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    Posted on August 29th, 2007

    Written by cliff

    Tags

    bude, bullet time, funny, matrix, movie, ping pong, shawn, video

    Matrix Ping Pong

    I love playing ping pong and I love “The matrix” movies, so I was thrilled when my friend Shawn sent me a google chat with a link to this spoof video of a couple guys playing ping pong in bullet time. It’s really a pretty amazing bit of choreography!

  • Data and Technology, Highlights

    Posted on August 27th, 2007

    Written by cliff

    Tags

    apple, at&t, commands, george hotz, hacked iPhone, hacker, hacking, iphone, modem, steve jobs, unix

    iPhone Hacked; No Longer Bound to AT&T

    iPhone Hacked; No Longer Bound to AT&T

    George Hotz, along with a team of hackers have come up with a method to break the chains binding the iPhone to AT&T, allowing it to be used with any carrier. The complete method can be found here on George’s blog. It does take some soldering skills and a bit of familiarity with UNIX and [...]

  • Et cetera

    Posted on August 23rd, 2007

    Written by cliff

    Tags

    .357, advertisement, american express, bayonet, commercial, credit card, director, movie, Rushmour, The Darjeeling Limited, wes anderson

    Wes Anderson American Express Advertisement

    Ever since Dylan told me about “Rushmore” I’ve been a huge Wes Anderson Fan. Today I did a google search to find out when his new movie “The Darjeeling Limited” is coming out and stumbled upon this advertisement he did for American Express. I especially like the part when he asks for a .357 with [...]

  • Data and Technology, Highlights

    Posted on August 21st, 2007

    Written by cliff

    Tags

    2600 Hertz, Capn' Crunch, Captain Crunch, Captain Crunch whistle, John T. Draper, Josef Carl Engressia, joybubbles, Jr., long-distance calls, phone book, phone phreaking, phreaker, phreaking, Stories and Stuff, whistler, Zzzzyzzerrific Funline

    Joybubbles – A Phone Phreaking Legend Passes

    Joybubbles – A Phone Phreaking Legend Passes

    Joybubbles, known by many as the grandfather of phone phreaking died suddenly of a heart attack on August 8, 2007. Born blind to the name Josef Carl Engressia, Jr. he was gifted with perfect pitch and could whistle a perfect 2600 Hertz, giving him the unique ability to place free long-distance calls simply by whistling [...]

  • Data and Technology

    Posted on August 13th, 2007

    Written by cliff

    Tags

    filesystem, limits, solaris, tar, ufsdump, ufsrestore

    Moving Large Directories on Solaris

    Moving Large Directories on Solaris

    When moving or copying really really large directories on Solaris, you can sometimes run into trouble, especially when some of the files in those directories are larger than 8 Gigabytes. One solution is to use a “ufsdump pipe to ufsrestore” command, but I have even had problems with this from time to time. My perfered [...]

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