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WiGLE is an online database of Wireless Access Points (802.11A/B/G) that is contributed to by folks using Netstumbler, Kismet and other war driving tools. WiGLE has a web interface of its own as well as Java desktop client called JiGLE.

Here’s a way that can take the cached data from JiGLE (found in the \JiGLE\WiGLEnet\data directory after you do a query) and turn it into a KML (Keyhole Markup Language) file that’s easy to import into the Google Earth desktop application. With the generated KML file and Google Earth it’s easy to view and parse the access point found by WiGLE users.

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It appears as though this site designed by Microsoft uses AJAX to create a personalized news site with a lot of eye candy. Do searches, read RSS feeds, look at stock prices, weather, and so much more. Anyway, this is just a preview!

At the moment, it does not work in Opera, Safari but works fine in Firefox. I think this is much better than iGoogle. Its much more slick. Although Google’s is better than yahoo but this one looks a bit cooler. That doesn’t mean that I’m going to switch to Hotmail though. Keep up the work Microsoft.

They have owned Start.com since 1996 when they first started: start.com/1/
then it was later that they developed: start.com/2/
and now they’ve released: start.com/3/
It’s really nothing “new” just a new design element.

Here’s some facts:
1. Yes, MS has owned the domain since 1996, but only launched start 1 in the past year (look it up on their beta page, link at the bottom of the start).
2. The MS start page predates Google’s
3. It says it’s owned by MS at the bottom and is an incubation / testing area for technologies… RTFA please
4. MS might not like Apple, but you can chalk the incompatibilities up to Safari’s crappy handling of the X in AJAX… Many other AJAX sites don’t work properly in Safari (props to Google on going the very long extra mile and getting gMail to work tho)
5. Looks like this will always be a preview (and did you notice /. In the feeds? kinda funny)

I remember using it back in ‘98 or ‘99. It was launched to a much fanfare then. Was quite a nice portal. Then they stared to redirect to MSN.com. And the the domain name got totally forgotten. Nice to see it revived again.

This is a simple, sample site built using ASP.Net 2.0. Personalization (much like Sharepoint Portal Server, but not requiring it to be installed now) are natively integrated into 2.0 now. And yes, Microsoft is actually working out the bugs to make the personalization features work with Firefox as well as IE (according to product/program managers for VS2005 & ASP.Net 2.0).

I was reading their little news feed about stuff they are doing with the page and I noticed that they worked out a fix for the framework so it would work with Firefox. I actually like this better than the My MSN page, it is a lot simpler and less cluttered especially on these two:

1. TABBED SEARCH RESULTS
• For every search query it gives you web, news and RSS results. This means that you don’t need to do separate searches for each type.
2. OPML Support
• Import and export your OPML subscriptions.

Could this be why MS is/had been rumored to be pulling out of MSNBC(.com)?

About copying Google…Right…Because Yahoo didn’t have these features before that. Google took Yahoo’s my.yahoo.com (which probably wasn’t their original idea) and improved upon it. It’s POSSIBLE that Microsoft can improve upon both of them. I’m all about these 3 companies space-racing each other. I don’t see how we can COMPLAIN about having more choices to do the same things - competition is rarely bad for the users.

Regardless, this looks really nice, and it works better in Firefox. I like the drop down feeds that you can check, without them being on your homepage. And the popup stories are neat.

Just check the stats from Alexa for MSN and Google and compare the difference.

I wont say who copied who. But it looks almost identical, and works the same way. But like some said, they could have been developing it awhile back. I really don’t care who is the originator.

I think in some ways they’ve done things better then Google… Looks like the RSS has more options and there very simple skinning but I like that a bunch. Google has never let skinning happen in any of there endeavors. You can even subscribe to an RSS feed of any search result, something Google and Yahoo have yet to implement.

Also, Start.com is really just a team of 3 people at Microsoft. They have a blog dedicated for this development.

Scoble did an interview which is posted over at Channel 9:

How do we even know it’s them? If it crashes, we’ll know.

