Archive for the 'Computing' Category

The “IT” boom is over

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

The IT Boom
Throughout the 90’s the new idea of a flourishing IT/jobs economy was livid. The strong increase of internet success gave a confidence that was difficult to refute even among the many companies that had been financially ruined or even put out of a job by the success of IT applications and systems. People [...]

HOWTO: configure yourself a nice private IRCD (Irc Server)

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Well chaps.. It’s actually quite easy to install yourself an IRCD server… against contrary belief. The hard part is configuration. However.. We can skip most of that and get your IRCD up in a few minutes. Here’s how (on debian at least)

apt-get install ircd-ircu
pico /etc/ircd/ircd.conf
set your A-Line (administrative line)

M:irc.yourserver.com:93.87.22.3:The Lost City IRCD::1

set your O-Line something [...]

Saving Google and Youtube Video’s to Disk!

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

A friend of mine maintains a site called www.lifeofexile.com/wget_curl/ and posted a VERY interesting article in 2006 that I seem to have missed. Whether this method still works I do not know, but usually his stuff always works and continues to so I thought I’d add this little gem for all to see and you [...]

Proxy Lists for your white hacking pleasure

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

I decided to create a tiny little script to help create a directory structure (and relevant -dump output) for proxy lists online. I thought I’d at LEAST share the 306 or so proxies that I categorized with my scripts. I will publish the code here soon so you can create your own proxylist compiler software. [...]

Yet Another New Look For Azio.org

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Well chaps, as you all know I haven’t been posting on azio.org for a while, business has been busy and I’ve been killing myself at the datacentre on and off and with customer support. However, recently azio.org has had thousands of hits from hackers and punters alike and it’s time for a change of look!
A [...]

EA couldn’t hit a deadline if it jumped up and kicked them in the balls

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Well… Where to begin? EA, I need not say any more! The new sequel to the popular C&C RTS game C&C 3 Tiberium Wars came out on the 28th of March 2007, and it was “decided by EA” to release the world builder in “early April”. Well, its the 8th April and we are all [...]

Microsoft Warning: Politically Dangerous Products Reap Politically Dangerous Repucussions

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Recently I was waltzing around the internet and came accross a rather paranoid dillusional article at futurepower.net. To my surprise and total dismay the article is actually 100% valid and having read it several times to be sure I wasn’t being brainwashed and having others read it, I thought that this *MUST* be included on [...]

Worlds First Quantum Computer Demonstrated

Monday, February 26th, 2007

The Canadian company D-Wave demonstrated what it calls the first “commercial” quantum computer. The prototype machine which uses a 16-qubit process quantum computer was tested at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Although for now the machine is actually slower than many cheap home computers D-Wave is already working on a faster 1,000-qubit [...]

Game-Zero UK gaming Blog Launched!

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Heya Chaps,
I’ve started a new blog for Game-Zero , the company I’m currently working on, If you guys don’t know already I’d like to announce the launch of Game-Zero.Com’s Blog site’s URL http://blog.game-zero.com there is some good stuff on there including demo’s, trailers, tutorials, gaming news and more!, so be sure to check it out [...]

Hackers Selling Vista Zero-Day Exploit

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Underground hackers are hawking zero-day exploits for Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system at $50,000 a pop, according to computer security researchers at Trend Micro.The Windows Vista exploit—which has not been independently verified—was just one of many zero-days available for sale at an auction-style marketplace infiltrated by the Tokyo-based anti-virus vendor.
In an interview with eWEEK, [...]

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