Topic: COMPUTER - on June 3, 2009 at 11:55:00 AM CEST
Vorbereitungen zum 26. CCC-Hackerkongress angelaufen
Der Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hat zum Einsenden von Beiträgen für den 26. Chaos Communication Congress aufgerufen, der in diesem Jahr den Titel "Here Be Dragons" trägt und wie gewohnt vom 27. bis 30. Dezember im Berliner Congress Center (BCC) stattfindet. Potenzielle Referenten werden gebeten, Konferenzbeiträge für die Kategorien "Gesellschaft", "Hacking", "Herstellung", "Wissenschaft", "Kultur" und "Gemeinschaften" bis zum 9. Oktober über die Webseite https://cccv.pentabarf.org/submission/26C3 einzureichen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 3, 2009 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
How Tetris conquered the world, block by block
That addictive puzzler Tetris – created 25 years ago by Russian Alexey Pajitnov – has a legitimate claim to being the videogame that conquered the world
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 2, 2009 at 10:46:00 AM CEST
Manual Hard Drive Destroyer Looks Like Fun
This Manual Hard Drive Destroyer kind of reminds me of those hand-cranked quarter stamping machines you see all over touristy towns like Las Vegas. But this contraption doesn’t leave your hard drives imprinted with an image of the Luxor. Oh no. Once you’ve inserted your drive, using one of the drive height adapters as needed, you simply turn the handle 8 full rotations and the hard drive will be bent in half ‘approximately’ 90 degrees. And that mangling will pretty much guarantee the platters won’t be able to spin any more, preventing unwanted users from accessing its data.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 27, 2009 at 1:24:00 PM CEST
Building a Hackintosh Apple Can't Sue You For
Getting Mac OS X up and running on a computer without an Apple label has always been a bit of a hassle. You needed customised Mac OS X disks, updates would ruin all your hard work, and there was lots of fiddling with EFI and the likes. Ever since the release of boot-132, this is no longer the case. Read on for how setting up a "Hack"intosh really is as easy as 1, 3, 2.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 15, 2009 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
Secure Your Wi-Fi While Traveling
Wireless internet enabled laptops and devices like BlackBerries and iPhones have been true life-savers for travelers. Back before the whole wireless internet explosion, the frequent flying businessman, the leisure traveler and the vacationing mom and dad all had to be content to exist in a sort of purgatory while moving from point A to point B.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 12, 2009 at 12:35:00 PM CEST
Baby monitors killing urban Wi-Fi
Baby monitors and wireless TV transmitters are responsible for slowing down Wi-Fi connections in built-up areas, according to an Ofcom-commissioned report.
The regulator commissioned the report to evaluate the effectiveness of the unlicensed 2.4GHz band that Wi-Fi operates over.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 20, 2009 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
How to protect your Mac OS X from first ever Mac OS X Botnet
Reports have started filling all over the internet that a suspected Botnet detected back in image January 2009 has been activated and reported to be on atleast 20k machines. This is the first time a Botnet has been activated on Mac OS X.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 11, 2009 at 9:44:00 AM CEST
Video: Watch 10 terrific 'Easter eggs' in action
In this case, they're hidden tricks, games and surprises that programmers put in their code that are activated by certain key combinations or other user input. You can find them in applications, operating systems, browsers and just about any other type of software.
I admit that a couple of these examples -- one in Linux and one in a Telnet session -- aren't technically Easter eggs. But I think these little treats are pretty cool so I put them all in my egg basket to share with you.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 20, 2009 at 9:22:00 AM CET
Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009
A Graphical User Interface (GUI for short) allows users to interact with the computer hardware in a user friendly way.
Over the years a range of GUI’s have been developed for different operating systems such as OS/2, Macintosh, Windowsamiga, Linux, Symbian OS, and more.
We’ll be taking a look at the evolution of the interface designs of the major operating systems since the 80’s.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 12, 2009 at 1:02:00 PM CET
BBC team exposes cyber crime risk
Software used to control thousands of home computers has been acquired online by the BBC as part of an investigation into global cyber crime.
The technology programme Click has demonstrated just how at risk PCs are of being taken over by hackers.
Almost 22,000 computers made up Click's network of hijacked machines, which has now been disabled.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 11, 2009 at 1:25:00 PM CET
10 Reasons You Should Not Switch To Linux
Every week I read a new blog post giving 10 – 25 or even 100 reasons you should switch to Linux right now. I say bah humbug to them. If you need someone to give you 100 reasons to switch your current OS of choice, you are better of sticking with it. As someone who is literally forced to use windows for work-related task, use a Mac just because I have money to blow and runs an obscure Linux distro to prove my point about my anti conformist views; I know a thing or two about why you shouldn’t switch to Linux.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 10, 2009 at 11:31:00 AM CET
Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc!
Compact discs weren't always impromptu drink coasters. Once, in the not-so-distant past, they played music, contained pictures, and let people play video games with tacked-on FMV sequences. And today, the venerable CD turned 30.
Happy birthday! 1979-2009.Thirty years. Pretty amazing that it's been that long since those crazy Dutchmen at Philips spun the technology off of laser discs as part of an optical digital audio disc demo in Eindhoven.
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