Hardware Hacking: GTX 570 eGPU on a 2013 11" Macbook Air

From Larry Gadea https://twitter.com/lg/status/362750011655733248

Approx $250 in hardware (not counting Graphics card) instructions at http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/4271-2013-11-macbook-air-win7-sonnet-echo-expresscard-pe4l-internal-lcd-%24250.html#post59391

I really like this idea, been waiting for Thunderbolt to provide external graphics card solution, makes a lot of sense to me, specially if you can fit external hardware in a convenient to transport case.

For those still in school, it might be hard to see the point, but if you have to travel for work, or fit a LAN party in around work schedule, being able to plug external GPU into a laptop or x86 Tablet (something like a Surface Pro/Razer Edge Pro) could make a significant difference to your gaming time.

It certainly isn't for everyone though.

Drewbie Streaming

Stream:  http://www.twitch.tv/rootdrewbie/new

Drewbie Fighting ^_^

PC Perspective Podcast live

Stream:  http://www.pcper.com/live/

Main site http://www.pcper.com/

Good hardware show & site!

Happy 2nd Anniversary at Brick House to TWiT!

Big fan of TWiT, about half the podcasts I listen to are produced by TWiT, appreciate the great work they do.

"On Wednesday, July 24th, TWiT will be celebrating the second anniversary of our move to the TWiT Brick House.  At 3PM, we will be recording a special episode of Triangulation with Leo Laporte as the guest, interviewed in-studio by Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane." ~http://inside.twit.tv/blog/2013/7/17/twit-brick-house-2nd-anniversary-72413.html

Wish I lived closer, so I could join their open house, see link above for information on the open house.

One NFC Ring to Rule Them All

NFC Ring by John McLear

I really hope this is successful, looks like a very practical solution to smartphone security for average people IMHO.

iPhone 4S and newer, and most Blackberry's (with correct settings for MicroSD card) have good device security if locked with strong password, but entering strong password on touchscreens is a major PITA!

I am thinking this would provide a way to use a very strong password, without having to manually enter it all the time, so if your smartphone was lost/stolen, your data would be secure.

Their Kickstarter link http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mclear/nfc-ring

Their Blog is at http://blog.nfcring.com/
Their Webpage (future main site?) http://nfcring.com/

I like the Rackspace NFC ring Hacker challenge for DEFCON (can win $100 of  free hosting) see
http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/steal-my-nfc-ring-data-at-defcon-for-100-dollars-of-free-hosting-with-rackspace.html or http://blog.nfcring.com/uncategorized/rackspace-nfc-ring-challenge/

Sacriel streaming DayZ

Stream:  http://www.twitch.tv/sacriel

Haven't had chance to watch Sacriel stream for some time, IRL getting in the way T_T

So NSA admits they listen to everyone?

http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/jul/17/nsa-surveillance-house-hearing:

"John C Inglis, the deputy director of the surveillance agency, told a member of the House judiciary committee that NSA analysts can perform "a second or third hop query" through its collections of telephone data and internet records in order to find connections to terrorist organizations. "


"A three-hop query means that the NSA can look at data not only from a suspected terrorist, but from everyone that suspect communicated with, and then from everyone those people communicated with, and then from everyone all of those people communicated with."

Home Story Cup VII (HSC) stream is up

Update:  Stream A is up on Twitch now http://www.twitch.tv/taketv

Update:  Stream B for HSC http://www.twitch.tv/TaKeTVBStream
also other streams on Twitch for HSC seem to be working and are listed on TL http://www.teamliquid.net/

Update:  stream crashed and is still down for me, but up for some of my friends

HSC Stream is up at http://taketv.net/

Via TLO's Tweet:  "you'll find the stream for #saveHSC on http://taketv.net  now! Sorry for the delay ;;" ~https://twitter.com/LiquidTLO/status/348429765365088257

TwitchTV Outage & HSC VII delay

Twitch was down for a while, now I believe it is up in limited ways/areas, many people getting 403 Forbidden error, official post about it from Twitch.TV here http://blog.twitch.tv/2013/06/site-outage-passwords-and-stream-keys-reset/

So far they are saying they were not hacked, rather their "web CDN made a requested change without obeying our caching ruleset," but they are forcing password reset because of issue.

If you read the comments, it sounds like they discovered more problems after they made that blog blog posts or initial tweets.

In addition to their blog site, you can follow Twitch's main Twitter at https://twitter.com/TwitchTV, or their support Twitter at https://twitter.com/TwitchTVSupport

They are working on getting things backup and running ASAP.

HSC (Home Story Cup) was delayed an hour from what I have seen on Twitter from Rotti:
"We were supposed to start at 13:00 CET but it might be 14:00, depends if Twitch tv is working fine or not, I'll keep you guys posted!"
~ https://twitter.com/RotterdaM08/status/348393076617797632

Note I have world clock at top of Blog, starting with Korean time, to make figuring out time zones at a glance easier.

I will post updates if possible when they become available.

Tags:  TwitchTV, HSC VII, streaming, PSA

Minecraft Water Trap

Elegant Drowning Trap From http://www.youtube.com/user/AkifHD?feature=watch

Via http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tutorials/Monster_Spawner_traps#Flow_Trap

Found this while waiting for Dreamhack, I will have to try it out, have a Zombie spawner on a map that I set up as a quick simple grinder, had river near spawner and just dug out enough for river to push Zombies to one wall were I can hack at their legs.

This would make it a lot more efficient, and wouldn't take much work to add.