- Published:
- September 30, 2009 – 1:35 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Was poking around ServerFault this morning and came across a great one-liner command using curl which will tell you the device’s external facing IP address. This probably isn’t anything new but it was something that I just haven’t thought of until now. curl icanhazip.com Icanhazip.com is just a simple output of the IP address of the accessor, so it is really clean and simple, just how I like it. It is really easy to set up by yourself if you have a domain not doing anything. In index.php, place: $ip=@$REMOTE_ADDR; echo "$ip";
Categories: Site Updates
- Published:
- September 29, 2009 – 5:00 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
I was recently tasked with copying speaker’s presentations, files and handouts onto 100s of USB Drives (key drives) for a conference that work is hosting down in Washington, D.C. My first thought was that it was going to be a pain to have to copy/paste the files to each drive. I thought about creating a batch script to copy the files with a double click. But really, who wants to be doing all of that clicking and/or typing? Work smarter, not harder. Then I remembered a neat feature that SyncBackSE, a program I use at home for backups, has available. The backup program – which is basically a file copy process – can be triggered based on the insert of a drive, whether that be a USB Key Drive or an External Hard Drive. Using the program, the only action you need to do to trigger the copy process is….
Categories: Hardware,Other Code,Programs
Tagged: conference, key drive, tips, tricks, usb drive, usb key drive
- Published:
- September 10, 2009 – 10:12 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
I wrote this paper during this past spring semester at West Chester University, for a class in the Computer Science department. My paper was accepted and published in the proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks which was held on July 13-16 in Las Vegas, NV. The title of the paper is “Sensor Graphing via Wireless Sensor Network to a Mobile Internet Device” – my demo device being the iPhone. The paper as presented is below: Sensor Graphing via Wireless Sensor Network to a Mobile Internet Device by David Drager
Categories: Hardware,Other Technology,Site Updates
Tagged: paper, presentation, published, sensor networks, wireless sensors
- Published:
- September 1, 2009 – 7:28 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Just received my first SMS “Vishing.” Vishing is where you receive a text message on your cell phone which tells you to call a number for some reason – your credit card was blocked, or something similar. The message I received was: 8665379776@suneast.org()SunEast F.C.U (Card Blocked) Alert. For more information please call 1-866-537-9776. Thank you./ The first tipoff for me was that I do not have a SunEast account. I called the number (which also appears to be associated with another business) and it just rang endlessly, so I am not sure if their system is working quite right; but I believe what is supposed to happen is that a voicemail picks up indicating that you should leave a message with some personal information – your banking password, credit card number, SSN, etc – which then the criminals can use to their advantage. Is this becoming more popular? This is….
Categories: Site Updates
