More Matchstick rockets from Mr. Blank
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You can submit your DIY ideas to Mr. Blank if it is too classified or you are too shy. Mr. Blank is an open-source guy personality, cool…
Also, check out his first matchstick rocket video! (yes, up there dude…or grrrr….)
Blank (me) is an open-source identity that web denizens can use if they want to show the world some great DIY, but are too shy (or if the DIY is of a necessarily anonymous nature
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Hacking and Network Security
Here’s some cool list of hacking and network security websites:
HACK - Changing Your MAC Address In Window XP/Vista, Linux And Mac OS X
Remember we found a MAC Address HACK for Windows the other day?
Well, here’s more ways for hacking your MAC Address that includes Windows XP, Vista, Linux, AND MAC OSX!
I think these are simpler than the ones before.
BSD
1) Bring down the interface: “ifconfig xl0 down”
2) Enter new MAC address: “ifconfig xl0 link 00:00:00:AA:AA:AA”
3) Bring up the interface: “ifconfig xl0 up”
Linux
1) Bring down the interface: “ifconfig eth0 down”
2) Enter new MAC address: “ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:AA:AA:AA”
3) Bring up the interface: “ifconfig eth0 up”
Windows 2000/XP
Method 1:This is depending on the type of Network Interface Card (NIC) you have. If you have a card that doesn’t support Clone MAC address, then you have to go to second method.
a) Go to Start->Settings->Control Panel and double click on Network and Dial-up Connections.
b) Right click on the NIC you want to change the MAC address and click on properties.
c) Under “General” tab, click on the “Configure” button
d) Click on “Advanced” tab
e) Under “Property section”, you should see an item called “Network Address” or “Locally Administered Address”, click on it.
f) On the right side, under “Value”, type in the New MAC address you want to assign to your NIC. Usually this value is entered without the “-” between the MAC address numbers.
g) Goto command prompt and type in “ipconfig /all” or “net config rdr” to verify the changes. If the changes are not materialized, then use the second method.
h) If successful, reboot your system.
Method 2:
This should work on all Windows 2000/XP systems
a) Go to Start -> Run, type “regedt32″ to start registry editor. Do not use “Regedit”.
b) Go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}”. Double click on it to expand the tree. The subkeys are 4-digit numbers, which represent particular network adapters. You should see it starts with 0000, then 0001, 0002, 0003 and so on.
c) Find the interface you want by searching for the proper “DriverDesc” key.
d) Edit, or add, the string key “NetworkAddress” (has the data type “REG_SZ”) to contain the new MAC address.
e) Disable then re-enable the network interface that you changed (or reboot the system).
Method 3:
Use the program Etherchange from http://ntsecurity.nu/toolbox/etherchange/
Windows 9x
Use the same method as Windows 2000/XP except for the registry key location is “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Net” and you must reboot your system.
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Wii HACK - Christmas Wii-remote xmms hack
Cool XMMS hack for linux or ubuntu users using the wii remote!
The funny thing is he doesn’t even own a Wii console, just the Wii remote!
Well, we’d probably give it some good hacks if we just had some Wii remotes too.
Two thumbs up for doing XMMS on Ubuntu!
But I don’t own a Wii console. So I hacked away in linux and got it to control my xmms mp3 player. All buttons except power button work as follows:
Wii HACK - Wiimote + FlightGear = Ultimate Flight Simulator?
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Remember we made a sixaxis controller for PC the other day?
Well here’s a cool one using wii controller and a Linux flight simulator,
tight!
Make your Linux box look like a MAC
I don’t know what it is lately, MACs have been very appealing to me lately. Maybe because the
new MACs are unix based or what… Regardless of how much money I don’t have in my pocket
to buy one, here’s a way you can make your PC look like a MAC and fool people if you have Linux
installed…
CNET’s James Kim and family missing — have you seen them?
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We’ve received word that a respected member of our tech community, James Kim (whom many of you may know as CNET’s senior editor of digital audio), and his family have gone missing. As we understand it, last weekend James, his wife Kati (above right), and his very young girls Penelope (left) and Sabine (baby), drove from their home in the SF Bay Area to Seattle. They were expected back some time Sunday, but were last seen by a hotel clerk at 5:45 PM on Saturday in or between Gold Beach or Portland, Oregon. We sincerely do hope they are all safe, and our hearts go out to the Kim family.
We’ll have more information as we get it. If you have any information as to the Kim family’s whereabouts, please contact the SFPD at 415-558-5508 during normal business hours, and 415-553-1071 after hours.



