Linux on your "pendrive"

This website has very simple tutorials(plus they include the files for the tutorials) to install Linux on your pendrive(or however you like to call it..) and carry Linux wherever you go nice and portable. The only flaw to this is that some computers don't have the capability to boot from a usb drive. To check if the computer supports it you can check in the bios settings. Most computers have something on the POST(the screen with all the white letters or manufacture logo that appears in the beginning) that says some for example "press F2 for setup" and you look for the boot setting in that section you'll find boot priority and there you can specify the order you'll computer will base on for booting off a device. To have your computer boot off of your pendrive you'll have to specify usb devices as the highest priority. Once you have that done you can restart your computer and soon enough you'll see all the crazy Linux stuff. well have FUN.....

MORE

This site is pretty good if your behind a filter and cant watch youtube videos.
http://youtubber.mywebbie.com/beta/

edit: This site is now down.

ook its been a while

Ive been quite busy with my senior project.
So here is something..
The easy way of making your own webserver with apache, php, mysql, and that stuff

WINDOWS HOW TO (For 98, 2000, XP)

Install time: 20-30 mins

Step 1

You will need mysql, php , ftp , and all the good stuff between. to get it all at once then you need to go here [ http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html ] and download the latest package.

What does it come with?

Apache HTTPD 2.0.53, MySQL 4.1.11, PHP 5.0.4 + 4.3.11 + PEAR + Switch, MiniPerl 5.8.3, Openssl 0.9.7f, PHPMyAdmin 2.6.1 pl3, XAMPP Control Panel 1.0, eAccelerator 0.9.2a, Webalizer 2.01-10, Mercury Mail Transport System für Win32 und NetWare Systems v4.01a, FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.6a, SQLite 2.8.15, ADODB 4.60, Zend Optimizer 2.5.7, XAMPP Security.

Step 2:

Follow the easy steps to install

Step 3: DNS

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All done

LINUX HOW TO:

Install time: 15-20 mins

Step 1

Go to [ http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html ] and download the lastest
from there go to your terminal, and run the following comands:

Step 2: Installation

After downloading simply type in the following commands:

1. Go to a Linux shell and login as the system administrator root:

su

2. Extract the downloaded archive file to /opt:

tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.13.tar.gz -C /opt

Warning: Please use only this command to install XAMPP. DON'T use any Microsoft Windows tools to extract the archive, it won't work.

Warning 2: already installed XAMPP versions get overwritten by this command.

That's all. XAMPP is now installed below the /opt/lampp directory.

Step 3: Start

To start XAMPP simply call this command:

/opt/lampp/lampp start

You should now see something like this on your screen:

Starting XAMPP 1.4.13...
LAMPP: Starting Apache...
LAMPP: Starting MySQL...
LAMPP started.

Ready. Apache and MySQL are running.


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All done

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Ivan Gonzalez
ServerTweak Network!

How to make a match rocket

sounds FUN!!!

For all of you ps3 lovers...

David Blaine parody LOL

Crazy Robosapien flamethrower

here's how to...
http://www.evosapien.com/robosapien-hack/marcus/html/flameosapien_v2.html

30 seconds to mars

A band i recently started listening to. Pretty good band if you ask me....


Links:
http://www.thirtysecondstomars.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thirtysecondstomars
http://www.purevolume.com/30secondstomars

lol indian thriller

How to Tie a Tie

For the people that don't know how to tie a tie

How to Stay Warm at Home Without a Heater

So maybe you're a poor college student, or your parents are cheap. Maybe your landlord didn't fix the furnace yet. Maybe you live in an old drafty house. Perhaps you want to curb CO2 emissions. For some reason it's cold and you need new ways of keeping warm. Here they are!

Steps

1. 

