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18 April 2006
Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:25:33 GMT Hacking A More Tasteful MySpaceKjell Olsen2226 days agoMike Davidson hacks his myspace page to (_gasp_) look decent.
Many MySpace outsiders knock the service because its garish appearance and overall clunkiness overshadow anything good that may be underneath.
I’m going to say that’s a pretty damn good reason not to use the thing. But I might just have to make a profile and take it out for a spin sometime this summer.
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19 October 2005
Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:19:13 GMT Hacking Your iTripvia Kjell Olsen2407 days agoMake it work well from 60 feet away from the receiver!? Not particularly hard or invasive, either.
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18 October 2005
Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:48:38 GMT @import IE hackvia Kjell Olsen2408 days agoNeat css hack to disable advanced styles in IE, done and now this all looks presentable to
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13 October 2005
Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:00:00 GMT MySpace hacked: Samy is my Herovia Kjell Olsen2413 days agoViral myspace hack – embed javascript so that it embeds itself in the pages of those who view your profile. Make the js do cool things like make you everyone’s hero. 20 hours and 1,000,000 people get infected. But myspace sucks.
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09 October 2005
Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:42:08 GMT Knuth: Computer Programming as an ArtKjell Olsen2418 days agoProgramming can give us both intellectual and emotional satisfaction, because it is a real achievement to master complexity and to establish a system of consistent rules. Andrei Ershov
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02 October 2005
Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:02:00 GMT How To Become A Hackervia Kjell Olsen2425 days agoTo be a hacker, you have to develop some of these attitudes. But copping an attitude alone won’t make you a hacker, any more than it will make you a champion athlete or a rock star. Becoming a hacker will take intelligence, practice, dedication, and hard work.
Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. For true hackers, the boundaries between “play”, “work”, “science” and “art” all tend to disappear, or to merge into a high-level creative playfulness.
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28 September 2005
Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:23:42 GMT How to become a hackervia Kjell Olsen2428 days agoFind something to hack, and hack it.
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15 August 2005
Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:34:00 GMTHack Logan Airport wifi
I’m stuck at Logan Airport in Boston, without even a book. Paying $8 for internet sucks, especially when your just at the airport for a few hours. Thank god, whoever manages the wifi login/pay system left a backdoor:
go to
https://nomadprime.subscribe.loganwifi.com:1112/, after having connected to the wifi network.Click around until you find the screen that lets a new user sign up, click that screen, and it will say “free internet.” This isn’t verbatim because after you get past the payment on whatever access point is nearest to you you cannot go back, and I can’t exactly remember what buttons I pressed.
But my flight home has been delayed due to weather, and I’ve hardly even noticed. Wifi rules.
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22 July 2005
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:47:00 GMTMake Volume 3
Dale Dougherty (ed)
Great magazine, good read. I felt like this one was longer then the last two, and it is. By two pages. Needle in a haystack, huh? Just margin notes and page references to things I found interesting.
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17 July 2005
Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:58:40 GMT WTH: Lectures and workshopsvia Kjell Olsen2502 days agoA few of the programs here look fascinating, particularly these:
And lots of others.
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01 July 2005
Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:03:00 GMT Famous Crosswalk Button Hackvia Kjell Olsen2518 days agoChange a stoplight from red to green with the walk button:
The most popular hack, which works on most models, is the “Instant Walk.” Three short clicks, followed by two long, one short, two long, and three short; turn any crosswalk signal from “don’t walk” to “walk” with a matching change in the traffic signals.
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18 June 2005
Sat, 18 Jun 2005 08:02:41 GMT GRYNX > Laptop on the wall - WallTopvia Kjell Olsen2531 days agoHow to build a live picture frame out of an old laptop. I have an old laptop, and this would sure be a cool project for it.
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17 June 2005
Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:48:00 GMT Project RainbowCrackvia Kjell Olsen2531 days agoInstead of trying to brute force a password on the fly, do it from a table of pregenerated hashes.
Some ready to work lanmanager and md5 tables are demonstrated in Rainbow Table section. One interesting stuff among them is the lm #6 table, with which we can break any windows password up to 14 characters in a few minutes.
Uh oh. A table made up of all standard keys, limited to 14 character passwords, takes quite awhile to generate (and weighs 64GB), but can crack 99.9% of windows passwords within a few minutes (text and video to prove it).
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15 June 2005
Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:58:00 GMT Kevin Kelly -- Cool Toolsvia Kjell Olsen2533 days agoI want to learn how to sew, but my mom’s 70s era behemoth is on the fritz and doesn’t have a manual for me to use. I guess I’m just window shopping, but hey.
