11.29.2007

Hacker Uses Sony PlayStation 3 to Crack Passwords

"Nick Breese, a senior security consultant at Auckland-based Security-assessment.com, has come up with a way to drastically increase the processing capability of cracking passwords, using a PS3."

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Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero Compatibility : What Game is Right For You?

Rock Band and Guitar Hero III are both some completely awesome music games and they offer some great choices for gamers but there is some serious confusion about the guitar controllers out there. What should you choose? Read up and decide ...

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A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff

The web can help you learn how to do just about anything you can imagine. Read/WriteWeb compiled a list of some of the best tutorial sites out there, most of them including video or other rich media instruction.

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11.28.2007

The ultimate iPod anti-theft device -- Hide it in a Zune!

Welcome to the Anti-Social. Protect your iPod or iPhone from theft and still enjoy using it in public. Put it in a Hide-a-Pod anti-theft case, made out of a real Zune. Well, at least some Apple fanboys have a sense of humor. Or is this for real?

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11.24.2007

Guitar Hero III featured on Will It Blend

Where will it stop, Tom? When will you and the other mad scientists at Blendtec draw the line between the advancement of science and the study of the dark appliance arts? Liquifying a bundle of glowsticks is one thing, but putting an X-plorer guitar (from one of the rip-off Wal-Mart Guitar Hero III bundles) on frappé is a horse of a twisted. . .


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11.22.2007

Linux and eyecandy on VERY old computer

Linux Xubuntu and Compiz-fusion on a 7 year old computer.



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11.21.2007

Rock the Halo theme free for Guitar Hero III

Like the Pilgrims and Native Americans breaking bread together, Microsoft and Activision are giving Xbox 360 owners something to truly be thankful for tomorrow: the Halo theme (MJOLNIR Mix edition, featuring fretwork by none other than Steve Vai) is coming to Guitar Hero III.



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11.15.2007

Dozens of Useful FREE Utilities Written in AutoHotKey

These freeware utilities are written in the AutoHotkey scripting language. Downloads are available both as pre-compiled .exe files or as .ahk scripts you can customize for your own use.

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11.10.2007

How NOT to use TOR

The moral of the story is that you shouldn't use TOR for the purposes of secure communications. You should be using TOR to anonymize routing. If you are passing identifiable information over the wire you need to use a secure end-to-end encrypted channel, like ssh, https, or ssl-imap.

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