Posts Tagged ‘hack’
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Hi everyone today I happened to need to use my printer (amazing how infrequently I need it these days). And just my luck it wouldn’t print because it claimed the magenta and cyan cartridges were low/empty. That’s all well and nice but I’m printing a page of text no magenta or cyan in sight never mind that I can clearly see the cartridges aren’t anywhere near empty. 
After rooting around in the printer for a minute with a flashlight I realized that it’s actually using a sensor to basically look into the side of the cartridge and see what level the ink is at. As a complete turnaround in my luck the first thing I tried actually managed to foil the sensor. I placed a piece of black electrical tape over the semi-transparent side of the cartridges. Lo and behold after placing them back in the printer asked if I had replaced them and through a brilliant piece of social engineering I managed to lie to my printer with a straight face and answer “yes” Now my printer is printing again (in full color I might add) and I don’t have to spend $60+ on new color ink to print my page of text.
If you have any questions, corrections or comments please leave them below in the comments.
Tags: DIY, hack, ink, printer
Posted in DIY, Tech | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
As a long time tech geek one of the things I’ve found useful and interesting is technical books. Hacking, Programming, System Administration, Software, Protocols, Operating Systems. Even if I don’t actually work with that particular subject I still enjoy learning about it. Well thanks to hacknmod.com I’ve found a repository of thousands of free digitized tech books. Everything from the PHP Cookbook to Windows XP Annoyances can be found HERE Most of the files are in .pdf format but a few are in .chm and a couple in .html. Hacknmod.com also points us to another repository of knowledge HERE
Make sure you check out the original article HERE
As always if you have any questions comments or suggestions please post them in the comment section below.
Tags: books, hack, Linux, Tech
Posted in Reccomended Links, Tech | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
TCPDump. If you want to capture traffic you need to be using this tool. TCPDump is small lightweight and really easy to understand once you learn the basic syntax. It’s the perfect tool to gather info off the wired or wireless network. If you’re running it on a computer with dsniff installed you can use dsniff to route traffic through your computer and see everything your target is doing even on a switched network (See the article on How-To spy on other users on the local network from back in August ) (more…)
Tags: cli, hack, Linux, network, tcp, tcpdump
Posted in CLI tricks, Linux, Tech, software | 5 Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Nmap is one of those essential tools that you find yourself always reaching for after a few years of system administration. It’s an excellent tool for network mapping but more importantly for our purposes it can be used for security auditing. The main ways I use Nmap are as a port scanner and in some cases to identify the OS of the IP being scanned. These are by no means the only uses. Nmap has a ton of option and in addition can be extended with scripts. (more…)
Tags: Apple, cli, hack, nmap
Posted in Apple, CLI tricks, Linux, Tech, software | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Stealth MAC is an absolute necessity if you’re going to be doing anything subversive from your iPod/iPhone every network enabled device has what is known as a MAC address which is a unique identifier that’s assigned to the network adapter by the manufacturer. These are supposed to be globally unique ( but that’s not always the case) and normally the first three pairs of numbers/letters identify the hardware manufacturer. This is terrible if we’re planning on doing something subversive on a network as it’s a digital footprint of our activities. (more…)
Tags: hack, MAC, security, spoof, Wi-Fi
Posted in Apple, CLI tricks, Linux, Tech, software | 1 Comment »
