Further to my earler post “The coolest laptop ever” – more news has come to light in relation to the option of installing a fully fledged distro on the laptop.
Mandriva One is now a fully hardware native linux distro.. meaning that after installing all the hardware on the Eee PC is detected “out of the [...]
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Eee PC 701 with a real linux distro that’s hardware native!
Posted in Computers, Programming, Uncategorized, tagged eee pc, eee pc mandriva, linux, mandriva one, native distro, Spring on 8 September , 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Coolest Laptop Ever
Posted in Computers, Uncategorized, tagged 701, 7inch, eee pc, fast boot, linux, shock resistant, small laptop, solid state hard drive, SSD, tiny laptop on 5 February , 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last month i saw in the Myer catalogue an advertisement for a 7 inch Asus laptop for only $499!!.. so i rushed immediately to the store at 9:50pm (10 minutes before closing to get one). It was well worth it. This little Laptop comes pretty standard from the Asus factory, and is in stock form [...]
Malevolence OSX – Sys Admin Password Recovery
Posted in Apple, Computers, fix it, patch, security on 5 February , 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Malevolence is a simple application created by Marukka which extracts login/password information from the system in a unshadowed format. It has been discovered there a numerous ways to obtain the passwd information from netinfo (see next blog post for more info) including simply typing the command command “nidump passwd .” ” see http://www.securemac.com/malevolence.php for more info.
Which is [...]
Enable safety camera warnings on a Tom-tom One
Posted in Computers, fix it, gps, patch, tracking, tagged fix, one, patch, safety cameras, tom tom, warnings on 5 February , 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love using my Tom-tom One GPS its very handy when driving in unfamiliar places, and provides for stress free travelling. Only one problem is that by default the Safety Camera Alerts are not enabled by default for Australian Tom-tom owners. So pretty much everyone in Australia with all versions of the Tom-tom One are [...]
Ubuntu Linux Backdoor
Posted in Computers, security on 5 February , 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For some reason you may wish to create a backdoor to an ubuntu system “that you own!”… or you may want to know the methods someone may use to hack your system in order to stop them. Whatever your reasoning here is a short and simple description of how someone may create a local backdoor [...]
How Hackers cover their tracks
Posted in Computers, security on 5 February , 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A well setup system will not be as susceptible to attacks form hackers(the real term is cracker.. but people are confused these days… so i’ll call the hackers). But in the large percentage of systems that are not well setup, there are many ways in which you may be attacked – so its useful to [...]
How to hack a mac! – No really I mean it!
Posted in Apple, Computers on 5 February , 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You probably never thought i would ever talk about something like this… well considering how much I love macs, and how I tell everyone all day long about how they are so much better than MS products and how they are hack proof.
Well here it goes… I am going to actually describe how to hack [...]
Stream your desktop as a Video using VLC (Mac/Linux/Windows)
Posted in Computers on 5 February , 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you don’t want to purchase commercial software and already have VLC installed – then you already have everything you need without knowing it. There is a input Access module in the newer versions of VLC (0.8.6+) called “screen” which makes this possible. To stream your desktop to another machine (ip address: 192.168.1.5 in this [...]
How to make your mac speak remotely
Posted in Computers, Programming on 5 February , 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unlike many other OS’s out there, mac’s OSX has a built in text-to-speech (TTS) system. Knowing this can open up some powerful features for the power user.
Not only can you make it speak text in a document by highlighting text and visiting the Services menu, but you can also call the speech engine from command [...]
How to enable verbose boot output on Macbook
Posted in Computers on 5 February , 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes (well more recently since the OSX 10.4.8 updates) I noticed just after the recommended mac update it took ages to reboot. So i though to myself “id really like to know what’s going on when those long reboots happen”. Best way to achieve this on a mac is to enable verbose output on your [...]
