Cant afford a wii? Get one of these instead
Dec 5, 2006 Tech
Stumbled across this earlier while looking for prices on blank DVD’s 
If you cant afford a Wii, get one of these instead 
A “TV Kick Boxing Wireless” !
16-bit super arcade graphic.
Directly plug in the TV and play.
3 play modes, World Tour (4 boxers and 2 special stages), Exercise (4 boxers selection) and Special Stage (2 selection).
Unique expertise and fighting skills.
Each boxer has different special skill showing on the TV.
One main console, 1 pair of gloves and kick pads.
Both gloves and kick pads have sensors to detect the strength of punching and kicking by the player and will reflect on the TV screen with different actions.
Batteries required 4 x AA, for main console, 2 x AAA, per glove and kick pad.
No batteries included.
For 1 player.
For ages 3 years and over.Size console (H)3.7, (W)6, (L)9cm.
Size soft glove (H)11, (W)14, (L)18cm.
Size kick pad (H)2.7, (W)7.2, (L)13cm.
Buy one now! …what? :p
SEO Research thing
Dec 3, 2006 Tech
So ive recently become interested in SEO stuff, and decided to do a little test of sorts
Im interested to see wheather certain keywords on a page attract more hits / clicks or not, so below are a list of random words that will most likely be picked up by search engines and indexed, then i can check stats and compare it with last months. (thats why this is first post of the month ) So without further hesitation here we go >.>
domains yahoo domain name yahoo dc hair laser removal washington lemon wisconsin hair removal washington dc domain registration yahoo benchmark lending domain yahoo yahoo web hosting hair laser removal here virginia peritoneal mesothelioma ca lemon law best buy gift card adverse credit remortgage mesothelioma shape! information law lemon ohio att call conference insurance medical temporary illinois law lemon mesothelioma symptoms angeles drug los rehab personal injury solicitor att go accident car florida lawyer google affiliate at t wireless home equity loan mcsa boot camp anti spam appliance adverse remortgage chicago hair laser removal att conference at and t laser hair removal maryland mesothelioma buy gift card mesotheloma student loan consolidation program so anyways california law lemon event google management security canada personals yahoo orlando criminal attorney goes uk homeowner loans vioxx lawsuit compare life assurance criminal defense lawyer american singles federal criminal defense attorney laser hair removal manhattan att prepaid wireless in fortis health insurance temporary miami personal injury lawyer hair removal chicago at and t old cell phones refinance with bad credit malignant mesothelioma lease management software primary pulmonary hypertension miami personal injury attorney anti spam lol lotus notes life insurance quotes egg credit anti spam exchange server lemon law adsense best consolidation loan student refinance with poor credit employee leasing student loan consolidation center buyer mortgage note federal student loan consolidation symptoms of mesothelioma city hair laser new removal york att wireless com san diego dui lawyer indiana law lemon law ads lemon michigan angeles criminal defense los refinancing with poor credit home equity loan action class lawsuit vioxx term life assurance e loan celebrex lawyer vasectomy reversal mortgage rates refinancing attorney law lemon consolidate student loans home equity loans mesothilioma new york personal injury lawyer home equity loan rates auto insurance quotes georgia law lemon homeowner loans equity loan rates administration lease software egg credit card student new consolidation loans microsoft anti spam Max CPC ($) Avg CPC ($) Keyword mesothelioma prognosis second mortgages my auto century insurance employee florida leasing federal consolidation adsense loan equity loan personal injury attorney colorado accident lawyer michigan refinancing with bad credit home equity line of credit rates federal consolidation non profit debt consolidation pay per click affiliate city hair new removal york acid reflux disease diet refinance poor credit equity loans student loan consolidate consolidate loans secured loans criminal lawyer new york affiliate per click chicago personal injury lawyer los angeles dui lawyer att prepaid angeles criminal defense lawyer los critical illness insurance life irs lawyer tax laser hair removal new york comcast high speed personal yahoo san diego dui attorney michigan personal injury automobile law lemon cheap insurance life term home loans refinancing consolidate college loans cheap ya life insurance vioxx law suit student loan refinance car hire alicante spain tax attorney refinancing my home criminal dallas lawyer line of credit home equity litigation vioxx at and t phones criminal high defense attorney los angeles commodity online trading home equity rates adsense law lemon keywords mass equity home arizona law edit lemon child molestation attorney noob home line of credit alicante keeping car coding rental spain attorney defense php federal san diego criminal attorney really injury lawyer new york attorney injury new personal york at and t mobile pleural mesothelioma augmentation breast diego san home equity poor credit health insurance temporary compensation mesothelioma st century insurance cheap insurance medical angeles criminal lawyer los low cost etc term life insurance home refinance loans eloan life insurance quote cheap life assurance equity loan anti spam exchange tech credit equity home line att go phone dui florida lawyer spider hair removal value new york vioxx class action suit merchant account international vioxx site class action home equity loan life insurance quote online consolidation loan equity line of credit carolina law lemon just north equity rates irc direct home insurance line angeles text attorney los tax credit home line term insurance auto insurances debtfreedirect refinance comparison acid reflux treatment bad credit mortgage refinance college loan refinance :p
That was long wasnt it
Anyways, i’ll probably post my findings next month with stats etc, so you can see the the results too
Get free reseller access from any cpanel/whm based host
Nov 9, 2006 Tech
Before we start, i should say this isnt really a “legitimate” way of getting reseller access, more of a cpanel hack/exploitation, so as such i cant condone it
So, i discovered this by accident, when i was checking out the reseller access option that my current host provides, it turns out that when using cpanel/whm to offer reseller access to your customers, cpanel keep the config in your “user settings dir” (lets call it that for now).
