Telnet...

Heres one of the few topics where I have a vague knowledge of something...

I have been hearing lately about people trying to use telnet to access websites. This isn't going to work, Telnet is a program used to gain remote administrator access to a computer.

Telnet uses a computers ports to connect to the machine. The default telnet port is 23. First we will need to get to the telnet screen. The easiest way to do this is to go to the command prompt by clicking Start->Run->type "command" or "cmd"(if in WinXP). When you get to the command prompt you should see this:

C:\>_

There may be more folders such as:

C:\Documents and Settings\Colin>_

It will still work.


At the prompt type telnet iraq.org...

C:\>telnet iraq.org

...and hit enter. You should see:

--------------------------
FreeBSD/i386 (arabinfo.org) (ttyp0)

login:_

As you can probably guess, you cant log in if you dont know the username and password.
Say we did know the username and password, we would type them in, and we would get command prompt access to the computer. This allows you to install/uninstall software, run programs, and do pretty much anything you can do at a MS-DOS command prompt.

You can do this entire process from the bash prompt in linux, but I'm not as familiar with linux as I am with Windows.

This was a very basic telnet tutorial, but as it is 1:36am, I am exhausted and I don't want to type a whole lot. You can get more information about telnet by typing "telnet /?" at the command prompt.

have fun,
Colin

Some of my interests....

Hello again...I decided to share some of my interests. Well I am interested in computer security, I'm not a hacker by any stretch of the imagination, but I do find it facinating. Phreaking is interesting, not very practical though. One thing I do like a lot is vintage computers. I use the term vintage because piece of crap just doesnt sound very cool. But I love to take apart old computers and put them back together. I love linux distros and I really dislike Windows. :-P Now you know me just a little better, and soon I will have something to say that is actually interesting haha.

-Colin

A Little Background...

I decided that to fully understand this blog, you should understand a little about me. :-P My name is Colin, as you know, and I'm 16 years old. I love computers and pretty much anything technological. I enjoy repairing computers and writing some small programs in the basic languages. Im working on getting my A+ Certification and hopefully soon I will get my MCSE Certification. I like vintage computers the best, but i have all kinds of computers at my house.

MY EQUIPMENT:
I have quite a few parts and computers....im not going to write the amounts of RAM or HDD space because it fluctuates quite frequently...

• Dell Dimension 4500 running WinXP
  
• eMachines PC running Win98
• Gateway Solo 1100 Notebook running Win98SE sometimes, RedHat sometimes, and WinMe sometimes...depends on the day haha, and theyre not multi-booted. :-P
• IBM Thinkpad 755CD (first IBM laptop with a CD drive :-P) running Win95
• A few hundred CD's including several versions of WIndows and around 15 or 20 Linux Distros
• Hundreds of small parts and gadgets that I will hopefully use someday...
• I have a Cable Internet connection...not sure of the speed, but I think its around 3Mbps

I also havve a few old computers that are in pieces because I used them for parts, but they dont count. :-P Thats all for now...

-Colin

My First Post

Hello everyone, this is Colin. This will probably be a mostly technological blog, but I will probably get random at times and make a post about anything :-P So, if you actually came to my blog and are reading this...thank you :-D

-Colin