I am about to head out to see Murderball, but don’t think I’ve neglected the links for today.
Is your hard drive toast? Maybe not. [phuzzy3d]
The x86 still. Sure it is constantly overheating, but that is what the reset button is for. [Tired2]
Use your PC as a loader for Playstation 2 HDLoader. [kevin]
Brain-Wave Machine? [camzmac]
Cubicle light controller [Brent Bublitz]
Fixing flash drive corruptions [anonymous]
Just a quick update before I head to the airport. I would have told you Amarillo folks I was coming if I had been spending more than 24 hours here.
A few have asked about the Philly meetup. I don’t live in Philly, Vince does, I live in Lincoln, NE. So, feel free to hold meetings and I will post announcements, but i’m not going to be in PA. As always you can check out #hackaday on EFnet.
Do you know the story of the late John Britten? He built a competitive GP bike from the ground up. Now you can buy one for $249K. It’s unfortunate that Britten passed nearly 10 years ago, but at least the MotoCzysz C1 is trying to recapture the spirit.
[Luke Kanies] tipped me that Paul Frank was on the cover of Inc. magazine wearing a Hack-A-Day Beanie. Uh, we don’t make beanies. I checked out the magazine and it is really difficult to make out. A little googling turned up Paul Frank’s Skurvy product line.
[under_R_run] abuses a kiosk in Baltimore
How not to build a laptop [benhou]
Cyborg name generator – because you have to put google ads next to something
I was trying to use pickupline to bypass the wireless captive portal at Denver International yesterday, but was having problems. I think they hard coded eth1 into the spoofer. Anybody else had a chance to play with this? Time for round two.
As you read this I’m probably riding a turboprop to Amarillo, but never fear links are here.
I’m kind of surprised by yesterday’s poll; Emacs is getting thoroughly trounced. I’m a fan of vi, but that’s mainly because I can type and never got into the whole “ctrl+meta+wang” thing. Emacs does have the capabilities of doing almost everything that isn’t text editing.
Heretic on the DS – second screen shows the map [Maxconsole]
[ACSLATER] wanted to know what to do with an old television: wave vessel .
Reading about melting an iMac reminded [Mike] of melting a NeXTCube.
John Gruber on Apple’s DRM [via Waxy]- You nearly had me Apple; now, not so much
Ah, the weekend, time to relax and
sorry for no links yesterday folks, jet lag was still kickin in. but thankfully, eliot put up an article on how to finally use that damn cvs camcorder! bout time right?
so before i throw you lotsa links, let me say this:
i am out of all merch aside from a few shirts.
i came back from, vegas to over 300 envelopes bulging out of my mailbox. i still havent even gotten to them yet. so stop sending SASEs until we get more. thanks people!
LINKAGE!
printer that cuts its own paper for you. oragami anyone?
inject audio into insecure handsets. oooh the possibilities
it’s monday again. another new week! but wow, we have some serious recapping to do.
defcon 13 has come and gone and boy has it been a blast. we saw a lot of great and horrible talks, met tons of cool people, gave out tons of stickers and t-shirts and pins, and also got hacked! w00t!
we still have a few shirts (and tons of stickers) left though. we’ll let you know how you can get your hands on the in the next few days!
Defcon has really been great despite being a bit dissapointing in a lot of ways. It made me get back into my hacking roots that are so much fun to do. For instance, while we were hanging with the dudes over at rackspace, I created this nice little php page making it very easy to test Movable Type installations for the default username and password. I like it, it’s very fun. Just copy and paste the http://www.cfrirgrg.com/mt.cgi address in the box. No HTTP:// is required (don’t do it) so it’s easy to paste from the google results. i plan on improving it and eventually automating it.
what the hack was also over the weekend too. it took place all outdoors and was probably better than defcon. if you went, we wanna know.
then there’s the whole up-in-arms-over-this cisco exploit that came out that could “bring the internet to it’s knees”…ouch. the guy who found it quit his job at his security firm so he could bring attention to it and now he’s screwed basically.
props to this guy (rich) for shoving us to in-n-out burger too. he also exposed us to “the weight lifter” if i recall right. we don’t thank you for that. we also want to thank corey, dirk, jason s., ryan, justin (blogcadre raps), justin (lettingusstayathisplace), torrone, mike (same), jason c. of course, and all of you guys who came up and found us and said hi!
this is one of the most insane things i’ve seen in a long time. this guy obviously had a very formal event (read: prom) to go to at one point. chances are he was desperate for attention which resulted in his coke can tux. that’s right. he ran a can drive with his readers and friends to get the cans to make this monstrosity. he then went and mashed, molded, melted, and sewed a series of coke cans together to create this coke can vest for his event. great work and extra points for being original and a loser.
thanks [com]
