Comments on: Hackaday links third shift

By: eltrentomagnifico

eltrentomagnifico — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 03:32:01 +0000

For those kids who can’t get to hackaday, most school proxies are blocked as well as live journal. However, 99% of filters dont filter out babelfish, which can be basically used as a proxy by translating a web page into youre desired language. Selecting a language other than english and translating it into english will get the best results, natch.

Or, if youre like me, and want to practice your german/spanish, translate away suckas.

By: Oatzy

Oatzy — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:38:18 +0000

you could also try ping. if you can get a command promt type ping http://www.hackaday.com. If not, try sometihng like samspade.com. and if that doesn’t work, you’ll have to try a good old fashioned batchfile. Open notepad and type the following
@echo off
cd C:ping http://www.hackaday.com >> ping.txt
then save it as ping.bat. double click it and then open the ping.txt file that is created. (mind, if you can remember all that, you may aswell do the ping at home and remember the IP). Then when you’ve got you IP, type that in as the address and see what happens (may not work)

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 08:25:16 +0000

My school, unfortunately, decides it likes to block access to hackaday and joystiq, both on weblogs inc. I found a simple way around short of using proxies. Method 1:By going to an unblocked sight on Weblogs like engadget I can just like to hackaday for some reason. Method 2:The only other way seems to be just typing in the url ipod.hackaday.com, it acts as a go around of the front page. Nice to know I can still get my hacking fix while i should be dutifully studying to become another souless corporate lackey.

By: CAptSnuffy

CAptSnuffy — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:09:48 +0000

my hs uses Bess, “the internet watchdog” to block site. Last year hackaday was blocked because it was classified as having “illegal activities”, gasp! This year it’s unblocked for unknown reasons, and i dont mind oe bit. You could always use proxies or the babel fish trick. Plus im down with tha network admin.

p.s. GREG HUM IS A STALKER

By: joshua holbrook

joshua holbrook — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:58:14 +0000

I think my old high school just blocked everything that had the word “hack” in it… that and just about every online email and image search site known to them. I don’t think it’d be too hard for someone who knew what they were doing to circumvent it. (Obviously I don’t know what I’m doing or I would have already done it).

By: my moustache

my moustache — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:14:36 +0000

did anyone here manage to grab the linksys firmware mentioned? the board mod killed the original link…

By: Luke Skaff

Luke Skaff — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:20:15 +0000

- adaptive LED color controller project -
—————————————–

This has already been done here, http://home.mindspring.com/~phil.ray/smartLED/
All that needs to be done is change the transistors to Darlington transistors which can handle more power. Something like a TIP125/6/7

By: danadamkof

danadamkof — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:34:11 +0000

I’m in fort bend isd, and I’m surprised HackADay isn’t blocked. Websense blocks a lot of stuff (I’ve seen some hardware-related sites blocked as “games” for example), and I’m sure it’s only a matter of time until HackADay is blocked. I’ve been meaning to set up a proxy server on my linux box to get around the whole mess (only accepting IPs from the ISP the school uses, only on during school hours (I don’t want a ton of traffic)) but I’ve been lazy.

And websense for our school disctict blocks google caching and altavista translations. Sucks.

Until I get that proxy set up, I’ve just been SSH’ing into my box and reading the blocked sites with Lynx. Very lame, I know.

By: Oatzy

Oatzy — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:03:17 +0000

a simple thing to try (won’t always work) is to google hack-a-day then click on the ‘cashed’ link below the result. works for me.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:03:00 +0000

#3, i had that problem last year. I tunneled to my server outside and redirected all traffic to a socks server on that machine using Sockscap and PuTTY.

By: Ginotech

Ginotech — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:44:53 +0000

cosmo: do you really think schools that block hackaday are going to let you go to livejournal?

By: Old Number 7

Old Number 7 — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:40:19 +0000

The Vonage Pap2 Unlock link is useless without the firmware.

By: Owen

Owen — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:34:02 +0000

It’s really not that hard. Just use a proxy.

By: Cosmo

Cosmo — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:20:51 +0000

To the students who can’t read hackaday at the hackaday website – There’s a syndication feed on LiveJournal, you can add Hackaday to your friends list and read it from there. But, hacking your way through is probably much more fun… :)

By: led

led — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:45:42 +0000

2 more pictures of the software driving the RGB led groups & choosing a color from the picker. Non-assigned PWM channels are assumed to be white and dim separately from the color groups.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26283760@N00/50203821/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26283760@N00/50203820/