12/05/11
Not alot else going on so I thought I would throw up some scam mail examples. Nice mixture lately, lots of lottery themed ones. Got one from a Libyan amazing considering they got some issues at the moment down there.
07/05/11
28/04/11
11:36:26 am by drf, Categories: News , Tags: at, cavier, fujitsu, hard drives, hitachi, ide, old, seagate, tidbit, wd, xt Had a pile of old hard drives, so decided to grab a pic of a few them using our HD cam (Sanyo Xacti) however I just cant seem to on with it, its not really user friendly, it just does not feel like a cam, its claiming 12 mega pixels, the shutter speed is quite poor too, to me my old 4mp Kodak looks loads better. Video however is a different story it really leaves our old Kodak behind then. So I don't think I will be using this cam alot to be fair, I was going to use it for some high res PCB work, but we will see how it stacks up against the Kodaks macro mode. Good job it was free ;)
You may click for the raw uncompressed versions of the images from the cam, but beware there 4000x3000 & about 4mb each
22/04/11
01:40:13 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: 419, africa, email, examples, fraud, nigeria, russia, scames, ukraine This weeks random 419's having to be picked from the pile now, since we have gathered so many of the things. What got me this weeks was 2 of the mails were the same but had different pictures of apparant Eastern Bloc b*tches and we all love them expect for when they mutate (yet still blonde). Eastern bloc scam mail's have more pictures and usually of woman (mostly blonde) therefore they take presedence in the mail que.
18/04/11
07:05:00 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: battery, charging, discharge, nimh, procedure, test, vibrating. motor
15/04/11
Faulty Hitachi Freeview TV recorder thing, gutted for bits. For some odd reason it wont recognize the hard drive, yet the drive works fine. It's a SATA 500Gb Western Digital drive. Here are some pics taken of whats inside the unit, if that kind of thing gets you off. It's pretty sad state of affairs this things barely 2yrs old and is dead, sure I could attempt to fix it but its worthless anyhow, the drive may prove useful though :)
14/04/11
Recovered a old microwave today, I orig. only wanted the transformer for something else, but decided to gut the thing as it contained many useful parts such as spade clips, micro switches, transformers and a couple of caps. I took some pics in case anyones wondering what the inside of a microwave looks like. Also don't f*ck about in there the capacitor is DEADLY, short it if possible.
Faulty Sanyo microwave no heat output. Found anyhow.
13/04/11
11:06:54 am by drf, Categories: Sales, Hardware , Tags: 1040, 2mb, 4mb, 520, atari, memory, ram, ste, stf, stfm, upgrade kit Found a box of 2Mb & 4Mb Atari ST memory upgrade sims left over from when we used to sell the upgrade kits. These are meant for Atari 520 or 1040 STE's not all STF or STFM systems have the 30 pin simm slot and its kind of luck if you have a STF/STFM with the slot (post 1991 STF/STFMs do). However all STE's do. The simms were tested and stored long ago, there are many matching pairs left.
eMail any interest : dizzy@busydizzys.com or use the contact form
11/04/11
08:09:15 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: 419, africa, examples, fools, hmrc, idiots, mails, nigeria, online, scammers, the un, wang teng Not getting much in the way of 419's lately to our normal account so we decided to gather some up using a Hotmail account oddly this account has managed to attract a incredible amount of crap and I have managed to dig around 50 various 419 mails from the "Junk Box" alone in the last week, due to this i'm going to have to post 3/4 a day. Not quite sure what it is about Hotmail accounts that seemingly attracts crap... anyhow we have the unstoppable Mr Wang Teng whos name is on a mail at least once every 2/3 days, Mr Ban Ki Moon of the UN (obviously Nigeria are not too up todate with the UN staff roster there), HMRC (as if they ever give anything back?) and a Miss Melissa Lewis whos throwing away $14mil because the Lord said so!
10/04/11
Apparent issue with the new Nintendo 3DS that results in poor closure of lid and damage to the screen. Apparentfix either buy a screen protector or buy one or fit some small rubber feet from a Xbox or something. This would be a pretty big design flaw on Nintendos part, but then again the DS series screens are not known for handling knocks and bumps with ease.
As can be seen in this Nintendo mock up grabbed from somewhere the issue seems not to exsist.. but read on...
Orig. page : http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=48237
Yahoo answers user : http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110403064948AAX4PnJ
Nintendo's forum : http://techforums.nintendo.com/message/30893
08/04/11
04:21:08 pm by drf, Categories: News, Sales , Tags: ambit, cable, flash, memory, motorola, satellite, tsop Found some reclaimed TSOPs while clearing up? any use to anyone? I know these fit various cable/satellite receivers, modems/routers and other bits and bobs would be useful for a repair. We have more than we could ever use. Might even post some tear downs of some other stuff I found while clearing out the store.
Contact : dizzy@busydizzys.com leave a comment or use the contact form :)
28/03/11
27/03/11
06:31:22 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: 419, africa, examples, fools, gov, hsbc, idiots, loans, mails, nigeria, online, pp, scammers, stupid This weeks 419 mail fails are from the United States Postal Service (UPS) something about my student loan from UK gov (actually something called wifesbehindthebadge..) and a complete lazy attempt from a sender called PP 1 line of text... uter fail...
