Building a BitTorrent Box - A Complete How-To

An article detailing the complete walk through of building a dedicated, headless BitTorrent client computer. Using Ubuntu, Azureus, Hamachi, and Samba, you'll be able to build a box capable of downloading BitTorrents and sharing the files complete ease. There's even extra steps to show you how to save them directly to an external USB hard drive!

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Gaping holes exposed in fully-patched IE 7, Firefox

Polish hacker Michal Zalewski has ratcheted up his ongoing assault on Web browser security models, releasing details on serious flaws in fully patched versions of IE 6, IE 7 and Firefox 2.0.



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Build your own server

"Have you wanted a full-functionality web-server, media host, bit-torrent client and NAS box, all fully remote-controlled? Want to build it out of spare parts? Well then..." The guys at bit-tech have their Linux guru explain a complete networking solution built from old junk. Contains scripts, step-by-step instructions and lots of pics.



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Blizzard Takes Legal Action Against Gold-Selling Company Peons4Hire

WoW players are familiar with the name "Peons4Hire." Representatives of the gold-selling outfit incessantly spammed players via private messages, advertising the company's wares. As part of the lawsuit, the operators of Peons4hire have been asked to immediately cease all in-game spamming efforts by all entities and websites under their control.



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How Do You Get Access to a Gmail Account of Someone Who Dies?

When a person passes away, sensitive information might reside on a Gmail account. How can a family get access to this information if necessary?



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World's largest MP3 store launches

PayPlay has just launched "the world's largest MP3 download store" -- a store selling more than 1.3 million indie music tracks, with a search engine that allows you to search for your fave artists and get similar indie artists in the catalog.



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Upgrade Flickr with the Better Flickr Firefox extension

Everyone's favorite photo-sharing web application, Flickr, has had tons of ancillary applications and user scripts developed for it to tweak, mod and add to its functionality. Dozens of Greasemonkey user scripts have popped up that make Flickr better; so I've rolled a few of my favorites into a new Firefox extension called Better Flickr



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455FE10422CA29C4933F95052B792AB2 = AACS Processing Key

As the subject says. :)



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Bush makes power grab, by Jerome Corsi

Probably the most important news story there is, and you will probably only find it on WorldNetDaily! "President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed an executive order that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president."



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11 Surefire Tips for Improving Your Landscape Photography

Great tips (and supporting photos) for getting the most out of landscape photography.



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One Of The Coolest Monitors I've Ever Seen!!

Dell ultra-thin LCD monitor!!



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PSP hardware refresh coming this year, says report

So it looks like those endless rumors of a newly-spec'ed PlayStation Portable are finally about to come true, with an analyst from Lazard Capital Markets reporting that Sony has in fact copped to just such a device



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How Often Should You Have Sex?

"If you have more than 200 orgasms a year, you can reduce your physiologic age by six years," Dr. Oz says. ---------- I am so glad that my wife saw this on Oprah yesterday. Hopefully someone can find a link to the Duke study that this references but, in making the argument to a woman, isn't Oprah good enough :)



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More Firefox Bloat? Say It Ain't So, Mozilla

Anecdotal reports of problems, from sluggishness to slow page loads and frequent crashes, have begun circulating in web forums, along with increasingly loud calls for Firefox to return to its roots. The alleged culprit: bloat, the same problem that once plagued Mozilla...



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Hilarious - AACS publishes HD DVD DRM process key in a take down notice

The AACS (Advanced Access Content System) issues a DMCA take down notice - but the take down notice itself contains the hexcode process key that they are complaining about. (look at the second url... 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63.html ). I guess the AACS will now have to issue a take down notice to this take down notice.



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Increase the number of simultaneous downloads in IE7

Internet Explorer 7 will only allow you to download two files at one time. This limitation can prove to be quite an inconvenience for anyone who downloads quite a lot on the Internet.



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Super Close Google Maps Zooms

Calling all Peeping Toms and pedophiles: you can sometimes browse into very close detail on Google Maps--read on...



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Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity

Top 10 extensions that will keep you focused, reduce distractions, streamline your daily work flow, and improve your productivity.



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Macrovision copy protection coming to a download near you

A number of online movie download services have inked a deal with Macrovision to offer that company's ACP protection with their movies. We'll peer through the scrambled signal to figure out the larger picture behind this move.



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HP Sees Huge Linux Desktop Deals

According to CRN, HP is doing "massive," "multi-thousand unit" deals with Linux PCs and suggests Linux on the desktop/notebook may be close to a tipping point.



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Speed Up Mail.app

Amazingly, a simple sqlite command on your Mail.app envelope file can dramatically speed up the operation of the program!



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Turn any Image into Text Art ONLINE! To use in forums or Digg

All you have to do is upload a photo. That will take about 3 seconds, and the image that you chose to upload will be turned into text, using keyboard characters. Its very hard to describe, so go try it out yourself. Just don't spam Digg with too many of them in the comment section.



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Black iMacs and 8-Core Mac Pros Expected Next Month

MacScoop claims to have the inside dirt on next month's rumored Apple announcements, saying we're in for a full barrage of hardware releases, including a black 24-inch iMac and 8-core Mac Pros (no word on whether they'll be sporting new designs).



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Canon Unleashes Bevy of New Cameras

Ramping up to this year's PMA show, Canon has announced five new cameras (including a pro DSLR) and an HD-capable camcorder.



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How I Hacked Your LinkSys Router Which You Probably Bought at Best Buy

In a world where we all shop at the same stores and buy the same wireless equipment it is very easy to unintentionally hijack someone’s wireless connection. Here's how this guy did it - by accident....



