Netbook for travel and hacking

[solelist at skyshadows.net (Kevin B)]

If the 10" Size is good for you, and you don't hate HP keyboards, then the
HP Minis are nice.  The 1000 series if you don't care about an express card
slot, or the 2140 series if you do.  (Plus I believe you can get higher
resolutions on these).  Costco currently carries both the HP 1000 and Acer
aspire one series.  Most best buys also have the HP 1000 series on display.


Right now I'm using a mini 9, and it take awhile to get used to the
keyboard.  Plus if you're doing any kinda wireless, you'd want to replace
the wifi card (which is really easy to do) since it uses a broadcom 4312
that takes proprioriety drivers. .  If you're lucky enough to get one with a
WWAN slot (or don't mind soldering on your own connector), you can put two
wifi cards in it.  I do suggest finding a place locally that has  a demo of
one for sale, because the keyboard really is different.  (Some best buys
have this on display).  Not sure how hard it would be to dual boot on less
than a 32GB SSD, but that is also easily replaceable.

If battery life is important to you, then you can go for something like the
EEEpc 1000HE, which is rated at 9 hours (gets about 6-7 hours in actual
use).  There's also a few others coming out that use the new via nano
chipset, or that have battery life rated at 15 hours.

Oh, and stay away from anything with a Z series Atom processor (such as the
viao p and dell mini 10/12).  These only support 1GB of ram and the video
chipset has very poor linux support.


2009/3/17 Nils <nils at hemmann.de>

>  Hey guys,
> Im thinking about replacing my quite reliable IBM X30 with a netbook.
> As there are quite some available by now (eeePC, MSI Wind, Dell Mini ...)
> the choice is pretty hard.
>
> What are your recommendations / experiences.
>
> Some preferences for me would be:
> -light and small (  useless to say  ;-)  )
> -musst be dual bootable (Win / Linux [Backtrack])
> -Disk space is not so important
> -External antenna mod and other mods musst be possible
>
> To make it short, the ultimate companion for traveling, hacking, having fun
> while not at home.
>
> Thanks,
> Nils
>
>
>
>
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> *From:* pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com [mailto:
> pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] *On Behalf Of *Russell Butturini
> *Sent:* Monday, March 16, 2009 2:48 PM
> *To:* PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Pauldotcom] sql server express vs full version for a lab
>
>  I second Tim?s recommendation.  SQL Express should work fine for this.
> And definitely check out the Foundstone Hacme series, as John suggested on
> Ep 143.  Hacme bank is GREAT!!!
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com [mailto:
> pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] *On Behalf Of *Tim Krabec
> *Sent:* Monday, March 16, 2009 8:19 AM
> *To:* PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Pauldotcom] sql server express vs full version for a lab
>
>
>
> go with express.  I believe that is the free version.  That will give you 2
> things, 1 a test bed, and 2 a good piece of SW to learn on, that will
> probably be installed (as a feature of other software)
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
> I'm setting up a windows lab machine and want sql server on it. I'm
> looking at playing with basic sql injection and stored procedures, in
> particular xp_cmdshell. Does anyone know if there are any differences
> for this kind of thing between the express version of sql server and
> the paid for versions or are the differences purely in the amount of
> data and things like that?
>
> Robin
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