There are several categories as you can see from the screenshot. Projects range from making your own office greenhouse to building a light up, LED word clock that literally tells you the time. Each guide comes with numerous pictures and detailed instructions. Often, if it’s related to technology, and more specifically coding or programming, then the guide creator will upload all the necessary files for you along with the guide.

So if you’re bored and want something to do. Or if you want to mod things around your home so they’ll work ten times better – check out instructables.com .

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The main section of their blogs covers their antics and those of their readers. It’s mainly features stories of some of the cool electronic gadgets that they built on a rainy afternoon. This section is updated daily so they must have their fair share of free time!

Probably my favourite section is the ‘How-To’ section. This is the section with step-by-step guides that demonstrate how to build cool toys, gadgets and as I mentioned above – highly experimental homemade spot welders. This is updated weekly (although there hasn’t been much activity over the past month or so)

For cool hacks other crazy gadgets visit www.hackaday.com .

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A report said that vulnerability was found using the Server Message Block 2.0 protocol (SMB2) that causes the one and only BSoD (Blue Screen of Death). That includes not only all Windows 7 versions (32 and 64 bits included), but Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008; since all of these operating systems are using the same protocol.

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On the good side, since the protocol it is commonly used only in LAN networks, the attacker should be in the same network segment as you. The funny thing is that this same exploit appeared in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and Microsoft released of course an update to solve this security hole.

Even though Microsoft it is informed about this issue, there is no patch available to solve this inconvenient. Here’s a quick description about the exploit:

“SRV2.SYS fails to handle malformed SMB headers for the NEGOTIATE PROTOCOL REQUEST functionality. The NEGOTIATE PROTOCOL REQUEST is the first SMB query a client send to a SMB server, and it’s used to identify the SMB dialect that will be used for further communication.

An attacker can remotely crash without no user interaction, any Vista/Windows 7 machine with SMB enable. Windows Xp, 2k, are NOT affected as they don’t have this driver.”

And how can I disable SMB? Access the TCP/IP properties from your network adapter and uncheck the “File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks”.

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