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Joost's Bandwidth Requirements

The software downloads about 320MB per hour (as a maximum) and uploads up to 105 MB per hour. The more popular the content is on our platform, the more sources it can be pulled from and the less redundant data we send; that number can be as low as 220MB per hour of viewing



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SIRIUS, XM SET TO CONFIRM MERGER PLAN TODAY

Satellite radio operators Sirius and XM are expected to announce their long-awaited merger today, according to a source familiar with the deal. The two sides were locked in negotiations over the weekend trying to hammer out a final agreement with an eye toward going public with the merger today in Washington, D.C., where XM is based...



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Worlds Smallest Hard Drive

Toshiba's 0.85 inch 8Gb hard drive weighs in at only 2 grams.



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The cost of leaving your PC on

"Between my server and my Windows Media Center home theater PC, I have at least two PCs on all the time at home. Have you ever wondered how much it's costing you to leave a computer on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?"



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Possibly the coolest screen saver on earth...

This is possibly the coolest screen saver I have ever seen/used. Allows you to monitor global blog activity in real time and visually. Really cool...must see in action to understand.



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Five Ways to Watch TV on Your PC : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Five Ways to Watch TV on Your PC : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Doggy Style Mobile Grooming

Doggy Style Mobile Grooming

Phantom Technologies

Phantom Technologies

Canon PowerShot A620 Reviews: Digital Cameras Reviews : Yahoo! Tech

Canon PowerShot A620 Reviews: Digital Cameras Reviews : Yahoo! Tech

Great Gifts for Giant Geeks : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Great Gifts for Giant Geeks : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Easy Data Transfer Between PCs -- With No Extra Software! : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Easy Data Transfer Between PCs -- With No Extra Software! : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Should I Shut Down My PC At Night? : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Should I Shut Down My PC At Night? : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Cell Phones Blog Posts by Tech Advisor Christopher Null, The Working Guy on : Yahoo! Tech

Cell Phones Blog Posts by Tech Advisor Christopher Null, The Working Guy on : Yahoo! Tech

Video Games Improve Vision 20 Percent : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Video Games Improve Vision 20 Percent : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website

I’ve compiled a small list (or rant) of some very basic and fundamental rules that all webmasters must learn and respect when developing a website that needs to make actual money. This list can also be used by companies looking to hire a web development firm or to evaluate an already deployed website project.



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Screenshot Tour: Learn everything about your PC with SIW

I was very surprised at just how much information is available through System Information for Windows- for example, it came as a bit of a shock to see that all of my saved Firefox and Internet Explorer passwords were only a click away- so I decided that today I'd step through and highlight some of the most interesting and useful features of SIW.



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Apple to re-enter sub-notebook market with tiny flash-enabled MacBook mini

A tiny sub-notebook on its way from Apple Inc. is expected to re-establish the Mac maker as a leader in the field of compact computing while drawing parallels to the legendary PowerBook 2400 along the way. It's been nearly ten years since the Cupertino-based company dabbled in the realm of sub-notebooks, but for a stint of several years in the...



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Quick Firefox Tip: Single-key search tool

When you press slash (or the apostrophe key), you'll see a little Quick Find field in the lower-left corner of the screen--not unlike what you get from pressing Ctrl-F (but without any of the Find controls). Start typing and you'll see instant results. Wait a moment and Quick Find disappears on its own.

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HD DVD and Blu-ray DRM Cracked

arnezami has found the "processing key" used to decrypt the DRM on all HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc films

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Firefox: 300 million+ downloads

Firefox has reached a new milestone: 300,000,000 downloads since its initial release back in November 9, 2004. That
’s 825 days ago, which makes a cute rate of : 363,636.3636..downloads/day.

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Marriage + Gaming = Game Over?

Marriage is by far one of the craziest things out there. The sheer planning and time it takes to even get to the church and say "I do" is ridiculous. But without a doubt, it is worth it. But here's where things get a little sticky... clashing ideas or beliefs on gaming.

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Classic TSS - Kevin builds a G4 Mac that runs OS X

Kevin Rose builds a G4 Mac on The Screen Savers. That's how it was before OSX86.

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Super Bowl Ad Watch: Top Spots

Here are the Gizmodo Super Bowl Spot Awards, were we picked our favorites, giving each one its own special designation. You'll be able to click and play each one of our embedded selections, and don't forget to check our our pick for best commercial of the night.

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How to Make Firefox Look Exactly Like Internet Explorer

Perfect for secretly replacing Internet Explorer with Firefox on your parents' computer. They will never know they're not using ie, and you won't have to clean out spyware as often.

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Unlocks Your Car Using A Tennis Ball.

An unique way to recover keys forgotten in a locked car.

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Superbowl doesn't allow 55" TV viewing for a party!

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league has a longstanding policy against “mass out-of-home viewings” of the Super Bowl, even if they don’t charge admission. Hosts of parties can use only one TV that is no bigger than 55 inches, according to a league attorney.

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Hacking iTunes

The following article will show you how to get free music from iTunes using pepsi & paypal tricks. Then we will stick it to them and rip out the DRM (Digital Rights Management) from the files so you can play them on ANY mp3 player.

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Awesome Windows Turn Into Mirrors at the Flip of a Switch

A fancy new glass has been developed in Japan, one that promises to cut down on the energy usage of buildings everywhere. It looks like a normal window regularly, but at the flip of a switch it turn to a mirror.

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