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How to Break Into a Car with a Keypad System
Sep 2nd
Newer cars have protection against it, but this still works well with older cars. Cars with a numeric keypad entry have five buttons; you know, the ones that say 12-34-56-78-90 on the doors? Well, a nifty trick in breaking into one of these cars –when I say breaking in, I mean because you forgot your combination, right?– is that each group of 5 numbers entered do not reset at the end of each cycle. For example, if you enter 1346795, the computer will actually think you have tried 13467, 34679, and 46795. If you punch in 12345678, it’ll think you’ve keyed-in 12345, 23456, 34567, and 45678. This is done, most likely, because if you accidentally hit or miss a button, you won’t know where you are or when the system has cleared itself before trying again.
Using this flaw and adding a whole lot of logic, we can reduce the amount of total numbers entered to access the car from a few hundred thousand to a mere 3129. Below is the code you can use to gain access to your locked-out car.
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New Theme Available
Aug 31st
I’ve been tinkering around with different themes for WordPress lately. While browsing the database, I came across another theme that fits my specifications: Simplistic, blueish, and has a fixed width and a single sidebar.
The default theme will still be Mystic, but now you’ll also have Simplistic Blue and Webby Blue to choose from.
I have still yet to find a nice, blue based theme, that’s WordPress3 compatible.
Night!
Wallpaper Series: Bokeh Rings
Aug 26th
I’ve created a set of neat wallpapers in Photoshop. I saw a tutorial online for it, and I decided to do it as I needed a boost in my Photoshop skills. I usually work with Fireworks most of the time for web development.
For those of you who don’t know, bokeh is a style of photography that focuses on the forground, while making light sources in the background appear blurry, or more precisely, appear as blurred rings or stars.
The wallpapers are 1920 by 1080 pixels, I may decide to do them in other sizes. For now, just center them.
Creating websites thumbnails in PHP. (Windows Version)
Aug 24th
I haven’t posted for a while, but hopefully this will make up for the fact. You have probably seen website thumbnails used all over the web, and on my site as well. These thumbnails give you a glimpse into a website with out actually having to go there.
I have several sites that I display with website thumbnails, on this site and elsewhere. Before, I had to take a screen capture of my browser window, paste into an application such as Photoshop or Fireworks, then wrestle with cropping and resizing the image to get it to a uniform width and height. There are websites that do this for you, such as Thumbshots and Thumboo, but these sites often place a limit on the number of thumbnails you can create, and more importantly, the size of the thumbnail itself.
I found a program, IECapt, that allows you to enter certain variables and then downloads a snapshot of that website to your computer. I spent a few hours working this into a fairly automated PHP script that downloads the snapshot, then re-sizes it perfectly to a size of your choosing. The image to the right was taken with it.
It works with PNG, JPG, and GIF files, and you can set different variables such as timeout and window size.
Have a suggestion, let me know! I might add the live scrip to the site soon, and a Linux version is on its way.
Water Drops
Aug 15th
I was bored earlier and a rain shower had just passed, so I took my camera out and tried to get a picture of a drop of water landing in a bucket. After about 5 minutes, I managed to get one.
Ram. I has it.
Aug 9th
I was checking out my old laptop yesterday and turned it on for kicks. Surprisingly, it still booted faster than my desktop. I’m keeping it preserved; maybe it will make an artifact one day. An expensive one.
I also had a whopping 449MB left on the massive 1.35 GB hard drive.
“Text Document” missing from the right-click menu?
Aug 5th
If your “Text Document” has disappeared from your right click “New” menu, then this is for you. I had this problem a few days ago so I thought I would share the solution, because it took me a little while to find one that worked. This can be frustrating not to have, especially if you use this feature all the time, like I do.
What you want to do is relax, download this registry file, unzip it, and run it. The changes might not take place until a restart. Mine changed in a few minutes by itself.
You can look in the registry file to see there’s nothing evil in there.
There you go!
How to move your WordPress install to another host.
Aug 3rd
Here’s a little tutorial on how to move your WordPress installation to a new host (or server) with little to now downtime.
1. First, backup your current database from the current server and import it to the new server. Not that the different databases might have different prefixes on the names they use.
2. If your new hosting company allows outside database access, proceed with this step. If not, skip to step 3. Open your wp-config.php on the old server and change the database info to point to the new database. Pay attention to the new database name, the address, and of course, the username and password.
3. Copy your whole site from the old server to the new server. A simple drag and drop in FTP should work, but you can also go the techie route and tarball the old site, copy the tar over to the new site, and then un-tar it. Make sure the folder structure is the same.
4. Change the wp-config.php file on the new server now to use the new database info.
5. This step is a little tricky…
If you are moving the whole site:
a. You should be all ready to go to change the nameservers to point to the new site. Please note that if you skipped step 2, any comments (and posts) posted on your old site from the time of step 1 to the time the nameserver changes take effect (usually between 6-12 hours, but can take up to 24), will be gone. If you dont mind, or if your blog does not have all that much traffic, then skip the next step.
b. For an immediate website turnover, ask your old host if they can set the A-Records of your old site to point to the IP of the new site. This should make all the visitors to your old site immediately redirect to the new site, saving the loss of comments.
If you are just moving your WordPress install to a new site/server:
Simply set up a .htaccess redirect from the old WordPress directory to point to the new site. One of these lines should work:
redirect 301 / http://www.younewsite.com/
redirect 301 /oldblog/ http://www.younewsite.com/blog
Disclaimer: I wrote this to help you, but you use this information at your own risk. Always test a new site before switching over to it. If you have any problems, switch the nameservers back to the old host and wait a few hours.
Portal Shots
Jul 16th
Portal Shots
First Shot
2/3 shot Gold Tequila
1/3 shot Orange Juice
Second Shot
2/3 shot lime juice or Roses lime
1/3 shot Bol Blue or blue curasou
Directions: Take the first shot, immediately take the second shot.
Your trusted friend in science.
Thanks to: The Drunken Moogle
Carlin on Childrens Fairytales
Jul 11th
When the first time a child hears lyrics, it’s in the form of nursery rhymes: This is their first introduction to bizarre behavior. There’s quite a gang of characters too, aren’t there? And each one of these characters are all obviously on various drugs. Each of them has his or her own favorite. You gotta wonder sometimes wonder what the folks at Disney were up to. Let me explain.
Lets start off with Snow White… Need I even say more?
Snow White his could either mean one of two things, smack or coke. I figure it must be coke because of all the housework she has to do with those 7 dwarfs running around. Ya, know, just a little pick-me-up to get all the chores done, maybe wash the garage.
Then there are the 7 dwarfs. Each one of them are on their own little trip as well. First, there’s Happy, who liked weed. Something to keep him mellowed out. Sleepy was into reds. Then there’s Grumpy, who took too much speed. Sneezy was a full blown coke freak. Doc was the connection, hooking everyone up. Dopey was into everything. Then there was Bashful. Bashful didn’t use drugs, he was paranoid enough on his own.
Next up is ol’ King Cole.
Ol’ King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he
He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl
So i guess we know whats up with Ol’ King Cole.
Hansel and Gretel discovered the gingerbread house about 45 minutes after they discovered the mushrooms. “Do you see it?”, “Yea, I see it!”
Mary, Mary, quite contrary. How does your garden grow?
That’s easy… with silver bells and cockle shells and an acre and a half of killer shit!
Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner
Eating his Chrismas pie.
He stuck in his thumb
And pulled out a plumb
And said holy shit I’m high…
Mary had a little gram… Wait, no, thats not it…
Mary had a little lamb
Whos stash was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went
They both enjoyed a blow!