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Some of the more notable April fools I came across yesterday:

The Binrev forums got several new themes all in various shades of pink and purple: “digi-pink”, “Girlz-Rool”, “Country Bumpkin”.

The Binrev Members page changed to show ACH members.

2600 changed its homepage to look like Google.

Slashdot made some pink themes design changes to widen its appeal to [...]

The Cisco 7960 is a fairly popular VoIP phone especially among Asterisk users, primarily since it can be re-flashed with a SIP image. It has also featured appearances on TV shows such as FOX’s ‘24’, NBC’s ‘The West Wing’, and CBS’s ‘The Agency’. Among other things it supports call forwarding, call conferencing, and [...]

I was recently considering upgrading an Intel based PC, however as is the way with technology things change fast and I decided it would be easier just to build a new machine. Here is what I found:

AGP is out, PCI Express x16 is in.
Serial ATA replaces the old Parallel ATA IDE interfaces however there [...]

Last week I was set the task of coding up a tabular weekly calendar for DDP HackRadio in the same style as C-SPAN’s.
From what I could see it appears that C-SPAN just used some WYSIWYG editor to create their schedule, however we wanted to integrate ours into the existing HackRadio management system to save more [...]

Strom Carlson, who among other things co-hosts Binary Revolution Radio made the news this week after disclosing a vulnerability in Fedex Kinkos Smart Cards.
eWeek: Hacker Outsmarts Kinko’s ExpressPay Cards
SC Magazine: FedEx pay system could be grounded
Bruce Schneier: FedEx Kinko’s Payment Card Hacked
Digg: Fedex Kinko’s Smart Cards Hacked
Security Focus: Report: ExpressPay can be exploited for cash
PC [...]

A while ago I noticed many people were uploading content to archive.org for their various podcast shows however archive.org provide no API to automate the process. Therefore I coded up a PHP script that can be integrated into an existing CMS or used standalone on a cron which will automatically upload MP3 files in a [...]

After coding long into the night, reading all the new items on the 30 or so RSS feeds you are subscribed to, listening to some of the new podcasts, and updating your website or blog getting up next morning can sometimes be a challenge.  I have never been a fan of startling loud alarm clocks, [...]

After loading more and more mission critical applications (read it would be annoying if they experienced downtime) onto my server I decided it was finally time to purchase a UPS. Unfortunately however the UPS was the type to only include the standard (IEC-320 C13) PC type 3 pin connectors. This was fine for the server, [...]

I have used a standard cheap wireless remote control extender to change channels on a Sky Digital decoder box in another room for a number of years. Due to the distance between rooms, this usually involves pointing the remote control into the box, and moving the two in parallel around in the air until the [...]

Over the past couple of years the DDP, and its members have accumulated quite a few different sites and domain names. Here follows a reasonably comprehensive roundup of them:

binrev.com
The main DDP site hosting the forums, weekly Binary Revolution Radio show (StankDawg, Black Ratchet, Strom Carlson) now on its 130th episode, Hack TV (Dr^ZigMan), and [...]