Hack a DayFresh hacks every dayHow-to: Thermite hard drive destruction- September 17, 2008 After the overwhelming response to the Hackit we posted about automated hard drive destruction last fall, we finally decided to test out some thermite hard drive destruction ourselves. This has been done on The Screen Savers but they did not show up close results of the platters. So, aluminum and black iron oxide were procured ...http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/how-to-thermite-based-hard-drive-anti-forensic-destruction/ Why I Hate Django- September 16, 2008 Cal Henderson delivered a keynote titled Why I Hate Django at the first annual DjangoCon. Django is an open source BSD licensed web framework written in Python. Google has posted the keynote in its entirety to YouTube, which you can find embedded above. While the talk is humorous (and takes many jabs at Rails developers) ...http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/why-i-hate-django/ Antec Skeleton case- September 16, 2008 Maybe you saw the previous post and thought, &8220;Well, that&8217;s all well and good, but why is such a stylish case being used to ventilate cat feces&8221; Antec has heard your cries and has created a computer case with all the lovely curves of a litter box and just as much airflow. The Skeleton case ...http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/antec-skeleton-case/ Hack your litter box- September 16, 2008 Cat poo stinks. We all know it. Those of us who have cats, though frequently amazed at the sheer magnitude of stench our cuddly friends are capable of, do little to remedy the situation. Sure, sometimes we buy the fancier kitty litter or the special food. agraham999 decided to be a little more proactive. He ...http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/hack-your-littler-box/ VLC media player 0.9.2 released- September 16, 2008 VideoLAN just released VLC media player 0.9.2. VLC is probably the best known open source media player, and supports most audiovideo formats without additional codecs. Before VLC, we usually installed buggy codec packs to watch videos in Winamp or Windows Media Player. We&8217;ve found the nightly builds to be pretty stable for the past month, ...http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/vlc-media-player-092-released/ Arcade cabinet that plays every game in the universe- September 16, 2008 Ok, maybe we&8217;re exaggerating a little bit. It may not play every game in the universe, but the CMACC gets pretty close. CMACC stands for &8220;Complete - Multi Arcade Console Computer System&8221; and is comprised of a giant pile of gaming goodness. Mayhem packed a PC, Xbox, Xbox360, Dreamcast, Wii, PSP, and a DS into ...http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/arcade-cabinet-that-plays-every-game-in-the-universe/ Peek email reader teardown- September 16, 2008 morcheeba, who you should remember from CVS camera hacking, picked up a Peek and took some pictures while tearing it down. The Peek is a $100 QWERTY device with a simple OS designed only to check email. The device is being sold by T-Mobile with a $19.95mo data plan. There&8217;s nothing too spectacular to see ...http://hackaday.com/2008/09/15/peek-email-reader-teardown/ Wii backup ISO loader- September 16, 2008 The video above shows a new Wii backup loader that&8217;s in development. It works via the easy to use Homebrew Channel we covered previously. From the news post it seems you have to rip the original game disc and then patch it before burning the copy. No release date has been set. As Nintendo Wii ...http://hackaday.com/2008/09/15/wii-backup-iso-loader/ Flickr photo bike- September 16, 2008 Lifehacker&8217;s Gina Trapani has one of Flickr&8217;s photo bikes and wrote up how it works. As you ride, the bike automatically takes photographs, geotags them, and uploads them to Flickr. The handlebar unit contains a Nokia N95 cellphone. The rear is a solar powered charging unit. It has a custom python script that starts the ...http://hackaday.com/2008/09/15/flickr-photo-bike/ Apple finally fixes DNS bug- September 15, 2008 With today&8217;s release of Security Update 2008-006 Apple has finally addressed this summer&8217;s DNS bug. In their previous update they fixed BIND, but that only affects people running servers. Now, they&8217;ve updated mDNSResponder. Clients are no longer susceptible to DNS cache poisoning attacks thanks to the inclusion of source port randomization. The Security Update addresses some ...http://hackaday.com/2008/09/15/apple-finally-fixes-dns-bug/ |