But, here’s another perspective:

This is proof that Microsoft is trying to copy Google. First we see their “improved” search, then the new map service, and finally this. Next will be video uploads…

Have to say, even if it is a clone, Microsoft has the edge with the domain name. It also seems a little more slick looking code-wise. Microsoft is just continuing its old business model. Steal ideas from everyone else and pass it off as there own idea. Microsoft hasn’t come up with an original idea since its inception. The day Microsoft falls will be a great day for computing in general.

It does matter who copied who because one of them is being innovative & creative (as Google has tendency to do) and one is copying others ideas (as Microsoft has tendency to do). Would you rather use someone who only changes and improves when they have to? If a new item show up in the result, you’ll know. A few people at Microsoft actually “get it”. Google and Yahoo are playing catchup here. I suppose one difference is that Google.com/ig is not beta and Start.com is.

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NEWS FLASH: Tech doesn’t usually advance from completely new things, it advances through innovation on old things. OMG! Firefox is COPYING IE because it is a browser!!!! Would you say that? No, but a lot of the functions found in Firefox can be traced back to IE.

Innovation is the name of the game. You’ll find that throughout history, most of the time that a new technology because popular, its not by the people who originally made it, but those who were smart enough to make it functional.

Maybe people don’t remember the days before Google, when Excite, Yahoo, Lycos, altavista, and others ran the search engine world. Those pages were all cluttered up with crap (actually they still are). Google came in with this simplified look and now Microsoft is copying them. They’re just playing catch up with everyone else.

The start page is a really great example of what you can do with AJAX - will I use it? Of course not, but well done none the less. Taking a great idea and improving on it is not theft, its commerce.

The main thing I like is I don’t have to sign in to anything. Man I’m getting tired of signing up for every friggen website going.
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Here you are a step by step Tutorial to do your own Podcast.

“Now, don’t let things like “RSS file”, “server” or “.mp3 format” scare you.” this gives me the chills…

Sumbattt…….just record audio..convert to mp3. There, you have a podcast lah. There’s nothing complicated about it.

TNO, an organization dedicated to technology research, has a posting of 2.5 Gigapixel image and produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. One with 2.5 billion pixels - that’s 500 times more pixels than a typical 5 megapixel camera.

Whoa man, you can zoom in forever. This is amazing. Read license plates, see in cars… Imagine a quicktime vr in this kind of image, that would be truly insane. Hehe, there is a guy standing and picking his nose in front of a couple of people sitting on the grass near the far middle back parking lot!

Have fun with a 2.2 Gigapixel picture

• The only tan you’ve ever acquired comes from your monitor. (Samuel L Jacobson)
• Yeah, yeah. It doesn’t help when you have a shirt that says “Keep away from direct sunlight”
• You know the square root of 65536 is 256 without having to do the math. ( ck )
• You don’t think java is coffee.
• You check your e-mail before you brush your teeth in the morning.
• I used to write in graffiti back in the day.
• You get angry when someone says they own a Pentium IV processor. (the idea behind that one is that they say the letters I and V individually, instead of saying four.)
• You might be a computer geek if you can tell what a system with an Athlon64 3000+ with a GeForce 6600GT on an MSI K8N Neo4-F’s framerate is in Half-Life 2 with 6xAA and 16xAF with a resolution of 1280x1024… and you know what all of that means.
• If you say LOL out loud.
• You consider 65536 and 256 “nice round numbers”.
• You might be a computer geek if… You put Linux on your iPod
• You see a good-looking girl and you DESPERATELY want her e-mail address so you can get to know her.
• You know what Dvorak and Qwerty refer to.
• Everyone thinks I am cause I use podcasts and BitTorrent
• You dream of high-end computers instead of beautiful girls.

More wacky quotes in here…

I cant help that my computer is closer to me than the bathroom…Come to think of it, i’d still check my email first… I completely fell for the “you know what a router is, and you know what a bit is, but you’ve never heard of a router bit.” It took me a few minutes to understand it. One of my construction buddies thought it was weird that a computer guy was always working on routers, he brought me one of his routers to fix it for him… I laughed at him.

Tak paham.. tak paham…

You can tell fat people they’re porky without hurting their feelings with tips from an expert.

