Anything and Nothing

OH BOY, OH BOY, OH BOY…. This past weekend was something else.
Not only was it my birthday and I got half of the things on my wishlist (books, camera and shure e3c), but I also went to Vegas for DefCon 15
and participated in the aCTF III as "Robots Get Wedgies Too". We got 3rd place in that thing and we loved it, considering we didn’t do much practice/preparation for the thing other than show up in Vegas . You can see the photos from the trip. It was 4 days of booze, hacking, no sleep and more booze , not that I am complaining but lets just say that we spent the flight back and the following day doing nothing but sleeping. One thing I am totally disappointed in is my inability (well maybe inability is a bit strong but more… rustyness) to work some of the tools I was trying to use, but at least now I know to not relay on automation tools for SQL Injections and just remember the damn SQL syntax so we don’t spend half the day doing a clicking war against the other teams.
Although aCTF is not as crazy involved as the official Kenshoto CTF, it is still a mind boggling contest. The guys at dc949 did not let us off easy, one of the services involved you recognizing that a bunch of gibberish was a wav file (the header was stripped so you really need to know how wav gibberish looks when "cat"ed) that you need to copy paste and play in order to figure out what to type in order to get the service. So I must definitely give those guys a shout out for putting on a great contest that is not as lame as everyone at DC thinks, it is definitely not all about running nessus and metasploit and clicking random buttons.
After this whole fiasco I am now headed to the beach for a week, which is going to be an awesome ending to the summer.

So yeah…. I am reusing, so sue me. I have not updated in ages but I am gonna in a little bit…. I promise. Oh and as always there is the Uber Category at the bottom. So without further adue here is The List:

These babies are the best money can buy in the world of head phones. This is a 6.1 surround sound system for your ear canal with 3 separate drivers per headphone it is the best and clearest sound you are going to be able to get without splurging for live concert grade headphones.
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Ok so I have been slacking like crazy for the past month and half , but in my defense a lot has happened. My old car broke down on me right after new years so now I am the proud owner of a 2007 Two Door VW Rabbit:

This baby comes LOADED, I am talking: 17" alloy wheels, mp3 player, power everything, ipod hookup. The only gripe I have with it is the miles per gallon 23/30 is not that great, but for the nice ride you get out of that 5 valve 2.5 liter engine with 170 lbs of torque is not that big of a gripe . The coolest thing though: I am the only owner of a Black 5 Speed Rabbit in the Southeast USA .
Also, I got my most prized Christmas Wishlist item the BFG 7800GS AGP video card, so now I have everything from Antialiasing to Antistrophic filtering turned to the max and no games (not that I play many) have looked better. One last big thing is that Marshall finally got me on WoW and I am currently playing on Skywall as a Undead Enchanter Mage (all of level 7 , started playing two nights ago). If you do not want to pay the 15$ a month for WoW I would strongly recommend you get Dungeon Siege II and the expansion Broken World. Its pretty close to the WoW gameplay.

Oh yeah and I am headed to Auburn, Alabama on Friday on a water polo tournament so wish me luck, I am probably gonna post some pictures Monday or Sunday night (if I am not dead tired). But for right now you can check out the pictures from New Years Eve: Photo Album

Ok so here is my Christmas Wishlist so people can stop bugging me about it. I don’t get it… Christmas is not fun if you do not wait until the last minute (read December 22nd) to get people the stuff they want .
The list does not have a particular order but the first three items on here is what I guess consider as a really want gifts, plus it has an added bonus section that is only for the bravest of souls out there (read people with money). So without further adue here is The List:

These babies are the best money can buy in the world of head phones. This is a 6.1 surround sound system for your ear canal with 3 separate drivers per headphone it is the best and clearest sound you are going to be able to get without splurging for live concert grade headphones.
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Here is a list of all the software that I have on my 15″ MacBook Pro. I am unable to function without 90% of this software running just about constantly on my laptop. So here is the list:

Internet Tools:

Adium - mac software for download at iusethis

Adium is a fast and free instant messaging client which supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Yahoo! Japan, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, and Lotus Sametime. Adium supports beautiful WebKit message display, tabbed messaging, encrypted chat, file transfer, and more. Give it a try; you won’t look back. Adium is currently translated into Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese.

Firefox - mac software for download at iusethis

The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It’s easy to import your favorites and settings and get started. Download Firefox now and get the most out of the Web.

Thunderbird - mac software for download at iusethis

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