iPhone Firmware 2.1 Update is Out!

Yey, iPhone Firmware 2.1 is out, supposedly faster and better of course.

Update includes:

• Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
• Significantly better battery life for most users
• Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
• Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
• Faster installation of 3rd party applications
• Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications

• Improved performance in text messaging
• Faster loading and searching of contacts
• Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
• Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
• Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
• Genius playlist creation

Download iPhone Firmware 2.1 Here

via engadget

Buy 120GB Zune on Amazon!

Now you can get the 120GB Zune on Amazon. Yey!

Music and entertainment, your way. That’s what the Zune 120 GB Digital Media Player is designed to deliver. The Zune easily connects you with your music, videos, and pictures wherever and whenever you want, and unlike the iPod, it even has a built-in FM tuner so you can keep up with local news and sports. Your Zune gives you the power to wirelessly share full-length tracks, playlists, pictures and podcasts with your other Zune-wielding friends. And when you receive songs that you just can’t get out of your head, you can easily tag the songs and buy them the next time you sync up. Whether you’re listening to music, radio, or rocking out to the latest music videos on the bright, roomy screen, the Zune allows you to tailor your entertainment, right in the palm of your hand.

via engadget

Yey, at last a hydrongen fuel-cell powered electric plane that can do top speeds of 62mph!

Continue reading ‘Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Electric Plane!’

Yey, don’t we all love “money”.

Well, the best “hack” would be a begging robot…

Continue reading ‘GooHack of the Day - Money!’

Yey, Nokia E66 is approved by FCC.  Too bad they still need to work on their browser.  No matter how fast their phone goes, it will still be crappy by Zedomax standards if there’s no browser that supports flash.

One of Nokia’s upcoming business-class handsets, the svelte E66 slider, has garnered FCC approval ahead of a launch that we’ve got to believe is happening in the very near future now. That’s the good news; the bad news is that there’s zero North American 3G involved from what we can see in the test reports.

via engadget

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Yey, Laser Christmas tree!  It’d be great if you had a Christmas Rave in your house.

via MakeZine

I have been reading the following book called, Linux Server Hacks, which shows you many ways you can hack your Linux server so your server doesn’t die.

This actually works since we just had a DoS attack about 5 minutes ago. (It seems like we are getting more and more DoS attacks these days. You can refer to the DDOS Deflate script also)

Here’s HACK #47 I read about last week in my bath room from the book and I just used it to prevent DoS attackers from bringing my precious Quad-CPU dedicated server down.

Enter the following commands and you will limit number of TCP connections to your server to 12 connections per second after 24 connections have been seen. (It means that no matter what, your server will not try to serve more than 12 visitors during one second of period when your server gets digged, farked, stumbled, or whatever)
iptables -t nat -N syn-flood

iptables -t nat -A syn-flood -m limit —limit 12/s —limit-burst 24 -j RETURN

iptables -t nat -A syn-flood -j DROP

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $EXT_IFACE -d $DEST_IP -p tcp –syn -j syn-flood
I think you can increase the values steadily if your server can handle more. But it seems to have brought our server load from 33.00 somethin’ to under 1.0. Yey!

If you are a hacker, sorry dude. You are gonna have to try a little harder hacking Zedomax since we are hackers too.

P.S. You know what I try to do when I find out where the hackers are coming from, I do a DoS attack back on them. This usually pisses them off enough to DoS me more but I kinda enjoy the battle so bring it on! :p

Okay, let’s do a quick USB relay from GetUSB.info.

Check out this Dog Tag USB thingee, it might be great if you want to carry some memory around on your neck. - via GetUSB

Lindy 57-in-1 Mirror Card Reader can be useful.

USB OptiWind Mouse features a built-in cooling fan for cooling and drying your hand. Equipped with ON/OFF switch so that you can turn the fan off when it is unneccessary.

Yey!

I love this camera or any camera with built in USB thingee.

Don’t forget this USB rechargeable reading light if you like to read a lot of books like me.

via GetUSB.info

Yey, the World online gamers’ festival, GNGWC2007(Game and Game World Championship 2007) will be held at COEX-Pacific hall on Dec. 1st in Seoul, Korea.
You can watch streaming videos on the GNGWC site. I wonder what games they are going to play. (Probably StarCraft, well, I’d only watch it if it’s Starcraft…)

They are competing for $54 grand, which isn’t too bad of a prize for the winner. (But I hear these Pro-gamers get at least $100 grand per year just for competing!)

Make sure to not miss a thing by watching the streaming video starting in couple days!

Followed by last year event, more than 90 selected players at preliminary matches from Korea, US, Europe, S.E. Asia, and Japan region will be gathering at GNGWC2007 Grand Final and compete intensively for total reward of 54,000(USD).

via Aving.Net