Monday, May 19, 2014

A Swift Breakdown Of A Universal Docking Station

By Brian Fuller


Many people desire to make use of an iPod docking station for streaming music from their iPhone or perhaps iPod. The primary reason for the buzz of iPod loudspeaker docking stations is this : you wont need to link the iPod to a pair of loudspeakers with cord. While utilizing a dock, the iPod can be plugged into a charge cradle directly and will be charged at the same time. In this posting, I am going to focus on numerous of the advantages of iPod speaker docking stations and also review a couple of alternative devices.

Many people wish to listen to their iPod either by employing earphones while on the road or by employing loudspeakers while they are in your house. IPod loudspeaker docks will be a pretty useful option for playing audio via loudspeakers. Such docks have got a set of loudspeakers built-in and also permit almost any Apple product to be directly plugged in by way of the dock connector.

The Apple docking connector, then again, has been drastically altered lately. The unique "lightning connector" includes much fewer pins than the old connector and consequently newer iPods do not plug into traditional docking stations. If youve got one of those most recent iPods then you may either obtain an adaptor or seek a dock which has this particular new lightning jack. However, be cautious about acquiring one of these types of docks if you have a couple of older Apple devices. To be able to guarantee compatibility with old devices, it is best to get a docking station with a 30-pin connector and work with an adapter to connect more modern gadgets.

You can in addition broadcast tunes wirelessly by means of Airplay or Bluetooth. As opposed to investing in a docking station, you can as an alternative acquire an Airplay-enabled speaker or Bluetooth cordless loudspeaker. These two loudspeakers are able to pick up tunes through a wireless signal. Bluetooth generally can transmit for up to 40 feet. AirPlay can transmit somewhat farther yet still isnt best for playing tunes to multiple locations in the dwelling. In contrast, you can obtain a wireless iPod docking station which may broadcast a stronger signal. The benefit of using a wireless iPod dock is that the range of the wireless signal is a lot larger than Bluetooth. Consequently by working with a cordless iPod docking station, you can easily stream your iPod songs to almost all places in the house. Aside from that, these types of docks are going to recharge your iPod while be connected to the cradle. The speakers receive the wireless signal from the dock. Normally, the signal that is being transmitted by your docking station tends to be significantly more powerful than the signal which is being broadcast directly from an iPod. Hence, these types of wireless docking stations may typically broadcast for a distance of up to 400 ft.

You could imagine the fact that utilizing a wireless docking station can be a great deal more convenient compared to installing long speaker wire throughout the residence. As an alternative to obtaining a speaker dock, you might additionally investigate purchasing a couple of active speakers. Active loudspeakers already include the audio amp and consequently you have the ability to stream from your iPod by simply connecting the earphone connector of your iPod to the low-level audio connector of any active loudspeaker.




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HOWTO NoCloudAllowed on Kali Linux

Cloudflare is designed to protect the websites from being Denial of Service (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). It is acting a proxy and the real IP address of the websites are hidden. She also acts as a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to the websites that behind her services.



However, there is a number of ways to bypass this protection. Since FTP services cannot be protected by Cloudflare, the ftp sub-domain of the websites will be disclosed by using penetration testing tool - Fierce Domain Scan (fierce.pl). There may be some other services that cannot be protected by Cloudflare too.



Another way is using NetCraft.com to find the IP address history of the websites. Why it works? It is because some websites have been published for a while before using Cloudflare service. The IP address of the websites are being archived by NetCraft.com. However, the IP address of those websites cannot be changed or the SysAdmin overlooked it.



The captioned methods had been mentioned at my previous article.



How about there is no FTP service and no IP address history at NetCraft.com? So, we are panic? Be patient! Allison Nixon found a way to overcome this problem. She did a presentation at BlackHat 2013 in the title of Denying Service to DDoS Protection Services.



She (or with her team) developed a tool - NoCloudAllowed. How it works? The tool compare a range of IP addresses with the content of the origin website in order to find the real IP address of the origin website. The tool is written in Perl.



Now, I will show you how to install it on Kali Linux.



Step 1 :



Install of String::Compare.



perl -MCPAN -e shell

install ExtUtils::MakeMaker

install String::Compare

exit




Step 2 :



Download nocloudallowed.pl.



wget http://nocloudallowed.com/nocloudallowed.pl







Type the following for “help” :



perl nocloudallowed.pl --help



Step 3 :



Refer to the BlackHat 2013 video, the website NoCloudAllowed.com is protected by Cloudflare and there is no previous IP address history at NetCraft.com.



