Programming

Messing Around with MiFare Classic Cards

Hello ppl, I’ve been reading some cool things in the past year about NFC/RFID tags, especially that one dude who made an NFC enabled ring. Then I read about cheap NFC readers/writers and libnfc… I am a very curious individual so eventually I started gathering the materials I needed for messing around with this sort …

Continue Reading
Life Science

Of Qubits and Transitors

Hello, Here we are, at the beginning of the 21st century, in the year twenty fourteen, taking small steps towards the science of the “future”. Recently in the news two items have been making their way into our orbits(at least for me): one is that according to leaked documents the NSA is actively working on …

Continue Reading
Programming

Upload a File From Raspberry Pi to Your Dropbox

Updated version of this article: here.   Hi, There are a couple of scripts floating around the Internets you can use to interact with Dropbox from your Raspberry PI. I find that the easiest way is to use python (the Dropbox client itself is python). You will need a Dropbox API key which you can …

Continue Reading
Networking

Asus RT-N66U: A Nice (Already Old) Refresh

Update: I’ve installed asuswrt-rmlerin and it’s cool 🙂 I got SSHD on my router, which was what I really needed. And I got to keep all the features of the stock firmware. Pretty great. And it has package support. Not that I am looking to install anything else at the moment. Found out there is …

Continue Reading
Programming

Why Xcode And Not Visual Studio(2012)

Hello there fellow programming enthusiast, So you’ve heard that there has been a new standard(well. not so new) called C++11(ISO blah bla.11) and you are excited to try it on. And you fire your favorite IDE (Visual Studio of course!) and type some code like this amaaaazing nugget right here: #include <vector> using namespace std; …

Continue Reading
Operating Systems

OS X: A Secret Love Affair

Good evening, I am somewhat of an odd person in the eyes of my peers. I someone who enjoys using OS X for daily tasks in a Windows dominated environment. Everyone I know uses Windows. Some know what Linux. Some of those know that is more than just for servers. Some also know that Linux …

Continue Reading
Games

The Beta Batlle.net App is Kinda Cool

Hi,   I have to say the Batlle.net Desktop Launcher App Thingie is kinda cool. You can login once then launch all your Blizzard games from one place without having to re-login. Even across restarts. And you can install your games without downloading that awful launcher for each one of them. And it has subtle …

Continue Reading
Life

My Puny Bitcoin Farm

Hi ppl, If you don’t know what a bitcoin is, you’ve probably have been living in a troll cave under a wet rock! If you do know, then you know that GPUs are no longer cutting it as miners. There’s a whole ASIC miner craze going on. The cheapest device you can get(albeit not the …

Continue Reading