You dont have access to this directory yourself, only your host does, for example your homedir will be something like /home/username/ (where username is the username you use to login to cpanel) and you will have folders such as “.trash”, “ssl”, “tmp” & “public_html” (you may have more/less different folders than are listed here). your web accessibly files and folders will be in “public_html”. you dont have access to anything below /username/, but cpanel does.
Now there are two ways to do this, the manual way, which may not work depending on how big your site is or how your host is setup. or theres the “easy” way, which is a little more risky and involves using some “social engineering” (best way i could describe it) but theres a higher chance of it working. another thing i should say is theres more chance of this working on larger hosts that have lots of customers, that way they may not notice as quickly.
The first (manual) method:
Go into cpanel and generate a full backup, when the backup is generated, download it and extract it, keeping its folder structure.
Once you’ve extracted and opened the directory, you may see folders that you havent seen before, these are the settings that are kept in your “user settings dir” mentioned earlier. Now we are going to add “reseller access” to the backup. in your user settings dir create a directory called “resellerconfig”. in this directory you will create 9 files, that make up the settings for your reseller account. these files have no extensions (apart from one) First file to create is “reseller-limits”. you can use pretty much any text editor to make these files.
in this file type the following:
[source:c]username 0[/source]
replace “username” with your cpanel username.
the 0 means no limits.
The next file to create is “reseller-limits-bynumber”.
Leave this file blank for now.
Next, create the file “reseller-number-accounts”.
in this file type the following:
[source:c]username:0:[/source]
replace “username” with your cpanel username. The 0 specifies the number of accounts your allowed under your reseller account, 0 means no limit. The next file to create is called “reseller-resource-accounts”
type this into the file:
[source:c]username:,username_Single,username_new[/source]
this specifies the packages available on your reseller account, this is the default one, you can add more in cpanel later when you have access to the reseller part. replace instances of “username” with your cpanel login name. next create a file called “reseller-resource-limits”. In this file put this:
[source:c]username 1 bw=10000:disk=500:[/source]
replace “username” with your cpanel username. you can change the numbers to edit the amount of bandwidth and diskspace that is available to you. or it may be possible to change the 1 to a 0 to remove limits. next file to create is ”resellers”. in this file put the following:
[source:c]username:add-pkg,allow-addoncreate,allow-parkedcreate,allow-unlimited-pkgs,create-acct,create-dns,disallow-shell,edit-account,edit-dns,edit-mx,edit-pkg,frontpage,kill-acct,kill-dns,limit-bandwidth,list-accts,mailcheck,mod-subdomains,news,onlyselfandglobalpkgs,park-dns,passwd,quota,resftp,show-bandwidth,stats,status,suspend-acct,upgrade-account,[/source]
This should all be on one line!
this file specifies what a reseller can offer to its customers, if you want to specifically allow something add ‘allow-’ infront of the name, if you want to specifically disallow something put ‘disallow-’ in front of the name. if the item is listed without an allow- or disallow- tag, it is allowed by default. replace “username” with your cpanel login name.
next up is a file called “resellers.chris”. im not entirely sure what this file does or wheather its needed, its probably best to create it anyway, but leave it blank. The Final file to create is “resellers-nameservers”.
In this file you specify the nameservers that you will use, these must be valid nameservers! you can usually just use your hosts nameservers (the ones you are using already) put them in this format in the file:
[source:c]username:ns1.mywebhost.com,ns2.mywebhost.com,,,[/source]
replace “username” with your cpanel login name, and change the name servers to your own.
