Ever wanted to capture a photo from a remote webcam? Like from one of your friends perhaps. Probably if you've a little hacker in your belly.. This is another demonstration of the use of Metasploit like I did in my previous article Exploiting SMB on Windows. Therefore, I won't talk about installing the framework and running the supplied program msfconsole.

Just the other day, I was confronted with a problem at the university where disk I/O operations were unavoidable. It is a fact that the HDD is slower than RAM, of course, so a mounted FS in RAM was used instead. If one has tried this in FreeBSD or Linux before then this is quite similar and just as easy.

To create a RAM disk the following is done:

% hdid -nomount ram://SECTORS

The following review of Mac OS X 10.6, which also goes by the name Snow Leopard, can be found here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars.

It really is a nice review talking about topics such as the LLVM/Clang transition, the introduction of Blocks in C-style languages, Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) and OpenCL. Read it!

Last Thursday i got my Free Software Foundation (FSF) membership card, which is a credit card sized USB drive. It looks like the following: