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How Geeky Are You?

Egeste — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:52:47 +0000

A modified repost from Gizmodo

Install a hard drive in a laptop
Perform a clean OS install on a machine with two OSes
Swap out the battery on your iPod/iPhone
Jailbreak an iPhone
Wire your house for Ethernet and Coax cable
Use BitTorrent and RSS to automatically download new shows from trackers
Use an A/V receiver to its fullest capability (every port is taken)
Calibrate an HDTV without the manual
Use a DSLR in full manual mode
Hack the encryption and mooch your neighbor’s Wi-Fi
Solder cleanly enough to get around a circuit board
Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access point
Shove the guts of a modern game console into a retro game console
Design a webpage in HTML by hand that features a picture of your cat
Use Photoshop to imperceptibly doctor a photo
Abstain from buying extended warranties
Know where to buy cheap cables and accessories
Fix your parents’ computer over the phone without looking at a computer
Enter the Konami code
Comment on Gizmodo from your phone
Type quickly using T9 texting
Program a universal remote
Contribute code to the Linux kernel
Hide porn from your significant other
Avoid DRM on everything
Know how to back up your data to networked storage—and actually do it
Watch TV shows on the internet for free
Edit together digital video ripped from YouTube
Play any SNES game on your computer through an emulator
Reset expired trial software by messing with the registry
Hackintosh your PC
Download pre-release movies from Usenet
Hack the Wii to play homebrew games
Get around web content filters on public computers
Get into a Windows computer if you forgot your password
Securely erase your data so it can’t be recovered
Share a printer between a Mac and a PC on a network
Build a fighting robot
Write your own Firefox plugins
Navigate and reorganize the files on your computer in DOS
Get something on the front page of Digg
Get through to executive customer service
Rip a CD to V0 quality MP3s
Rip a DVD to DivX
Build your own computer from parts
Swap out the hard drive in your DVR for a bigger one
Get an NES cartridge working again by blowing in it
Calibrate a 7.1 surround-sound system
Play downloaded games on a Nintendo DS
Talk about things that aren’t tech related

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Man v Food

Egeste — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:40:52 +0000

Every time I turn on this guy’s show I see him eating some kind of lard-fried 2lb doughnuts in a competition.

He has my vote for the dead-pool.

The PirateBay Logo Hijacked By Swedish Coporate Pirates… Wait what?

Egeste — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:31:43 +0000

ThePirateBay Logo

So, apparently, Swedish corporation Sandryds Handel AB noticed that The Pirate Bay logo isn’t registered or copyrighted to anyone in particular, so what was the next logical step? Well to register/copyright it for themselves of course! Obviously, this is soliciting a reaction from the collective forces of the internetz, including (but not limited to) the torrent community.

According to Sandryds Handel spokesman Bengt Wessborg, the company is intending to “sell USB drives using this brand”, which is actually kind-of a cool idea (especially if they donated a certain percentage to tpb). Here’s the issue, The Pirate Bay logo isn’t registered or copyrighted because it was never meant to be at all restricted, in alignment with the opinion that information should be free, so using the image for USB drives or t-shirts is one thing, but registering and copyrighting the image to your company? That’s completely different.

ex-Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde told TorrentFreak: “It will be turned over quite easily, it’s a preliminary registration that is being ‘tested’” indicating that this isn’t something to be terribly worried about, adding later that “It’s a person at the registration office that has made an error – willingly or not, we’re not sure”. So no worries, pirates, your beloved logo will be safe for now.

Torrentfreak article