Sony Could Remotely Disable PS3s
Now that the PS3′s key have been leaked, its open territory for homebrew and hacking. Many people have been wondering what type of action Sony will be taking to combat this so called “piracy”. We have seen how ruthless they are with the PS3′s little brother the PSP and it’s no doubt that they will [...]
Hotlink Prevention In Nginx
Hotlinking, inline linking, leeching, piggy-backing, direct linking or offsite image grabs. No matter what you call it 99% of the time it’s wrong. Bandwidth costs money. I spent sometime over the holidays examining my logs and noticed that there were a ton of sites hotlinking back to images we had posted. Worst of all, most [...]
USB Prankster
This $32 USB device can easily cause some great laughs or it will cause you to be beaten senseless. Plus this flash drive looking USB device into an unsuspecting users computer and your victims computer will look like it’s possessed. Random mouse movements, caps lock turing itself off and on, or random garbled text and [...]
AppleJack Goes Leopard
You might hope that you never need it, but if you ever run into a situation where your Mac doesn’t boot all the way to the Finder and you don’t have any boot capable utilities like Das Boot to fix your problem, AppleJack will be your best friend. AppleJack is a single-user-mode tool that is [...]
Leopard On The EEEPC
I have written a lot about the Asus EEEPC. We even covered that crazy dude who put every possible hardware mod into the thing. I’ve had various flavours of Linux running, Windows, and yes ever Leopard (with a little hackintosh love). When I decided to give Leopard a whirl on my tiny machine I followed [...]
14 Year Old Hacker Derails Train
I’m sure the media is going to put a nasty spin on this story about how all hackers are bad. A 14 year old boy has been arrested after hacking into a Polish train system and using it like a giant train set which caused 12 people injuries. Initially it looked like he was being [...]
Mac Error Confusion
Last month I was in Vancouver for a round of taping of the Lab with Leo Laporte TV show when this somewhat odd error window pop’s up on my screen. “The wireless network appears to have been compromised and will be disabled for about a minute.” I have never in my years seen this one, [...]
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Best of the week – Sept 17 – 23
Mac Errors (Frank) Unofficial Linux Support For New iPods (Frank) Make it all portable: Thinstall it (Rob) VMware goes flash with 3i (Rob) Wii to get Turbografx Titles (Frank) USB 3.0 to promise 5 Gbps (Frank) 6V Battery hack (Frank) NES Clone – Good cheap memories (Frank)
Top 10 Windows Errors
I love it when Windows errors pop up when you least expect them. They guys over at Newlaunches.com have compiled a Top 10 list of the Biggest Windows Errors. If any of you have snaps of any Windows errors at the most inappropriate places drop us a line. Top 10 Biggest Windows Errors Via Newlaunches.com
Best of the week – Sept 3 – 9
Small Fry 1,000,000 Volt Mini Stun Gun (Frank) Hackers at Microsoft (Rob) Windows Error: “Operation Completed Successfully†(Frank) 26.25 Gigaflop Super Computer – $1256 (Frank) Learn to Hack (Rob) New Phone-less Ipod’s and more (Frank) How To: VGA over Cat-5 (Frank) Eco-Friendly DVR (Frank) Inflight USB: Power for you gadgets from an audio jack (Frank)
Windows Error:
Not too long ago we posted about a roll your own windows error site that allowed you to do just that, create your own Windows Error dialog boxes. Here we see a truly genuine (no pun intended) Windows Error. I wonder if it will be fixed in the upcoming service pack?
Nmap 127.0.0.1: Flash style
A design flaw found in ActionScript (Flash) has been allowed the scanning hosts via trial and error. Whenever a port is queried by Flash that isn’t open, it responds with a “SecurityErrotEvent” instantly. But, when a port is open, it doesn’t get that response for an extended period of time, while it waits for a [...]
How To Speed Up WordPress With Nginx And WP Super Cache
By Frank on Aug 11, 2008 · 33 Comments
Edit: Fixes suggested in the comments have been applied to this howto We recently moved tech.nocr.at over to a bunch of VPSs in order to achieve some decent load balancing and speed. Even though SliceHost isn’t a sponsor, I’d like to give them a quick plug. SliceHost is easily the greatest VPS provider bar none. [...]
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