Useless Ninjas

Test Mail2Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Austin Munsch) — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:21:00 +0000

Trying to see how well this emailing a blog post thing works.

OMG CONTEST WINNER

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:01:00 +0000

So the contest is over, kinda has been kinda hasn't... Anyway I will be using the winners idea in a post next week, I have to buy some parts first ;)

Testing RSS to Email forward

noreply@blogger.com (Austin Munsch) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:40:00 +0000

Trying out an RSS to Email fowarding thing I found online.

What I am working on right nao.

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:51:00 +0000

I have been very busy the last couple of months designing a new office. Here is a pic of just the right side of the office.

There will be a total of 60 monitors, 11 main computers a full automation system and cooling system. I will be posting updates as it goes along. Click on the pic and check out the set for more details and tons of pics, including the Command Room.

Dual core MSI wind desktop

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:33:00 +0000

I have two of these new units and i am able to run OS X on them no problem, they work exactly the same way, just faster. You install the same way, nothing is different, you can even take the hard drive out of the older wind and put it in the new one and it will work fine.

How to crack a WEP network

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:05:00 +0000

A guide we made today on how to crack a WEP network, it is short and sweet. Just use it to test your own network mmmk. And here it is.

Also be sure to enter our contest, who doesn't like free ram. :D

OMG CONTEST

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:14:00 +0000

I have a brand new piece of ram on my desk that I want to give away! It is a 2 gig Kingston 4200 200-pin chip. To win all you have to do is fill out the form below with your email and best idea for our next guide or feature post. I will mail the chip to the winner that will be decided March 31st.

Good Luck!

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New internet meme

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:26:00 +0000

I am at school and very bored so naturally i am looking around on the internets and thought of a not-so-shitty meme. Ready for it "But can you put a cat in it?"

Like I said... super bored

Rainmeter Twitter Skin

noreply@blogger.com (Austin Munsch) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:12:00 +0000

I just started using Rainmeter, a program that can can display system stats and such on your desktop. I got a couple of "skins" for it, namely Enigma and Hud Vision. But, they didn't have quite everything that I wanted, so I made my own skin - a little one that displays someone's most recent tweet from Twitter. It's still in progress, and I want to add more stuff to it, but here's what I've got so far as a .txt file.

I still want to make it look better, be able to do more than the most recent tweet, make the date look less weird, and maybe add some other stuff. I'm learning as I'm going though; I never knew anything about parsing webpages before I started. The only problem so far is that Twitter limits the number of page-loads per hour from an IP to 100, so it can't update very often (I currently have it set for every 10 minutes).

AT&T 2wire networks lack of proper security

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:04:00 +0000

Lately I have been seeing an increasing number of AT&T 2wire networks appearing all around me and it worries me. Not because of AT&t Deathstar like mass closing in but however the vulnerability of these networks.

Each 2Wire networks default settings as the come setup by AT&T or out of the box is so bad that someone can easily compromise someones entire network in a matter of minutes. Each network has a 2WIRE### SSID and is protected by WEP. In my testing I have found that the average 2wire key could be cracked in 2-10 minutes depending on network traffic. The default key also happens to be the same key to reset the admin console pass. Now that you have full access to their network you can do several things, like turning off Ethernet ports or changing the security. Not only that but you also have their AT&T email account address, now anyone with enough intelligence/desire wouldn't have much trouble devising access to this as well.

Where I live I have roughly 2000 wireless networks in a four mile radius, 1200 of them being 2wire. This is a good example of the extent at witch AT&T is infiltrating people homes but also how little AT&T cares about their customers security. Its like door installation company that serves a majority of peoples home, they give everybody there own key to the door, but hide a spare in the exact same spot for everybody.

My solution to this is A) AT&T can stop being retarded or B) people start determining the exact location of these networks and offer to properly secure these networks for a small fee such as 20$ or so depending on difficulty. I realize this is not the most ideal my solution however it is not a problem that I am so inclined to fix all by myself.

Anyway I am tired and don't remember half of what I just wrote, but enjoy it anyway... Oh and be afraid very afraid.

Gmail ioBridge gadget

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:30:00 +0000

In my quest to integrate as many things possible with gmail I have made a very simple sidebar gadget for reading iobridge data and also controlling things. Here is the code, you will need to save this as an xml file and upload it to a web server so that google's servers can access it. The code is attached.

fileuploads/gmailiobridgegadget.xml

Hackintosh results

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:11:00 +0000

In the last week or so since I made the guide I estimate there to be around five or six hundred people that did this based on the downloaded files for the video and bios flash.
Which also means a lot of people are emailing me for different kinds of help, as you can imagine it is difficult to keep up. So I would like for anybody that has problems/issues to comment on this post as other people may be able to help with certain things, you can still feel free to email me as well.

Another Day, Another Post about Another Wind

noreply@blogger.com (Shelby) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:59:00 +0000

I'm posting this from my MSI Wind Netbook! Expect to see lots of fun hacking happening on this pocket-sized bundle of fun... I've already swapped the Fn and Ctrl keys (that was REALLY pissing me off) and overclocked it.
I'm planning all sorts of fun stuff, starting with Leopard; and possibly a touchscreen.

IT'S GO TIME!

