Re: Recommendations on netbook for IA toolkit

[Drew Brown <dbrown () byu net>]

The but issue with this spec is the one gb of ram.  I have a HP mini
110 that I upped to two gb and I run a windows vm in it regularly.

A netbook is a netbook, mostly. Your big deal will be how much ram it
can be upgraded to.

On 12/3/10, Lorenzo Nicolodi <lorenzo.nicolodi () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I would discourage you about using a netbook with virtual
> machines...the hardware is not powerful enough to run e.g. 3 virtual
> machines together. I have used an Acer Aspire One with Atom N450 and 1
> GB of ram with a VM with windows 7 running with 512 MB of ram...it is
> really frustrating when any application takes minutes to start...
>
> If you plan to use a netbook, I think you have to exploit all the
> advantages from such a solution (e.g.: it could be hidden somewhere
> without trouble, you could sniff wireless packets while walking around
> with the netbook running in a bag, etc...): install a linux distro
> without GUI (or with a minimal gui), install all the tools you need
> and enjoy it without VMs.
>
> I says "with no gui" because it wastes a lot of power in a useless way
> and because some command line tools are available as replacement of
> other tools which depends from a GUI (eg: tshark instead of
> wireshark).
>
> These are my 2 cents :)
>
> Hope they help
>
> Lo
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:09 PM, IBug_1 <ibug_1 () comcast net> wrote:
> > I'm looking to develop an Information Assurance (IA) toolkit consisting of
> > multiple software tools on a laptop. The toolkit needs to do vulnerability
> > scanning and penetration testing (metasploit, nessus, nmap, ucsniff,
> > wireshark, etc.) Currently thinking is a Linux host OS with VMware with
> > Windows and LiveCDs in virtual machines.
> >
> > What I'm asking is if anyone has experience with working netbooks similar
> > to this and if so what do they recommend. A netbook with 2 GB RAM, 250 GB
> > hd, 10/100 enet, 802.11n is the target machine but not sure what brand or
> > model. I've heard there are issues with some hardware and would like to
> > avoid reinventing the wheel.
> > Thanks
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
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install and use a thawte Digital Certificate on your Apache web server. Throughout, best practices for set-up are 
highlighted to help you ensure efficient ongoing management of your encryption keys and digital certificates.

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