Digital DawgPound

A part review / part guide to OS X from a Windows users point of view.
"An unexpected experience with the Mac came after I left it alone running in a dark room for the first time."
After recent issues with Windows Vista, and since a new updated version of Apple’s operating system had just been released [...]

Some of you may know that I do a good bit of traveling for my job. For some reason, I have avoided ever buying an mp3 player of any kind (I can’t stand the ipod). I never found one that I liked. Then I watched the PVP (Personal Video Player) devices come to [...]

i just got this dell optiplex and it came with this video out. it is clearly a video card (the s-video next to it). i didnt unpack it, so maybe the people that did lost some cable? it looks almost like DVI but if you notice, its missing the cross on the rigth side. there [...]

I recently switched over to using Windows Vista / Office 2007 on my main PC - an Intel 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, with 2GB RAM.
So far the experience has been extremely disappointing and frustrating.
On Windows XP I rebooted maybe once a week or so, with Vista I am rebooting all the time due to lockups [...]

I have been listening to the latest album from MC Frontalot called “Secrets from the future” for a couple of months now. It recently went gold and is available on the frontastic one’s web site along with his first album, “Nerdcore Rising”.
I was going to post a review of this back when I first [...]

We have been bouncing around from company to company for the past year or so and I think we have finally found a “good” hosting company for a change. They are giving us a powerful server at a fair price along with full management, which will help us to maintain the server so that [...]

I decided to try and improve the reliability and responsiveness of my previous RFID front door project (based around a client / server design), by re-implementing it using the Parallax BASIC Stamp 2e, and the 13.5MHz APSX RW-210 RFID reader as a standalone device. I was also looking to gain some practical experience with [...]

During the Christmas break I found some time to catch up on watching / listening to the recordings made publicly available by conferences such as Blackhat, CCC, Defcon and HOPE.
Here follows a list of talks worth downloading.
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23C3: Console Hacking 2006 (Felix Domke) [Info | Audio Download]
Both an entertaining and educational look at the security on [...]

After testing out Trixbox I found out that Digium had started releasing its own Linux distribution through rPath, a company who specializes in customized Linux distributions for particular applications. I decided to give the distro a try and see what I thought of it. So I ended up downloading the Pound Key 1.2.1 ISO which [...]

I recently wrote a text file for oldskoolphreak.com about my experiences with Trixbox. I decided I should post the article here as well for anyone that hasn’t visited oldskoolphreak lately!
Somewhat recently I needed a fresh Asterisk box up and running ASAP for some testing I was planning on doing. I didn’t want to sit around [...]