Cup Communicator

When I was a kid you communicated with two tin cans connected with a string, and that was the early 80′s for God’s sake. If you want to relive your childhood with a modern twist (some of us supres our childhood memories of have a Sega system while everyone else had moved on to the [...]

How To Speed Up WordPress With Nginx And WP Super Cache

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. [...]

Rock Band Guitar String Mod

I can’t even count the number of times people say to me “Rock Band isn’t like playing a real guitar, it’s doesn’t even have any strings. This drives me insane and forces me to punch them in the throat. Please don’t confuse the fun of a game with the real world of music. Would you [...]

How To Make A Cheap Camera Stabilizer

There is nothing worse than watching a video that shakes so bad it makes you seasick or having to take that perfect still photo and only end up with massive blur. Well, if you happen to have some string, a bolt, and a washer lying around then you to can make a super cheap/super effective [...]

Learn to Hack

Every blog about security needs to post an article like this, as sort of a RTFM reference. Without further ado: First and foremost, hacking is knowing how something operates inside and out, and then making it do something that it wasn’t intended on doing. Now, that could be anything from exploiting DCOM on an unpatched [...]

Rocking out with the Yoshida Brothers

In my household we love our Wii to death, so much that when one of those “Wii want to play” commercials hits the TV is makes us want to turn the Wii on and have some fun. Yesterday when that very same commercial hit the air and my wife proceeded to hum the track of [...]