Were nearly there now, not long to go!
ok, going back to the “homedir” now, create a file called “.whmtheme”.
in this file put and x and save it. (yes, just an x)
also in your homedir create a directory called “cpanelbranding”, and in that directory create a folder called “x”.
next, in your homedir create a folder called “cpanel3-skel”. this will be the “skeleton” of the accounts you will give to your customers, whatever you put in here, will be put in all new customers “homedir”, its wise to put folders such as “public_html” & “public_ftp”, just to make sure that nothing breaks and so your users know where to put things.
Once all thats in place, create a compressed backup of the directory, this should include the directory that holds the homedir. so for example you should add this directory to the archive:
(your backup name will generally be generated from the date/time it was created and your username)
for example if the directory holding the homedir is called backup-5.16.2005_13-16-53_username (where “username” is your cpanel username) then add that to the archive. (yes i know that sounds confusing).
e.g. backup-5.16.2005_13-16-53_username/homedir
If your doing this on windows, you’ll have to find someway of converting this to a .tar.bz archive, to make it a little more believable
Next, go into the backup section of cpanel and find the “upload a backup” section, browse for the archive file that was just created and click the upload button. depending on the size of your site, it may take a while and may even time out, this is because the archive is being uploade over http, and your host will mostl likely have a “script execution time” limit set which means if it takes too long to upload then it will fail. if this doesnt work you could always try the second method below.
And thats all there is to it Note that these instructions were based off settings on my own host, your host may differ in things such as directory / file names and paths. so if it doesnt work, that’ll most likely be why, you could always pay for the reseller access i guess, but then, you wouldnt be reading this if you were willing to pay 
Ok onto the Second Method:
This method is a lot quicker, easier and has more chance of working, since you will use files generated by your own hosts system. Although it is risky in the sense that its possible you’ll get found out easier. but if you think you can do it, lets go
Firstly you will have to find out if your host offers reseller access and how much they charge and if they’re willing to give you a ‘free taster’.If they do, thats good, contact them and ask them to setup it up for you, once thats done, you should see the reseller access icons in cpanel, have a play around if you want 
.
Now that your account has reseller access, go into cpanel and generate a backup of your whole account, this will generate a backup of all your files and databases including your reseller access config. once thats done download it and extract it, check to make sure the backup has the reseller config files in it by looking for a folder called “resllerconfig”, your host may use a different name, so look for anything thats reseller related
(if you can find anything, its possible that the generated backup did not include your recent account changes including the reseller config, the only thing i could suggest you do in this situation, is wait a day or so for cpanel to “catch-up”).
Once you’ve found its there you can delete the extracted files, but make sure you keep the compressed backup.
Next, contact your host and say you no longer want reseller access, if you do this straight away it may seem suspicious, wait a few days and then contact them. in the mean time you can play with your reseller access, test creating packages and limits etc.
So once you’ve contacted your host and had your reseller access removed, you’ll no longer be on thier billing system for added reseller access.
Now is where it starts to get tricky and a little risky, contact your host and ask them if its possible to upload a cpanel created backup into your home directory and have it restored to your account, if they allow it thats good, if that then there nothng you can really do about it, at least you have a backup of your site (if you switch hosts in the future and they use cpanel, you may be able to use if there if its accepted ) if the host says they will accept your backup, upload the one you downloaded a few days earlier, the one with the reseller access config files in.
Once this is restored to your account by your host, you reseller access will have returned, but because the billing system wasnt changed, you wont be billed for it, nothing bad will show up on a virus scan since your backup will be clean
It all depends on wheather the host accepts your backup and doesnt get suspicious like i said at the beggining of this little writeup, i discovered this by accident, i guess its a bug in cpanel/whm.
Disclaimer: you try these things at your own risk, i cant be held responsible if you loose your hosting account over this. im simply telling you how to do it, not forcing you too
When it “happened” to me, and i realised what had happened i cntacted my host a few days later to remove the reseller access from my account once again, just incase they found out a few months down the line and decided to charge me for the months that i had used it for
Enjoy :grinnod:
Top 10 TV Ads..
Oct 18, 2006 Tech
Over the years there have been some great adverts on TV, and now because of the popularity of them, they’ve found themselves online, so i thought id list the top 10 TV ads. (imo)
Starting at #10 and going down to #1:
#10: Firstly an old advert for Office XP: (apparently this was banned from TV)
#9: Next up is an advert by American Mortgage company, Ameriquest:
#8: A german advert – improve your english.
#7: Pretty creative washing machine advert:
#6: A Volkwagon advert (banned from TV) also known as German engineering VS Terrorists.
