Games I’ll Keep An Eye On In 2012

Big-budget releases

In order of release date. Some release dates are an estimate. Unannounced games are not listed here.

January

- Star Wars: The Old Republic

February

  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
  • Binary Domain
  • SSX
  • Syndicate
  • Jak and Daxter Collection
  • The Darkness 2

March

  • I am Alive
  • Mass Effect 3
  • Diablo III …

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Oneiric / Linode Server Migration

Sigh… I’m sorry, Slicehost, but I’m leaving you. I’ve been a long (and very happy) Slicehost customer for the past few years. The service offered was perfect for anyone knowing their way around SSH, Linux administration and setting up a server — and all that for just 30 …

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Rooting Kindle Fire

The following overview is just a reminder, mainly aimed at myself in the future, on how to root the kindle fire.

1. Install Android SDK

  • Download from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
  • Update packages

2. In Kindle: “Allow Installation of Applications From Unknown Sources”

3. Edit android_winusb.inf …

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Quick Fix: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Error 80073701

If your Windows 7 service pack upgrade is failing with error code 80073701, you might be able to fix it with the following steps. I’ve had to search around quite a bit before resolving this error, mainly because I saw the first and second solutions listed below pop up …

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MotionInJoy Appcrash When Loading Driver

When trying to install the MotioninJoy driver using the GUI, the program crashes.

Manually running the driver installation works. To do this, open a cmd window with administrative privileges. Make sure you have followed the other MotioninJoy steps and the controller is plugged in.

cd to the “ds3” directory, located …

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Slowloris And Mitigations For Apache

Introduction

If you are the least bit interested in network security, you’ll undoubtedly have heard about Slowloris by now.

Slowloris is a piece of software written by Robert “RSnake” Hansen which allows a single machine to take down another machine’s web server with minimal bandwidth and side effects …

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Compiling Firesheep On Linux

If you follow the (security) news a bit, you’ve undoubtedly heart about Firesheep. This tool makes it very easy to listen in on public WiFi connections and intercept HTTP Cookies from a plethora of social networking sites and mail services.

This has been possible for a long time (some …

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Aircrack Quick Tutorial (Wireless WEP Cracking)

Speaking of wireless

The following is just a quick note-to-self, because I always forget the exact commands and end up crawling around the Aircrack wiki for a bit. I though I’d posted this before, but I can’t seem to find it.

TTY1

sudo airmon-ng start eth1
# Assume monitor …

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