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# Programming, Friday, 13 January 2006

In the last few months I have been busy programming (mostly) and reading and watching movies.
Of course, I haven't miss the Christmas and New Year fever...

About the programming part:

I have done some tests with a "Log Reader" which should be able to (of course) read logs from various sources (Windows ICF, CheckPoint, Honeyd, IPTables, ...) and interpret them. For now, the hardest job is not to display them in 3D (successfully tested with DirectX already and some work has been done with OpenGL) but to interact with the displayed objects. Kind of stuck here :(
For too long time I have wanted to write an application for installing, uninstalling an interacting with Windows services. I started to work at this application mostly because important parts of the needed code I have written and tested already. Not a nice visual interface for now, I will update it sometime...
At last but not least, in fact the most important application that I have worked at (for me, personally) is called CHScanner and it is a WinPcap-based network scanner for Windows (this is where you can read about the interesting roots of this project).
I have achieved very nice results with this project.
I have even surprised my self.
I am happy.

The applications mentioned above will be posted free on Internet (maybe with the source code).

# SSH baby ..., 22 November 2005

Today I am happy because I was able to write a new document, one that I have waited way too much to write it. I am talking about SSH access for Allied Telesyn's routers and Layer 3 switches. This document represent a MUST do if you want to improve your network security.

Some minor changes to site's css description document have been done in order to improve the formatting of some elements (the "note", "warning" and similar ones).

# Changes and uploaded content, 16 November 2005

I have changed the site's layout:

Articles is gone;
Docs is enough, and is a single page starting from now on;
Plans is a new section (interesting, I hope) of this site.

I have uploaded the Using Visual Studio and xsltproc to create xml projects for transforming .xml files to .html files document.

# Updated content, 23 September 2005

I have uploaded the Naming, labeling and coloring the network ports article.
If you think that the subject of this document is trivial you are making a really big mistake.

# Windows Firewall and Group Policy, 15 July 2005

I have added a simple document on how to apply the settings for Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) through Group Policy.
You can read it here.

# Squiding stuff, 14 July 2005

I have added two documents about Squid Web Proxy Cache:

# Installing Honeyd 1.0 and Arpd 0.2 under Fedora Core 4 (with gcc 4.0.0), 13 July 2005

I have added a document that deals with installation and a basic configuration of Honeyd 1.0 in Fedora Core 4. Altough this should be a "simple" task, some problems have arised:

I had to solve some compilation problems by editing the source code of Honeyd 1.0 and Arpd 0.2 applications
I have updated the Honeyd 1.0's source code to be able to read the new OS fingerprint format that comes with Xprobe2 0.2.2
I had to correct a syntax error from one the Nmap 3.81's OS fingerprints

To see how the whole process was done, including the techinal details, read the document.

# Adamantix -Quick Start, 07 July 2005

I have added a document that deals with Adamantix installation and a little bit of basic configuration (like enabling SSHD).
It is usefull for beginers with Adamantix. You can read the document here.
I have to mention that the document is just a draft.

# Ugly Windows errors, 21 June 2005

See how I have solved two really ugly Windows errors. I mean ugly because I have searched the net and Microsoft's site for nothing.
One of the errors deals with Automatic Updates not performed in a network with Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. The error 0x80004015 was logged by the clients. Read it here.
The other error had a similar cause lke the previous mentioned one but deals with IIS failing to run after sometime. IIS was enabled by a Group Policy Object. You can read the document here.

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