5 Must Have Rooted Android Apps
If you rock and Android device then you already know about the multitude of apps that are at your finger tips. For the sake of keeping you safe, manufacturers ship Android locked up without access to the full potential of the device. By throwing caution to the wind and rooting your device you open up [...]
Review: eLocity A7 Android Tablet
I’ve been playing with this surprisingly fast Android tablet for about a week now and so far I am impressed. Stream TV’s eLocity Android 2.2 powered tablet might not be an iPad killer, but it sure puts up a good fight. The solid 7-inch tablet is powered by NVIDIA’s dual core Tegra 2 processor, comes [...]
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 [...]
Hacker Hacks Jailbroken iPhone
We all know the dangers of running a jailbroken iPhone. No tech support, the wrath of your carrier, and simple exploits as demonstrated by Dutch hacker. With a little bit of port scanning to find jailbroken iPhones with SSH running he sent users a message that read “Your iPhone’s been hacked because it’s really insecure! [...]
TrueCrypt: Now On OSX
The super popular open source disk encryption software TrueCrypt is now available for the Mac OS. TrueCrypt creates a virtual encrypted disk that mounts in the Finder and provides on-the-fly 256-bit encryption. You can keep this virtual disk on your drive or on a USB thumb drive and can even be hidden. TrueCrypt relies on [...]
Archos SSH Access
UPDATE: My bad on the whole touch screen issue, what I was thinking was keyboard, but it came out as touch screen  Seems like some crafty hackers have found an exploit on the Archos 605. GFT, which stands for Go Fighting Tabby, will gain you root access on your Archos 605, 705, or 604. [...]
Blackjack! Save $840 a year.
Blackjack! The Samsung Blackjack is an awesome phone but when I tried to connect it to my computer on the road like I did with my old Razr, I hit a brick wall. So, what was wrong? After 45 minutes of hold time, you’d be surprised what I was told. Cingular “The new AT&T”, we’ll [...]
Sony at it again
When will these morons over at Sony ever learn? Besides the fact that they are always putting down the community that actually makes there only portable gaming system a seller by always trying to shut down homebrew applications they are back at it again with another rootkit fiasco. You might remember they were caught with [...]
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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