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I've noticed that updates for eee os don't always work. But it's really easy to revert to the default OS! My wife's eee pc is small, too. She thought it would be too small, but I convinced her by showing her the low price of 2GB SD cards last year. This year they're even cheaper. But recently I bought her an 8 GB USB stick. It allows her to boot from eee-ubuntu. Also, I've got another USB to boot from Backtrack 3. Check out http://techdu.de/2008/04/12/how-to-install...-on-the-eee-pc/ which explains how to install to a 4 GB SD card.

I've seen posts on forums with big words like "lawyer" before. Maybe his lawyer would try to harass me if he had any evidence that I attempted to impersonate him on the registration page of his website... ^_^

This poor schmuck got stuck with the wrong hosting company. His host, domain.com, uses the classic bait-and-switch of cheap hosting with expensive add-ons. Unfortunately, this style of hosting ruins the Internet for everyone: Burress' Closet gets the "under construction" look for a few years until he cancels his domain name, and nobody buys his phones, so he never gets back the $150 he wasted on his hosting service. Maybe the best thing he could do would be to use that site as a "web business card." Something simple and presentable instead of a scammy webshop. If his jeans and clothes are legit, he should think twice about protecting his customers. Ditch that moldy host, Ricardo! Another thing about this guy I'm thinking is crazy... RicardoBurress.com is available, nor does he prefer RicadosCloset.com, instead selecting the weird sounding foneaddons.com. GO FIGURE! -- edit --- Another thing, Ricardo Burress: learn to punctuate! Apostrophes dont' go there's.

There's been an update on the clickjacking. A list of about 8 vulnerabilities: http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20081007/clickjacking-details/ By the way, the term is "clickjacking" but reading the Flash specs you realize that it's not exactly clicking that's required. The security of Flash prevents actions like going to a new site without mouse action, which includes clicking, but isn't limited to it. If you simply place a long movie somewhere and the mouse rolls over it, then you have a mouse action and you are good to go! Rick roll away! I'll take a look at the video cam jacking... I can't figure out how they bypassed the usual dialogue that pops up asking for the user to give the okay for using the webcam. Apparently they show white space in front of the dialogue, and entice the user to click there?

When I installed Eee-ubuntu last week, it seemed really great and fine. So after I had tested it out I asked my wife to boot up her computer with it. She liked the design of it, but the second time she booted it up the keyboard didn't respond at all, although the mouse was working. It was quite strange! A reboot took care of it, but it makes me wonder... The wireless on Eee-Ubuntu seems fine to me. It's just that the connection settings in Ubuntu, especially for wireless, took me a little while to get used to. There is some strange roaming setting, which is good to use if you're using DHCP, but not good if you're using a static IP. Once I got used to Ubuntu's wireless, I found that it's easier to use than Windows wireless settings (I often switch around between several static IPs and don't understand why Windows has such an unfriendly way to modify the connection settings). Ubuntu puts all the connections in one place and it's more logical that way, IMO. I'll do some more testing with Eee-ubuntu. But I'm thinking maybe I should just customize Backtrack 3 for the eee 701 instead.

Seems that Microsoft is hot on your trail. Engadget: Microsoft-research-codex-project-tries-two-screens-on-for-size/ Although they didn't use the Eee PC as the case, MS did boast that their version could allow the positions of the screens to be reconfigurable. I think there's something in this idea, since the device can fold open to reveal almost double screen size.

So the previous hacks didn't impress you. And my IP address is already blocked for the swf host I was using. But I persist nonetheless: With a new host and an innocuous little message with a link: lucky numbers for the curious. Flash's clock function. This one demonstrates that the browsers try but they are not smart... On Firefox the counter will just keep going up and up to infinity and beyond, and IE will bleat beeps incessantly. If you're trying with Safari: Don't. The only browser to beat my timer was Opera.

Vista's sleep mode is seriously cool. Though I have to restart cold from time to time, I always just use sleep. It is so fast! All my windows are still open! I just wish I knew how to Hack the LED light to be off while sleeping...

The creators of icanhascheezburger.com just sold their site! This is a good way to get rich: See a funny captioned photo on the 'net, make a lot of variations on that theme, write a book about it, and then sell it for maximum profit. http://revision3.com/internetsuperstar/ica...lay=true&hp I can has $2 million for this website? What a lot of cash for some funny pictures.

I would try to make the link look exactly like www.hak5.org does in this link, although no different URL appearing in the status bar to tip off the unsuspecting. It's kind of idiotic, right, but the thing to notice is that there is nothing to notice that could alert you to the hazards of clicking on the seemingly safe link, and <3 kb file size. Are we going to put noscript on every browser to ward off those with desires to hack others? But I'm not trying to do it with any malicious intent. By the way, if the download box opens, it could be a kind of misdirection... Perhaps I could have already had my way with your computer, and you didn't even notice! If you thought that it was not good, then I wonder what you wold think of the other one:ClipboardJackr.

