Hackosis

Open source ProShield is a tool to guide you in keeping your Debian/Ubuntu systems up to date and secure by running a system analysis.

ProShield checks for updated software, packet sniffers, free disk space, extra root accounts, correct permissions on user and password files, automated backups, time, SSH configuration, auto updating, and more.

How do I install ProShield?

How do I run ProShield?

ProShield Homepage at SourceForge

image by johl

More Matrix type things — Neurohacking is a method of modify or interfering with the structure or function of neurons.

If you are interested in Neurohacking, you may also be interested in:

• Brain-computer interfaces
• Simulated Realities
• Transhumanism
• Wetware Hacking

A real, recent example of neurohacking is the Brain Machine.

By using a nifty Perl script, written by Peter Willis, we can download Mp3s from projectplaylist.com.

Save the file with a .pl extension, and give it executable permissions — chmod u+x getppmp3.pl.

You need to have Perl installed sudo apt-get install perl. After that it is as simple as executing the script with a search string like so:

You might be surprised at what it finds…

NOTE: This is for experimental purposes only for the purposes of learning how the Perl programming language works. Just as the Perl script states, I hold no responsibility for the actions you take with this script.

Whether working on a server or a low end machine, you don’t want to bog things down even more by running a GUI — plus you need to know how to use the power of Linux and the GUI is just not it.

It is possible to accomplish most any task while working from within the shell. Having the knowledge of what and how to use the applications that are available is the key to being a successful CLI expert.

The following is a guide for the command line applications needed to work freely from within the Linux terminal. Now get off of your GUI butt, get typing, and throw your mouse in the trash.

 
Read the rest of this entry …

Johnny Chung Lee shows us how to use a WiiMote to produce an effect similar to the movie Minority Report using an led array and reflective tape.

If you have any Wii hacks, leave us a note in the comments.

Internet Video Converter provides an all-in-one solution to convert between popular video formats. It is available in installable and portable versions. Everything you need to convert videos, including codecs, are provided within the application.

Downloading and converting .flv files from a slew of video sites is possible directly from the application.

Internet Video Recorder Download (Beware — foreign language. Just scroll down a bit to the English downloads) { via freewaregenius }

The author should really consider releasing this as open source, since it composed of mostly OSS.

Open source, cross platform Métamorphose is an extensible mass files and folders renaming application with tons of options. Some examples of use are inserting numbering sequences at the begining of existing filenames, removing all spaces, removing all non-alphabetical characters, converting filenames to all lower case, moving first 3 characters of name to end of name, renaming MP3s like “number_title”, and more.

Métamorphose Homepage | Métamorphose Download | Métamorphose Screenshots

Cross Platorm BitNami provides ’stacks’ to install web applications specifically for your operation system automatically. Applications are available such as Wordpress, MediaWiki, Drupal, and phpBB.

NOTE: Infrastructure stacks are not required for application stacks.

A list of stacks are downloadable from the BitNami downloads page.

Makeuseof.com writes about Five “Firefox Tips You May Not Know About“.

Topics include:

1. Quick search – without going to a search engine first.
2. Delete visited URL’s
3. Navigate to browser tabs using the keyboard
4. Start downloads instantly
5. Grab files off webpages, even protected webpages

Do you know any more uncommon Firefox tips and tricks? Leave us a comment. { via lifehacker.com }

Will Computers ever reach a state that they will be able to develop and improve themselves? Eliezer S. Yudkowsky thinks it will be as soon as 2021 by the terms of Moore’s Law.

image by surfstyle

The short version of the paper:

If computing speeds double every two years,
what happens when computer-based AIs are doing the research?

Computing speed doubles every two years.
Computing speed doubles every two years of work.
Computing speed doubles every two subjective years of work.

Two years after Artificial Intelligences reach human equivalence, their speed doubles. One year later, their speed doubles again.

Six months – three months – 1.5 months … Singularity.

Plug in the numbers for current computing speeds, the current doubling time, and an estimate for the raw processing power of the human brain, and the numbers match in: 2021.

But personally, I’d like to do it sooner.

I think the question is not if the computers can think in the same speeds as we do, but if we can program computers to ‘think’ anything like the dynamic power of the human mind. This will be much bigger task than producing yottahertz.
Read the rest of this entry …