The answer is, they sell it for $50,000 xD I tried to avoid writing this post, but I couldn’t help looking at how stupid things are… U.S government bought $1.9 million worth of computers which is supposed to be delivered to Iraqi students in Babil. What the Iraqi government did? they auctioned it for less [...]
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What happens when you donate $1.9m worth of computers to Iraq?
Posted: 30th August 2010 by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Criminology, Exploring Computerism, Face palm, RAND(), SECURITEEH!!!, School stuff, Stupidity, Weirdness0
Taking stupidity to a higher level: Hackers tend to send their malicious codes and viruses to Microsoft by mistake xD
Posted: 29th August 2010 by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Criminology, Exploring Computerism, FUN!, Hacks, Microsoft, SECURITEEH!!!, Stupidity, WindowsY’know the annoying message you get whenever Windows XP crashes? The message that asks to send Microsoft the crashed software to check things out? Something like the image below? Yes, due to some stupidity and lack of attention, hackers tend to crash the system with their drafted malicious code and send it to Microsoft… I [...]
Duality Costumes Q8
Posted: 25th August 2010 by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Exploring Computerism, Hacks, Kuwaitism, MAC vs PC, Mac, Microsoft, OS, WindowsFor all those lazy bastards who won’t get their hands dirty into busting up a good looking dual boot computer, here’s your answer: Duality Costumes Q8. Aight, Duality Costumes Q8 is a home-based business by a guy named Yousef. He builds up computers with decent-to-great specs with either dual boot with the mixture of choice [...]
No Steam on Linux!?
Posted: 25th August 2010 by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Exploring Computerism, FUN!, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, OS, Video games, WindowsValve ported Steam on OSX and that brought so much hopes and rumors regarding porting it to Linux… But unfortunately, they won’t… According to VR-ZONE, Valve won’t be porting Steam to Linux for two reasons: DRM issues which won’t be really accepted by Linux freebies and massive flavors that they can’t to decide on which [...]
That’s it, we’re doomed… PS3 have been jailbroken by a USB dongle…
Posted: 21st August 2010 by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Exploring Computerism, FUN!, Hacks, Kuwaitism, OS, PS3, SECURITEEH!!!, Video gamesI can see it coming in the air tonight… Oh lord!! I can see Rihab, filled with pirated copies of PS3 games… Oh lord!! Iunno, I find it useless to jailbreak the PS3… But then again, can be so much fun for homebrew stuff xD Source
Pwnz0rz WiFi with iPhone!!
Posted: 21st August 2010 by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Apple, Exploring Computerism, FUN!, Gadgets, Hacks, Mobiles, OS, SECURITEEH!!!Yes, iPhone can suck and all… But not when it gets jailbroken (Minus the call drops when being held wrong xD) Nicholas Petty made this awesome guide to turn your iPhone into a penetration testing tool to poke around with WiFi networks (Which involves having to jailbreak it). Yes, probably not the best hardware to [...]
Probability-based processor. Woah!
Posted: 20th August 2010 by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Concepts, Exploring Computerism, SCIENCE!!, TechnologyWell, a few months ago I was chatting with a friend of mine (My bro-in-law) and we were discussing how instruction-based processors are becoming old and something new should replace it. At first I was like “Pffffft whatever… Not like it’s going to even come up as a concept any time soon”… But here it [...]
When greasy fingers give out your Android passcode
Posted: 17th August 2010 by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Concepts, Exploring Computerism, Gadgets, Hacks, Mobiles, OS, SECURITEEH!!!, android, googleWell, I’ve seen how my friend unlocks his HTC Hero phone and all… And it is an interesting way to lock\unlock a phone. So basically, if your finger is greasy, you can easily give out your passcode without knowing. Like, handing over your phone to a friend to hold it while you go answer the [...]
When Geotags gets nasty.
Posted: 17th August 2010 by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Criminology, Exploring Computerism, FUN!, Gadgets, Hacks, Kuwaitism, Mobiles, SECURITEEH!!!, TechnologyNow come to think of it, it can freak me out (And can be used to stalk someone wink wink) xD Most of our GPS-enabled smartphones have their geotags feature available if not enabled by default (My Nokia N900 is disabled by default). By checking the EXIF data of a picture\video, you can actually locate [...]
[LINUX] Convert EXT2 and EXT3 to EXT4 without losing your files.
Posted: 16th August 2010 by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Exploring Computerism, FUN!, Linux, OS, TutorialsOla! It’s been a while since I last time touched my Xubuntu!! Anyway, I stumbled upon this tutorial from Lifehacker and thought it’d be interesting (I might wanna do that soon after I update my kernel and all). So yea, if you don’t feel like formatting your partition and rearranging your files, check out Ghacks’ [...]