Thanks to the good people at Decal Girl, I was able to give my XBox a sweet skin. I love it. I think it looks awsome!
Yay, my moded XBox lives again. I had to replace the motherboard after it died suddenly back in February. And now, with the new motherboard installed, it lives again. Hurray!
Comments are off for this postI found this on Kevin Rose’s Site. Type ‘bastards’ into Google and hit ‘I’m feeling Lucky’.
1 commentThere are by some estimates more than a million weblogs. But most of them get no visibility in search engines. Only a few “A-List” blogs get into the top search engine results for a given topic, while the majority of blogs just don’t get noticed. The reason is that the smaller blogs don’t have enough links pointing to them. But this posting could solve that. Let’s help the smaller blogs get more visibility!
This posting is GoMeme 4.0. It is part of an experiment to see if we can create a blog posting that helps 1000′s of blogs get higher rankings in Google. So far we have tried 3 earlier variations. Our first test, GoMeme 1.0, spread to nearly 740 blogs in 2.5 days. This new version 4.0 is shorter, simpler, and fits more easily into your blog.
Why are we doing this? We want to help thousands of blogs get more visibility in Google and other search engines. How does it work? Just follow the instructions below to re-post this meme in your blog and add your URL to the end of the Path List below. As the meme spreads onwards from your blog, so will your URL. Later, when your blog is indexed by search engines, they will see the links pointing to your blog from all the downstream blogs that got this via you, which will cause them to rank your blog higher in search results. Everyone in the Path List below benefits in a similar way as this meme spreads. Try it!
Instructions: Just copy this entire post and paste it into your blog. Then add your URL to the end of the path list below, and pass it on! (Make sure you add your URLs as live links or HTML code to the Path List below.)
Path List
1. Minding the Planet
2. Luke Hutteman’s public virtual MemoryStream
3. You’ve Been Haacked! and you like it.
4. Jason’s Life (Jason & Staysea)
5. (your URL goes here! But first, please copy this line and move it down to the next line for the next person).
(NOTE: Be sure you paste live links for the Path List or use HTML code.)
2 commentsGoogle put up billboards in the U.S. with the following equation on it.
{first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e}.com
So you start grabbing groups of 10 digits from e and seeing if they divide by 2, 3 and all the numbers less than the square root of itself, and you eventually find 7427466391, which leads you to www.7427466391.com.
Here you find the following:
Congratulations. You’ve made it to level 2. Go to www.Linux.org and enter Bobsyouruncle as the login and the answer to this equation as the password.
f(1) = 7182818284
f(2) = 8182845904
f(3) = 8747135266
f(4) = 7427466391
f(5) = __________
If you take a close look at the first and second entity, they have repeating characters, go back to e, where we find that these are consecutive groups of 10 digits of e. They have something else in common too, each group of 10 add to 49. Find the 5th set that adds to 49, and you’ve got your password.
3 commentsI don’t know if this applies to the Canadian market or not, probably not, the CRTC seems bent on making a number of things difficult. But I thought it was pretty cool.
“As of April 1st, cable companies are required to provide a Firewire-enabled cable box to anyone that asks, as per an FCC interpretation of Section 304 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. What this means to you is that easy ripping and recording of HDTV streams is just a phone call to your cable company”
If you are one of those people who likes to rebuild their system on a regular basis, then you’ll probably want to check Slipstreaming. Basically, you can roll in all the latest patches into your copy of XP so that when you’re done installing, everything is all patched up. This really works well if you’re hyper-paranoid about those pesky security holes being breached while you’re sitting on Windows Update waiting for everything to download.
Comments are off for this postI know this is an older app, but I just recently rediscovered it, SafariNoTimeout. It removes the standard 60 second timeout in Safari and replaces it with 10 minutes (default) or any amount of time you set. I find it invaluable when rebuilding all my Blog entries.
Comments are off for this postMy XBox started malfunctioning last night. It’s flashing red and green lights instead of happily serving up Grand Theft Auto. It was a very sad day.
Today there is new hope, in that a number of people have offered very seemingly good advice as to what may be the problem. I will investigate these issues further.
On the up side, I did do a backup of one crucial piece of information just the other day. I backed up the hard drive password. This at least, should allow me to put the drive in my PC and unlock it to recover my saved games and such. Hope does spring eternal that I can find a solution.
She’s not dead, just deaf, blind and dumb. I’ve seen worse. I hope for the best.
I’ve been reading through the Hackers listing on Discovery.com. It’s facinating. I’ve only read through the biographies so far, but none the less, it is interesting to see where the pioneers of computing are now and how they got there.
For instance Kevin Poulsen took over the phone system to ensure he was the 102 caller in a radio contest to win a Porsche 944 S2.
OR
John Draper aka Capt’n Crunch, he is famous for using a whistle that was being given away in boxes of Capt’n Crunch to trick payphones into thinking that he’d put in a quarter and making free phone calls.