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New Tech Defined: DNSSEC

May 4th, 2009

What is DNSSEC?
DNSSEC (short for DNS Security Extensions) adds security to the Domain Name System. DNSSEC was designed to protect the Internet from certain attacks, such as DNS cache poisoning (discovered by Dan Kaminsky). It is a set of extensions to DNS, which [...]

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Open Cloud Manifesto Leaked

March 27th, 2009

A secret document called the “Open Cloud Manifesto” has been leaked onto the Internet as of recently. The net community at-large had become aware of this document when someone (or some group) asked some people at Microsoft to sign it. Microsoft wasn’t very happy about this since they are trying to lauch their newly released [...]

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Order Google Search Results By Time

April 27th, 2008

Here is a little known hack you can easily use to sort Google search results by time:

Search for anything as usual from http://www.google.com
On the results page add the following to the end of the URL in the address bar: &as_qdr=d
Have fun!

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Toorcon Seattle 2008 Google Calendar

April 16th, 2008

The YISTA crew will once again be attending the invite only Toorcon Seattle 2008, computer security conference. What did you say? You too are attending this excellent conference! We then be sure to subscribe to the above Google Calendar so to be sure you don’t miss any of these talks. As you can see this [...]

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Freevo : A MythTV Alternative

April 9th, 2008

Watching live or recorded TV feeds using a desktop computer is made possible using television software. Most TV software applications nowadays are integrated into media center programs with playback support for almost all kinds of media contents such as audio, video, image files and even RSS feeds.
Freevo is a full-featured personal video recorder application for [...]

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The Times Top 25 Blogs

April 7th, 2008

From millions of blogs about nothing, we’ve selected the 25 best about something—from politics and global affairs to shopping and sports. And NO! YISTA didn’t make it this year :/

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Douchebag Flowchart

February 19th, 2008

Lately there has been an influx of douchebaggery on the Internets. This is more than likely due to the influx of social networks, particularly MySpace.
If you are currently unsure of your douchebag status then it is highly recommended that you review this chart to be sure your not frowned upon by your peers (as all [...]

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Feature Creep 101

February 19th, 2008

Ever started a project only to get lost in a sea of extra features and “cool” ideas? Well my friends that is called “Feature Creep” and its a nasty habit, and its here to stay. Six Revisions has come up with 8 steps for dealing with “Feature Creep” all while continuing to make progress [...]

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Guide To Performing A Complete MacBook Disassembly

May 21st, 2006

The fine people over at iFixit have added the newly released Apple MacBook guide to their list of detailed how-to guides. The guide includes a how-to remove the following:

Battery
RAM
Hard Drive
Upper Case
Optical Drive
Airport Card
Fan
Heat Sink
Fan Housing
Logic Board
Display

Complete with pictures at every step, this guide is a must see and will surely come in handy too many [...]

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LED Bike Wheel Images

April 26th, 2006

Spoke POV is an easy-to-make electronic kit toy that turns your bicycle wheel into a customized display! The project includes a free schematic design, open source software for uploading and editing stored bitmap images, and a high-quality kit with all the parts necessary to build your own.

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