   
   Close all of your windows properly. This includes making sure storm windows are down if you have them. Windows should be latched.
2. Keep your windows air-tight. You may want to purchase removable window-caulk or plastic to better seal them. At a minimum, stuff a towel or shirt in front of any noticeable leaks.
3. Seal your doors. Check around the door frame and also under the door. You may want to buy weather stripping or a door sweep. Again, at minimum, make a draft dodger or stuff a towel at the bottom of the door.
4. Close off any un-used rooms. The closed door makes that room another barrier between you and the frigid outdoors. It also stops air from circulating as much, which reduces heat loss. Also, home improvement stores sell magnetic register covers to 'shut off' registers in unused rooms. That way when the heater does click on, only the registers in the rooms you use will pump out heat. Makes for more efficient use of the heater.
5. 

   
   Put up curtains. A set of heavy curtains can block a draft. Open them when the sun is shining and close them when it's not.
6. Put down a rug or carpet.
7. Add insulation in the attic and the crawl space.
8. Exercise; get in shape. 20 minutes of vigorous exercise can warm you up and keep you warm well after the exercise session. And your healthy body is generally more tolerant of the cold.
9. Dress warmly. You should wear slippers or socks. Dress in layers, especially with wool or cotton clothing. Wear a hat. Don't wear your winter coat or you will have nothing else to put on when you go outside. When you are sitting still put on a blanket.
10. Cook. Make cookies or a pie, or a nice, hearty stew! The kitchen will be warm while you are cooking, and then you can eat the warm food.
11. Drink warm beverages. Make a cup of tea or coffee. Sip some warm broth.
12. Light a candle. A candle/candles can produce a lot of heat, just be mindful of where they are placed and do not leave them unattended. A trip to most any grocery store or discount store can provide you with a number of candles cheap!
13. Find a pet or friend to snuggle with. The living body of any warm-blooded being is a furnace unto itself.
14. Be active. Moving around produces body heat!

Tips

• If you can not afford to heat your home, contact your energy supplier. They will work with you to find a payment plan you can afford. In addition, you may be eligible for federal assistance paying your bill.
• Eat enough fat! This will keep your thyroid and metabolism functioning properly, and you'll stay much warmer.
• Fill a large pot with water and let it simmer. The rising steam will keep your house amazingly warm.
• Take a hot shower or bath and use oil or lotion on your skin when you get out. It's almost like putting on another thin layer of clothing.
• Leave the warm water in the bathtub. It's like having a 25-40 gallon hot water bottle in your house.
• Put on a hat. About 80% of your body heat is lost from the top of your head. If you're cold at night, wear it to bed.
• Use a hot water bottle. Great for warming your hands & lap while sitting; also put it under the covers at the foot of the bed. Ahhh!
• If the air is too cold when you're trying to sleep, consider rigging a makeshift cloth "tent" over your bed. Your own breathing will warm up the inside of the tent very quickly. There's a good reason those antique beds had roofs and curtains...
• Use a humidifier. The added moisture in the air can increase the apparent temperature of your home by as much as 15 degrees.
• Turn on the lights. Incandescent and halogen bulbs create light through heat and can significantly increase temperatures in a room.
• Use a candle heater. It doesn't create as much heat as a fireplace or real heater, but will create warmth very cheaply.
• Take advantage of solar energy; place a dark rug in sunny areas of your house during the day to absorb the sun's heat.
• Place short fans set to their lowest settings so that they blow across radiant style heaters to circulate the warm air away from the heater, allowing the heater to warm new air.
• Microwave socks or small homemade "pillows" filled with rice, dried corn, or beans for one minute in the microwave and use as a heating pad or bed-warmer (if you don't have a microwave, use a hot water bottle).
• If you can afford it, leave other heat-producing appliances on, such as computers/monitors or strong lamps.
• Vent your electric dryer back into your house.
• After cooking, leave the oven door open to let the heat escape and warm up the area of the room around it.

