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Got that latest Service Pack? Running Linux perhaps? YOU ARE NOT SAFE ANY LONGER! Your keyboard - yes, that’s right, your WIRED keyboard - is insecure!

Source: http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/keyboard/
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I’m sure you’ve heard of AlwaysOnTop, right? Where the window stays on top of all other windows - always. What if you want the window to be always on the bottom? There is no function for this in the Windows API! This stumped me for a very long time, until I just dove into learning [...]

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nVidia acquired PhysX a few months back, promising hardware support for physics processing on it’s 8-series and above GPUs. The first game to feature nVidia’s new release (to my knowledge, anyway) is Brothers In Arms - Hell’s Highway.
 
For those of you who don’t know what that means, basically from here on out, whenever you play a [...]

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I’ve been on another Linux kick, and so of course have checked up on my favorite program, Wine. For those of you who don’t know, Wine (recursively standing for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a compatibility layer for Windows code to run on Linux. This allows you to do cool things like run Photoshop [...]

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In the iPod/iPhone (iPhod?) community, everyone’s talking about the 2.0 firmware series. The appstore has brought sanctioned 3rd party apps to the iPhod and a jailbreak lets you get the best of both worlds. This one is a bit harder than previous ones, and even I had trouble getting it to work due to numerous [...]

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I was apparently hiding under a rock when this happened (as many of us were, I’m sure), but nVidia acquired Ageia. This is excellent! If you don’t know why, read on…
Ageia, if you don’t recall, is that strange little company that designed a really smooth physics engine that many games picked up (approximately 140 give [...]

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If you’re using XP or Vista (and what else would you complain about boot time on?), here’s a quick tip to speed up the booting process.

Open the “msconfig” tool, using Run, Start Search, or navigating to it in explorer. You can also do this by hand in the boot.ini file, if you prefer to get your [...]

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Disclaimer: Overclocking can be dangerous. While you should achieve a good overclock by following this guide, I do not take responsibility for any damage that may occur. Overclocking is your choice.

Since this processor is now becoming more than dominant on the market, I thought it only appropriate to share what I’ve gleaned in my long [...]

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Before I begin, let me apologize for my hiatus the past two weeks.
Many Vista users complain constantly about the network speeds. “XP used to copy so much faster,” I hear quite often. The network stack in Vista has actually been completely rebuilt from the ground up to be much quicker. However, Microsoft, in it’s infinite [...]

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How do you instantly hack a Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, MAC, or BSD with the same tool, without bothering to ever crack a password? Why, you just simply plug your box into theirs via Firewire, and run some Python code. That’s right, it’s that easy. With each OS you want to hack, you simply [...]

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