To start off from the beginning, this is not a tutorial and I will not be directing you how to use Last.fm. I am going to tell you all you need to know about it, what it does, and what the benefits are. If your still interested, keep on reading!

What is it?

To make life simple, ill give you the wikipedia definition of it… this is only because people that read my english never realize what im trying to explain because I would tell you everything but the objective.

Last.fm is an Internet radio station and music recommendation system that merged with sister site Audioscrobbler in August 2005. The system builds a detailed profile of each user’s musical taste, also recommending artists similar to their favorites, showing their favourite artists and songs on a customizable profile webpage, comprising the songs played on its stations selected via a collaborative filter, or optionally, recorded by a Last.fm plugin installed into its users’ music playing application. (more…)

Ok, first off I am going to give you tips on how to burn more calories when you are doing your every day things (aka metabolism). Also I am no professional, and base this off of success stories and articles I have red through out the years.

• First a few reminders (Don’t worry we will get to the weight loss soon enough!)
  • You won’t lose 20 pounds+ in a month, and if you manage to do this you will gain 20 pounds the next. Its just a shot in your metabolism.
  • You do not lose weight immediately, you build up muscle and may actually gain weight (but look better :-)). After a month you should have enough muscle for it to start burning the fat and that is when you will really notice.
  • You may gain weight just due to “water weight” and not fat in your diet. Keep it up, after a month you should start noticing. (more…)

Well i found this out quite a while ago when I was hunting for my Wii, and found it very usefull. Here is what you do:

How:

1. Find the pricetag of the object you want, this is that piece of paper on the shelf/rack that tells you how much it is.
2. On the middle left there are a few numbers write them down.
3. Go to a price checker, they are normally mounted to a wall.
4. Push a few buttons till it lets you manually enter a number
5. Clear what is on the screen and type your barcode and push enter
6. Bam it will tell you if it is in the back.

So now you know it is in the back you can either ask the workers till one of them will get it for you or wait till they go put it out(normaly it is put out within an hour). Have fun!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cups of onion, chopped
• 1/2 cups of celery, chopped
• 1/c cups of carrots, chopped
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1/4 t thyme
• 3/4 t basil
• 1/4 t oregano
• 1 cup of cabbage, chopped
• 11/2 cups of garbanzo beans (canned, organic)
• 2 cups of red kidney beans (canned, organic)
• 1 can organic Italian tomatoes, chopped
• 6-8 cups of of Homemade Vegetable Broth (more…)

This is hopefully going to give you an overview of a packet. A packet basically is what your computer sends to other computers. So when you purchase something online your creditcard will most likely be stored in a packet. By the end of this you should know how to exploit packets and how to protect yourself by examining them.
What you need:

• Burp Suite(or proxy), this works on windows, linux and OSX!
• Basic knowledge.

Setting Up Burp

1. Download and unextract the Burp Suite(or proxy) mentioned above.
2. Open the Burpsuite_v1.01.jar file (please note that the v1.01 may be slightly different on your copy)
3. Now click on “options” and see what port it is running on, should be 8080 but you can change it if you need to.
4. Go into your browser and find your proxy settings.
5. Put 127.0.0.1 in for the hostname and 8080 for the port(unless you changed it) *Note when these settings are saved you will not be able to access the internet from that browser without burp open, i recomend disabling it when you are done*
6. Now when you want to see the information that is getting sent to and from your computer go to the burp proxy and turn intercept on
   • This information could be usefull if you wish to see what sites will transmit your password, credit card, etc information in plaintext. This way when you go on a wireless access point or at a internet cafe, you can know how to protect your valuable information.

The Fun Stuff, Editing:

• Flash game scores! This won’t always work but the places it does you can give yourself any score!

1. Start up your proxy(intercept off) and click on the “param” option.
2. Find a flash game that keeps track of high scores
3. Start playing the game
4. When your half way through turn intercept on.
5. Lose the game and look at what score you have
6. Find your score and edit it to what you would like it to be.
7. Click forward and turn intercept off, if another packet came just click forward again
8. Thats it. Most likely the major places will have this patched.

• Faking an image, to upload anything to those image only upload places

1. Find a site with a fairly small site that allows uploads of any kind(this won’t work on any major site due to you can take over their whole server from this little exploit).
2. Start up your proxy with the text bubble clicked(by the param and hex bubbles)
3. Upload a legit file that it will accept.
4. look for the “content type” this till be near the bottem most likely and have *something*/*something* ex: image/jpeg. Copy and paste that and forward the packets. If you do not see this then forward the packet and look at the next one.
5. Now turn intercept off get back to that page and turn intercept back on.
6. Upload what ever file you wish now.
7. Find the *something*/*something* again, it will most likely be: application/octet-stream. and replace that with the accepted.
8. Forward the packets.
9. If it did not work repeat(steps 5-8) this time find your file name and replace the extension with the accepted one such as .php with .jpg.
10. If this does not work this will not work. Sorry!

There is much more you can do by editing your packets mainly due to the fact that majority of scripts used are free. And some authors don’t properly test stuff they don’t make cash off of

Compiling from sources can be a pain in the neck. It also can be a joy, and in the end you get the great feeling of accomplishment when you are done. I can finally say “I did it!” without having to worry about my next problem (or so I hope not). Anyways, I will take you through the basics and setting things up, so bear with me if you do not understand anything. By anything I mean, anything at all. If you get stuck on a step, keep on reading. If you are still stumbled, do not hesitate to post a comment with your misunderstanding!

What?

rTorrent, a terminal based bit-torrent client for Linux. It can do anything, it has the optimization to run in the background with (basically) no notice at all. Lost? This is just a simple explanation of the program. The benefit of rTorrent to Azureus or some other 3rd party clients is that rTorrent is extremely efficent. Said enough? No! Without rTorrent you do not realize how much easier and enjoyable it is to download things off of the bittorrent network. I may be stumbling over words, so if you really want an explantion and dont mind reading more about the “What” of rTorrent, here are some links.

rTorrent @ wikipedia.org
libtorrent @ wikipedia.org

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