#5: an advert for a BMW M5. Well i thought it was cool:
#4: The Microsoft iPod:
#3: The very BIG beer ad:
#2: An Advert, By sony for Thier Bravia LCD TV:
Click here to view it.
#1: This advert has to be THE best advert of all time:
so there you have it! The top 10 adverts of all time, dont you agree?
Ps downloads section is almost starting to take shape now, just need to skin it to match, and add a few more things..
How to: Hack an ATM
Oct 6, 2006 Tech
Thought this would be an interesting thing to blog
1.) Press “Clear”, “Enter”, and “Cancel” all together at the same time for two seconds, then press 1,2,3 in sequence.
2.)Now it asks for a password, Try 555555, 222222, or 111111. These are the default factory passwords. If they dont work then theyve changed it and you’ll have to find another machine.
3.)If it works, press the “customer setup” option, followed by the “change messages” option, now decide if you want to hack the welcome screen or the reciept header.
4.)Now hit the “alpha” button on the left, That changes the characters from symbols to letters. Make sure you have a good messafe ready before you try this because you wont have to time make one up on the spot.
The numbers below on the keypad (where you type your PIN Number) are what you use to scroll through the letters, “Right” makes a space, and “Enter” inputs the highlighted letter into the message.
KEEP CASUAL. HAVE YOUR WALLET IN YOUR HAND AND PRETEND YOUR ON YOUR MOBILE.
5.)Now that your finished, hit the “Cancel” button a few times to exit the application. Print yourself a balance inquiry to see if it worked.
Have fun, but be careful!
and there you go
off-topic: no, the tags still arnt working 
Testing a new plugin
Well i thought it might be cool to have some sort of tagging for my posts..so i searched around and found [tag]UTW[/tag] (UltimateTagWarrior) which seems like it does what i want, so this post is to test that it works ok i still need to create a ‘tags’ page yet, which i plan on intergrating into my new layout when i start working on it
Wow, this is a pretty short post , heh.
edit: so ok it seems like i have a lot of work to do, i need to somehow display the tags for each post, edit my htaccess file because they arnt working either, create a tag page/cloud and possibly create another style class for tag links.. lol, but it works, for the most part.
Tags: wordpress
Vista news & Site updates, etc..
Sep 3, 2006 Other, Site News, Tech
Well its been a busy week in the vista camp, Pre RC1 was released a week or so ago, and was restricted to 100,000 downloads, although im not sure that was a problem in the end because i dont think that many people downloaded it, ive added some screenshots of it in the galleries anyways.. also a few days ago, RC1 itself was released on connect, so im just waiting for a publicly available download, which should be monday or tuesday, there was so short a time in between the two releases i wonder why i downloaded it really lucky i didnt burn it to disc, there are two different versions of this build, an x86 build for 32bit processors, this will probably be the most commonly downloaded when its available, then theres the x64 version for 64bit processors which has a restriction on intalling unsigned drivers, (i believe you have to do it in safe mode) and with there not being many x64 signed drivers available, its probably wiser to wait for more drivers to be released / signed. the ISO info is as follows
x86
vista_5600.16384.060829-2230_x86fre_client-LR1CFRE_EN_DVD.iso
x64
vista_5600.16384.060829-2230_x64fre_client-LR1CxFRE_EN_DVD.iso
Beta testers on connect can download it from here: https://connect.microsoft.com/windows/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=2887
Screenshots of RC1 will follow shortly.
I was going to write about the apple rumours i heard the other day about a new iPod and new Mac, but thats old news now and probably not true since ive not heard anymore about it. maybe apple are just getting better at damage control :p Although i did read they secretly upgraded thier mac minis which is cool.
As i mentioned earlier ive added a few pre rc1 shots to the galleries, theyre not very big pics though, sorry about that ive also added ome new babe galleries which ive had on my hard drive for a while and jut havent uploaded until now, well, a few days ago.
Hmm what else..
sorry for any typos and letters missing, this damn keybaord is annoying, its been doing it all night >.< and this wordpress thing is annoying too, it just wont use the WYSIWYG editor, no matter what i try grr, so sorry about the layout...anyways i'll probably uh, upgrade soon >.>
plus, might have a new default theme soon 
P
I met a cute girl last night at a party, unfortunatly shes married and has a kid lol, although she only looked about 23, she had a really nice, persona.. well, whatever, i was going to say personality, but that sounds way to cliche these days. heh.
