Want a password hash that has a special word or set of characters in it just because? Why? Well, why not!? If you have access to a number of networked machines with shared ssh authorized_keys, you could give each one a nice cpu burn in test and try to find something complicated.

Stop identifying yourself to the world. Stop giving away personally identifiable information about yourself on forum posts, facebook, twitter, or any other social sites.

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

You can use emoticons in google chat and they will be replaced with little animations as soon as you hit send. You can also use bold, italics, strike through, or any combination of them.

All the pseudo-memes, meta-memes, and trolling has gotten out of control. Now that YTMND is on its last leg, here’s a look back at the best YMTNDs of all time.

What would I do without the Linux shell? The sheer number of mouse clicks required to do this in Windows would result in instant and painful arthritis. For each Makefile in any child directory below pwd, It’s looking for a broken include string where the include was specified after the library and if it finds this case, it rewrites that part so it’s include/library. It’s basically the same thing done over and over for each include that might exist in any Makefile.

How to make a ninja mask out of a tshirt. There’s a few ways to do this, and none of them involve cutting any holes in your tshirts. So simple even a caveman can do it.

It’s all about the design of the language and I agree with the author completely when he says, “Most languages have so much friction and awkwardness built into their design.”

RPG video games praise you for the deeds of your characters. RPG’s, from the old school Ultima series, A Bard’s Tale or even Final Fantasy, it was obvious that time invested eqated to the character’s skill improvement. Most tasks eventually became repetitive chores that never came close to pushing the envelope of thought provoking. Modern mmorpg’s are even worse.

Our Sun is a gigantic sphere of hot boiling hydrogen. Ok, you probably already knew that. But did you know that it is not on fire? It only appears bright to our eyes because it is hot. The sun is not on fire because fire is the rapid oxidation of a combustible material releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.