QICBoy - TECH category

Hacker gets back stolen machine

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:02:00 GMT

This guy had his Mac stolen and managed to hack his way into getting it back. The script he used to mess with the hacker is listed below. You can find other interesting scripts on the Oreillysite.

osascript -e 'say "[whatever]" using "Zarvox"'

Don't Talk to Cops

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:00:00 GMT

The other side is also really informative.

The Killers

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:00:00 GMT

This is a great video. I love the "Faster Pussycat" -esque look of the girls. The shuffled video scenes was a really create way to tell the story. I saw them Sep 12 at the shoreline. They arranged the songs perfectly with a waterfall climax at the end of the show.

Dog trapped by square of Pepsi cans

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT

This dog can't seem to figure out how to get out of a square of cans. I totally knew he would go for the rope thingie. That's Zuul's favorite too.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Dog tries to save his friend

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT

This video has been updated since it was originally posted. It's footage of a dog trying to save his friend by pulling him off to the side of the road. Both dogs live.

Prop 8 - The Musical

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:20:00 GMT

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

Lilliputians

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:30:00 GMT

This video from Gizmodo shows the cool effect of a shift lens when combined with time lapse.

The financial crisis simplified

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:00:00 GMT

The Vlogbrothers produced a video to explain the current economic crisis.

Tribe down

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:00:00 GMT

Tribe.net has been down for a couple weeks. Burners are back from the playa and are dying to reconnect, I couldn't think of a worse time to bring it down. I received a nasty 500 error this morning. I don't know what's going on but whatever it is its bad bad bad.

Extended downtime topic posted Tue, September 9, 2008 - 4:56 PM by Darren
So, if you hadn't noticed, our downtime from Thursday was extremely extended until today, Tuesday. A vital piece of hardware malfunctioned and was irreparably damaged when we powered it back on. This equipment was scheduled for replacement on September 23rd -- we have the site held together with spit and bubblegum until we get the new storage solution installed. We apologize for the extended downtime, this weekend was about as bad as it could get. We will be sending out an email to all users tomorrow.

Minimum impressions

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:00:00 GMT

Here are some figures that have been floating around in my mind that I thought I would share.

A website would need to generate 500 thousand impressions per month to receive an income of $5000 monthly. If you take 30% off (for taxes that amounts to about $3500. This would provide a modest monthly income for a one person show. The site would be about the popularity of cooltools or treonauts.

SITE               - IMPRESSIONS
laughingsquid[fm]  - 390,000
cooltools[fm]      - 480,000
treonauts[fm]      - 540,000
askaninja[fm]      - 780,000
43folders[fm]      - 900,000
boingboing[fm]     - 7,380,000

It's difficult to compare impressions since many websites don't offer that sort of information but you can use www.compete.com to get an idea of how the site ranks compared to others. Choose a couple of the sites you know the impressions for (laughingsquid, treonauts, askaninja as a baseline) as a baseline and compare the graphs to get a rough estimate. For example, tribe.net seems to far exceed the traffic of laughingsquid whereas tinynibbles.com seems to come pretty close to treeonauts.com. I've compiled an excel spreadsheet of sample impressions if you're interested in getting a better idea of what the numbers mean.

Here's how the numbers work out. If you were a website that charged $5 CPM (a modest figure, Gawker media charges between $6 and $10), you could sell 200 thousand impressions to 5 customers and earn $5000 monthly. This means your site would need to generate 1 million (one thousand thousand) impressions per month. You can double up the ads on a page and reduce this number to 500 thousand.

($5 per thousand impressions) * (200 thousand impressions) * (5 customers) = $5000 monthly (200 thousand impressions) * (5 customers) = 1000 thousand impressions