Unix Command-Line Kung Fu
This pdf has a couple of fun bash shell tricks, such as using find, replacements for the up arrow, cut, sed, awk and a few more in a very readable format. Unix_Command-Line_Kung_Fu_ SANS .pdf application/pdf Object.
Month: March 2010
Robot Touchscreen Analysis
This shows pretty conclusively that the iphone has the best touchscreen followed by the Palm Pre. The Androids don’t do too well at all. labs.moto.com » Blog Archive » Robot Touchscreen Analysis.
Full body scanners: fine for us, but not for them
The BAA employee took a photo of his co-worker, Jo Margetson, when she inadvertently went through a scanner. “I can't bear to think about the body scanner thing,” she told the Sun. “I'm totally traumatised. I've spoken to the police about it. I'm in too much of a state to go to work.” BAA said: Read more about Full body scanners: fine for us, but not for them[…]
Gerald Blanchard: Masterthief
This guy started stealing at 6 and never looked back. Banks, jewelry, skimming, scamming, he’s done it all. Using high-tech gadgets and doing parachuting in or using air ducts, he got in anywhere. A gripping read of a real life Pink Panther style master thief, who made a few too many mistakes and got caught. Read more about Gerald Blanchard: Masterthief[…]
Computer Engineer Barbie
Yup, it finally happened, Barbie® I Can Be…™ dolls and accessories empower girls to play out different roles and “try on” fabulous careers, including computer engineer, the first Barbie® profession chosen by popular vote! Always a reflection of the times, this digital diva engineers the perfect geek-chic look, with hot pink accessories and sleek gadgets Read more about Computer Engineer Barbie[…]
A school with normal times gets impressive results.
A school that has allowed its pupils to start the day an hour later says it has seen absenteeism decline.At Monkseaton High School, in North Tyneside, 800 pupils aged 13-19 have started lessons at 10am since October.Early results indicates that general absence has dropped by 8% and persistent absenteeism by 27%. via BBC News – Read more about A school with normal times gets impressive results.[…]
ALL models are bad for women’s self esteem
Whether they’re plus sized, normal sized or skinny, women will feel bad about themselves whenever they see a model. There really is no pleasing them! Plus Size Models Don’t Raise Self Esteem | The Frisky.
Foil impressioning lockpicking
The way the tool works is that you first take some aluminum foil and make a ‘U shaped’ form using the special tool to do so and make small incisions on pre-determined positions. Next thing you do is put the foil over a special blank that already has the profile of your target lock. The Read more about Foil impressioning lockpicking[…]
Speed Up Windows 7 Taskbar Navigation with a Registry Hack – Windows Tip – Lifehacker
Launch regedit.exe HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer AdvancedGo to Edit->New->DWORD 32-bit ValueName the value LastActiveClick Hit enter to assign the value and change it to 1Restart Explorer and you're good to go. via Speed Up Windows 7 Taskbar Navigation with a Registry Hack – Windows Tip – Lifehacker.
F-35 price hiked by 90%
Not only is the F-35 underperforming and overpriced, it’s also not an air dominance fighter. It’s a point defence fighter with the same limitations of the F-16 when it first came out. If you want to play with the big boys, you gotta have a big stick, and the F-35 just isn’t it. Now it’s Read more about F-35 price hiked by 90%[…]
US Army takes down CIA / Saudi extremist website
Showing there is little unity and policy when it comes to cyber warfare in the US, the military took down a website used to gather intelligence on extremists. In the process of doing so they took down around 300 servers around the world and pissed off all the other intelligence gathering agencies that were covertly Read more about US Army takes down CIA / Saudi extremist website[…]
d_shape: print your house
d_shape is a large Italian 3D printer, capable of printing large structures, up to and including houses. via welcome to d_shape. This isn’t a new idea, and it should work. I don’t know what happened to the house printer I covered in
Lost Shakespeare Play?
On December 1727 an intriguing play called Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers was presented for production by Lewis Theobald, who had it published in January 1728 after a successful run at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. The title page to the published version claims that the play was ‘Written Originally by W.SHAKESPEARE’. Double Read more about Lost Shakespeare Play?[…]
DSLR Camera Remote Professional Edition
This program allows you to remote control your Canon or Nikon camera connected to a PC, allowing you to preview and shoot the pictures from the screen of the ipod. DSLR Camera Remote Professional Edition for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store.
A dagger to the CIA
Opinion piece by a former CIA operative on its current lack of operational capability, On December 30, in one of the deadliest attacks in CIA history, an Al Qaeda double agent schemed his way onto a U.S. base in Afghanistan and blew himself into the next life, taking seven Americans with him. How could this Read more about A dagger to the CIA[…]
End of stealth aircraft
It used to be that you needed a huge cellphone network to start mapping changes in air currents, but now these guys have developed a sensor that can measure the movement and displacement of air particles using a sensor smaller than a matchstick head! The Microflown The Microflown is the worlds first and only MEMS Read more about End of stealth aircraft[…]
OSx86 Project
This wiki has guides showing you how to get OSX Snow Leopard installed on a PC using Intel or AMD chips. Main Page – OSx86.
Behavioral Game Design / How you get addicted to games
This article is a general primer on how to get players to continuously play your game, which in the world of the MMPORG is a very important element, using a behavioural model. Gamasutra – Features – Behavioral Game Design. This article is a bit more cynical and compares the above techniques to addiction creation and Read more about Behavioral Game Design / How you get addicted to games[…]
Popular Science completely archived and online
Using Google search technology you can now browse through the entire archive of Popular Science magazine and read the old issues online. New! Browse the Complete PopSci Archive | Popular Science.
Why DRM Sucks: Ubisoft goes down
Yup, this is what happens to DRM servers: they go down and you can’t play your game, listen to your music, or really do anything with the product you bought. Ubisoft’s game servers have been down for longer than 10 hours, well done! The Escapist : News : Ubisoft DRM Authentication Servers Go Down.
IDUMP4U – dump your girl/boy friend
This guy will dump your girlfriend or boyfriend for a small fee by phone. He records the call and then puts it on YouTube for the world to hear. IDUMP4U the website where we do all the dirty work for you!.
DMCA Amendment Proposed For UK
Showing that the LibDems in the UK are now the lapdogs of major industry, they have proposed an amendment allowing copyright owners to force ISPs to take content offline without any proof that the copyright belongs to them. “During today's debate in the UK's House of Lords on the much-criticized Digital Economy Bill the unpopular Read more about DMCA Amendment Proposed For UK[…]
Seriously: multitasking is bad for you!
And we’ve known this since the 1890s. Experiments repeatedly show that multitasking basically makes you perform badly at any of the tasks you’re performing. Now, however, it turns out that not only do you do badly at the tasks, but it also destroys your capacity for reasoning. This article walks quickly through the history of Read more about Seriously: multitasking is bad for you![…]
Skinput turns your body into a touch device
The system beams a keyboard or menu onto the user's forearm and hand from a projector housed in an armband. An acoustic detector, also in the armband, then calculates which part of the display you want to activate. via Body acoustics can turn your arm into a touchscreen – tech – 01 March 2010 – Read more about Skinput turns your body into a touch device[…]
Texas DSHS secretly collects babies blood for DNA
And then puts them into a database accessible by… who? and why? This started in 2002 and has been going on without your knowledge ever since… Newborns’ blood used to build secret DNA database – Short Sharp Science – New Scientist.