Kismet is an 802.11 layer 2 wireless network detector, sniffer and intrusion detection system (IDS). Kismet works with almost any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11a,g, and 802.11n traffic. Kismet Features: 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11a, 802.11n sniffing Standard PCAP file logging (Wireshark, Tcpdump, etc) Client/Server modular architecture Multi-card and channel […]
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Playing around with using ram-risk configurations lately I decided to attempt to store cache data my web browser (Firefox) in memory rather than on the conventional location (my hard-drive). So by following these simple steps I was able to accomplish just this, and here are the steps I took Create a location where you would […]
pre.cjk { font-family: “DejaVu Sans”,monospace; }p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } I have been playing a bit with running programs even virtual machines in memory. What I have noticed is that when all physical RAM is used, my Linux OS (Ubuntu) will move excess memory into SWAP. This is normal, but…. I am attempting to keep […]
So I had been looking for something to give me system stats about memory being used and CPU usage. I have usedthe program ‘top’ over the years, and then today I tested out the program hTop (htop). Htop is an interactive system-monitor process-viewer written for Linux. It is designed to replace the Unix program top. […]
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Monitor your Ubuntu System with saidar
saidar is a curses-based application to display system statistics. Statistics include CPU, processes, load, memory,swap, network I/O and disks I/O along with their free space. saidar utilizes libstatgrab library. libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it’s run. It’s written in C and presents a selection […]
This article was previously published under Microsoft’s Q243330 Summary A security identifier (SID) is a unique value of variable length that is used to identify a security principal or security group in Windows operating systems. Well-known SIDs are a group of SIDs that identify generic users or generic groups. Their values remain constant across all […]