Let’s us ping the website to see the IP address :



ping nocloudallowed.com

PING nocloudallowed.com (199.83.134.211) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 199.83.134.211.ip.incapdns.net (199.83.134.211): icmp_req=1 ttl=128 time=818 ms

64 bytes from 199.83.134.211.ip.incapdns.net (199.83.134.211): icmp_req=2 ttl=128 time=262 ms

64 bytes from 199.83.134.211.ip.incapdns.net (199.83.134.211): icmp_req=3 ttl=128 time=274 ms

64 bytes from 199.83.134.211.ip.incapdns.net (199.83.134.211): icmp_req=4 ttl=128 time=502 ms

64 bytes from 199.83.134.211.ip.incapdns.net (199.83.134.211): icmp_req=5 ttl=128 time=264 ms

^C

--- nocloudallowed.com ping statistics ---

6 packets transmitted, 5 received, 16% packet loss, time 6209ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 262.464/424.601/818.947/217.222 ms



ping www.nocloudallowed.com

PING 2ruek.x.incapdns.net (103.28.248.171) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 103.28.248.171.ip.incapdns.net (103.28.248.171): icmp_req=1 ttl=128 time=1433 ms

64 bytes from 103.28.248.171.ip.incapdns.net (103.28.248.171): icmp_req=2 ttl=128 time=450 ms

64 bytes from 103.28.248.171.ip.incapdns.net (103.28.248.171): icmp_req=3 ttl=128 time=278 ms

64 bytes from 103.28.248.171.ip.incapdns.net (103.28.248.171): icmp_req=4 ttl=128 time=472 ms

64 bytes from 103.28.248.171.ip.incapdns.net (103.28.248.171): icmp_req=5 ttl=128 time=495 ms

64 bytes from 103.28.248.171.ip.incapdns.net (103.28.248.171): icmp_req=6 ttl=128 time=519 ms

^C

--- 2ruek.x.incapdns.net ping statistics ---

7 packets transmitted, 6 received, 14% packet loss, time 6009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 278.957/608.262/1433.255/377.086 ms, pipe 2




The result is that we got 2 different IP addresses - 199.83.134.211 and 103.28.248.171.



Step 4 :



There are two ways to use the nocloudallowed.pl. By "string matching" and "page percentage matching". Since the real IP address of nocloudallowed.com is 54.226.206.170, we limited the IP range from between 54.226.206.0 and 54.226.206.255 for the demo.



For realistic cases, the IP range may be from between 1.0.0.1 to 255.255.255.255. It will take a longer time to the result as predicted.



String matching :



perl nocloudallowed.pl -u http://www.nocloudallowed.com/ -i 54.226.206.0-54.226.206.255 -s @nixonnixoff



54.226.206.170 matched string




*** We select an unique string - @nixonnixoff at the front page of www.nocloudallowed.com for the matching purpose.



Page percentage matching :



perl nocloudallowed.pl -u http://www.nocloudallowed.com/ -i 54.226.206.0-54.226.206.255



54.226.206.46 is a 4.28008963583708% match 54.226.206.8 is a 4.97538454727825% match

54.226.206.96 is a 6.4580555778227% match 54.226.206.170 is a 76.6947984574021% match
54.226.206.178 is a 2.6906293003467% match 54.226.206.153 is a 13.6152088933292% match

54.226.206.196 is a 5.90278413052861% match 54.226.206.219 is a 6.97554375390092% match

54.226.206.149 is a 1.88944750445606% match 54.226.206.254 is a 3.71636207826023% match

54.226.206.252 is a 5.23038802551876% match 54.226.206.248 is a 9.19859919167773% match




The conclusion is that Cloudflare cannot protect your website as expected.



That’s all! See you.




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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Advantages Of Using Construction Management Software

By Cornelia White


Construction management software is a valuable tool that is used by persons form different backgrounds. Individuals who have chosen the job of building homes for men and women to enjoy with those they love take the task seriously. They include real estate personnel, custom builders, remodelers, architects and mangers. All these professionals aim to deliver top quality every time.

All of these products are not created equally. There is a fairly large number of them available on the market but all of them will not be right for you. You must choose carefully in order to match the needs of your business to the features that are offered by the developer. Never look at what your competition uses and assume that it will be the best match for you and your team.

Quite a few managers rely on these useful programs because they help them contain costs. No one likes having a project run significantly over budget. That makes them appear inefficient or even worse, dishonest. By using tools like these you can stay as close as possible to your original plan. You must grab hold of every single tool you can access that keeps you on top of your game.

Scheduling is one of the important tasks that you get help with when using this sort of product. It makes it easy for you to set times for when specific tasks should be completed. This makes it easier for you to manage resources and allocate funds. There is another important aspect to it that cannot be overlooked. Most owners want schedules because these documents help them keep monitor the progress of whatever they want done.

Bottlenecks are a problem that no one wants to have. They cause frustration among all the professionals involved and may even provide an excuse for valuable members of your team to turn their attentions elsewhere. By setting up a proper schedule, you can readily place key personnel where they are needed. You may also set time to recover if problems arise.

Quite a few managers appreciate the effortless manner in which they can manage documents using construction management software. Indirectly, this feature also helps them with monitoring the use of materials. Some people use pro forma invoices and other related paperwork to get information on the quantity of material that they are using.

With some programs, you can easily arrange for each person on your team to get their own password and user name. This takes them to a portal that is designed specifically for them. It gives them access to all the information that they need to do their job well and communicate with others when necessary.

Without construction management software, project leaders have a very hard task. There are so many aspects involved in successfully building a home or office building. Whether your site is large or small, the task can be stressful. The right applications relieve the pressure and make it easier to succeed.




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