Apparently I am one of the freelancers whose profiles Outsourcingroom.com (allegedly) stole from elance. Unfortunately, the Outsourcingroom.com profile appears very high in Google searching for my name. How can I get Google to remove this badness from their index? [more inside]
posted by chesty_a_arthur on Nov 10, 2009 - 2 answers

What's the best way to turn an iPod touch into an iPhone? [more inside]
posted by jasondbarr on Sep 26, 2009 - 27 answers

Quickest way to contact someone at Facebook regarding a hacker? [more inside]
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies on Aug 24, 2009 - 10 answers

I've had a chronic dry cough for going on two weeks now and two doctor's visits later it's not clearing up. Can anyone give ideas on what could possibly be causing this? [more inside]
posted by schroedinger on Aug 1, 2009 - 24 answers

Has anyone chanced to have any experience with the Vocera wifi comm-badges? [more inside]
posted by baylink on Mar 12, 2009 - 7 answers

Can you suggest prizes and trophies for a software/hardware hacking competition? [more inside]
posted by godawful on Mar 8, 2009 - 5 answers

[video camera hardware hacking filter] Is there a way to hack/homebuild a p2 card for the Panasonic p2 system? How would I enlist help in this endeavor? [more inside]
posted by history is a weapon on Mar 1, 2009 - 2 answers

I've been unsuccessful in getting an old pc up and running with Ubuntu or some other *nix OS. I am wondering. Is it possible to use VPN or ssh from my computer to my Dreamhost account to create a secure tunnel to their servers into to the internet? I'm using 0.00 gb on my account for bandwidth. Sound doable? [more inside]
posted by BoldStepDesign on Jan 3, 2009 - 11 answers

What's the most hackable car out there? [more inside]
posted by arimathea on Jan 2, 2009 - 3 answers

I want to give my old iPhone to my girlfriend, but I'd like to get rid of my information first and turn it into a perfectly usable iPod Touch. [more inside]
posted by aburd on Dec 12, 2008 - 4 answers

How can I see the top-ranked IMDb movies beyond the top 250? [more inside]
posted by wastelands on Dec 8, 2008 - 2 answers

What can I do with an Xbox 360 that has a dead dvd drive? [more inside]
posted by HC Foo on Oct 23, 2008 - 13 answers

Giant Roomba - I'm looking for any information concerning hacking the Roomba's brain into something... bigger. [more inside]
posted by loquacious on Oct 20, 2008 - 3 answers

How can I use the iPhone 3G's headphone jack to power an LED? [more inside]
posted by buzzbash on Oct 19, 2008 - 8 answers

Are there any good blogs out there on improving your Googling skills? [more inside]
posted by vizsla on Sep 8, 2008 - 6 answers

Wiring/music equipment question: I have a fairly cheap 30WVox guitar amplifier with a phone/line out jack on the back. When I plug something into the jack, sounds stops coming from the amp's speaker and starts coming out of whatever I plugged in instead. However, I would like it if the sound would come out of both at the same time. How easy or difficult would it be to rewire the amp so that it works this way? I'm good with a soldering iron, but not too great with circuit analysis.
posted by donkeymon on Aug 30, 2008 - 4 answers

Audio experimentation: How do I wire up these tape heads? [more inside]
posted by godawful on Aug 14, 2008 - 2 answers

Am I giving myself any protection against ATM hacking by not having an ATM card for some specific account, or is the account in the network whether or I have a card?
posted by still_wears_a_hat on Aug 5, 2008 - 4 answers

Where can I get a comma or space-separated list of major U.S. cities? [more inside]
posted by bflora on Jun 28, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm looking to use some kind of tablet device, pocket pc, or possibly even e-book reader to display lyrics and chords for me while playing guitar. Criteria: cheap, readable, hackable, in that order. [more inside]
posted by rhys on May 16, 2008 - 4 answers

I've had a bare Power Mac G5 case in my office since last summer (original water-cooled quad processor melted down, needing a pile of parts and netting me an extra case in the process). What should I do with this spare cheesegrater case? I don't need a PC (Boot Camp/Parallels is doing me fine), otherwise I'd try swapping in a PC mobo/PS. A MacQuarium is probably not going to work too well. What would you do if you had a spare aluminum beast like this? Giant FireWire case with stacks of drives? Humorous solutions are welcome, something that would amuse fellow geeks if it were in my office.
posted by porn in the woods on Apr 16, 2008 - 10 answers

Help me hack into my own flickr account [more inside]
posted by sid on Apr 15, 2008 - 11 answers

I'd like to do a time-lapse movie of photos taken every 30 seconds during a week-long, 500 mile ride I'm doing later this year. But the rig has to be small, light, automatic, and run for hours a day without a recharge. Is this possible? (something tells me Make Magazine probably already covered this at one point) [more inside]
posted by mathowie on Apr 8, 2008 - 6 answers

Best starting point for e-commerce / shopping cart software? I'm a competent Perl programmer with background in several other languages, who wants to create a decidedly minimalist-looking web site shopping cart for a client. I expect to hack Perl or PHP code, but would like to hack things that are designed to be hacked. Anyone tried CRE Loaded? Other recommendations? Other places to ask? [more inside]
posted by amtho on Mar 30, 2008 - 11 answers

What is the current state of the art in Macintosh OS X vulnerabilities, exploits and other remote security issues? [more inside]
posted by loquacious on Feb 3, 2008 - 4 answers

Anyone have any experience with the Hackability of the Linksys NAS200? [more inside]
posted by TrueVox on Oct 8, 2007 - 5 answers

How do I prevent hackers from embedding scripts into my site's incoming urls. For example, a hacker can easily create a link like link with javascript to ultimately grab users cookies. How do I prevent this from happening. Can I use javascript to prevent this, or is this something that need to be prevented on the server end?
posted by kaizen on Jun 20, 2007 - 10 answers

