Many laser printer owners bought the toner-based printers to avoid the exorbitant ink replacement costs on inkjet printers. So what do you do when the laser printer tries to get more toner in its belly before the old one has even run out? Hack it — one user printed 1800 more pages after the warning before the toner finally ran out.
Internet censorship is a real downer. For those of you in restrictive environments such as college or China, mp3sparks has posted a guide with 7 ways to access blocked websites. Take that, faceless oppressors!
InfoWorld reports that 35% of users tracked with the Windows Sentinel monitoring tool have downgraded their PCs that shipped with Vista to Windows XP. Microsoft’s recent Mojave experiment, while garnering a certain amount of scientific criticism, had hoped to boost confidence in Windows Vista. It appears that ship is in for some rocky waters.
Blizzard has been notified of the blatant gold-farming by Michael Phelps in China. Clear evidence of his repeat offenses has yet to sway a decision in banning this bot.
For the truly hardcore, here’s a guide on making diamond thermal grease that outperforms silver grease by a 20-30%. A little time and effort could net you the coolest CPU in town.
Walyou has gathered a collection of unique keyboards for geeks, including the highly innovative bra keyboard pictured here. I’ve seen IRC terminals mounted on beds before, but this is taking it to the next level.
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Even the most coordinated event in years cannot escape the Blue Screen of Death — the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games featured an unexpected guest, courtesy of Redmond.
Wired has a feature on the gadgets and technology that Olympiads are using this year to train and outperform their competitors in the Summer Olympics. Some are interesting training tricks, such as the live video feed to rowers so they can observe their own form; others might elicit some cries of hax from their competitors.
Windows Vista has built-in memory protection mechanisms like Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution Prevention (DEP) to prevent memory corruption exploits. Two researchers are presenting at BlackHat this week with ways to break them. The paper associated with the speech is available from TAOSSA.
