Gadgets
Sony PlayStation 3: Hacker’s Best Friend
You can use the powerful processors in PS3 to cracking passwords, other than gaming, claims a New Zealand-based security researcher Nick Breese.
Breese who has been working on the project ‘Crackstation‘, for the past six months, used the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console for his break-through research.
Breese claims to have used PS3 console to crack passwords [...]
Magic for Your Networks!
Hooray! You finally signed up for DSL internet. Thing is, you got 10 PCs and want them all hooked up. So you plunk cash for a router and connect all the wires for a spanking new Local Area Network. Everything hums smoothly and the router works as advertised. Then something goes awry.
Here’s where Network Magic [...]
Help Buying Laptop In San Francisco
A quick question for anyone living in San Francisco or who knows the area. I’m going to be flying there tomorrow and I’m going to buy a laptop for a friend to take advantage of the cheap dollar. Is there a particular retail outlet I should go to to get a good deal, or who [...]
25Nov2007 | Everton | 9 comments | Continued
Bring Dead Photos Back to Life
Most folks who purchase a digital camera suddenly feel like pro photographers. And anyone who begins amassing large libraries of photographs on a 4GB sandisk card develops the potential to press just one wrong button- and blast all those photos to the graveyard in a master stroke.
Can I hear many of you howling in assent?
No [...]
Got An Old PC Lying Around? Build A NAS Server With NASLite-2
Over the last week I’ve been writing a series of posts tracking the progress of the Home Server I’ve been building. My original plan was to install Windows Home Server on my £130 home server, but because the WHS trial disc was taking a while to arrive, I thought I’d try installing a cheaper [...]
21Nov2007 | Everton | 21 comments | Continued