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09 June 2005
Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:55:50 GMT What's in your Firefox? : LifehackerKjell Olsen2539 days agoI’m looking to try and switch to firefox now that it’s summer and I’ve got lots of time. I want to set the thing up real well, and curb safari for at least a week to really evaluate firefox. I need some good tips.
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22 May 2005
Sun, 22 May 2005 11:44:43 GMTMake Volume 2
Mark Fraudenfenlder
Another well done issue, even if I probably won’t make anything from it for awhile, its real fun to read through.
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20 May 2005
Fri, 20 May 2005 19:06:00 GMT Phreaking Phones with a Voice Recordervia Kjell Olsen2559 days agoBluebox with your iPod (or computer, cellphone, over VoIP even). also
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28 April 2005
Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:41:00 GMT PythonForSeries60 - Matt Croydon::Postwikivia Kjell Olsen2581 days agoWhat you get when you let python hackers loose on a mobile paltform: some cool shit. I just wish I had a sweet series 60 phone.
Also: series60 snippets
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27 April 2005
Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:40:37 GMT DE-ACCM application note: Hacking an alarm clockvia Kjell Olsen2582 days agoI’ve been meaning to take apart my alarm clock for a few months now (I wanted to make it sensitive to light, and wake me up gradually as the sun comes in the room) but I don’t have any screwdrivers that fit into it to get the screws out. Here’s another really cool clock idea.
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25 April 2005
Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:01:00 GMT Total Illusions - The Forums -> Dangerous Hacker!via Kjell Olsen2584 days agoSweet IRC hacking episode.
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18 April 2005
Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:04:00 GMT furialogvia Kjell Olsen2591 days agoiTunes power user skillz:
My music collection is far larger than my Powerbook or iPod can accommodate, so my encoded selection rotates as new and revived interests push other things out of the active 20GB. Much of the time I use iTunes in Browse mode, listening to individual whole albums in the same way I would have pre-shuffle-era. But increasingly, and especially during periods when my listening isn’t so dominated by new releases, I also use iTunes’ Party Shuffle mode, fed by a Smart Playlist that filters out non-music genres, cuts out tracks that are too short (<1:30) or too long (>5:22) for my shuffle attention-span, and via another playlist reference excludes anything that has been played recently (i.e., in the last two weeks, or the last 10 hours of music, whichever list is shorter). If I’m in an especially random mood, I have an Applescript that goes through the upcoming Party Shuffle selections and eliminates repetition of artists.
Although on very rare occassions I do rate tracks manually, for the most part I find that it is more effective to treat the rating as a temporary variable representing my actual behavior towards the track, instead of an attempt to measure my subjective assessment directly. In my case, the rules are approximately these (I’ve left out some of the more logistical obscurities):
I love how concrete this is. I should do it like this, and maybe rate the song in the comments subjectively.
Automated payment of artists who’s work was downloaded, but not paid for. Sweet script to do it all without lifting a finger.
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08 April 2005
Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:53:00 GMTTips for pulling apart your old iMac
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30 March 2005
Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:25:51 GMT zestyping: How to really confuse your party guests.via Kjell Olsen2610 days agoBlow the minds of college kids next time your frat house hosts a kegger. Real fun looking.
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23 March 2005
Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:32:24 GMT Summer Founders Programvia Kjell Olsen2617 days agoPaul Graham comes out with a program to fund startups – looks cool, but I don’t think I could do it this summer. Sounds like it would rock though!
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17 March 2005
Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:59:57 GMT Bits and Atoms notesKjell Olsen2623 days agoAnother set of notes from a different session at etech, Bits & Atoms.
[KEY POINT] there’s not just a digital divide, there’s something much bbigger. there’s an instrumentation and fabrication divide. computation isn’t enough. you need to measure and modify the world.
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09 March 2005
Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:17:36 GMT Greg Duffy [dot] com - Google's Cookie and Hacking Google Printvia Kjell Olsen2631 days agoHow a college student hacked past google prints page limit for viewing scanned books, and wrote a program to spit out pdf’s of them! Unfortunately he didn’t release the source code (just a few hints), and apparently google now discriminates against his name. Wheee…
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06 March 2005
Sun, 06 Mar 2005 21:43:27 GMT apples powerbook (4 March 2005, Interconnected)via Kjell Olsen2634 days agoHack up the new powerbooks accelerometers, to do cool stuff with your software! This could turn into some real fun.
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18 January 2005
Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:10:39 GMT iSync without .Macvia Kjell Olsen2681 days agoI want to set this up here at textdrive, but I’m not quite smart enough yet. I’ll keep working though!
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