Video of the first Windows 95 Commercial
December 27, 2006
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Top 20 List of the Best Geek Quotes, Sayings and Phrases
December 27, 2006
For all the geeks out there, do you know someone who tried to teach themselves how to read Barcode? Here is a list of Geek quotes, sayings and phrases. Some of them are from Boardofwisdom who put together a nice compilation themselves.
#1. Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF. All my base Are belong to you — someone on SlashDot
#2. There is no place like 127.0.0.1
#3. Girls are like Internet Domain names, the ones I like are already taken
#4. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
#5. Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination. — Albert Einstein
#6. There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don’t.
#7. If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0
#8. 1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d
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December 27, 2006
Best Anti Microsoft, Pro Linux Quotes
1. UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity — Dennis Ritchie
2. MICROSOFT = Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
3. Windows had detected you do not have a keyboard. Press ‘F9″ to continue.
4. The box said ‘Requires Windows 95 or better’. So I installed LINUX
5. Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free.
6. Unix, DOS and Windows…the good, the bad and the ugly. — Shahazad
7. Windows XP -now comes with free anger management courses.
8. I don’t care if the software I run is unstable crap, as long as it is the LATEST unstable crap. — Lennart A. Hansen
9. Why do with one shortcut key what you can do with 5 mouse clicks? Welcome to Windows!
10. The box said ‘Requires Windows 95 or better’. So I installed LINUX.
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December 27, 2006
Genesis Take Two
1. In the beginning GOD created the Bit and the Byte. And from those he created the Word.
2. And there were two Bytes in the Word; and nothing else existed. And God separated the One from the Zero; and he saw it was good.
3. And God said – Let the Data be; And so it happened. And God said – Let the Data go to their proper places. And he created floppy disks and hard disks and compact disks.
4. And God said – Let the computers be, so there would be a place to put floppy disks and hard disks and compact disks.
Thus God created computers and called them hardware.
5. And there was no Software yet. But God created programs; small and big… And told them – Go and multiply yourselves and fill all the Memory.
6. And God said -I will create the Programmer; And the Programmer will make new programs and govern over the computers and programs and Data.
7. And God created the Programmer; and put him at Data Center; And God showed the Programmer the Catalog Tree and said “You can use all the volumes and subvolumes but DO NOT USE Windows.”
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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 19, 2006
Microsoft has been hiding easter eggs in their programs for years. This shows the last known easter egg to come out in an office suite in Excel 2000. If you have Excel 97, first: please upgrade to a newer version. Second: before you upgrade, open a new workbook in Excel 97. Open a new workbook Press F5Enter X97:L97 and press Enter Press Tab Press Ctrl Shift and click the Chart Wizard button on the toolbar. You’ll be greeted with a full-screen animated image. Use the mouse to move around.
Trigger the egg. You’ll be looking at a purple 3D landscape. Use the mouse to “fly” over the landscape (the mouse changes direction, left button moves forward and left button moves backwards). Fly around a bit and you’ll see a grey stone pyramid. Fly to the side of the pyramid that’s black and you’ll see the credits scroll by for the developers.
Now, follow the instructions to launch a car racing/shooting game in MS Excel 2000.
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December 19, 2006
The myth of decreasing Windows XP boot times by using the “prefetch” feature in Windows XP is gaining traction again after being mentioned in popular tech blogs.
Let us show their tip first and then we will go ahead and debunk this Windows XP myth.
We will show you how to make Windows XP boot faster by changing the prefetch values in your Windows Registry.
Note: The slower your system is larger the application, the more Windows PreFetch helps.So if you have a 64MB RAM on your machine, your system will experience reduced Prefetch benefits due to insufficient RAM. You need to have atleast 128MB for optimal Prefetching performance.
Step # 1: Press Start –> Run and type in regedit or press + R and then type in regedit
Step # 2: Once the registry editor launches, navigate all the way using this path
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