Mind Mapping

Been looking for a java based cross platform alternative to TheBrain http://www.thebrain.com/ for some time and just found this, FreeMind http://freemind.sourceforge.net/

Also here is a curses based 'hierarchical notebook' called HNB http://hnb.sourceforge.net/ .. enjoy!

Standards, standards, standards... open?

• ITU ( International Telecommunication Union ) http://www.itu.int/publications/default.aspx

• NGN ( Next Generation Network ) http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/2001-2004/com13/ngn2004/index.html

• ITU-T ( Recommendations ) http://www.itu.int/rec/recommendation.asp?type=series〈=e&parent=T-REC
• ITU-T (Recommendations X ) Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection - Security frameworks for open systems. http://www.itu.int/rec/recommendation.asp?type=products〈=e&parent=T-REC-X
  
• X.805, X.810-X.816

• Audiovisual and Multimedia Systems http://www.itu.int/rec/recommendation.asp?type=products〈=e&parent=T-REC-H
• International Numbering Resources http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/inr/index.html
  

• RFC's ( Request For Comments )
  
• IETF http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html
• FAQs.org http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ ( Internet RFC's and 'other' RFC's )

• ITIL ( IT Infrastructure Library ) http://www.ogc.gov.uk/index.asp?id=2261
  
• 3G http://www.3gpp.org/
• COSO and COBIT ( Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies ) http://www.sox-online.com/coso_cobit.html
• ISACA ( Information Systems Audit and Control Association ) http://www.isaca.org/
  
• ITGI ( IT Governance Institute ) http://www.itgi.org/
• Sarbannes-Oxley http://www.sarbanes-oxley.com/ ( Publicly traded U.S. companies. )
  

Password posts / blogs and tech blogs....

Passwords and Passphrases:

• [Windows] Robert Hensing http://blogs.technet.com/robert_hensing/archive/2004/07/28/199610.aspx
• [The Great Debates: Pass Phrases Passwords 1] http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/secnews/articles/itproviewpoint091004.mspx
• [The Great Debates: Pass Phrases vs. Passwords 2] http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm1104.mspx
• [The Great Debates: Pass Phrases vs. Passwords 3] http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/secnews/articles/itproviewpoint110104.mspx

Password and Recovery Tools ( Commercial and Free ):

• Winternals ERD http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/
• @Stake LC http://www.atstake.com/products/lc/
• UBCD ( Ultimate Boot CD ) http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
• STD Knoppix http://www.knoppix-std.org/
• Rainbow Tables ( Pre-computed attacks ) http://www.antsight.com/zsl/rainbowcrack/ http://www.rainbowcrack-online.com/
• Bart PE http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Tech Blogs:

[MSDN - Microsoft Developer Network] http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/default.aspx