Warnings

• Be sure to remove any home-made or store bought "pillow" style heating pads from the bed before falling asleep. They retain heat for a long period of time and if left too often in one spot, they can heat feather blankets or mattress covers to a dangerous degree and cause fire.
• Don't start any kind of fire or use your stove to stay warm, except for ovens that are approved by authorities, such as the fire department.
• Do not use unapproved materials for safely covering registers. (Call your local hardware store for safe covers). The material could potentially heat up and start a fire.
• Be aware that the more you seal off air circulation to the outside, you increase the possibility of a dangerous buildup of carbon monoxide in the air -- especially if you use natural gas or propane in the home. Be sure to install a carbon monoxide detector if you don't have one already. If you do, be sure to test it on a regular basis.
• Devices that produce heat as a by-product of their main function, such as incandescent bulbs, stoves and computers, will be less efficient and more expensive than appliances designed for space heating.
• Heating methods that increase air moisture (bathtub, humidifier) might encourage mold growth and condensation damage. Regularly check behind furniture that's standing against outside-facing walls, and around windows.

Things You'll Need

• a bed
• some blankets
• a pet
• an oven
• warm clothes
• some drapes

Related wikiHows

• How to Make a Draft Dodger
• How to Stay Warm when Working on the Farm
• How to Keep Warm After Showering in Winter
• How to Stay Warm When Sleeping in a Cabin
• How to Survive a Winter Storm

clipped from www.wikihow.com

PS3 disassembly

Holly crap thats a huge heat sink

Deftones

w00t new album....Saturday Night Wrist
this song is called "Hole in the Earth"

Links:
http://www.purevolume.com/deftones
http://www.myspace.com/deftones
http://www.deftones.com/

Face Recognition lol

A little nifty utility that compares your face to a bunch of celebs and tells which ones you look like.

Circa Survive

REALLY good band...
this tune is called "Act Appalled" one of my fav tunes from them

Links:
http://www.circasurvive.com/
http://www.myspace.com/circasurvive
http://www.purevolume.com/circasurvive

That one band "MUTEMATH"

This band really makes you go on a trance. Cant really describe the genre...

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/mutemath
http://www.purevolume.com/mutemath
http://www.mutemath.com/

ye like vid podcast m8 ?

Hak.5
Hak5 is the Internet Television show for the hacker, modder, and do-it-yourselfer. With high quality tech entertainment and all things hack and mod. You'll find yourself breaking out the soldering iron with Wess Tobler or yielding networks (in)secure with Darren Kitchen. So join the gang on the 5th of each month for an engaging hour of technology and geek humor.

Purepwnage
i pwn noobs liek hard rite n my roomate has dis camera rite so hes all liek 'we can make a show lol' n im liek dats teh pwnage n stuf n hes liek i no lol so im liek ok film me noob n hes liek ok so we did lololol
thne we lukd at it rite n were liek 'omfg stfu dats pure pwnage lol' so we made dis site n stuf rite n now were gonna b famose!!!!

-teh_pwnerer

Ctrl-Alt-Chicken

Ctrl Alt Chicken is a new form of cooking show... one in which the chefs don't know how to cook! Join Alex Albrecht and Heather Stewart as they attempt a new recipe each episode.

Diggnation
Diggnation is a weekly tech/web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories.

Geekdrome(not vid but cool)
Two geeks debate movies, comics, music and video games while ripping each other new ones... or re-ripping each other fresh ones.

Indigital
InDigital looks at the latest gadgets and high tech products that define life in the modern world. Does it work? Is it worth buying? We take a look to find out and have some fun along the way.

Infected(not vid)
Martin Sargent knows more about technology than any living American, and each episode of Infected is a deeply probing meditation on how all those 1s and 0s are shaping our world. There's also a fair amount of poo talk. If you want the funniest, most original take on the world of technology and the Internet, get Infected by Martin Sargent today.

Mysteries of Science Explained
ver wonder just how or why a particular scientific phenomenon is the way it is? Our crackpot scientist does, but not for long, as he provides the answers to life's great mysteries every week in Mysteries of Science Explained.

NotMTV
Not Mainstream Typical Videos goes behind and inside the independent music scene. Whether it be a band interview, concert, or sound check. Not Mainstream will introduce you to different scenes and sounds.

