Monday, May 28, 2007

Intel responds to Barcelona numbers

ONE OF THE problems with releasing benchmark numbers is the competition knows what you are up to.It also gives the competition a chance to plan, scheme, and counterattack. Last week, at the Microprocessor Forum, Intel did just that in a response to AMD's Barcelona numbers.
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Tweaktown emulates Al Gore

Or at least, how different PC games eat up power – thumbs up for Supreme Commander. Personally, I consider this whole hype about CO emissions just a smoke in the mirrors, since we could go on and on about real pollution.
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How to Hack a Vending Machine

Following up our how to hack a coke machine coverage, here's a video on how to hack a snack machine. It's pretty much the same idea. Pay for something, but hold the release flap up on the bottom so the machine thinks it didn't drop your food. Then mash on the coin return button to get your money back.
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Wi-Foo The Hack of foo

Here is the list of tools we commonly use in pentesting wireless networks or just wardriving for fun and no profit. All these tools are covered in the book in sufficient details. Some of them may become obsolete at the time the book hits the shelf and so are not possible to find anywhere anymore, so they are located on our site. The reason for it is the dialectic approach we endorse: to understand things as they are now, you are ought to know where did they come from and how did they develop. Besides, you may find the snippets of code from these tools to be useful for your own projects.
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Friday, May 25, 2007

WEP Crack

PC Design Contest Winners

The winners of Bill Gates' annual PC design contest have created some strange and beautiful objects that you might not guess are computers.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007

On the hunt for Vista bugs

There is no doubt that people will find glitches in Beta 2 of the oft-delayed operating system. The question is whether there are any show-stoppers. Microsoft has time to squish some bugs, but it needs to avoid any significant headaches if it is to make its revised goal of finishing the code by November and launching the product in January..
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