Older blog entries for hacker (starting at number 376)

How American Express’ shady practices are making the economy WORSE

I have been an American Express customer for many years. I have an AMEX card that gives me points, miles and is honored by Delta Airlines for free flights for Seryn when she flies with me. My payment history on this card is what American Express themselves calls “stellar” in their own records. Every 3 [...] Related posts:

  1. Amazon/CHASE Bank humor for the day
  2. WARNING: Avoid Amazon/CHASE equities and properties
  3. Reducing the wallet bulk on the “Road to More Productivity”

Syndicated 2010-11-02 22:36:08 from random neuron misfires

Removing and Editing Windows “network” Passwords

My work machine constantly locks me out of my two corporate accounts there, depending on which resource or website I’m accessing while connected via the VPN. When I access the parent company’s web infrastructure, my ML corporate ID is locked out. When I access some of the ML sites and resources, my BAC corporate ID [...] Related posts:

  1. Network Dissolutions, h4xx0ring and more!
  2. Information Interchange, psycho stalkers and network suffrage
  3. Snapshot backups of EVERYTHING using rsync (including Windows!)

Syndicated 2010-11-02 22:01:26 from random neuron misfires

Super-sizing your PuTTY and UNIX’ifying your Windows machines

If you use Putty to SSH or telnet around from your Windows machine(s) to your UNIX or Linux machines, you’ve probably yearned for some added functionality. One of the biggest requests from anyone using Putty, is tabs! Tabbed Interfaces for Putty There are several projects which provide a multi-session or tabbed interface for Putty. Here [...] Related posts:

  1. SOLVED: Sharing TweetDeck settings across multiple Windows and Linux machines
  2. Snapshot backups of EVERYTHING using rsync (including Windows!)
  3. Solution to prc-tools on AMD64 and other 64-bit machines

Syndicated 2010-11-02 19:51:49 from random neuron misfires

Another Good Idea Implemented Poorly (this time, from Case-Mate)

I’ve been looking around for a GOOD case for my BlackBerry Bold 9000 and 9700, and ran across a few that were pretty durable. I like the cases at Seidio and they’ve never done me wrong for my Palm OS devices, batteries and accessories. Then I found… the Fuel and the (new) Fuel Lite, from [...] Related posts:

  1. Meebo; A good idea, poorly-implemented
  2. FIXED: There was a problem reading data from the server and BlackBerry App World must exit. Error type: 100002
  3. Free unlock codes from AT&T! How? Just ask them for it!

Syndicated 2010-11-02 19:04:14 from random neuron misfires

MilkSync for Microsoft Outlook is here!

The folks at Remember the Milk have finally come out of beta on their “MilkSync for Outlook” plugin (only for Pro users, sorry to all you non-subscribing users, but you can upgrade to a Pro account). It does exactly what it claims to do, and does it well. I highly recommend installing it, if you’re [...] Related posts:

  1. External tools to search Microsoft Outlook 2007
  2. HOWTO: Repair your Outlook PST file from the commandline
  3. SOLVED: How to Delete RSS Feeds Folder from Outlook 2007

Syndicated 2010-10-31 23:38:59 from random neuron misfires

SOLVED: Sharing TweetDeck settings across multiple Windows and Linux machines

I’ve been using TweetDeck for quite some time on Linux, after I managed to get getting Twhirl working on Linux under 64-bit Adobe Air. TweetDeck is a lovely app, graceful and very useful. It has its minor visual and UI bugs, but it’s the best I’ve seen out of the other hundreds of Twitter apps [...] Related posts:

  1. Cleanly installing and running Adobe Air and TweetDeck on 64-bit Linux
  2. Striving for a Double-Decker TweetDeck
  3. SOLVED: Windows 7 networking in VMware Workstation and ESXi

Syndicated 2010-10-28 16:11:16 from random neuron misfires

Techniques for slowing down/stopping external attacks on your Apache server

I’ve been running an Apache server for over a decade, serving up hundreds of websites over the years, and one thing remains constant: abusers attacking Apache, looking for a way in, or a way to DDoS attack your server so others can’t get to the content you’re providing. We don’t call these people ‘hackers‘, ‘crackers’ [...] Related posts:

  1. Go hack your own Apache server
  2. Palm Open Directory Server (PODS)
  3. Graphing an active SPAM attack in progress

Syndicated 2010-10-26 15:01:35 from random neuron misfires

SOLVED: Reflashing your Buffalo WHR-HP-G300N to the stock firmware

This problem is discussed at great length on many forums, but almost every solution proposed does not work as described. Let me explain… The Buffalo WHR-HP-G300N as shipped from Buffalo Wireless comes shipped with a Buffalo-specific, modified version of the Open Source dd-wrt project. Their version of the firmware has some advanced features not available [...] Related posts:

  1. More Novatel MiFi Hacking: Exceeding the 5 connection limit
  2. SOLVED: Java Plugin in Firefox on 64-bit Windows Server 2003
  3. SOLVED: How to Disable Ctrl-Q in Firefox

Syndicated 2010-10-25 23:06:09 from random neuron misfires

More Novatel Hacking: Exceeding the 5 connection limit

I’ve finally done it! I managed to get past the 5-client restriction on the Novatel MiFi 2372 I recently purchased from Amazon. First, some background information: The Novatel 2372 I have had some minor issues, and I was looking for a way to get at the firmware, or updated versions of the firmware, so I [...] Related posts:

  1. Distracting hacking, BBC development, Palm stuff Distracting Hacking
  2. Linksys Quality Control
  3. pilot-link 0.11.2 and abusive Web Spiders

Syndicated 2010-08-27 05:16:49 from random neuron misfires

SOLVED: Firefox high CPU load with plugin-container

If you’re like me, you use a lot of tabs at once in Firefox… a LOT (50+). Even with a few tabs, the new Firefox with the Plugin Container tends to sit there chewing up CPU, grinding core temperature higher and higher. In my case, it ran my CPU up to over 200F, before I [...] Related posts:

  1. SOLVED: Java Plugin in Firefox on 64-bit Windows Server 2003
  2. SOLVED: How to Disable Ctrl-Q in Firefox
  3. Firefox Tricked Out (and firewalled ports)

Syndicated 2010-08-27 02:43:46 from random neuron misfires

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