Brand new Fantastic Four 2 trailer: The Rise of the Silver Surfer
December 26, 2006
The Silver Surfer’s is easily one of the greatest villain-to-hero epics in the Marvel universe.he trailer debuted over the weekend with Night at the Museum; it won’t make it online in beautiful Quicktime/HD until Fox releases it, probably sometime this week.
The Rise of the Silver Surfer continues the adventures of the Fantastic Four. The release date for this movie is set for June 15th 2007.
Based Upon: This is the sequel to the 2005 superhero hit, Fantastic Four, which was of course based upon the long-running Marvel Comics title once subtitled “The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine.” Specifically, the premise of this movie is loosely based upon “The Coming of Galactus” in FF #48-50 (1966), which introduced the cosmic characters of the Silver Surfer and Galactus. This movie may also pave the way for a future spin-off movie for The Silver Surfer, whose own movie adaptation has been in development nearly as long as the Fantastic Four’s has been.
Premise of the Rise of the Silver Surfer: “The Fantastic Four meets their greatest challenge yet [as] the enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe wreaking havoc, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom, before all hope is lost.” (quoted from official premise)
Watch the brand new trailer below
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Ultimate list of free Software for students
December 25, 2006
The 2007.01 release of Software for Starving Students is now available for download at Softwarefor.org.
Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). We’ve gathered a list of best-in-class programs onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows), including a fully-featured office suite, a cutting-edge web browser, multi-media packages, academic tools, utilities and more.
This list provides you access to high quality software, free of charge. These guys, even if something on the list is not open source/free, have permission to distribute it via their compilation CD.
The List of free Software for Microsoft Windows includes
1. 7-zip - rar/zip/ace file archive reaer
2. ant renamer - batch file renamer
3. audacity - audio file editing tool
4. blender - 3D image creator
5. clamwin - free antivirus program although AVG is a much better free Anti Virus Software solution out there
7. deepburner - cd/ dvd burner
8. dia - diagram creation tool (visio copy)
9. eraser - file shredder, data removal tool
10. exact audio copy - audio cd ripper (lossless)
11. filezilla - ftp client and server
12. firefox - best free web browser
How to bypass the XBox Security System: Hacks and weaknesses of the Microsoft Xbox console
December 25, 2006
In late 2001, Microsoft released the Xbox, their first gaming console, to compete against Sony and Nintendo in the living room. As the real money is made with the games and not the consoles, Microsoft had to make sure (as much as they could) that nobody could play pirated games or use the machine for anything other than games. Although the original security design idea was a good one and has been copied a lot since then, Microsoft’s inexperienced team made a variety of design, implementation, and policy mistakes. This talk first (re)constructs the design of the Xbox security system from Microsoft’s point of view, and then deconstructs it from the hacker’s point of view. As a bonus, the talk will feature some insights in the security system of the Xbox successor, the Xbox 360.
Michael Steil is the founder and maintainer of the Xbox-Linux Project. He oversaw most of the Xbox hacks and also contributed to hacking, reverse engineering and porting Linux on the Xbox.
This is really good. The types of errors or oversights that allowed the hackes to compromise the Secret ROM tend to happen a lot in any complex project, even when the people involved are highly competent and conscientious.
Cliffs Notes version of this video:
Legacy code and hacks for 8080/286 systems posed openings
The southbridge by Intel was where the SecretROM was stored and traffic was able to be sniffed
They made changes from using RC5 to RC4 for encryption, and how they thought RC4 worked didn’t actually work that way.
They switched from AMD to Intel chips at the last minute and Intel chips have that legacy hack that allows code to circle back in RAM (AMD chips don’t allow for this)
Savegames posed a good loophole as that code can’t be hashed or checked, so a buffer overflow was exploited and allowed unsigned code to be run. Microsoft patched this, but hackers then realized that what MS did to fix this exploit actually opened up this loophole wide, as the method used had to do with Xbox Live, (which has to work on every version of Xbox (1.0 through 1.6)) and since every game has to work on every Xbox ever made, they could not patch it.
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December 25, 2006
An article on the E-Commerce News site talks about techno-literacy problems with incoming college freshmen.
Some schools, like CSU, are planning on including a technology comprehension test alongside their English and Math evaluations for new students.
From the article: “Not all of Generation M can synthesize the loads of information they’re accessing, educators say. ‘They’re geeky, but they don’t know what to do with their geekdom,’ said Barbara O’Connor, a Sacramento State communications studies professor involved in a nationwide effort to hone students’ computer-research skills. On a recent nationwide test to measure their technological ‘literacy’ — their ability to use the Internet to complete class assignments — only 49 percent of the test-takers correctly evaluated a set of Web sites for objectivity, authority and timeliness. Only 35 percent could correctly narrow an overly broad Internet search.”
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December 22, 2006
This guide will show you how to make subtle changes in your favorite web browser whether it is Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer for faster internet access and faster net browsing and reduce web page loading times. The tweaks we will be making will result in increasing the maximum simultaneous connections per page.
Mozilla Firefox Tweaks for faster browsing
Step # 1: Open Mozilla Firefox. Type about:config in the address bar.
Step # 2: Filter for ‘network‘ in the filter bar
True beauty: The evolution of a model by using makeup and Photoshop
December 22, 2006
Reginald Pike’s Tim Piper & Yael Staav take us from model to billboard in under 60 seconds in this impressive new spot from Dove.
The messages the media send through their pictures tells “ordinary” women that they are always in need of adjustment and that the female body is an object that is to be perfected
Check out the evolution of a model from this
to this
How to unlock a cell phone for free and get unlock codes
December 22, 2006
Now you can use your mobile phone with an
y service provider around the world.
Functions: Repair, remove sim restrictions, and unlock Nokia, Samsung, Siemens, Maxon, NEC, Sony, Panasonic, Vitel, AEG/Telital, Alcatel cell phones.
Version 3.1 adds ‘Model auto-select’ feature, ‘Nokia Expert’ option, and improves Nokia 6620/5140 support.
Step # 1: First go to this link on download.com and download the NokiaFree Unlock Codes Calculator.
Step # 2: Download and install the NokiaFree Unlock codes calculator software.
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