I gaurantee this hacking school will attract a lot of genuine soon-to-be kiddies and nothing but negative exposure for the school itself. As everyone here is saying, they seem to be teaching more of a cracking style than hacking or security. I would seek out a more reputable source of education if I wanted to learn more than "the fine art of breaking into systems". Security education at @stake just doesn't compare to the quality you get at Xintra. You're not going to go to fast-food for gourmet.
Some laptops (such as IBM's) have a more secure BIOS password system that can't just be jumpered away. If you forget the password, you have to replace the systemboard.
Actually, there is a default password that always works with IBM laptops so that replacement of the systemboard never becomes necessary. I just cannot tell you this default password...
I welcome anything new from Matt Groening. The Simpsons is still the ultimate classic, despite its similarities with CmdrTaco.
I am still missing the discussions of the decoding the alien alphabets at The Futurama Outlet (content has been down for some time). Does anyone know of any other forums where this is being discussed? Is anyone even following me here?
You are trying to say that GCN is the fastest selling of _just_ the next gen systems and trying to bash the poster. Well, your wrong on both counts. Quoting the article you read:
"To have outpaced any other videogame console launch ever would be notable in its own right, but to accomplish this under the current economic conditions is truly remarkable."
I would take that to mean that it _is_ the fastest selling console in history. You could also have read the post where a link was given to the actual press release where they also confirm the same thing. No media source is rearranging things as you say. Really.
The link is already slashdotted. I couldn't find a cache on Google. Here is an alternative link to another gutting of the Gamecube. All this Gamecube gutting reminds me of Ben Heckendorn's next project at VCSp to make the Gamecube into a portable... watch for it.
I remember seeing plots of moon land for sale on eBay about 1.5 years ago. These were plots of land as large as 500-1000 acres. I wonder when territorial rights disputes on the moon will start happening. This is an opportunity for people to start building more micronations, I would hope.
I like. It can be a great spy tool (make a display page that looks like a common digital), you'll always have it with you when you go "f$ck %!@#* I wish I had a camera", and even for a spontaneous go at a "rock-paper-scissors" game amongst friends. I really think that I want to hack this so that it can play Pac-Man. Remember those Pac-Man watches they used to have!?
I know this may be the first time that someone has sucessfully installed a video camera inside a rugby ball, but haven't video cameras that are miniature, lightweight, and durable been around for SOME time now? What about football (American) helmet cams? Do a search anywhere for miniature video cameras. It just doesn't seem like that great of a technological feat...
Here is a link to a Wired article that talks about moletronics, but also specifically mentions applications of tiny computers. How about we equip planes with 10,000 microscopic black boxes instead of relying on just 1?
With a price this low for a decent console, making portable units is a very economical hack. We might be seeing this very soon over at Ben Heckendorn's Atari 2600 Portables Site, although his next confirmed project is a Gamecube portable.
"By contrast, both Sony and Microsoft are positioning their boxes as the foundation for home entertainment systems. The Xbox has a built-in hard drive and high-speed Internet port, and the PlayStation 2 will soon have both through external adapters... Nintendo wanted to keep the GameCube price low and keep the audience focused on the games, analysts said."
The Gamecube _does_ have add-on components for dial-up and broadband connectivity. I think it's smart to have these features as an add-on for everyone who may/not want a wired box. This has been announced for some time now:
The 11 Mbit connection I have running on 802.11b for laptops in my home is terrible for anything but telneting and casual browsing. I would welcome anything that could bring my speeds up close to a _normal_ 10/100 LAN. Wireless is great so that I don't have to retrofit my place with conduit for wire replacement, but if I mp3s can't even be streamed, well...
I recently shipped around $3000 worth of electronic music equipment from Boston to Sweden using UPS International. I went out and bought a _lot_ of comforters at a local thrift sotre and packed the boxes so they would bounce (literally). My packages arrived in pristine condition (although 1 month late), and the best part is, UPS somehow managed to _forget_ to charge me the $350 shipping fee. Thanks UPS!
I will agree that UPS is a less-than-par shipping servicve. From looking at the pictures, however, I really don't see a great packing job. I do see a alot of damage. The boxes are huge, and look like they full of air on many sides.
If I were ever in need of shipping my boxen, I would make sure that they were not packed like these were. Smaller boxes, more padding.
---|SNIP
open source is an intellectual property destroyer
- Jim Allchin, Microsoft executive, Feb 2001
Software is like sex; it's better when it's free
- Linus Torvalds
Any sufficiently advanced Operating System is indistinguishable from Linux
- Jim Dennis
Linux... Find out what you've been missing
while you've been rebooting Windows NT.
