The Edge of I-Hacked

Watch as these guys make processors EXPLODE! Basically they say they allow them to overheat — with surprising results.

First up: AMD Duron

Up Next: Intel Pentium 4

Analysing the video however, you can see that these processors probably had a little bit of help with the “exploding”

from Popular Mechanics

How to survive:
# How To Survive A Riot
# How To Survive An Airplane Crash
# How To Stop A Car With No Brakes
# How To Find Your Way When Lost In The Woods
# How To Jump From Rooftop To Rooftop
# How To Survive A Volcanic Eruption
# How To Ram A Barricade
# How To Survive A Sandstorm
# How To Foil An Alien Abduction
# How To Cross A Piranha-Infested River
# How To Survive A Plunge Over A Waterfall
# How To Survive A Fall Through Ice
# How To Escape From A Car Hanging Over The Edge Of A Cliff
# How To Survive A Riptide
# How To Navigate A Minefield
# How To Control A Runaway Camel
# How To Survive In A Plummeting Elevator

& Now we know…

from Linux Journal

Build a low-cost, terabyte-sized backup server using Linux and back up your digital audio files, digital images and digital movie recordings.

A terabyte-plus backup and storage system is now an affordable option for Linux users. This article discusses options for building and configuring an inexpensive, expandable, Linux-based backup server.

So you updated to Firefox 1.5 (why werent you running RC3?) and now a ton of your extentions do not work.. Here is a quick fix to force them to work. Remember this is just a fix, make sure to update them as soon as you can.

1. enter about:config into your location bar. This will show you a list of Firefox internal preferences.
2. Right-click on the list, select New > String
3. Enter “app.extensions.version” (without quotes) for the preference name.
4. Then, enter “1.0” (without quotes) as the value for app.extensions.version.
5. Restart Firefox 1.5, then enable those disabled Firefox extensions.
6. Restart Firefox 1.5 again to active the extensions. Done.

from www.menshealth.com

How to:
1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear!
2. Experience supersonic hearing!
3. Overcome your most primal urge!
4. Feel no pain!
5. Clear your stuffed nose!
6. Fight fire without water!
7. Cure your toothache without opening your mouth!
8. Make burns disappear!
9. Stop the world from spinning!
10. Unstitch your side!
11. Stanch blood with a single finger!
12. Make your heart stand still!
13. Thaw your brain!
14. Prevent near-sightedness!
15. Wake the dead!
16. Impress your friends!
17. Breathe underwater!
18. Read minds!

from PaulEnglish.com

I created the IVR Cheat Sheet to help you quickly get to a human when you are trying to call a company for service. (The term IVR stands for “Interactive Voice Response”, the fancy name for annoying computers who answer most phones these days.)

Frustrated? How about when you call your phone company and they ask for your phone number? Or when your bank asks you to type in your credit card or ATM number, and then when you finally get a human on the phone, they ask you to tell them again. Hello, don’t I pay *you* guys money?

This page catalogs companies customer service numbers, plus the code needed to speak with a human. Very helpful!

For those of us who work in network security.. I think I am going to print a few of these out..

LINK

from Llamma.com

Bling, bling, what an amazing thing… Is that a laptop hard drive in there?

We have spent quite a bit of time on this one and got through a good cross section of mods. Some for looks, performance, and capacity. Its been a productive 7 days.

Window mod
4″ cold cathode
12V fan mod (increase air flow)
Silver and blue paint scheme
Blue ring of light
60GB laptop drive upgrade (this is in addition to the 20GB normal 360 drive both can be accessed from the dashboard and the upgrade drive can be updated with media from a PC)

You have to check out some of the other pictures.. They have really taken their time and pimped out this box.

from Linux Magazine

Imagine my surprise, however, when I discovered that DVD playback capability was intentionally crippled in the open source version of SuSE Linux 10. Whoa! Or should I say, Scheiße!

Geben Sie Mir Meinen DVD Spieler, Dumbkopf!
Of course, you can play DVDs on Linux, and you most certainly can have it in SuSE Linux 10, but to do so, you have to jump through a few hoops, make a few modifications, and possibly break a few laws — kind of like yanking the catalytic converter and adding Euro-spec Bosch headlights and a high-performance intake and exhaust system to your high-performance German touring sedan.
Due to a variety of legal issues, SuSE Linux 10 cannot include working copies of a number of components needed for DBD playback. So, the first thing to do is remove the bad parts to make room for the new ones. Fire up a command prompt, type…

$ su root

… and then enter the root password. Once you’re root, run the following set of commands:

# rpm –e kdemultimedia3-video-xine-3.4.2-10
# rpm –e amarok-xine-1.3.1-7
# rpm –e xine-ui
# rpm –e xine-lib
# rpm –e kaffeine

These commands remove crippled versions of the libraries and applications needed to play DVDs.

From PaulStamatiou.com

I’ve compiled a list of 10 things every first time Mac owner, particularly Mac Mini owner, should know about their new computer and operating system. This article should answer some burning questions, enlighten you about some features you did not know about OS X and just all around be helpful. Enjoy. Any questions can be directed towards me here. I wrote this for 123MacMini.