Neverball Ported to the iPhone

Lazrhog, who also brought us NOIZ2SA, rRootage and iZoo, is in the early stages of porting Neverball to the iPhone. So, if the games he has already brought us aren’t cool enough, here is another one!! Using the accelerometer, the object of the game is to move the ball around the course collecting as many coins as possible. Check out the demo

 

ZDNet Mac Pro and Xserve overclocking tool

One area that the Mac has long lagged behind its PC counterparts is in custom tuning, particularly overclocking. With the Intel Macs this has naturally started to change, though the toolset for overclocking in OS X has been rather barebones. So it’s interesting to see that the German division of ZDNet has released the ZDNet Clock tool for OS X.

Using the ZDNet Clock tool Mac Pro and Xserve owners (and those only) can boost the processor, front side bus, and memory frequency resulting in a not insignificant “free” performance gain. It should be noted that overclocking puts a strain on the hardware and should be used with caution as it’s certainly possible to damage your Mac. Furthermore, there are several side effects in OS X including distorted system time and problems when waking from sleep (the overclocking is disabled on wake). Nonetheless, for those of you out there lucky enough to have a Mac Pro (or Xserve) and crazy enough to push your hardware to the edge may want to have a look.

 via tuaw

KeyScrambler – protect yourself from keyloggers

If you’ve got that paranoid feeling that something’s monitoring what you type into your web browser—like a private email or online banking login—protect yourself from keyloggers with free browser plug-in KeyScrambler. Operating as a layer between your keyboard and your web browser, KeyScrambler encrypts your key strokes and decrypts them as they are placed into the browser, so that a keylogger would only intercept the encrypted stream, not the actual text—essentially gibberish instead of your personal information. KeyScrambler Personal (the free version) is available as a plug-in for Firefox and Internet Explorer; pay-for upgrades from $30 to $45 extend its key scrambling technology to other applicatons such as Outlook, Quicken, and more.

via lifehacker

How to Remove Stickers from Car Windows

So you’ve just purchased a fly new whip (car) from the dealership but you don’t like the look of those price stickers on the windshield? Well now there’s a simple and easy way to get those stickers off with no damage to your windows. All it takes is just a few simple household supplies and your car will be looking perfectly spotless as oppose to a driving advertisement. Not saying that there’s anything wrong driving with a price tag on your car if you’re into it, but to me it’s more than tacky. In this tutorial I will explain the easy way to strip off the stickers hassle free. If you believe it you can achieve it!

 

Start by taking a couple damp paper towels and running it across the window where the sticker(s) is. The point of this is to get excess grime and dirt off the sticker and window before you proceed with the WD-40. A lot of times the dealership will leave cars sitting on the floor or outside for weeks and even months without a wash, so doing this step insures that you will be working on a clean surface.

After letting the window dry for a minute, take the can of WD-40 and spray the sticker. Make sure to put a rather thick coat of WD-40 because you’re going to have to allow it to sit for about 10-15 minutes. Stay clear from using the WD-40 in the sun as it will dry on your window and you’ll have to apply more. For best results do it in the early morning or when the sun has gone down.

The next step is to take the plastic scrapper/spatula and place it under the sticker. Once all the way under the sticker begin to push up so the sticker starts to rise from the window. If the sticker still fails to come up clean, spray more WD-40 and wait longer then repeat the process.

The last step to completing the task is to take another set of paper towels, make sure to get more than one so it doesn’t tear. Begin to wipe the window down to get rid of the WD-40. You may also want to run water on the window after you’ve completely removed the sticker just to be safe that the WD-40 is gone.

Senf: The Sensitive Number Finder

Senf is a fast, portable tool (written in Java, runnable just about everywhere) for finding sensitive numbers. Use this tool to identify files on your system that may have Social Security Numbers (SSNs) or Credit Card Numbers (CCNs).

Shell-Fu!!

 

Shell-fu is a place for all those little command line goodies that you come
across and then can never find again when you need them. Hopefully we’ll end up with a comprehensive and easily usable resource for anyone working with the shell. We’ve a little way to go yet, and we’d appreciate your comments (just hit the ‘Contact’ link in the menu above).

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Linux: Be A Master Packet Crafter With packETH

Whether you want to test your custom built app, or wreak havoc on the network — packETH allows you to create the perfect Ethernet packets with limitless possiblities through a GUI interface.

By specifying a custom payload, source MAC, destination MAC, source IP, destination IP, you can appear as sending from and to anyone on the network. packETH also allows you to specify how many packets to send up to and infinite amount and speed.

packETH is Linux only and included in Debian based Distributions, and possibly others. Sectools.org has a list of the top 4 packet crafting utilities if packETH doesn’t float your boat or find your lost remote.

You wouldn’t dare to send 4 million broadcast pings originating from an enemy coworker at wire speed, would you?

How To Setup MySQL Replication in 10 minutes

MySQL is an excellent open source database system. Replication is a great way to keep data redundant in case of a server crash. However, replication should not take the place of backups in case of data corruption or mis-entered data – as this data will also be replicated to the slave.

 

MySQL replication takes place in a master-slave configuration. Be aware that by using the configuration – only changes made on the master are replicated to the slave. Any changes on the slave will not be replicated to the master.

Following the steps below, you can have MySQL replication setup in no time at all.

Source: MySQL Dev Site

1. Open the my.cnf or my.ini (depending on linux or windows).

2. Enter somewhere below ‘[mysqld]‘ on the master server.

log-bin=mysql-bin
server-id=1
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1
sync_binlog=1

3. Restart mysqld on the master server

4. Create a user on the master with the ‘REPLICATION SLAVE’ privilege. This user needs no other privileges. Replace X.X.X.X with the IP address of the slave server.

CREATE USER ‘user’@ ‘X.X.X.X’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;
GRANT REPLICATION SLAVE ON *.* TO ‘user’@’X.X.X.X’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;

5. Execute ‘FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK;’ on the master to prevent writing to the databases.

6. Execute ‘SHOW MASTER STATUS;’ on the master and record the values for later.

7. Execute ‘UNLOCK TABLES;’ on the master.

8. Open the my.cnf or my.ini on the slave server.

9. Enter somewhere below ‘[mysqld]‘ on the slave server:

server-id=2

10. Save the file and restart mysqld.

11. Execute the following on the slave server (adjust values accordingly to user setup in step 4 and values retrieved from step 6):

CHANGE MASTER TO
MASTER_HOST=’X.X.X.X’,
MASTER_USER=’user’,
MASTER_PASSWORD=’password’,
MASTER_PORT=3306,
MASTER_LOG_FILE=’mysql-bin.000001′,
MASTER_LOG_POS=98,
MASTER_CONNECT_RETRY=10;

12. Execute the following on the slave server:

START SLAVE;

13. Check the mysql log on the slave to ensure that the connection to the master has been successful. You should see a line similar to the following:

080609 8:47:02 [Note] Slave I/O thread: connected to master ‘root@X.X.X.X:3306′, replication started in log ‘mysql-bin.000001′ at position 98

You should now have a successful MySQL master-slave configuration. If you have any questions please let me know.

Via Hackosis.com

 

Snow Leopard to drop PPC !!

Well Seems like Apple has decided lo leave PPC users in the cold w/ Snow Leopard (Ironic?). Lets see whats comming next…

from LogicielMac.com

The Sound of eBay

Coins make some noise in your pocket, you can drum w/ ur credit cards, but what about an MP3 w/ music generated from your ebay history?? huummmm. Neat concept, but… NOT useful at all… well, you can start dancing w/ the sound of your biding history at  http://www.sound-of-ebay.com/