I just got an ioBridge

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:20:00 +0000

So that is the current temperature in my room right now.... well it probably is, since I am still messing with the thing and the configuration will be changing a lot. Check out ioBridge.com for more info. I will post all my amazing projects that I do with this device.

New stuff!

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:41:00 +0000

Ok I sorry to get your hopes up but this is really just some updates. The guide was extremely successful and we are going to make tons more and if anybody has any suggestions..... we need ideas!!!!

So to say few things about the Wind build, its waaaaay faster than the higher end 12 inch iBook G4 running tiger, It can install Photoshop CS3 in about 15 minutes over a 100mbit network (I need a gigabit router!!!! Maybe a wrt160n with DD-WRT :D)and it can run it just fine. I plan to make a video on it but I lack a camera good enough to do that with that won without making the viewer of said video want to gouge their eyes out with a spooooon. Oh and we got nearly 300K views on the guide, Not bad at all IMO.

Also the Msi Wind netbook works just as well including all drivers working spectacularly!

I thinks that's it for now, wait I forgot, any of you doing this with hardware other then the wind desktop should consult insanelymac.com as they have a lot more stuff when it comes to wide varieties of hardware and I can't help everybody with their individual circumstances.

How to roll your own mac for under 240$

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:45:00 +0000

I have just made a very detailed guide as to installing OSX on an MSI Wind PC

You can find it here.

OMG, I am bored.

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:13:00 +0000

So it has been a long ass time since I last put anything on here, Not like I havent done anything that would be worthy of this blogs incredibly low standards, its just that I am incredibly lazy.

Some things I have done since June......

-Aided in the installation of my school new cisco voip system and new network, which brought a whole bunch more things that I have done.

I have 3 servers now Each of them being an MSI Wind Desktop:

--Useless has 2 gigs of ram 1.6ghz intel atom cpu and two 500g seagates; it is running XP, Theansible.org, uTorrent, File Sharing for my massive 215 gig music library, Folding@Home (speaking of which join our team # 135878, we are in the top 5k), securtiy cam server, That is about it right now, I am working on getting set up for backing all my comps up.

--Lucky the second wind (austin and shelby's) XP, has a 500gb seagate and 512mb ram; It is running Utorrent only for music that is DL'd to Useless, A halo Serv, and folding.

--Scruffy the third wind (Shelby's) has a 100gb laptop drive and 512mb ram, It is Running OSX leopard (another thing I have done, pain in the ass getting that os on there, runs well) It is doing pretty much nothing atm, not sure what OSX servers are really good for, any ideas?

--There is a possibility wynter may be getting a fourth for more stuff.

-I have messed around quite a bit with windows 7 and it is OMFG level of awesome, it runs great on a wind with only 512 ram. I currently have it on my laptop and on my desktop that I just put a Nvidia 9800GTX+ plus in.

-Hacked comcast. :D

-Hacked our logo onto a cisco voip phone

-Austin and I got the PA systems and each of three sites of our school district working perfectly, saving the district like 14 grand.

-Discovered Hamachi

-I recently set up a server for our house, I repurposed my old server, It has XP on it and is running folding@home, remote scan and some other fun stuff.

-OH, I got an iPhone 3G, I jailbroke it and am mainly using for games and managing my servers and the schools network.

-I got a Leatherman Skeletool CX Awesome.

That is about all I can think of right now, I will explain how I got OSX on the wind a bit more in a later post.

EDIT: I also got a 22 inch velocity micro monitor, which fits perfectly on my desk :D

POST

noreply@blogger.com (Shelby) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:53:00 +0000

Ha! You thought we were dead! Well think again, because we're back and... well, as abnormal as ever.

Moving forward

noreply@blogger.com (Austin Munsch) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:51:00 +0000

It's been forever since I (or any of us) last posted. We've basically been doing the same thing we have for a while: school, cisco, taking over the world, etc.
So, basically, Steve lent me his PDA and it has wireless, so I was bored and decided to post on here. This thing is awesome by the way, the only downfall is that Shelby can actually type faster than me... D:

Oh, hey tomorrow is Thanksgiving, that means good food - happy Thanksgiving!!!!

We're back.....

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:28:00 +0000

It's been a while since my last post or any posts for that matter, due in part to school, work and my own laziness. But heres a quick update of what I have done:

-I have finished the majority of my desk check it out here Desk

-Which brings me to my next thing, FLEX. I love flex, I was able to make the above with it.

-I have my own server in my room now, the way in which it connects to the Internet I will describe later, but lets just say it is fast. :D

-I have gotten an Arduino, you can imagine the fun that it brings.

-Vista sideshow + windows mobile = awesome.

More fun later time do do my english thing now.

So a combination of boredom, a digital camera and Flex equates to this.

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:59:00 +0000

Fools day fun.

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Price) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:03:00 +0000

I was kinda bored at school today so I decided to hack the printer... Here are the results :)

Tonight I will post the results of my cable modem hack.

Comic 31

noreply@blogger.com (Austin Munsch) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:57:00 +0000

3/6/2008

Comic 30

noreply@blogger.com (Austin Munsch) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:12:00 +0000

3/5/2008

Comic 29

noreply@blogger.com (Austin Munsch) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:12:00 +0000

2/28/2008