WxWidgets is the new thingy in vogue now I think, I dunno if any1 has heard about it. It brings real OOP to C++ coders. It requires a high learning curve though. I use wxHatch to code Interfaces and (drag And drop :-P) and then code the main stuff in wxwidgets and then compile it on the platform I want to run it on. It also makes C++ look multi platform. www.wxwidgets.org , Did I mention that it is free for commercial use as well.

Erm!!. I think there's tor out there, snarf it @ http://www.torproject.org/download.html.en I use it on Ubuntu and It works. My ISP used to have adds placed on pages I visit but with Tor and privoxy (all in the same download) vidalia is also included. no time to post explanation of inner workings of tor but feel free to google it.

U could also use a proxy server. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=proxy+public&btnG=Search

UBUNTU ROCKS!! Downloaded Gutsy annd running it for a week now. Beryl work like holy hell, Those Apple guys are just talking crap with Leopard or whatever it is they are releasing this week. Erm wireless, Graphics everything works. Did I also mention that I have ordered it!! some caveat though-- Beryl eats battery for breakfast! and excessive Hard Drive Activity and slow boot time but WTH Is the beta and I will be upgrading when I get the final release!

You might also want to check out Dan Kaminsky's talk of Black Hat 2004 on Black-ops of DNS. Then U cld see how hackers compromise DNS servers.
IpTables with Linux/Unix also help to mitigate some kinds of attacks.

Ok Alexis! who isnt scared for his or her network these days. I don't know but perhaps snort is what you want. You can actually "regexp" it to catch nmap scans. I'll get more stuff for you www.snort.org. U can also check this page http://netsecurity.about.com/od/intrusiondetectionid1/a/aafreeids.htm

Hello Everyone, been a long time since I last posted ,  I have been busy and also, I post comments in the computers forum so maybe you dont know me here.
But I need help right now, and I hope someone here can provide it,
I am working on a project to test the feasibility of creating an infrared PH indicator,
I don't know how feasible it is  but I know that colour changes in conventional indicators are caused by electrons moving from a more confined state to a delocalised state and hence, the energy difference corresponds to the photons of light emmited.
If the energy difference is low enough, photons can be emitted in the infrared range of the spectrum.
But how feasible?

Well, if you mean voice recognition, you must have a team cause you definitely dont need just your programming and electronics skills . you will have to be able to identify language, stress patterns on sentences and many other things,  Are you planning for your PhD thesis or is this just a hobby,
Well  personnaly, I would prefer the RFID like option and the idea suggested above isnt bad at all.
You might not have to do voice recog. but remote controlling everything in your room from a single device makes almost the same amount of sense,
or are we now getting lazy to push buttons,
Now the voice recog device might be hardware or software depending on how you want, there would probably be a mic ( definitely).
If you have your own hardware, you might not find it easy to connect it to the pc cause you have to code a device driver for it. But on a software level, you stil have a lot of coding, planning and algorithm checks to do but the language stuff is the most important.
else, It might work for one person and not another, We all speak differently though this can be solved by asking the reader to read a short passage you will have prepared and the software maps out basic stuff to aid it know the guys accent.

Do you mean the machine language of the processor/chip of the system you are working with?

Of course you can packet sniff on a network other than yours, Its called GRE sniffing or something like that, you know about subnet masks , It comes into play here. You can get a video sample at http://www.hackingdefined.com/index.php/Demos. You sound like someone who wants to learn about computers in a different way,
Thats quite good.
IP spoofing is as a result of creating raw packets. Raw packets are created by creating asocket and specifying it as a raw socket. Instead of SOCK_STREAM, you type in SOCK_RAW as the parameter in yoursocket declaration. Hey, you get to fill out the stuff yourself and this requires a basic understanding of an IP packet structure. You might do a google on raw sockets or GRE sniffing.
A good example of GRE sniffing was given in the book 'Stealing the continent, How to own the box' where Hex a female hackese breaks into a school network ( in short sha, she messes with the subnet mask, and changes the default gateway to point to her own router, then instructs her own router to send back replies to the schools LAN. I think so, )

hey try www.pdfchm.com thats where I get all my books for download Believe me Its a tight site for any learner from C++ to asp to GSM to wireless they got it. I just did a quick search they have all books except the jsl one. though you have to register for free.

Sincerely, I am quite impressed by what I see here at nairaland. it shows that the country's educational sector is alive (in terms of people with heads) not the level (thats way off target).

Here is mine, Hey you are doing a good though I never did like Java, I just had to do something to cheer you up.
Hey take a good look at the code. I used JBuilder. Sun's download server seems to be down.
//at least the last time I checked. JBuilder has an IDE but I used the command line with jdk1.4.
Dont give up now. Besides, JBuilder can be found at www.borland.com



import java.lang.Object;
import java.io.*;
public class Temperature extends Object{
// Temperature Class coded by h4rdc0d3d

private static double celsiusTemp;
private static double fahrenheitTemp;
public Temperature(double temp, char f)
{
switch (f)
{
case 'f':
fahrenheitTemp = temp;
break;
case 'c':
celsiusTemp = temp;
break;
default:
System.out.println("Houston, We have a problem !";
}
}
public static double getTempFahrenheit()
{
return fahrenheitTemp;
}
public static double getTempCelsius()
{
return celsiusTemp;
}
public static double convertF2C(double fah)

{
double cel;
cel = (fah-32)* 5/9; // Formula to convert fahrenheit to Celsius
return cel;
}
public static double convertC2F( double cel)
{
double fah;
fah = (cel*(9/5)+32); // formula to do vice versa
return fah;
}
public void setcel(double cel)
{
celsiusTemp = cel;
}
public void setfah(double fah)
{
fahrenheitTemp = fah;




}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Temperature Temp;
Temperature TempFaulty;
Temp = new Temperature(0, 'c'); // try switching between 'c' and 'f'
System.out.println("The temperature of Temp in celsius is " +Temp.getTempCelsius());
System.out.println("The temperature of Temp in fahrenheit is "

+Temp.convertC2F(Temp.getTempCelsius()));
Temp.setcel(37.7);
System.out.println("The temperature of a normal human in celsius is

"+Temp.getTempCelsius());
System.out.println("The temperature of a normal human in fahrenheit is

"+convertC2F(Temp.getTempCelsius()));
Temp.setfah(212);
System.out.println("The temperature of boiling water in fahrenheit is

"+Temp.getTempFahrenheit());
System.out.println("The temperature of boiling water in celsius is

"+convertF2C(Temp.getTempFahrenheit()));
TempFaulty = new Temperature(4,'n');

}
}

About the BMI, that one can be quite easy . You get the height and weight. You could have the BMI curve hardcoded in the watch memory. after collecting the
inputs, find the co-ordinates and display it on the screen of the watch. If you want, you can send me an email to see if we can do it . I am looking for a challenging thing to do, I am on summer hols now.

You need a Linux Cd , visit www.shipit.ubuntu.com Its free At least I got 5 copies plus the one I gave my school teacher. It might cost you if you are in Nigeria but Its worth a try besides it gets to your doorstep.

Why would someone think he / she can use someone's GSM phone to make a call and get it billed to another number.
I thought there is no way you can snap someone's ISID and all those other keys used to encrypt the voice stream and other stuff. Even by having access to the SIM , you need a special Pc that can change smart card data, Use cryptanalysis to crack the codes, then Fix in yours and transfer the data, Dont even think Its this simple , I just briefed it just for the basics,

i wouldn't consider myself a guru, but I can try. I know ASSEMBLY, C++, JAVA ( that dumb language). anfd I have tried my hands on Linux not that I know it sha,