Tag: hacks

Watermelon Hacks: Just in Time for Summer

July 6, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Watermelon Hacks: Just in Time for Summer Watermelon is the perfect snack for hot temperatures. It’s hydrating, crisp, and refreshing, especially when it’s chilled. Yet some people aren’t content with leaving a good thing alone, which has given us many watermelon-based innovations, some great (vodka-filled watermelons) and some delightfully strange (square watermelons). Oddly, not everyone goes crazy for this tasty fruit. If you need to reignite your love for Citrullus lanatus (that’s watermelon in Latin), then be sure to check out all of these hacks. #1. Turn a Watermelon into a Keg Was that sound I just heard your head exploding? Yes, it’s true: someone figured out a way to turn a watermelon itself into a dispenser of fruit-laced alcoholic beverages. This counts as…

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Watermelon Hacks: Just in Time for Summer

Stress-test your PHP App with ApacheBench

June 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

This article was sponsored by New Relic. Thank you for supporting the sponsors that make SitePoint possible! There’s no telling when your app might attract a throng of visitors at once – maybe it’s a Hacker News post that’s submitted at a specific second on a specific time of day (as posts there tend to work), maybe it was a particularly well placed Reddit post, and maybe it’s actually good and people noticed it, spreading it virally. Regardless of the reason, massive influxes of visitors are a double-edged sword: they get you what you always wanted â€“ a chance to prove your worth to a large chunk of the internet’s population but also often bring with them what you always …

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Tim Ferriss Uses This Simple Productivity Hack To Organize His Days

June 18, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Countess Entrepreneur, author, and speaker Tim Ferriss. Tim Ferriss, a well-known entrepreneur and the author of “The 4-Hour Workweek,” says some people think he’s got his life all figured out because he’s always sharing good advice. But he insists that he’s got plenty of bad habits, too, including continually hitting his alarm’s snooze button because he’s afraid of facing the day. Ferriss has, however, found a better way to start your day. He explains it in a new podcast, “Productivity Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me).” The solution is a simple productivity hack: Before starting your day, get a piece of paper and write down three to five things that are causing you the most stress. “They’re often…

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Tim Ferriss Uses This Simple Productivity Hack To Organize His Days

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Hack Like a Pro: Digital Forensics Using Kali, Part 1 (The Tools of a Forensic Investigator)

June 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Hack Like a Pro: Digital Forensics Using Kali, Part 1 (The Tools of a Forensic Investigator)

Welcome back, my greenhorn hackers! Lately, much of the discussion here on Null Byte has revolved around evading detection and not getting caught hacking. Several of you have written me asking for a series on evading detection and forensics, and while I began a series 5 months ago on just that, we have changed hacking platforms from BackTrack to Kali, which has a much more highly developed forensic toolset. As a result, we will start anew with Kali and I’ll try to develop this series in a logical and sequential manner that a forensic investigator would follow. I will also include units in here on anti-forensics, or ways you can stymie the…

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Hack Like a Pro: Digital Forensics Using Kali, Part 1 (The Tools of a Forensic Investigator)

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Windows XP Rises From Grave: Simple Hack Gives Five More Years of Updates

May 31, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Share This article With a simple registry hack, you can net yourself five more years of official Microsoft updates for your aging Windows XP machine. Microsoft, though, says you really shouldn’t do it, and that you ought to be a good little boy and upgrade to a more modern operating system instead. Read on, to find out how to enable the Windows XP updates and whether you should do it or not. The whole Windows XP retirement is becoming a bit of a farce. Microsoft technically ended support for Windows XP on April 8, 2014. But if you were a big company or government with lots of money, Microsoft offered to continue supporting your XP machines and then, when a zero-day vulnerability was…

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Windows XP rises from the grave: Simple hack gives you five more years of updates