PixelPerfect
Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and treats it as Monet and Picasso do with oil and canvas. Learn the tips and tricks you need to whip those digital pictures into shape.

Systm
A couple of instructional videos

thebroken
thebroken is an underground technology show with a hacker mentality that caters to the elite (or wannabe 1337) computer user using a mixture of seriousness and irreverent comedy. thebroken debuted as an independent online show more than a year ago and has been successfully downloaded over 3-million times. Each episode focuses on several subjects and is between 20-30 minutes in length. If it's shady or underground, it's thebroken.

Web Drifter
I have done little else but surf the Internet since the Clinton Administration. But then, one grievous day, I finished it. My life torn asunder, clawing for a reason to keep living, I decided to re-trace my steps, but this time, I wouldn't do it online--this time, it would be for real. Journey with me now as I visit the physical loci of the most outrageous, surprising, intriguing and important websites I've bookmarked during my years of furious Internet surfing, actually going 'behind the websites' to get to know, and learn from, the time travelers, shamans, UFO cult leaders and other geniuses who created them. And who, you ask, am I? I am Martin Sargent: Web Drifter.

Beryl 3D Window Layer Plugin(linux)

This is a video showing a plug-in for linux that adds effect to the desktop. Linux can be very nice....

An hxc website...

This website is pretty good for all of you hardcore fans it has a daily update of news from various hardcore bands and artist. So if you're into hardcore you should really check this site out.

Boot Windows XP from a USB flash drive

Takeaway: You can't boot Windows XP from a floppy disk the way you used to be able to with DOS. One handy way to easily boot XP is by using a USB flash drive. Here's how to make it work.

Almost everyone who has worked with computers for any length of time at all has run into at least one situation in which a problem left a PC unbootable. What if you could return the machine to a bootable state just by inserting a USB flash drive though? Believe it or not, it is actually possible to install a bootable copy of Windows XP onto a flash drive and then boot a PC off of the flash drive. From there, you can use applications that you have installed on the flash drive (anti virus, anti spyware, disk repair, etc.) to fix the PC's problem. In this article, I will show you how.

What's the catch?

As with most cool new techniques, there are a few catches. For starters, not every PC is capable of booting from a USB flash drive. For the most part, computers manufactured within the last two years are generally able to boot from a flash drive. Older systems may require a BIOS update, or might not be able to boot from a flash drive at all.

Another catch is that not every flash drive will get the job done. The primary factors that limit your use of a particular flash drive are capacity and speed. Technically, speed isn't really a limiting factor, but booting Windows will be painfully slow unless you use a flash drive that supports USB 2.0.

The flash drive's capacity is actually a limiting factor though. Surprisingly though, there are size limits on both the upper and lower end. Your flash drive can't be too large or too small. There isn't really a documented minimal size for a flash drive. You just need something large enough to hold Windows XP and a few applications. As you probably know, Windows XP normally consumes over a gigabyte of disk space. Later I will show you how to use a free utility to trim the excess fat off of Windows XP and make it a whole lot smaller. Even so, I still recommend that your flash drive be at least a minimum of 256 MB in size.

As I mentioned, there is a maximum size for the USB flash drive that you can use. Currently, USB flash drives exist in sizes of up to 4 GB, and 8 GB flash drives are expected to be available by the end of the year. As nice as it would be to have 8 GB to play with, the flash drive that you use for this project can be no larger than 2 GB. The reason for this is because you will have to format the flash drive using the FAT-16 file system, which has a 2 GB limit. Presently, you are stuck using FAT-16 because most computers will not recognize a flash drive as being bootable if the drive is formatted with anything other than FAT-16.

Preparing your Windows installation CD

One of the requirements for creating our bootable USB flash drive is a Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installation CD. If your Windows XP installation CD doesn't already include Service Pack 2, then you will have to make a CD that includes Service Pack 2 through a technique called slipstreaming.

