
1. Use your Finnix CD or whatever Linux live distro you are using.
Finnix is really small and you don’t have to deal with GUI slowing you down. You can get a copy from here: http://www.finnix.org/Download
fdisk –l
mkdir moo
mount /dev/sda1 moo
chroot
passwd
Now, reboot your PC and log in with your new password. Wala.. You just hacked Linux in under 45 seconds.
THIS DOES NOT WORK WITH SOLARIS!