Sadis giller… That’s the worst advice column I have read.. but then again considering its source “Weekly World News”.. on a side note I think a fat person would already know it.. sorta like telling a non-Caucasian person they aren’t white.. I think at they would already know this fact.. WWN is much better with their “Bat Boy” stories and tales of aliens disguised as US senators..

There are many different people in this world, and perceive things different ways, so, i think it’s up to a real friend to let their overweight friend know about the issue, but try to get them motivated to do something about it. not just criticize and insult them for the way they are. that will just cause more issues.

Why does this author feel that the power of judgment has been bestowed upon him to publicly analyze someones physical feature? Would the appropriate response be, “Yea, but you are ugly and it is cheaper to lose weight than to pay for plastic surgery.”

But….. works of satire are enjoyable.

After Cisco strong-armed Mike Lynn’s employer into forcing him to abandon his planned presentation on vulnerabilities in Cisco routers at the Black Hat conferences, they sent employees down to literally rip Lynn’s presentation out of the program books.

Watching this video reminded me of Fahrenheit 451. If I was the guy with the video camera, I would got their faces in the picture, and stolen a book or 2. But that’s my irrational way of thinking.

I thought Black Hat was supposed to be about independence. Cisco does not own it but when they have court documents, you do as they say or get your ass handed to you in court.

It’s fun to see them actually have to physically remove the pages. I think for fun somebody should add some special effects and stuff to this. Burning books, etc…. and that’s twisted… They really needed armbands and they should have at least all worn the same colour shirt. Maybe Wagner would have been more apropos than the hiphop bit at the end.

If this is Cisco’s reaction to their vulnerabilities, they are a pack of dumb asses, you would think they will learn from this. Perhaps Cisco should have sat through the presentation and learned of the vulnerabilities. They could have spent the thousands of dollars fixing the bugs instead of paying people to rip pages of out a book.

Mike Lynn did the presentation anyway. Cisco could have learned something from his presentation about how their products need to be fixed and where and even maybe how to fix them. The PDF of the presentation is available through the link — “Link to Mike Lynn Defense Fund and mirrors of his presentation.” in the first linkup.

Here are several places you can download the ,PDF file. There’s one on eMule on the censored material, the actual slides in PDF, this one in this blog and the shakedown letter’s version.

There are exploit codes in there. Exploits, especially of this magnitude, should NEVER be shown to the general population and especially not to a group of hackers, do you idiots understand that if this vulnerability gets out there is NO INTERNET until they patch and every company owning Cisco equipment applies said patch, without a viable means of distribution as there will not be an internet. Exploits are usually known by h4x0rs, the only difference is the amount of people learning about it at the exact same time.

But in the anti-monopoly sense, this does show that one company should NOT be relied on for basically all of the traffic of the internet…One exploit and the whole thing is toast rather than needing multiple companies and multiple vulnerabilities. Cisco not only gets a cease and desist order for the presentation, they go the extra mile to protect your security by ripping pages out of the books! Man with a dedicated security team like that how could you go anywhere else!

Now if they only showed such diligence actually in patching their holes they would be doing really good. Honestly this just downright sickens me. There are a lot of clever people on this planet and the weaknesses in question have been in place for years. To think that the cat has been let out of the bag just now is simply naive.

We (not-so-evil hackers) should be self-policing ourselves, otherwise the government will come in and do it for us. If the government does it then no one wins, except the lawyers, and they should never win. I’m sure that he wasn’t the only person to know of the vulnerability, but for him to go and give the vulnerability to a group of hackers and leave the possibility of it reaching an even greater amount of people afterward is totally irresponsible.

The company behind BitTorrent — software that’s been widely used to distribute illegal copies of movies and games — is trying to turn it into a Hollywood player, including business deals with the entertainment industry. Recently its top executives flew to Burbank, Calif., for high-level talks with the Motion Picture Association of America.

They want to make BitTorrent force content filtering on its users. I don’t see how that’s ever going to happen, and it just shows how naive the RIAA/MPAA still are. I think this might be just a business talk to maybe try to influence the makers to backing off rather than trying to find a way to use the technology, but we will see. Or is this really a move to acquire the BitTorrent technology, come up with a strategy, and then proceed to shut it all down…?

Maybe they will use BT to move movies and TV to setTopBoxes over the net. It would prove a functional way to distribute large content esp. If you could see it as it comes down.

