How would you like to be able to quit your job and follow your dream? What if your dream was to help people without asking for anything in return? Bucky Roberts is a guy who was interested in making websites and computer but was tired of his college curriculum. He dropped out because… let’s face it… his curriculum was very unrelated to his ideal job. He felt he could do a better job on his own so he set off on YouTube making free tutorials.
After 4 years and 175,000 subscribers, Bucky moved his operations out of his bedroom and into an office, along with hiring two others to help him out.
Honestly, I HATE Java, if you’ve yet to notice, but whenever I needed tips or a quick tutorial, I always turned to TheNewBoston. The videos were easy to understand, in understandable English, were of great quality, and were funny.
So, thanks for staying classy, Bucky, and keep up the subtle, smart humor!
So this is my promise to you all. I will continue to work each and every day of my life until this goal is met. I will never sell out to a bigger corporation and I will never charge a single penny for any of these videos. There are some things that are much more important than money, and I believe that this is one of those things.
Originally, Disco Heaven was released on Lady Gaga’s MySpace profile before her breakout album, The Fame, was released en masse. Disco Heaven one of her least-known songs as it was just released as a bonus track and not one form the original listing.
A lot of people are willing to dismiss Lady Gaga because she’s popular or because people are weirded out by her core demographic, but after listening to this song, I don’t see how someone can still dismiss her. This song is really one of the best modern disco songs there are. With the diminishing genre, there are only few songs that actually live up to that title.
Whenever I was finding this song to post, I saw people asking if the ‘Disco Heaven‘ album was available in stores or if it was only available to purchase online. I looked into this because I had no idea that there was a Lady Gaga album with this title. Further searching returned information about a group of fans making and selling (illegally) their own compilation album that they made. Above is the album cover. Of course, the album does not have any original work on it.
So, over the weekend my university had another rugby match in San Antonio. I drove down from Dallas, which was a nice way to get some time to myself, and ended up staying at a friend’s house the entire weekend. If you were wondering why I hadn’t posted anything new over the weekend, that’s the reason. I got some good playing time in and we ended up winning 15 to 8, despite the strong wind and referee blowing his whistle every 30 seconds. Honestly, this guy did not know the rules of rugby and it seemed like we were scrumming for half of the match. Just look how flamboyant he looks in this photo! He sure liked those scrums.
No one broke anything and my tooth is still in the same shape as at the end of the last game, which is good because I figured it would have crumbled to pieces or fallen out by now. And after the match, we met up with the other team at a local sports bar where everyone had a good time.
So, my crait’s Lunchbox has been going on for a month, starting at the end of the day, and I’ve seen a great success with it! Overall, I have about 2 posts a day, which is a nice sign since most bloggers quit within the first month and just stop posting.
But now that I’m past the 1 month mark, I’m going to have a little shift in content, though. I’m going to start posting more about video games, technology, and most importantly, my projects and programming. Really, this website was made to be an online portfolio, so I’m going to start sticking to that. I’ll still be posting music every day, and I’ll be posting about politics about once a month, but I am going to emphasize technology.
A while back, I was trying to hack my Sony Mylo COM-1 and experimented with many, many exploits that I found. I think that this one may actually be the most promising. I was using the 1.300 Mylo COM-1 firmware when experimenting with this.
Basically, whenever you view a file on the Sony Mylo, it will take a second to load the thumbnail. If the file is not able to be read or is read as corrupted, a ‘corrupted icon’ will be displayed. The Mylo, for whatever reason, actually can allow you to select a file to be viewed before the thumbnails are finished loading. This is so that you don’t have to wait, but the code for checking for corrupted files is within the functions for loading the thumbnail, so if there is no thumbnail displayed, the Sony Mylo COM-1 will not know that the image is corrupted. Through this exploitable vulnerability, we should be able to force the Sony Mylo COM-1 to read an image that’s stuffed with code and make it run the code, but the offsets are highly volatile, so I never got the chance the completely study the exploit.
Later this weekend, I’ll be releasing my Sony Mylo Hack Portal, which contains a bulk of exploits that I was working on. Unfortunately, I was never able to pin-point where I was able to inject code into these images to be read, so I could not continue with this.
If you are interested in helping me with this, feel free to e-mail me at: crait.is@gmail.com
Check out my downloads and other exploits that I’ve found in my Download section: crait’s Downloads
Hey, everyone! January 25th is 2012′s official Opposite Day! I hope you guys didn’t have a good time! To celebrate this specialdumb day, I’m going to post one of my favorite The Whitest Kids U’ Know skit, titled Opposite Day.
With the Super Bowl a little less than 2 weeks away, I thought it would be appropriate to include some football related infograms on the site. I thought these two were particularly interesting.
This is absolutely one of the best collaborations that I’ve yet to see in mainstream music. It’s a few years old, but it’s still an amazing song. Drake starts it up and is in the chorus, then Kanye, Lil’ Wayne, and Eninem all have a change to go on the track. One thing about this song that I’ve got to mention and praise is that the beat is versatile. Standalone, it’s great, but whenever each rapper comes up, it changes to conform to their style and most importantly, it works. For instance, Lil’ Wanye has extra chimes and piano notes added in, while Eninem has a loud, shaking bass undertone during his part. Kanye West and Lil’ Wayne both have ways of slurring their lines outside of the beat, and it’s apparent in this song allowed them to do so.
Aside from that, the lyrics of all of the rappers are awesome, too. It’s hard to decide which person actually had the best lyrics of the song, because everyone had quite a few great lines.
I can remember a long, long time ago, I got a demo disc that had Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX on it for the PS1. I popped it in and played the demo stage over and over again. Fortunately, I was able to get a hold of the whole game, but I never finished it. With the advancement of homebrew on the PSP, I was finally able to move the game over from the disc onto my PSP to play and beat. It took me a good 3 weeks to beat it, but I’m glad I did because I can finally say that I have fully enjoyed the game. Of course, it’s not as great as the Tony Hawk skateboard series, but it’s up there.
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX was released in 2000, after the success of the Tony Hawk series, and gave players the ability to play through 12 different levels as famous BMX riders and ride through different sessions and competitions. One thing that was not included in this game, that’s quite understandable, is the lack of create-modes. You cannot create your own park, but you can at least have some small customizations to your player and bike.
The graphics aren’t very pretty to look at, but this game definitely has a worth-while soundtrack. It packs in bands like Sublime and… in fact, I already posted one of my favorite songs from the game. Maxwell Murder by Rancid. One thing that this game excelled at was the physics engine and the fast pace that it lets you ride at off of ramps or down hills. Speaking of ramps and hills, this game packs in some fantastic levels to shred around. There are off-road levels, indoor parks, and street-themed levels. They are all very different, but they are all well thought out and put together so that riding around is effortless. Of course, being an archaic PS1 game, you’re not going to notice it playing it today where you can compare it to modern games, but this game is very fluid and deserves some extra endorsement.
By the way, I’m looking up Haro’s. I’m gonna get one.
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX was released in 2000, after the success of the Tony Hawk series, and gave players the ability to play through 12 different levels as famous BMX riders and ride through different sessions and competitions. One thing that was not included in this game, that’s quite understandable, is the lack of create-modes. You cannot create your own park, but you can at least have some small customizations to your player and bike.
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