The concept of trackbacks and bidirectional linking has always been really intruiging to me, but it’s such a difficult problem to solve, even if you ignore the spam issue… and that’s awfully hard to ignore. Ted Nelson coined the term Hypertext over 30 years ago, and articulated its principles, most of which have been ignored […]
Last week, Hackszine fielded a reader request to come up with a way to infect a computer without letting too much heck break loose. This procedure was so much fun that we decided to use it for our first Hackszine screencast. Check it out for a little surprise near the end: I managed to sneak […]
It freaks me out when any application does any thing automatically when media is inserted – a DVD, CD, camera, storage card – it doesn’t matter, I don’t like it. Perhaps it’s because every auto-run type thing on my PCs were just attempts to install some weird software to do something awful. So, if you […]
IMified and Stikkit seem to have heard my request. You can now post to Stikkit via IM.
Neat, this could be a new type of audio virus, or at least a fun prank like the old days with MacOS speech recognition – get an audio file say “start listening” and then tell Vista to do stuff, from the SANS blog… On January 30th Sebastian Krahmer asked himself (out loud on the Dailydave […]
The Consumerist has a couple step-by-step scripts for getting out of your Cingular or Verizon contracts without paying an early-termination fee, based on the former’s new arbitration clause and the latter’s recent raise in basic text-messaging rates. It looks tedious and a lot of work, but it doesn’t look nearly as difficult as my attempt […]
We at Hackszine are all about collaboration, and lately our geographically distributed team has been working on web-based and decidedly non-MS Office ways of doing so. We’ve been paying particular attention to the Google suite made up of Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Gmail, and Google Calendar (and rumored to soon include a PowerPoint alternative), which […]