On the other hand, I see it as more of a way to lessen their financial burden by piggy-backing on users bandwidth, rather than supplying it all themselves. So basically we pay for a movie/song and then the companies selling them just collect the money, rather than having to pay for terrabits of bandwidth per day.

TVIP is the wave of the future. This way, people’s outlooks on filesharing software, mainly bit torrent, will be changed in a positive way because it would be very useful and legal.

This mental block the Industry is having reminded me of Cory Doctorow’s book “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”. They have quite the dilemma on their hands when financial threats no longer deter suspected n’er-do-wells.

Interesting how such a seemingly minor editorial cleanup of a story makes it far less credible. Anyway, here is another link (hopefully doesn’t have popups or spyware but I can’t tell since I have firefox on gnu/linux):

Now it may be inevitable that someone will fork the source code to ensure there is no filtering or tracking of proprietary content being traded via BitTorrent.

Here’s a quick and dirty Deadbolt Lock Picking howtos that’ll give you and your friends some cheap entertainment on a slow weekend afternoon.

A nice writeup, pretty hard to understand the tools he was talking about but the process seemed simple enough. For a more adventurous feats, here’s How To CRACK a Master Lock.

checkout lockpicking101.com.. Don’t really bother with any books or other junk like that… lp101 has all the info you need, there is also info about making your own tools. They’re pretty simple to make if you have some hacksaw blades and a bench grinder or a dremel . Both make it much simpler, do the majority of the work with the bench grinder and the details with the dremel.

a word of caution though, in some areas it may be illegal to carry picks as they can be considered a burglary tool. As if anyone cares.

A series of photos (many photos) showing how to create a fake Ferrari out of an Acura NSX. The seem to have used a tiny toy car as the model for the whole project, excellent.

That is how you read in Chinese. The site is in Chinese, but if you look at the signs in the background in some of the pictures, this was clearly done in Japan.

It might look like a Ferrari but it sure as hell wont sound or drive like a Ferrari. Why would they want to take a great world class sports car like the NSX and turn it into a POS?

I wonder how much the guy saved compared to actually buy a real one. Cause last time I check custom body work isn’t cheap neither is a NSX. But hey this is cool mod, warning to you all don’t buy any black Ferrari’s off Ebay for a while, no matter how cheap they may be!

This guy is too obsessed with looking cool to actually be cool. He could have had a real Ferrari (well, not an F50) for what he paid for the Honda (yes, Acuras are just upscale Hondas) and and the months of bodywork.

Overall that was very cool but nothing new theres kit cars to make Lambo’s etc… But did you see the van in the background? Some of them had insane paintjobs of people. The Japanese are just amazing people. I think I enjoyed the vans in the background more then the NSX transformation…

Buying an NSX in the first place is simply retarded. Who wants to drop $90,000 on a piece of shit to make it something cool? Buy a Corvette or a Dodge Viper. I mean seriously. Those both look cooler than the Ferrari anyways. There are a lot of tech in an NSX. But yeah the mod, it’s a weird thing to do. The NSX is a great car, entirely made out of aluminum, even the jack! Any Ferrari vehicle is great too of course (beautiful sound!) but they’re high maintenance…or so I hear

Although I think it’s a waste of money, you gotta give those guys props. Gotta respect the dedication it took to get it done, but really, why chop up an NSX? Could have been done a lot cheaper to the same effect. With enough fiberglass, you can do anything. This isn’t that hard, if you have the resources. I wonder how he got the measurements for the molds? Just look at the time that guy put into the car. That’s amazing, and it looks so clean. This guy must be having an amazing time in his

I think what is really important is that Japan has started counterfeiting CARS!! This shows you what people can do if they put their mind to it heh. But I wonder what would happen when this thing is in a crash.

This has been done before back in 92 or 93 back in Croatia a guy got bored of driving his Honda Prelude so he and bunch of guys took some sheet metal a couple of cases a beer and made themselves a replica Ferrari Testarosa, interior and exterior were exactly the same thanks to a scraped Testarosa that they bought at a scrapyard in Trieste Italy.

Three words: “Pimp My Ride”