By Casey Lynn
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
I really kind of dig this video. The Mentalists performing live playing only iPhone apps that simulate musical instruments: Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth, and DigiDrummer Lite. She plays the ocarina much better than I do.
Priced at *ahem* only $35,000, the NitroCream G4 will take your favorite ice cream recipe, freeze it with liquid nitrogen, and finally mix it to create what is apparently the most perfect, silky smooth ice cream you’ve ever tasted.
[Via TechEblog]
By Brian Boyko
Contributor, [GAS]
For too long, network administrators, engineers, and architects have longed for a way to determine dominance within the IT pack. Unfortunately, those efforts have been stymied without a quick and convenient way to determine IT knowledge on a quantitative scale, leading to unsatisfying substitutes like Guitar Hero or Halo tournaments.
Finally, we have solved this problem. The Network Rockstar Challenge is a way for enterprise IT geeks to determine who’s got the biggest IT chops. Much like the old “You Don’t Know Jack” games, the Challenge asks you ten network related questions with a ten second time limit. Get 7 or more, you’re a rockstar. Six or less, and you’re tossed out into the alley. The faster you get the questions right, the more points you score.
I do have to warn you – the questions are HARD – even for people in networking, and the time limit makes it even tougher.
Full Disclosure: The game is being produced by NetQoS – the network monitoring solutions company which signs my paychecks at my day-job. We even created a video to promote the game – showing off some of our (ill-fated) beta testers trashing a conference room. Conflict of interest be-damned, though, it’s still a sweet game. (In my opinion, it’s best played with friends shouting answers over your shoulder.)
If you’re taking a long time to load up the game, some users have been able to speed it up by dumping their browser cache and reloading.
AskTheAdmin is back again with another “how to” for the GAS readers. Today’s tutorial will be covering a technique that will allow you to reset your lost 2003 Active Directory Administrator Password.
Don’t worry, it happens to the best of us and you are not alone. I have never had this happen to me in a production environment but it did a few times in test domains.
This article assumes that you forgot the AD admin password, someone changed it on you, or you are recovering from an attack.
This is not meant as a how to hack your company’s Active Directory – nope, not in any way, shape, or form. In case you decide to use this tutorial for nefarious purposes, we can not be held liable for your stupidity. With that said let’s move on.
All you need to know to destroy the world is in this step-by-step guide. A motion capture animation by Ransom Riggs.
What do you get when you combine an adult with too much time on his hands and a Power Wheels toy car? This is what you get:
By PatB
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
On February 20th, [GAS] warned readers that the current version of Acrobat Reader had a security flaw that bad guys were exploiting to deliver malware. Adobe has worked hard and just released an updated version of their ubiquitous software for both PC and Mac. So don’t walk, but run to Adobe’s site here and get the new patched version.
By Casey Lynn
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Whatever your opinion of the Wii as a gaming platform, one thing is for sure: it’s a lot more interesting to watch someone else playing a Wii than the more traditional videogame consoles. Not since the invention of the home DDR mat has there been such opportunity for spectator entertainment. In any case, that means that there is a fair amount of photography devoted to the Wii floating around, and here are a few gems picked out from the herd.
My wife thought she’d won when she banned videogames to the garage, but really that was my plan all along! Bwhahaha.
Why was Pluto demoted? What is the Kuiper belt? Do you know your way around our galactic neighborhood? Welcome to the Solar System: At least 7 billions miles across, home to 8 planets, 166 moons, and billions of asteroids, comets, and meteorites.
Isn’t this the coolest looking light bulb you’ve ever seen? Philips’ new Master LED light bulb gives as much light as a conventional 40-watt bulb, but with a 45,000-hour lifespan, four times as much as a CFL and a total power consumption of seven watts. However, with a price tag of $50 to $70 per unit, replacing all light sources in your home with LED light bulbs could become quite the project. The Master LED Light Bulbs are already on sale in Europe, but we won’t see them here in North America until next July.
[Via Core77]