HOW TO NOT MAKE A PANDORA’S BATTERY

LAST NITE TRIED 2 MAKE PANDORA’S BATTERY BRO, DIDNT WORK LOLLLLLLL

STUCK MY SCREW DRIVER INTO THE WRONG HOLE AND BLOWED UP MY BATTERY

WORKING ON A HOWTO-NOT VIDEO TUTORIAL FOR YOUTUBE

SHOULD BE OUT IN A FEW DAYS

LATER

BY PASSGAS, EX-SENIOR EDITOR OF DEBIANi1337 BLOG

Linux desktop usage is up by 61 percent

This is great news for those linux users out there. According to the W3Counter DOT com, linux usage has increased by 61.6 percent in market shares in the last nine months. That means that the amount of Linux desktops has increased from 1.25 percent in may of 2007 to 2.02 percent in march of 08.

More information can be found here: http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9910263-16.html

Manually changing the PSP’s RSS feed file

There is a way that you can manually change the psp’s RSS file w/o having to go site to site just to subscribe to the rss feed. The file is in the /PSP/RSSCH  directory. If you have subscribed to atleast one RSS feed, a file should be in that folder. If you havent subscribed, then subscribe to one otherwise there will be no file there.

Now most of this file is in Binary, however the url to the rss feed is in plain text, so all you have to do is find a link that contains the rss feed, copy and paste it (change the description if you wish), save it, and try it out. Be careful though, it is hard, with some sections, to tell the difference between the RAW and BINARY parts of the file.

Note that this has nothing to do with hacking or breaking into the systems, rather its just changing the contents of a file on the psp

Freebsd mascot to be changed

For us FreeBSD users, im afraid that the publishers are going to change the FreeBSD mascot. As quoted on slashdot (http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/09/1955251.shtml?tid=152&tid=7), the person who comes up with the most appealing logo will win 500 dollars (in usd).

I havent seen any new mascots just yet, but i will update you when i find some

For those who do not know what FreeBSD is, FreeBSD is a Unix based distro ( Unix is a much better alternative to windows ). Some have said that this distro rocks (infact alot of my friends state that FreeBSD is awsome), but others say that it just plain sucks. I have never used FreeBSD or any unix based distro, But they say that the newer versions of FreeBSD are very easy to use and an excellent choice for those who are tired of windows.

my experience with hippiepay

It may seem like a scam, but its true…you can make money (both in SL and in RL). The object is simple. Just fill out a few surveys, or hit 7 pages on one website, and you get paid. The amount varies, they will usually tell you about how much to expect.

One way to really gain lots of money is to become an affiliate. When you do that, they will give you an atm which you rez on your parcel and people use that to go to their website. When someone makes money off of your atm, both you and them get paid. So what you do is become an affiliate, click on your atm, fill out some surveys and get paid almost double the amount they estimate.

Its not a gimic, its true. infact i made 571 lindens a few days ago (march 11th to be exact).

i think they have a shell out limit though, they stopped paying me after making 571 lindens :*(

Why Linux is better

For those who are considering switching from windows to linux, here are a few reasons why:

http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/

ubuntu on the ps3

At first glance, its pretty cool to run a desktop operating system on your ps3 gaming console. Of coarse you can run ubuntu on other consoles (such as the PSP, and the Xbox for example), but what really kills it for me is how deathly slow ubuntu runs on the ps3.

On the ps3, it takes about 2 to 3 minutes to boot up. After logging in, it takes about 30 seconds to get into gnome (i dont know how well kde works on it, it probably goes slower because of all the stuff kde features).

Another thing that really kills it for me is the fact that i cant get any OpenGL acceleration.  Not getting any OpenGL acceleration is what prevents people from playing games on linux. The game may run, but it will run deathly slow, or the game will not run at all. Some games give you the option to disable OpenGL acceleration, but very few do. Supertux is the only game i know of that allows you to disable openGL acceleration.

Aside from that, the ps3 only has 256 mb ram and thats the bare minimum requirement for ubuntu, so after ubuntus finished loading, you only have about 2 to 4 mb ram left (at most).

So you may just try using YDL instead. YDL is more optimized for the playstation then ubuntu is.

