Tools of the Trade - Kodak Courage

Kodak Courage

An extra dose of courage and the tendency to go beyond one's usual physical limits when being filmed or photographed (from action sports such as skateboarding, snowboarding, and extreme skiing).

I was a bit nervous being the first to hit the jump, but when you're with the film crew you get that Kodak courage.

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1) On June 4th, Filezilla 3.0.0 Beta 10 was released. FileZilla is a FTP-client for Windows 9x, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP. It has been designed for ease of use and with support for as many features as possible, while still being fast and reliable. This beta released just fixed a bug that sometimes caused beta 9 to be unusable. Check the changelog for all the details.

2) On June 1st, Wine 0.9.38 was released. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. Changes include:

• Beginnings of support for copy protection kernel drivers.
• More MSI automation support.
• Many 64-bit compilation fixes.
• A number of OLE fixes.
• Lots of bug fixes.

3) On June 1st, PHP 5.2.3 was released. This release continues to improve the security and the stability of the 5.X branch as well as addressing two regressions introduced by the previous 5.2 releases. These regressions relate to the timeout handling over non-blocking SSL connections and the lack of HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA in certain conditions. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this release. The full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5.

4) On June 1st, Paint .NET 3.0.8 was released. Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software for computers that run Windows.

5) On May 31st, Fedora 7 was released. Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. See the release notes for FC7.

6) On May 31st, MSN Shadow Beta 2 was released. MSN Shadow is a forensics tool to analyze the MSN protocol. It has features such as: text sniffing, video sniffing, spoofing messages, hijacking sessions, shutdown users, save text sniffed in HTML format, save video sniffed in AVI format.

7) On May 30th, ClamAV 0.90.3 was released. Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates.

8) On May 30th, Cain & Abel v4.9.3 was released. New features:

• Added Windows Mail (Vista) Password Decoder for POP3, IMAP, NNTP, SMTP and LDAP accounts.
  
• Added PTW WEP cracking attack.
  
• Added Windows Vista support in Wireless Password Decoder.
  
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9) On May 29th, WinSCP 4.0.2 beta was released. WinSCP is an open source SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol.

10) On May 27th, GIMP 2.2.15 was released. GIMP is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. This is mainly a bug-fix release in the stable 2.2 series.

11) On May 27th, Honeyd 1.5c was released. Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. The hosts can be configured to run arbitrary services, and their personality can be adapted so that they appear to be running certain operating systems.