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OH-EX539
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A blog designed for intellectual discussions of cool computer, internet, hacking, or open-source related issues.
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Myspace Uses Flash Drives
Apparently, Myspace has just converted all of its data storage from hard disks to flash drives.Computer World ArticleUsing the new solid state memory instead of hard drives saves more than 99% of the power used by the servers, but solid state memory ...
Spanning Tree Protocol
I was promiscuously sniffing data on a network the other day when I kept coming across a series of packets with a protocol I knew nothing about, with data for setting what seemed to be a root variable. I realized that the protocol was known as Spann...
Free Stuff On the Internet
I just got so much free stuff off of the internet. It was crazy.www.thunderfap.comwww.totallyfreestuff.comI also got a bunch of free boxes from USPS. Of course they are all for mailing stuff. Doing otherwise could be a felony. But there are a bun...
Go away, we're not home
The other day me and one of my buddies were just sitting around monitoring our TCP/IP traffic when all of a sudden we started receiving ack packets from addresses we had not sent any data to at all. The interesting thing was, the packets only contai...
Removing Ads from Free Web Hosting
About an hour ago, I decided that I wanted to build a website in addition to this blog. I quickly scourged Google for free web hosts, and found only a few that offered "no-ads" but they all had some sort of catch or queue. Being impatient I relucta...
Hacking using GRUB Bootloader
Grub bootloader is used to select on operating system to boot at startup on most GNU/Linux machines or machines that dual boot. Grub works by loading the operating system you want and sending the boot parameters required for different boot options. ...
