Comments on: Hackaday links

By: cipher

cipher — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:02:01 +0000

Dunno if this counts as a “hack” but the stupid “Coke or Pepsi” survey which shows up on the right (at least on my screen, the ads might rotate) appears to have a nice big security hole in it. I don’t normally click on that type of crap, but I was curious. If you click on it, and put in an existing address (such as “your_name@aol.com” which they thoughtfully suggest, the details of the previous customer are pulled up. So… I’d advise against feeding those particular spam-slingers.

By: poppeseed

poppeseed — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:45:25 +0000

Robert, you have to have a capture card on your PC, then you can do that.

By: robert

robert — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:21:47 +0000

one of my friend told me you can hook up a xbox to your pc through a svideo port how do youdo this thank you

By: Garyman99

Garyman99 — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:39:04 +0000

OEM Info mirror:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041026040931/www.sanx.org/tipShow.asp?articleRef=177

By: Deltaf

Deltaf — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:31:07 +0000

I’m using firefox and that map link doesn’t take me anywhere. It just kicks me to #

If it doesn’t work in FF then I’m not interested. Either it’s broken in both browsers or all of your visitors use FF.

Please fix! :)

By: brian

brian — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:25:23 +0000

Posted Aug 15, 2005, 1:31 AM ET by nitroburn

all that stuff in the tunecast hack and he didn’t bother to modify the antenna. :)

Well if you had read the page nitroburn, the antenna mod on the tunecast had already been done. Don’t just look at the pictures.

By: sleighboy

sleighboy — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:42:18 +0000

Wow, there are people that didn’t know about the OEMINFO.INI file? I thought that was common knowledge since 1998.

By: Tiuk

Tiuk — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:36:59 +0000

For those interested in the mini-ITX laptop article, it appears the guy exceeded his bandwidth. If you still want to view the artcle, just google the URL and click “Show Google’s cache of…”, then repeat for each link.

By: carpespasm

carpespasm — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:49:06 +0000

the portable nero thing looks cool, but if your machine is already locked down so you can’t touch the registry, you’re still SOL. it’s just good for not having to do a full install

By: who_cares

who_cares — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:30:13 +0000

Err… When I click the change XP’s OEM info link, I get a page that says this:

Microsoft JET Database Engine error ’80004005′

Unspecified error

/LM/W3SVC/5944/ROOT/global.asa, line 10

By: john gilman

john gilman — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:27:57 +0000

I’m really liking the OEM info hack.

If you don’t have an oeminfo.ini file in your system32 directory just create one. Copy/paste the example on the site and change the values to suit your wants.

Then right click My Computer and hit Properties.

Currently I’m running on PC built by Uranus Productions, model name “Taco.”

By: Evan B

Evan B — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:32:28 +0000

why does the blonde crash it? 0_o

By: nitroburn

nitroburn — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:31:10 +0000

all that stuff in the tunecast hack and he didn’t bother to modify the antenna. :)

By: Bucky

Bucky — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:48:27 +0000

haney: all ytou have to do is single click on the map in the spot that you want, and a balloon should pop up that allows you to enter your information.

By: camzmac

camzmac — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 06:33:56 +0000

I’ve been wanting to make a mini-itx based laptop since last april. I order the board, and before the board comes, my main computer’s IDE controller fails. and now I’m using the mini-itx board as my main pc like this:

http://copaonline.com/?u=camzmac&f=IM002819.jpg
http://copaonline.com/?u=camzmac&f=IM002821.jpg

the freewebs site with the info on this dude’s project says it like it is:

“Imagine the pride from building something that until now has been a propriatary buy-only device. Having something that only a couple people out of more than 6 billion have and having done it yourself is a bragging right in many areas, geeks and laymen alike.”

damn, and I was bragging to my friends about my laptop-pc hybrid _ALREADY_.