How was my Google cache hacked? I have a web page that is fine, but the Google cache of the same page is a "spam" page with keywords linking to other web sites, random text and images, but also some valid links on my web site. How did that happen? [more inside]
posted by ShooBoo on May 23, 2007 - 6 answers

I am a photographer. My photographs are currently on a website that I used to work with but have since had a disagreement. I own the copyright to my images and would like the website to remove them. They are being very slow in their response as removing the images will create very negative publicity for them. I have maintained their website for the last 4 years and have full admin access to their dedicated server. If I log in and remove my images, could I be accused of misuse of computers? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Mar 2, 2007 - 10 answers

I'm looking for an old video that I think I saw back in the early 90s. It was a two part video about computer ethics. The first part was about piracy, the second was about the "evils of hacking". My Google skills have failed me. Does anyone out there remember this? [more inside]
posted by tehgubner on Feb 18, 2007 - 1 answer

Does anybody know of how to give a even, translucent no-slip surface to exsisting objects, similar to the surface of the Zune? [more inside]
posted by Orb2069 on Nov 26, 2006 - 6 answers

EvilFilter: I want to hack a machine on my own company's network. [more inside]
posted by blahtsk on Oct 12, 2006 - 24 answers

I need to know the process to set up a "evil twin" ad hoc network. I think one of my users here may be trying to play around where they should not, and I need to know how to check if they are trying to set up a "evil twin" called "free wifi access" [more inside]
posted by JonnyRotten on Jul 17, 2006 - 23 answers

So I got a new Motorola SLVR L7, what are some cool things I can do with it? Bonus points for OSX-Friendly apps/solutions. [more inside]
posted by neilkod on May 17, 2006 - 10 answers

Is there any way of telling whether someone is connected to my computer via remote desktop? [more inside]
posted by mikeanegus on May 12, 2006 - 21 answers

Songs about coding/programming? [more inside]
posted by blue_beetle on May 12, 2006 - 22 answers

Web site hacking attempts courtesy of "rory". [more inside]
posted by jca on Feb 28, 2006 - 32 answers

Let's say, hypothetically, that you are a victim of a man-in-the-middle attack, perhaps via the handy arp-spoofing feature of the somewhat creepy program known as ettercap. How could you tell? What are the telltale signs?
posted by Astragalus on Jan 4, 2006 - 10 answers

How can I become a rogue employee? I want to set up an unauthorized hotspot in my office, that "circumvents" the IT policy, by wirelessly linking my iBook to the all-PC network. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Dec 13, 2005 - 16 answers

What's the deal with the Google Video interface? More specifically, how can I grab frames from videos that aren't playable, like this funky site does? [more inside]
posted by tommyc on Aug 24, 2005 - 3 answers

Windows 2000 users and passwords: Is it possible for Windows to start up without any password prompting, yet have the OS [reasonably] safe from a bot logging in as an admin? [more inside]
posted by rolypolyman on Jul 18, 2005 - 4 answers

For an 802.11G network, is 128 bit WEP encryption secure ENOUGH? [more inside]
posted by jonson on Jul 2, 2005 - 17 answers

Why would requests for other websites show up in my web server's access log, and does it indicate that there's a vulnerability in my server? [more inside]
posted by jacobm on Jun 12, 2005 - 14 answers

Someone has been repeatedly trying to hack into my website. I'm on a windows box, running ASP and an Access Database. [more inside]
posted by quibx on May 9, 2005 - 10 answers

As seen here, there are a fair number of alternative firmwares for the popular Linksys WRT54G line of WiFi access points. I'm curious which ones are considered mature and worth investigating? Obviously Sveasoft's offering, but what else should I be testing?
posted by effugas on Apr 6, 2005 - 6 answers

WebTV equipment absolutely clogs the computer sections of my local thrift stores. Is there anything cool that can be done with it? (In my view, anything that involves a dial-up connection is not cool.) [more inside]
posted by box on Mar 23, 2005 - 2 answers

X-Box hacking 101. My 14 year old son wants to mess around with an extra X-Box he's gotten for a song, but has no idea how to go about it. He heard from a friend that you can mod it to play Playstation games. This would make Mom really happy. Is there any truth to this, and can anyone recommend links to fun hacks that a kid could handle?
posted by iconomy on Nov 1, 2004 - 12 answers

I am taking a brain-painful networking class (hint: it's all about the routers, baby!) and the studying is intense. It's hard, but I'm holding my own. I see questions here on AskMe that bring really cool answers from lots of folks, with a lot of repeat answerers, which leads me to ask, How Did You Learn What You Know About Computers/the Internet? Was it in school? Did you apprentice with someone who had m4d sk1lz? Did you teach yourself? Other?
posted by Lynsey on Oct 11, 2004 - 18 answers

Recently The Howie linked to a place that sells modded Xboxen. My question is--if I get one of these modded boxes, can I just use it as a turnkey solution for running a little dual-boot computer that can emulate a bunch of game platforms, play my mp3s with a decent interface, and play quicktime movies that I've ripped with a reasonable amount of clarity? (oh yeah, and save xbox games to the HD). Or, is it one of those deals where I *could* do most of that stuff, but I'd spend a heck of a lot of time messing with config files and otherwise slowly morphing into a Eunuchs Guru...

Or would I just be better off getting a cheap little mini-itx computer and putting an lcd monitor on it?
posted by mecran01 on Sep 25, 2004 - 15 answers

A couple months ago my site was lightly hacked. It happened again on a site for a friend of my father, possibly not as lightly. --> [more inside]
posted by sailormouth on Sep 14, 2004 - 4 answers