After a good deal hacking around with a few products I have come to my final Home Cinema setup. It cost next to nothing, I live in the UK and would need a TV licence if I had a TV at £160 p/a, my projector from eBay cost £150; the BenQ MP620p produces a 1.5m wide image.
Bird Cam has been down for a couple of months due to server upgrade. Going again now, using a flash player.
Extreme Tube script updated due to small change in their site.
After three installations of two types of Windows 7 with Avira Anti Virus Personal edition (the free one) I found that updates fails on all installations. After some searching on the net I found a solution, here. I am posting this as it was hard to find and to enhance the ranking of this solution for a rather annoying bug.
The solution is to disable the detection of proxy server for updates under advanced setting within configuration.
I have a Dell Inspiron 910, bought from cash converters for £150 3/4 of a year ago. As I had tested Windows Visa and found it to be in many ways an advert not to upgrade from Windows XP I left my machine with the XP installation that the Dell originally came on. Something that surprised me was the 8Gig solid state hard disk. I bought a cheap 4 gig SD card and shoved that permanently into the side for some extra space but I mainly relied on an external 360GB Western Digital slimline hard disk.
When windows 7 came out my usual fear of learning the nuances of a new OS evaporated as I found it to be in almost every way and pleasure to deal with. After testing on a Dell Optiplex 780 for some time I though I should get my Dell Inspiron upgraded to 7 also.
Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit with a standard install takes about 7gig and even though you can disable many core feature these features are not removed. After some searching I found vLite a utility that is (I assume) mainly used by companies to create tailored Windows installs that suit the corporate image. More searching around on the net and I found that Windows 7 starter was probably the best choice for my netbook. Though Starter removed many features so low powered computers can run it it seemed to be the best choice as a starting package to reduce further in size. After hacking the image with vLite and successfully installing I found that there was no domain support, you could not easily personalise the theme and there was no Aero. Finding this I used vLite to reduce a Windows 7 Ultimate installation. Below is the howto. Continue reading »
I thought I would post my bash wep cracking script. I made this on the backtrack 4 final linux distro, which is ubuntu, it utilizes aircrack-ng and a sub directory call data.
This script would be most of interest to people who are using multiple wireless interfaces to capture. It allows you you test each cards reception and specify which card is to do the injection and which are simply there to listen.
It implements all aircrack attacks against WEP hubs and I have success using all.
If I get interested in WPA cracking I’ll post another script. Continue reading »
For those girl who would really like to try their first time again; second-hand-hymen.com would provide the marketplace of hymens for woman who had a successful first time to sell to those who didn’t, at, of course, a small fee.
For that interesting talking piece for the living room, for young sweethearts, frame that moment for all to see. Dried or in formaldehyde. If it was lost or destroyed in the process of the life changing event we can mock one up from chicken skin and black pudding.
After hearing many people have lost their virginity and after numerous calls to police stations and airport and train-station lost and found departments I have been unable to locate any lost virginity. Therefore I intend to setup lost-and-found-virginity.com where people can post lost virginities and with hope can be reunited with them by avid do gooders.
Sees like in-laws can sometimes be a problem, the domain name as it suggests is a swap shop for in-laws. People can post all the qualities of the in-law they would like to swap and search for other or suitable in-laws posted by others and arrange a swap.
Took some hunting to find this information so I thought I would make a post so other may not have to waste an hour.
If you wish to practise Left for Dead 2 versus mode you will have to use the following console commands: Continue reading »
After looking at removing 4od adverts I thought I’d have a look at removing adverts from playing on the ITV player. I found out that it was significantly easier than 4od.
Here is the how-to to disabled/skip adverts on ITV’s player. It is only for Windows Visa and Window 7. If you are using another operating system and you don’t want adverts then you should BLOCK 213.199.175.157 (itv.adbureau.net) with your firewall, either on your computer or router.
So 4OD has a great collection of TV series that you can watch back to back. After watching about five episodes of peep show I found the adverts repetitive and annoying and decided to have a look at removing them. A brief search on the net and I found Steve Larsen had found a method. His instructions state that by redirecting three hosts to your loopback the adverts will not be played. I did this and for some quick tests I found it to work.
I set my router’s parental control to redirect the following URL s to 127.0.0.1
s0.2mdn.net
realmedia.channel4.com
webstat.channel4.com
I did this in the hope that I would not have to reconfigure the hosts file on the various computers around my house.
I found that on machines that had viewed 4OD then adverts did not play but on machines that have never been to 4OD they hung while attempting to play and showed nothing but a blank screen.
This Javascript Greasemonkey script will highlight a domain name in google results pages in both image search and standard search. This is of course freeware.