- anon
See Linux run...
See Windows run... scared.
- anon
Microsoft will make something that doesn't suck
when it starts manufactoring vaccum cleaners.
- car bumper sticker
I thought that aliens would take over the world,
but I never suspected the Finns.
- garf@roadum.demon.co.uk
How do you power off this machine?
- Linus Torvalds, when upgrading linux.cs.helsinki.fi,
and after using the machine for several months.
The most important design issue...
is the fact that Linux is supposed to be fun...
- Linus Torvalds,
at the First Dutch International Symposium on Linux
Open-Source Architecture requires neither Windows nor Gates
- Malcolm Macsween
Linux - What itch do you want to scratch today?
- Ulrik Haugen
With Linux there is no Bill to pay
- Maurice Fonhof
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi (possibly not talking about Linux!)
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin
really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have
never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph.
They'd be a lot more careful about what they said if they had.
- Linus Torvalds
Linux represents a best-of-breed Unix
- Vinod Valloppillil
Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates, Apache in house.
- Usenet signature
Consumers love it
- Vinod Valloppillil
The best thing about GNU/Linux is the people who use it.
- Kenneth W. Melvin
Most of the primary apps that people require when they
move to Linux are already available for free. This includes
web servers, POP clients, mail servers, text editors, etc
- Vinod Valloppillil
Don't throw your PC out of the window,
throw Windows out of your PC and run linux!
- Gernot Kerschbaumer
Linux and other OSS advocates are making a progressively
more credible argument that OSS software is at least as robust
- if not more - than commercial alternatives.
- Vinod Valloppillil
If the box says ``Windows 95 or better'', it should run on Linux, right?
- anon
Linux can win
- Vinod Valloppillil
---|ENDSNIP
[http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/prog/linuxbirth da y.html]
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"Webcurity"... "eComStation"...
::shivers::
What's next? Is this a trend?
I guess we should be lucky it's not "eComCyberStation2000i."
MODERATORS, how is this comment insightful? Informative maybe (if even), but the only insight I see here is to promote ebgames.com. Come on, damn...
I gaurantee this hacking school will attract a lot of genuine soon-to-be kiddies and nothing but negative exposure for the school itself. As everyone here is saying, they seem to be teaching more of a cracking style than hacking or security. I would seek out a more reputable source of education if I wanted to learn more than "the fine art of breaking into systems". Security education at @stake just doesn't compare to the quality you get at Xintra. You're not going to go to fast-food for gourmet.
Some laptops (such as IBM's) have a more secure BIOS password system that can't just be jumpered away. If you forget the password, you have to replace the systemboard.
Actually, there is a default password that always works with IBM laptops so that replacement of the systemboard never becomes necessary. I just cannot tell you this default password...
I welcome anything new from Matt Groening. The Simpsons is still the ultimate classic, despite its similarities with CmdrTaco.
I am still missing the discussions of the decoding the alien alphabets at The Futurama Outlet (content has been down for some time). Does anyone know of any other forums where this is being discussed? Is anyone even following me here?
You are trying to say that GCN is the fastest selling of _just_ the next gen systems and trying to bash the poster. Well, your wrong on both counts. Quoting the article you read:
"To have outpaced any other videogame console launch ever would be notable in its own right, but to accomplish this under the current economic conditions is truly remarkable."
I would take that to mean that it _is_ the fastest selling console in history. You could also have read the post where a link was given to the actual press release where they also confirm the same thing. No media source is rearranging things as you say. Really.
I got beat to the first "./'ed" post, and I messed up on my title:
A couple [2] of links...
It was 4 links. I'm off to a great start here.
The link is already slashdotted. I couldn't find a cache on Google. Here is an alternative link to another gutting of the Gamecube. All this Gamecube gutting reminds me of Ben Heckendorn's next project at VCSp to make the Gamecube into a portable... watch for it.
that you can use "file://[address]" to find pages and directories that are NOT linked to on a server (if the server allows it)?
I remember seeing plots of moon land for sale on eBay about 1.5 years ago. These were plots of land as large as 500-1000 acres. I wonder when territorial rights disputes on the moon will start happening. This is an opportunity for people to start building more micronations, I would hope.
I like. It can be a great spy tool (make a display page that looks like a common digital), you'll always have it with you when you go "f$ck %!@#* I wish I had a camera", and even for a spontaneous go at a "rock-paper-scissors" game amongst friends. I really think that I want to hack this so that it can play Pac-Man. Remember those Pac-Man watches they used to have!?