Other requirements

In addition to your Windows XP installation CD, there are a couple of other things that you are going to need. For starters, you will need the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. You can download this tool for free.

Another utility that you are going to need is Bart's Preinstalled Environment Bootable Live Windows CD / DVD, or BartPE for short. You can download this utility for free from the BartPE Web site.

In addition to the software requirements, you must verify that the PC that you will be using to create the Windows deployment has 1.5 GB of free hard disk space (minimum) and supports booting from a USB device. I also strongly recommend that the PC be running Windows XP Service Pack 2. Prior to Service Pack 2, Windows XP sometimes had trouble interacting with USB storage devices.

Formatting the flash drive

Now that you have all of the prerequisites taken care of, it's time to actually start setting up our flash drive. The first step in doing so, as strange as it sounds, is to format the flash drive. Windows will actually let you format a flash drive in the same way that you format a floppy disk. However, formatting a flash drive in this way will not work for this project. Furthermore, using Windows to format a flash drive directly has been known to destroy some types of flash drives.

Instead, you must format the flash drive by using the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool that you downloaded earlier. To do so, simply open the utility, select the device followed by the FAT file system option and click Start.

Once the device has been formatted, you must make it bootable. To do so, you must copy the BOOT.INI, NTLDR, and NTDETECT from the root directory of your PC's boot drive to the flash drive. These files are hidden by default, so you will either have to configure Windows Explorer to show hidden files (including protected operating system files) or you will have to open a Command Prompt window and use the COPY command to copy the files.

If you choose to use the Windows Explorer method, then open Internet Explorer and enter C: into the address bar so that you are looking at your local hard drive. Next, select the Folder Options command from the Tools menu. When the Folder Options properties sheet opens, select the View tab. Now, just select the Show Hidden Files and Folders and deselect the Hide Extensions for Known File Types and the Hide Protected Operating System Files check boxes. Click OK to continue.

Booting from the USB flash drive

Now that you have formatted your USB flash drive and installed the boot files onto it, the next thing that you must do is to configure your PC to allow you to boot from the flash drive. This is all done through the computer's BIOS Setup. I can't give you specific instructions for this part, because every computer is different. I can give you a few pointers though.

You can access your computer's BIOS by pressing a specific key immediately after you turn the PC on. The key varies, but it is usually either [F1], [F2], or [Delete]. Once you are in the BIOS Setup, you should verify that all of your computer's USB options are enabled. This might include things like support for legacy USB devices or support for USB 2.0. If there is a time out setting for USB devices, you should set it to the max to insure that the system doesn't time out while waiting on the USB device to boot.

Next, find the section on boot device priority. Normally, a USB flash drive (which is usually listed as USB-HDD, but may be listed as a removable device) will have a very low boot priority. If the USB flash drive's boot priority is lower than the hard disk (listed as HDD) then the only time the computer would ever boot off of the USB flash drive is if the system were to fail to boot from the hard disk. You must therefore rearrange the boot device priority so that the flash drive has a higher priority than the hard drive.

Configuring Windows

Now that we have finally made it through all of the prep work, it's time to start setting up Windows. As you have probably already guessed, the process of installing Windows to a flash drive is quite a bit different from your normal, run of the mill installation. There are a couple of reasons for this.

For starters, a full blown Windows XP deployment takes up over a Gigabyte of hard disk space. When you are installing to a flash drive, disk space is a scarce commodity. Even if you have over a Gigabyte of space on your flash drive, you probably don't want to use it all on Windows. It would be nice to have room to install a few applications. Therefore, you need to trim the excess fat off of Windows.

The other reason why the installation process is so different from the usual Windows installation is because Windows Setup is not designed to install Windows to a flash drive. You therefore have to configure Windows using an alternate method.

