Posted on August 28th, 2008 in Business | Comments Off
Two days ago I posted a job opportunity in one of those sites where engineers and computer professionals watch often, I described the company and the profile I was looking for very carefully, in the end of the profile I made one simple request:
Include your salary expectation
I did it in the late evening and early in the morning it was already appearing in the website and I already received a bunch of applications. Checking one by one, I noted that most of the applications didn’t do the simple request, like usual.
How experienced people don’t realize this can show so much about them:
- You have no attention
- You ignored a simple request
Some times I think people don’t care about quality, they just want to send as much resumes as possible. For me and most of the companies is very simple, click delete.
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Posted on August 26th, 2008 in Business, Software | Comments Off
Lately a number of blogs posted comments on a very old post, dated 2006 about how to hack a commercial wireless, goes like this:
“I continued to try a couple other things, like checking if they eventually forgot some ports like 21 (ftp) or 110 (pop3). But no, all of them were properly blocked. After a lot of unsuccesfull attempts, I had some intuition telling me to check how they handle pictures. Without any hope of success I typed http://www.google.com/.jpg into my browser’s adress bar, and to my big surprise I saw the page you see when you follow the link right now. The next thing I typed in was: http://www.google.com/?.jpg but that didn’t work. But I went on, and found that url’s like http://www.google.com/search?.jpg worked like a charm. I found that I could easily visit sites like slashdot, google, or even this weblog, when adding a ?.jpg at the end of the url. The next logical step was to automate that. I downloaded greasemonkey.xpi?.jpg (*g*) and wrote a 4 line js script that would add ?.jpg to every link in a document. That way I was able to browse most sites without a hassle. Unfortunatly, I didn’t get to explore this vulnerbility much more, because I had to board the airplane, were I waited another 3 hours due to a mechanical failure - without wlan : /.”
What normally happens in a router with captive portal is, you have a firewall rule that redirects you to a local http server, this server gets a bunch of information about you, like ip address, mac address, url you tried to access and so on, then it displays a website so you can log in.
If this local web server or called application that redirects you is bugged, might help you get free access, but I really doubt this will work on any network, but I can’t talk about others, in Vex, this by far will not work.
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Posted on August 25th, 2008 in Business, Software | Comments Off
Few weeks ago I was in Vancouver for a few meetings, while in this company that produces routers, they told me that they also offer a mail service that can come within the router, making absolute non-sense for me, I asked:
Q: “why?”
A: “Most ISPs in Canada blocks port 25″
*sigh*
Q: “Why?”
A: “They think this way they will block spam”
*sigh*
It’s incredible how from time to time you can hear incredible ideas like this, how come no one ever realized that blocking port 25 would reduce spam, uh? Because of this fantastic solution this company has to provide an alternative way for their clients email to be delivered successfully, then I ask you:
How complicated is for a spammer to do the same?
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Posted on August 2nd, 2008 in Business, Software | Comments Off
And suddenly after upgrading to 2.0, iPhone got boring. Almost all my applications came from installer which is now cydia and is basically empty. So why did I upgrade then? Well, I really wanted to have mobileme working, actually, I wanted to have wireless syncing of contacts and schedule, but apple is smart and didn’t add this resource to charge you with mobile me.
Fortunately it is free for the first 60 days, so I didn’t spend any money at all, and it is working well for me, differently from what people is saying, but if you have push enabled, it will eat your baterry live, so I had to turn it off and set it to fetch hourly or manual. If you really don’t care about using mobile me, don’t upgrade yet.
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