this time a short one, as i just stumbled upon the url again: i find robin’s extensive list of commonly used ports really useful. it lists both tcp and udp ports in the whole range up to 65535. although iana’s list holds the official reservations of public ports, i believe that robin’s list is more up-to-date (i.e. backdoors don’t register ports - they plain use them).
john c. dvorak comments on apple putting eric schmidt on its’ board of directors. he rumors that this might be a first sign of merging sun and apple, as schmidt is known to be quite familiar to sun. craig jokes that apple is pushing this forward to add reliable thin clients to its portfolio. would be worth it! 
i just found an online-tool named fake name generator. it does, what its’ name says: it generates fake identities. often i am forced to register (”for free!“) at some site to access some specific content - and i hate it. these sites tend to collect as much personal data as they can (”to make our service better and taylor it to your needs“). but i don’t like being traced all over the net, so i tend to use bugmenot in the first case. this is a great tool, because you can find preregistered account data there. everyone can contribute and so do i. while registering you often need to come up with random data, and i guess this is the toughest part. the thing is that many big sites validate the entries, at least that the city and the zip-code match. mostly i just hack in some towns’ name into google and use address-data gathered from there (obfuscated of course). but the tool mentioned above makes things easy. a fine bit of code and worth the bookmark!
