For $200 you can buy the Tubes Clock by B&W, they’re selling LCDs inside little tubes for the nixie effect or you can buy your own *real* nixie tube clock kits for $150 or less and learn about building electronics. Here are a few of the kit makers to check out… Tube Hobby, Nixie clocks […]
I stumbled across this paper from the 2007 Chaos Communication Camp which describes a method for extracting the cryptographic keys used by either dm-crypt or cryptoloop. Technically, the cryptographic keys need to reside in memory while your encrypted disk is in use, so, obviously, if an attacker has access to your physical RAM, they will […]
Gordon has posted new info and pics on justDIY for his capacitive touch pad project. Happy with the results of the prototype, he sent off the PCB design for fabbing. He added a 2×8 header to the board, for use with a ribbon cable. He also increased the values on the caps, settling on polyester […]
Kyle Rankin, author/coauthor of several O’Reilly books (Knoppix Hacks, Linux Multimedia Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, and Ubuntu Hacks) has just turned in his draft for the second edition of Knoppix Hacks, and we need your help. Hackszine is looking for two good tech reviewers; even when we have an author who really knows his stuff […]
Nice tutorial on using a multimeter and continuity – You might be asking, “What is continuity?” But don’t worry, it’s quite simple! Continuity means, are two things electrically connected. So if two electronic parts are connected with a wire, they are continuous. If they are connected with cotton string, they are not: while they are […]
If you’re a Cryptonomicon fan, you might recall uber-hacker Randy Waterouse’s business partner, Avi, who had a spreadsheet which tracked a particularly interesting value. The subject heading of Avi’s first message is: “Guideline 1.” We look for places where the math is right. Meaning what? Meaning that pop. is about to explode—we can predict that […]
Whether you want to quickly add a waypoint to your GPS, or view a map of a known location, it can often be convenient to use real latitude and longitude values with Google Maps instead of dealing with street addresses. Rerieving a map for a lat/lon value is simple enough with Google Maps. You can […]
