Month: March 2014

  • Tutorial: using Raspbmc on different networks

    If you are using your Raspberry PI as media centre using RaspBMC, you are probably good to go in a few minutes, being RaspBMC a mature project that is now easy to install, configure and use. However by default and for security reasons, Raspbmc’s “iptables restricts network to LAN only by default“. This means that…

  • Tutorial: Convert aMSN webcam sessions

    Let’s say that you are using aMSN to access Windows Live Messenger and that you have recorded some webcam sessions… As you may know, these are normally located at /home/user/.amsn/webcam/ and are files with the extension “cam”. These files are encoded using the “mimic” codec and not easily viewable under linux. You can install the…

  • Tutorial: How to use dcfldd instead of dd

    Today I want to introduce to everyone an excellent command that works very much like dd but it’s just much better… dcfldd is an enhanced version of dd developed by the U.S. Department of Defense Computer Forensics Lab. Features include: Hashing on-the-fly, dcfldd can hash the input data as it is being transferred, helping to…