The PEBuilder utility that you downloaded earlier can take care of both of these issues. PEBuilder is designed to create a build of Windows XP (or Windows Server 2003) that does not take up as much space as a full blown installation. Once you create this new build, you can copy it to the flash drive. For right now, I will show you how to create a basic Windows build and copy it to the memory stick. Unfortunately, it's rather difficult to install applications once Windows is up and running. Therefore, after I show you how to create a basic Windows build, I will show you how to create a build that includes some applications.

Begin the process by opening PEBuilder. When you open PEBuilder, you will see a screen similar to the one that's shown in Figure A. Simply enter the path to the Windows installation files (the ones from your Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installation CD). Next, verify that the Create ISO Image and the Burn to CD check boxes are not selected and then click the Build button. PEBuilder will now create the new Windows build.

Figure A

You must use PEBuilder to create a Windows build that will work with a flash drive.

Now, it's time to copy Windows to the flash drive. To do so, you will have to use a special batch file that's included with PEBuilder. Open a Command Prompt window and navigate to c:\pebuilder313\plugin\peinst. Now, insert an empty flash drive into the computer's USB port and then execute the file PEINST.CMD. You will now see a menu appear as shown in Figure B.

Figure B

PEBuilder uses a batch file to install Windows onto a flash drive.

Type 1 and press [Enter] and you will be prompted to enter the path to the build that you have created. Enter C:\pebuilder313\BartPE. Now, type 2, press [Enter], and you will be prompted for the target path. Enter the drive letter that Windows has assigned to your USB flash drive. After doing so, the menu is updated as shown in Figure C. The menu now displays the source path and the destination drive. Type 5 and press [Enter] to install Windows to the flash drive.

Figure C

Use menu option 5 to install Windows to the flash drive.

Installing applications

Now that I have shown you how to create and install a basic Windows build, I want to talk for a moment about how you can add an application to the build (prior to creating it). The PEBuilder program comes pre-configured to support a number of common Windows applications, but does not come with the applications themselves.

The reason why installing applications can be a little bit tricky is because most Windows applications modify the Windows registry. The build that you are creating is basically a collection of installation files, and the build itself does not contain a registry (the registry gets created when Windows is installed onto the flash drive). As such, PEBuilder uses a sort of registry emulator.

If you go to the C:\PEBUILDER313\PLUGIN folder, you will see sub folders for a number of different applications. If you open one of these application folders, you will see that the folder contains an INF file and a FILES folder. The INF file contains all of the information that would normally go into the registry, and the FILES folder stores all of the program's files.

To see how this works, let's install an application that I'm sure most of you are familiar with; Nero. Begin by installing Nero onto the machine that's running PEBuilder, as if you planned to run Nero locally on that machine. When the installation completes, copy all of the files from C:\Program Files\ahead\Nero to C:\pebuilder313\plugin\nero burning rom\files. In this particular case, the nero burning rom folder is the folder that has been set aside for the Nero application. The Files sub folder is intended to store Nero's system files.

Now, you must take care of Nero's registry entries. To do so, go to the C:\pebuilder313\plugin\nero burning rom folder and open the PENERO.INF file using Notepad. As I explained earlier, the INF file in an application's folder is used to store the application's registry entries. For Nero and all of the other applications that PEBuilder predefines, the INF file is pre-configured. You just have to make a few changes that are specific to your system.

In this particular case, the PENERO.INF file is designed to support both Nero versions 5.x and 6.x. Initially, the lines for both versions are commented out. You must therefore determine which version you have and then remove the semi colon from the beginning of the lines that apply to that version. If you look at Figure D, you can see how the two versions are separated.

Figure D

An application's registry entries are stored in an INF file.

Once you uncomment the appropriate lines, just replace "Your Name", "Your Company Name" and "Your Serial Number" with your name, your company's name, and your Nero product key. Save the file, and your set to go. The next time that you click the Build button, Nero will be included in the build.

Putting XP in your pocket

Running Windows from a flash drive isn't an exact science. Sometimes the process just doesn't work and there is no good reason why. As more PCs start to support booting from USB devices though, USB boots should become more standardized, and the technique should become more reliable.

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