26/03/11
Arcade game deaths to the tune of Mad World in 8bit, not a bad vid, the music is quite good and im sure alot of people will remember alot of the games in there seems to be almost all 8/16 bit era games.
25/03/11
05:42:13 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: 1990s, 486, angelfire, dial up, geocities, geocities-izer, lycos, netscape navigator Some of you may remember the days of poorly formatted sites, random html tables , splattered animated gifs & very questionable content on the internet if you do, it was most likly GeoCities. I found this it says "make any site look like 1996" and it does it quite well. Thought I would post it as GC holds a special place next to AngelFire, Tripod, Lycos etc. it was a 'era you really had to be there it was a wild, out of control, unresistricted modem orgy!
The link: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/
24/03/11
Todays random pic(s), lets start off with a company we all have a hatred for, this sums up there operation pretty well
Like many things from Virgin this is also broken...
23/03/11
Saw this interesting peice of information regarding China and the dropping of mobile phone calls, apparently certain keywords have been noticed to trigger a phone to drop calls? The article states that using the word "protest" is what was causing this. This means that either somewhere in China theres a huge effort going on lisening in, in real time to everyones phone calls (too lazy/unfeasible) or some kind of automated system that passes keyword filled conversations off to a operator or something (possible/not likely), of course this is assuming it really is happening anyhow and its not just some weird coincidence or is that what your meant to think who knows? They really should ask around the so called security agencys (read legalised criminals) of the UK maybe get a few tips from them, they seem pretty good at tampering with peoples phone calls and getting away with it... personally I don't belive the call dropping that would be stupid it would just give away your cover and people would attempt to find ways around it and talk in code which would defeat the whole object of the exercise then.
Orig. story from the New York Times : http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/world/asia/22china.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4
Story related from Buisness standard : http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/chinese-govt-blocks-coverage%5Cjasmine-revolution%5C-protests/425965/
Article about the story in the Irish Times : http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0322/1224292773030.html
22/03/11
03:51:04 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: credits, facebook, farmville, fraud, gaming chips, hack, poker, texas hold em, theft, theif, zynga A gambling addict from Devon gets 2yrs for mucking about with Zynga in game credits (things used in Farmville, Poker and the likes?). He stole 400 billion of these credits which in Facebook world worth = £7.4mil (in reality -£0), he sold a load of these credits for about £53K after laundering them thru various facebook accounts (lol really?) to support a £1K a day gaming/gambling addiction. 2yrs though come on? you can smash someones head in and get less... really he could have done something more useful...
Some more info : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22/poker_chip_hacker_jailed/
The Guardian has a article on it too : http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/18/hacker-jailed-gaming-chips-scam
Slyck article : http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=54273
21/03/11
20/03/11
07:51:03 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: 419, africa, barclays, bobijou, examples, fools, idiots, mails, nigeria, online, scammers, stupid, world buisness Finally some new mails full of BS thats actually any good. This week we have a Laura Allen from the World Buisness somet or other chatting about a registration, Barclays Bank (which looks more real due to a lower % of bull in it) and some Bobijou saying I baught $577 of crap with a questionable invoice...
15/03/11
14/03/11
01:54:44 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: bsod, c00000034, error, fail, fix, guide, help, microsoft, service pack, sp1, w7, windows7 Well... could have been worse. Microsoft Windows 7 latest service pack has created havoc it seems with users being greeted with a nice big fat error code C00000034 which stops the machine from booting when it restarts after the updates, now things may not be so bad, but the SP1 installer removes the system restore points so you can't just jump in safe mode and roll the machine back. Many users have reported having to do a complete reinstall to get things going again. If you don't have W7 SP1 installed so far, its prob best to turn off "auto update" and await a fix.
I have no words...
Microsoft Technet info : (Error C000009A applying update operation 119595 of 334565 (\Registry\...) when loading SP1)
Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 info : CLICK HERE
A Technet blog with some attempts at repair : (Error 0xC0000034 during Service Pack 1 installations for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2)
Microsoft help & support : (Your computer may freeze or restart to a black screen that has a "0xc0000034" error message after you install Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or a Windows Vista service pack)
13/03/11
Todays random pics now with a "MORE" button because the front page was getting too long :[
10/03/11
05:11:25 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: exploit, free points hack, key generator, microsoft, mspoints, points generator, xbox360 The algorithm that generates the codes used on them Microsoft Xbox live MS point card thingys was apparently exploited to generate new key codes from old codes. A new code was not created instead it was figured out how to add to a exsisting/old code to create a new one from that, kind of like a template, there is a name for this its called "explorate" ( I think). Each code was worth upto 160 MS points, may not sound alot or even be worth alot on its own, but when you can generate as many as you want... you eventually cost M$ $1.2mil :p The tool/attack no longer works and it will be interesting to see what Microsoft do about this to users since they effectively robbed them (new ban wave? going further?)
09/03/11
Things may return to normal around here soon, that being i'll and the total lack of anything interesting dont help...
08/03/11
Nothing to report, bored as hell, also think ive contracted rabies... again... so random pics :
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