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I’ve been working on something. It’ll be live soon and it’s a whole new direction. More soon.
On a side-note — filed under the special-things-that-turn-one-homicidal category — something was slightly h0rked after a recent hosting upgrade. I think I’ve nailed it now. Mostly.
“Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh… everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here now, thank you. How are you?”
Worth mentioning at this point, is my natural hatred when it comes to moving Wordpress — the database is very fragile and entirely prone to crash. It’s worse when months of backups all share the same flaw that was exposed during the move and db server upgrade. Upshot?
Always have a plan D, for when A and B and C all crash and burn.
The dailyapps crew on the iPhone 1.1.2 Update:
The Cat and Mouse game is on, and this time its Apple that’s got the upper hand over the Hackers. Apple has just released the firmware update to Apple iPhone.
As expected the TIFF vulnerability has been fixed, thus the usual jailbreak methodologies fail. Using vulnerabilities to open up a platform to third party applications has always struck me as one-hundred-and-ten percent the wrong ideology to follow. Sure, it may work.. for a time.
But using a failure in security to then punch an even larger, risker hole through to run third-party applications? It’s an inevitable recipe for disaster and someone is going to take advantage of that, eventually.
There has been some recent activity around a re-born Mozilla application, previously named
WebRunner, now called named
Prism1.
There is some
good coverage of Prism, particularly via
dailyapps, as well as
developer notes, which all do a damn fine job of describing it’s purpose.
If you want to skip the detailed view, it can be most succinctly […]
"Making the World a Better Place, One Evil Mad Scientist at a Time" — this is my kind of resource. Make sure you check out the Cylon jack-o-lantern for nerdery at it’s finest.
"Apple said today that a firmware update to the iPhone due to be released later this week "will likely result" in SIM-unlocked iPhones turning into very expensive bricks." — the cat has caught the mouse this week, no word yet on mouse striking back.
"You just flip the large toggle switch to ‘on’, pull the small trigger and off you go at a rate of 6ft/s. The original unit moved at 10ft/s, but it was almost too jarring." — hack-a-day write up on their field test of the brutal-looking rope ascender.
"NetBIOS Hacking is the art of hacking into someone else’s computer through your computer. It is a way for a LAN or WAN to share folders, files, drives, and printers." — great, except NetBIOS is not typically routed (by default) as such this hack has limited scope.
If you are a
text-link-ads publisher and provide a canvas for the display of fine hypertext wares via the tla wordpress plugin, might I point out a small, but somewhat pivotal part of the process. Within the wp-options table is the row tla_last_update.
This little beasty stores the surprisingly boring yet none-the-less critical-for-functionality last update time […]
Mac lives here1.
OS X 10.4.9 running on intel core duo E6420, asus p5b PCIe mainboard with 2g DDR2 riding shotgun (↩)
"[tylin] sent in this "DIY SCUBA" youtube video. These guys used a home shop air compressor with a particle filter so they could "SCUBA dive". This kid is lucky he didn’t die." — Will gives us a timely reminder that some hacks are just plain stupid.
“We’re giving up on Hack-A-Day and becoming Craft-A-Day.” — hackaday.com decides to roll très late in to the April Fools party. Better luck next year, guys.