Also happy birthday to my lil sis xx
edit: forgot to say the downloads section is under construction too…
Just testing this new WLW thingy… (Windows Live Writer)
Just testing this new WLW thing, Windows Liver Writer, Bea, its a bit like wBloggar but made by MS to go with the other live thingies, i dont usually like things like this because they’re not portable, meaning you cant just blog from anywhere, if you come too dependant on it, which can be slightly annoying, thats why i prefer web based apps for most things
Also the default font its Times New Roman, which is teh ugleh oh well lol
Bold text italics underline strikethrough coloured!
hmm i still think i like the WP interface, this has the annoying paragrpah thing where you have to hold shift to make line breaks instead of paragraph breaks
this is a blockquote, ya rly
i also hate the way the cursor resets to the beggining of the post whenever you press a button, maybe thats a bug though.. >.<
the spell checking is a good idea i gess, although i dont see much use for it myself since i tend to use slang etc on my blog
hmmmm :p i wonder if this supports smilies… i’ll see when i upload
the views button is nice, although it failed to pick up the proper CSS file for my blog, so its missing its style in the preview
all the shortcuts work though, which is good now if only it would reset the styling when i start typing a new paragraph..
come to think of it it takes a while to import the blog too… also i see no use for the sidebar, it was annoying in the versions of office and its useless here too
anyways thats probably enough moaning, ima go inspect the prefs dialog..
oh yeah i added a few things to the galleries a few days ago too, enjoy lol.
EDIT: well the post looks ok, (this is after submittal) the blockquotes look odd tho, im sure they wernt that wide before..
i guess the sidebar does have a use after all, the recent posts are shown there which allow you to edit it, although it doesnt seem to list any posts not created by WLW. oh well
The insert map feature looks interesting too but i dont see me having a use for it, i dont travel anywhere lol, plus it wouldnt be too good for privacy would it
… thats not good …
Jul 26, 2006 Other
k so ive just basically corrupted 150GB of my data, in fact, that was all my data, all the thing ive ever downloaded over the past 6 years, the visual styles, wallpapers, icons, application skins, software that isnt available anymore, all my pictures, of me, family, other events, mostly irreplaceable ones, videos, my entire music collection, all my work related stuff, like cv’s, spec letters, job letters, everything else, site backups, source code, projects, everything… its ok though, it hasnt sunken in that ive lost it all yet. now here comes the best bit, I have no backups, none, at all. so brb, im just going to kill myself.
*cries*
EDIT: UPDATE: I used GetDataBack for NTFS and it recovered all my data
*stops crying and unkills self ^_^ *
A little WLM / Hotmail trick
Jul 4, 2006 Tech
Well I worked out a nice little trick to get a nice clean WLMail / Hotmail interface (aka without ads or ugly “action cancelled” / ad frame page time outs)
this tweak / hack was “designed for” & tested in IE, so im not sure if it’ll work in other browsers.
Here’s what my layout looks like atm (yeah, I never liked that reading pane )
ok, here’s how to do it..
add the following line to your hosts file:
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127.0.0.1 rad.msn.com
(make sure there’s a space between the two)
This will effectively make the ads for WLMail / Hotmail timeout
You could leave it at this but you will get an ugly box at the top with an action cancelled message in it each time you load the page up, if you want to get rid of that too, follow these steps:
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open C:\Windows\system32\shdoclc.dll in Reshacker
- open “2110″ and look for the resource “NAVCANCL.HTM”.
once you open that you’ll see the html code for the “Action Cancelled” page you get in IE
now if you know html well enough you could design your own page (but do remember it will show up in frames that timeout too so it wont always look good if you design a full page). otherwise you ca just create a blank page.
now just to be safe, instead of deleting everything that’s in there you can just “comment out” the existing html, this allows you to put back the original page if you decide you want it back.
to comment out the existing html, find this line:
-
and change to this: (remove the spacing between the < & the !)
< !--finally, find this line:
and change it to this:
-->
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compile the script, save the file, and replace the original with the modified file using Replacer
yes thats it
Note: if you use the classic hotmail layout, (e.g. your not in the beta) then change your background colour to that of the header colour (yes, that shade of blue) you shouldnt see a white box (or two) then.
Note 1.5: this does mean you will get a blank page when a site times out, so just be wary of that
Note two: This also blanks out that little box ad below your folders list.
Note three: this was originally done to stop those annoying JavaScript errors I was getting from the ads in msn, it really annoyed the hell out of me getting an error whenever I opened the main contacts window, so I fixed it, and only recently thought about editing the system file to get rid of the ugly “action cancelled message”.
Note four: I am not responsible if you mess your machine up, do it at your own risk.
Note five: im sure there was something else I was going to say, I just forgot, dammit.
Enjoy!
(and yes, I know I changed back to my old theme, the CSS was doing my head in.)