How to make the ultimate bacon sandwich

Ingredients:

3 slices of bacon

1 whole onion cut into rings

2 slices of bread

Mayonnaise or Miracle whip

Thin sliced beef or turkey (optional)

Directions:

Fry 3 strips of bacon, set aside when they are done frying. Fry the onion rings. Apply Mayonnaise or Miracle whip to both slices of the bread, then add the onions and 3 strips of bacon. For added flavor, you can add thin sliced beef or turkey.

Preparation should take around 30 minutes

Games at NSD

This post is really geared more for the Nampa School district, But if you would like to read it and make comments on it, go ahead.

Thinking back to last year, i remember that the students and staff within the tech department were talking about custom building a system that would be dedicated to games only. Students who were caught up in all there work and had no other assignments to do were permitted to play games on the system during the class period. So I was thinking “This is a great idea. This should encourage students to get all their work done and help keep their grade up if they desire to play on this system”.

According to what i remember, we could also bring in our games (as long as it was school appropriate) and load them on and play against friends who are all caught up as well.

But for some reason, this idea was turned down. I guess it was because a lot of students last year neglected to do any of their work (and were therefore kicked out of the academy). Another reason could be that some of the teachers within the academy are completely against games of any sort. Alot of the teachers with in the IT academy are so fed up with games that if you are caught playing a game, you are immediately kicked out of the academy, given ISS (In School Suspension), and some go as far as to call your parents.  And of coarse another reason could have been that the IT people got tired of games altogether and turned down the idea.

But what i think we should have done is had that gaming machine setup and only those who have all their assignments turned in and have atleast an 80% or higher in all their classes have access to that system. If anybody is caught gaming on that system w/o permission, they should be immediately removed from the IT academy and given ISS.

Ubuntu/Mint Tweaks

For those who are wondering, this post has nothing to do with breaking into other systems. Rather, it just talks about tweaking linux.

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Making live CD data persistent

This little tweak makes it so that ubuntu/mint will save the changes made in Persistent mode.

Lets use a usb thumb drive in this example

to begin, you will need to figure out the mount point of your usb drive.

1. Plug in your flash drive
2. type df -h

the output will look something similar to this (output will vary based on the drives mounted):

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc3 27G 3.4G 23G 14% /
varrun 442M 92K 442M 1% /var/run
varlock 442M 0 442M 0% /var/lock
udev 442M 100K 442M 1% /dev
devshm 442M 512K 441M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 442M 34M 408M 8% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile
/dev/hdc1 56G 13G 41G 24% /media/hdc1
/dev/hdc4 22G 3.4G 18G 17% /media/hdc4
/dev/hdd1 13G 160M 12G 2% /media/hdd1
fusesmb 27G 3.4G 23G 14% /home/debian/Network
/dev/sda1 956M 388M 569M 41% /media/Lexar

On this machine, the thumbdrive is /dev/sda1.

Now before moving on to the next step, it is recommended that you back up all the files on the drive. Once that is done, proceed to the next step

Now, you will need to create a new file system on your thumbdrive. To do that, type:

$ sudo mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -L casper-cow /dev/sda1

This will just create a ext3 journaling file system, which is good for regular usage. You dont have to use ext3 if you dont want to though, you can use any file system that is supported by ubuntu.

Now, reboot the computer with the live cd in the drive. When you get to the boot menu, press F4. After you press F4, you will see a list of arguements that are executed on boot time. Just add a space and type persistent, then press enter.

Thats all! If you want to test the persistence, change something like your wallpaper and reboot. If the change is not applied, then run through all the steps again. If it still fails, leave a comment and i will get back to you ASAP

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Turning off that annoying system beep (known to work on ubuntu/mint)

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You know that annoying system beep that comes up when, for example, you are searching for something in Firefox and you type in something that is not on the page?

Heres how you turn it off:

rmmod pcspkr

And to turn it back on:

modprobe pcspkr

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Getting rid of the “Daryna” (works on Mint)

You know that little “Daryna” at the bottom left of your screen? Kinda boring huh? Well, theres a way to change that.

Right click on Daryna -> Preferences

Then look for applet_text and double click it

Change the value to what ever you wish. Click the close botton at the top right of the window, then either move the bar to a corner of the screen and back or type “killall gnome-panel” to refresh.

Note that right clicking and hitting reload plugins doesnt work.