As some of you have noticed, and emailed me about (thanks), the RSS aggregator‘s format changed slightly a few days ago. The new layout should make it easier to read articles and news items. The aggregator started out as a personal project, it allows me to keep up to speed with whats going on in the news (BBC/FT), IT Security Industry (various), IT Industry in general (thereg + others), and a few other things that interest me. Since allowing google to spider http://rss.hamleshmotah.com, its started getting a lot of hits, 1000+ unique visitors a day, so obviously other people find it useful (thanks for all the emails 
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New RSS aggregator format
July 1st, 2007BOINC Stats, Rosetta @ Home
June 9th, 2007Its been a long time since I was active on the Rosetta@Home folding project. I thought I’d check my stats today and was quite amused to find that;
- I am currently ranked 13th in the UK (was 6th before I stopped).
- I am currently ranked 189th in the world (was 62nd before I stopped).
I stopped participating in April of 2006.
Maybe at some point I’ll get fired up an contribute again, who knows.
Hmm subery
November 1st, 2006They arrived at the office today, and I’ve just finished putting them together. I’ve also just finished modifying my amplifers so that they work in a balanced way with the main AV amp. This ensures that while watching films, or listening to music the top and bottom frequency levels are “balanced†in terms of volume. Of course there will be many a time when I will just crank the sub amps right up 
These will join the rest of the home cinema setup at some point (most probably over the weekend) when I am home during the day to do some loud testing.
PS: Yes, thats 3 amps, the Samson and Wharfedale work on powering my 3 subs – I like my bass
Wow… actual site traffic
October 5th, 2006Before I turned all my focus to Berkeley IT, I speant a lot of my time on the internet talking to people on IRC, working on opensource projects, and keeping “up to speed” with penetration testing and IT security.
Well since then I blog irratically and post files and photos from time to time – today just seems to be a day for updating things. I know people read this site as there are the odd comments from both people I know and people I dont. I just looked at the site stats/traffic, I didnt expect to get “this many” visitors: 918 unique visitors last month – for a personal blog type site I dont think this is bad traffic.
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Knoppix STD mirrored
October 5th, 2006In short this is a specifically designed distribution of Linux focused around security and pentesting.
Knoppix-STD is a customized distribution of the Knoppix Live Linux CD. Boot to the CD and you have Knoppix-STD. That would include Linux kernel 2.4.20, KDE 3.1, incredible hardware detection and hundreds of applications. Boot without the CD and you return to your original operating system. Aside from borrowing power, peripherals and some RAM, Knoppix-STD doesn’t touch the host computer.
Read more and download the ISO from here.
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