So I've been reading with interest the news stories about various hacks that you can do with Adobe Flash. First of all there's clipboard jacking, which relies on some code like System.setClipboard(); Next I've been interested in so-called clickjacking, meaning that you make a button or link that looks like it does one thing, but actually it does another. we can read a little about this at ha.ckers.org/blog/20080915/clickjacking/, which reveals that there are serious vulnerabilities in all browsers and websites that are not easy to fix. But I'm stymied in my attempts to share my work easily. What I'd like to do is to just insert a swf file into my forum post just like I'd post a jpg. Would it be so bad to allow me to post swfs on this site? Until that time, here's my new one... clickjacker If you click on the link that appears to say Hak5, a download dialogue will open. I'd like to embed the clickjacker here to appear like an ordinary hyperlink, but unfortunately hak5.org doesn't allow <object> tags. Maybe if there could be a special way to allow embedding swf files only in a certain place???

This is really awesome. I wanted to install a modified Fedora/Moblin on my wife's eee, but she asked me why she needed it to boot so fast. Seems she's satisfied with a 20 second boot. Sometimes I think she doesn't understand... Personally, I think that computers should be booting faster, but that some startup stuff is really taking too much time. On this track, Vista is moving in the right way. For example you can open Services, and then change non-essential things that start with the OS to "Automatic (Delayed)". Personally, I don't think things like iPhones update should be running at startup, so I delay them until the system is idle. Boot tweaking is cool.

There are more and more so called learning repositories out there. For example: MERLOT. Teachers can freely access things that other teachers have used in their classes. That might be as simple as a half page definition of something to a university that's published open courseware (OCW) for their computers classes (like Utah State). This would be helpful for the teachers because they would need to take so much time to find materials for their classes. I imagine you'd have to get a little creative. Perhaps use a course on SQL databases to understand the core commands like SELECT and GRANT ALL, and extend it to something more practical (See Intro to SQL Course. And the biggest repository of them all, Wikipedia, has some helpful information (such as Wikipedia: Script Kiddie). The other side of these repositories is creating reusable content. Let's say there's a class on how to thoroughly remove all traces of viruses and malware from a computer using a host of different methods. In my opinion, many people would be interested in accessing a well thought out course on that subject, even years after it had finished. Most of the information on this topic seems to have been published by AV companies, but there are others (such as nohack.net [check the funky intro]). And if there is some product that comes out of the class, it would be another kind of contribution. Maybe something like giving homework to students including making a short five minute tutorial video that goes on YouTube. Or an assignment to join a dev team or analyze a sourceforge project, or perhaps even a class project to tackle a freelance job (but who will take the pay?). You get the idea. There are many cool aspects of an online university organized at the student level that haven't even been broached yet.

When I go to those pages (e.g. dev.phpheaven.net/dev1), there is a redirect to another site with a lot of pop up pages that I could see...

Cool idea! Do you envision this to be like a tribal society with roving bands, or to have more hierarchical structure?

Drupal isn't hard to install; however, if you want your website to do something a little 1337, you're going to be researching stuff like which modules can do something like what you want, and how to change them into what you really do want. Basically, the KISS rule works really well here--keep your site really basic, and drupal will be easy to manage. Try to make it include easy things like forums and avatar pictures, and you'll be fine. But if you see some snazzy bells and whistles that your site just has to have, you'll often be working at it for a while, hacking it together. Although I've never used it myself, I think Drigg looks like a straightforward module to add, with only a few caveats such as clean URLs. Given access to an Apache server, I could set up a Drigg Drupal site up for you in an hour or two.

I realize this post is quite old, but FYI: There is a handy Windows dll for webcams called avicap32.dll which shows the webcams that are attached to the computer, allows selection of one of them, and also lets you take still images, make a preview window, or record video (although the video files are large). The handy code at http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/30375/1763 helped me make a webcam recorder easily in VB. A bit laggy for video unless you run it with Admin Priveleges.

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The BSOD.

Some people argue that Flash is a graphical medium, that it's not really programming. But if you're down with some Actionscript, I will disagree. You can program software hacklets in Flash. After reading some news stories, I coded up something: My very own hak5 clipboard hijacker. I coded a nice little Flash that I would really love to post here in this forum. Unfortunately a .swf cannot be posted here, so I've attached a link to my flash file that's now on a site that provides free flash hosting: Clipboard Hijacker As long as you have enabled Flash (and who hasn't?), what it does is hijack your clipboard so that you're forever redirected to our favorite website. To test, visit the page and that's it--your clipboard has been hijacked, pwned your copy and paste.

Tom Anderson -> the former teen hacker now glamorizes teen websites. Steve Wozniak -> the former phone phreak now makes phones. Seems like hacking really pays.

I made an RSS feed for another post: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=...amp;_render=rss

If you want one, I whipped one up on yahoo pipes. Requires only a fetchsitefeed module. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=...amp;_render=rss

10 DELAY = 1000 20 PRINT "TWOCS" 29 REM LOOP = SLEEP 30 FOR I = 1 TO DELAY 40 NEXT I 50 DELAY = DELAY + 1 60 IF DELAY < 1000 THEN PRINT "YOU ARE IN ERROR" 70 GOTO 20