* Posts by Chris Willhoite

4 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2007

Microsoft's .NET goes Web 2.0 with Sadville

Chris Willhoite
Paris Hilton

Who wants mono?

The name might also have something to do with it, I mean who would go out of their way to get mono(mononucleosis)?

Paris because. . . well that should be obvious.

HP biased against BIOS password security

Chris Willhoite

Toshiba laptop BIOS

I don't know about the current batch of Toshiba laptops, but the ones we used in the early 90's were laughably easy to reset the BIOS passwords on. All you needed was a floppy disk, floppy drive and a hex editor. Edit the boot sector of the floppy to the right key-phrase and reboot with it in the drive. Instant password reset.

How to destroy 60 hard drives an hour

Chris Willhoite

Spendy drill press

$11k for a drill press? Get a Craftsman from Sears for less then $200.

Taser creates electric shotgun

Chris Willhoite

Further aplications

"a battery of six wired taser darts sprayed simultaneously in a 20 degree arc"

If you arm a Roomba with one of these does that make it a Roomba sweeper?