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RSS hackATM hack talk pulled from security conference
News It's almost security conference season in Las Vegas and with one month to go, a presentation has been pulled from Black Hat and Defcon. Juniper Networks says it pulled a talk about a flaw in ATM software that one of its researchers was... [02 Jul 2009]
Teaching Students Programming: A Proposed Web-Based Java CASE Tool With Disciplined Software Development Process
White Paper The current and unfortunate situation that learning to program often means learning to hack code has been identified, as well as the appropriateness for students to focus (at least as much) on the development process as... [25 Jun 2009]
Effectiveness of TCP SACK, TCP HACK and TCP Trunk Over Satellite Links
White Paper This paper reports the study on the performance enhancements of two extensions to the standard TCP implementation - Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) and Header Checksum (HACK) - over satellite links that are... [25 Jun 2009]
Swing Hacks: Animate Transitions Between Tabs
White Paper One of Swing's great strengths is that the user can hack into virtually anything. In particular, the author loves making changes to a component's painting code. The ability to do this is one of the reasons the author... [25 Jun 2009]
Visual Studio Hacks: Launch Visual Studio From the Command Prompt
White Paper This paper looks at a couple of these switches, but in this hack, the user will learn about all the switches and how they can be used. The Visual Studio IDE executable is called devenv.exe and includes a number of... [25 Jun 2009]
Mac OS X Panther Hacks: Rendezvous Picture Transfer
White Paper At first, this might seem more like a cool hack than anything truly useful. There are many clever features in Mac OS X 10.3 that don't appear on the cover of Apple's Panther page. One of the author's favorites is the new... [25 Jun 2009]
Linux Desktop Hacks: Create Your Own KDE Right-Click Menu Actions
White Paper This is a very cool hack because it can create a context menu to launch scripts or programs written in any language. When one uses KDE, does one ever find them self having to click too many times to do a simple... [25 Jun 2009]
Gaming Hacks: Download, Compile, and Create an Inform Adventure Hack
White Paper A time was when only programmers played computer games, for only programmers had access to computers. Hackers created the first adventure games, deep in the warrens of SAIL and the stygian halls of MIT. [25 Jun 2009]
Gaming Hacks: Hack the Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit
White Paper One of the more unique aspects of the Sega Dreamcast is the visual memory unit, a 128-KB memory card with a 48 × 32 resolution LCD monochrome screen. The VMU has clever uses for memory card management (one can manipulate and delete... [25 Jun 2009]
Word Hacks: Hack Your Shortcut Menus
White Paper In most applications, one is stuck with whatever the software company decides to put on its shortcut menus (the set of context-sensitive commands that appear when one right-clicks the mouse). For example, Microsoft must consider... [25 Jun 2009]
Flickr Hacks: Make a Slideshow
White Paper This paper uses a modified version of the script, so one will need to have successfully completed that hack before starting this one. One will also need a web server with PHP 4 support. In this paper, one will be making... [25 Jun 2009]
Store Initial Control Selections for Later Recall
White Paper The great thing about this hack is that it is easily portable. This paper shows how to store the initial selections. What one actually does with them is a function of the application. Because no tables are involved, one... [25 Jun 2009]
XML Hacks: Pretty-Print XML Using a Generic Identity Stylesheet and Xalan
White Paper If one wants this XML to be human-readable, here is a quick hack that pretty-prints the XML by properly indenting it. The reason why this XML is unsightly is that it is output on only one or two lines. [25 Jun 2009]
Wireless Hacks: Wall Off Your Wireless
White Paper If one has decided that small form factor PCs are available, and have invested in such a motherboard with the intentions of making their own access point, one is in the right hack. One certainly has other options for an... [25 Jun 2009]
Will Wi-Fi Make Your Private Network Public?: Wardriving, Criminal and Civil Liability, and the Security Risks of Wireless Networks
White Paper Exploiting the vulnerability of a wireless network to hack into the computer system or to monitor the wireless transmissions can give rise to liability under federal felony and misdemeanor statutes, as well as federal... [25 Jun 2009]