I know this may be the first time that someone has sucessfully installed a video camera inside a rugby ball, but haven't video cameras that are miniature, lightweight, and durable been around for SOME time now? What about football (American) helmet cams? Do a search anywhere for miniature video cameras. It just doesn't seem like that great of a technological feat...
Here is a link to a Wired article that talks about moletronics, but also specifically mentions applications of tiny computers. How about we equip planes with 10,000 microscopic black boxes instead of relying on just 1?
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/moletroni
With a price this low for a decent console, making portable units is a very economical hack. We might be seeing this very soon over at Ben Heckendorn's Atari 2600 Portables Site, although his next confirmed project is a Gamecube portable.
[testing]...
[from the article]:
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"By contrast, both Sony and Microsoft are positioning their boxes as the foundation for home entertainment systems. The Xbox has a built-in hard drive and high-speed Internet port, and the PlayStation 2 will soon have both through external adapters... Nintendo wanted to keep the GameCube price low and keep the audience focused on the games, analysts said."
The Gamecube _does_ have add-on components for dial-up and broadband connectivity. I think it's smart to have these features as an add-on for everyone who may/not want a wired box. This has been announced for some time now:
modem adapter: http://www.nintendo.com/systems/gcn/gcn_acc_modem
broadband adapter: http://www.nintendo.com/systems/gcn/gcn_acc_broad
We do not talk about Tyler DurdEn...
worker bees can leave
even drones can fly away
the queen is their slave
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The 11 Mbit connection I have running on 802.11b for laptops in my home is terrible for anything but telneting and casual browsing. I would welcome anything that could bring my speeds up close to a _normal_ 10/100 LAN. Wireless is great so that I don't have to retrofit my place with conduit for wire replacement, but if I mp3s can't even be streamed, well...
I recently shipped around $3000 worth of electronic music equipment from Boston to Sweden using UPS International. I went out and bought a _lot_ of comforters at a local thrift sotre and packed the boxes so they would bounce (literally). My packages arrived in pristine condition (although 1 month late), and the best part is, UPS somehow managed to _forget_ to charge me the $350 shipping fee. Thanks UPS!
I will agree that UPS is a less-than-par shipping servicve. From looking at the pictures, however, I really don't see a great packing job. I do see a alot of damage. The boxes are huge, and look like they full of air on many sides.
If I were ever in need of shipping my boxen, I would make sure that they were not packed like these were. Smaller boxes, more padding.
---|SNIP
h da y.html]
open source is an intellectual property destroyer
- Jim Allchin, Microsoft executive, Feb 2001
Software is like sex; it's better when it's free
- Linus Torvalds
Any sufficiently advanced Operating System is indistinguishable from Linux
- Jim Dennis
Linux... Find out what you've been missing
while you've been rebooting Windows NT.
- anon
See Linux run...
See Windows run... scared.
- anon
Microsoft will make something that doesn't suck
when it starts manufactoring vaccum cleaners.
- car bumper sticker
I thought that aliens would take over the world,
but I never suspected the Finns.
- garf@roadum.demon.co.uk
How do you power off this machine?
- Linus Torvalds, when upgrading linux.cs.helsinki.fi,
and after using the machine for several months.
The most important design issue...
is the fact that Linux is supposed to be fun...
- Linus Torvalds,
at the First Dutch International Symposium on Linux
Open-Source Architecture requires neither Windows nor Gates
- Malcolm Macsween
Linux - What itch do you want to scratch today?
- Ulrik Haugen
With Linux there is no Bill to pay
- Maurice Fonhof
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi (possibly not talking about Linux!)
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin
really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have
never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph.
They'd be a lot more careful about what they said if they had.
- Linus Torvalds
Linux represents a best-of-breed Unix
- Vinod Valloppillil
Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates, Apache in house.
- Usenet signature
Consumers love it
- Vinod Valloppillil
The best thing about GNU/Linux is the people who use it.
- Kenneth W. Melvin
Most of the primary apps that people require when they
move to Linux are already available for free. This includes
web servers, POP clients, mail servers, text editors, etc
- Vinod Valloppillil
Don't throw your PC out of the window,
throw Windows out of your PC and run linux!
- Gernot Kerschbaumer
Linux and other OSS advocates are making a progressively
more credible argument that OSS software is at least as robust
- if not more - than commercial alternatives.
- Vinod Valloppillil
If the box says ``Windows 95 or better'', it should run on Linux, right?
- anon
Linux can win
- Vinod Valloppillil
---|ENDSNIP
[http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/prog/linuxbirt
I think that LEDs are pretty. Horsies are pretty.
No, you are not.
PIHEX: http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/pihex/