Category: News

12/05/11

Permalink 09:49:26 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: 419, africa, atms, examples, fools, libya, lottery
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.   Number 1:AR… more »

07/05/11

Permalink 11:44:45 am by drf, Categories: News , Tags: apple, crap, funny, geeky, imac, ipad, ipod, mac, pics, random
Todays random pics, "hating Apple" theme. more »

28/04/11

Permalink 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 i… more »

22/04/11

Permalink 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 f… more »

18/04/11

Permalink 07:05:00 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: battery, charging, discharge, nimh, procedure, test, vibrating. motor
A experiment in discharging. I have noticed something hardly any of my cameras batteries are holding a charge. Even when there chargers say there fully charged, they can't even put out enough to run on my cam! whats more worrying about this is some of th… more »

15/04/11

Permalink 07:53:18 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: faulty, freeview, hitachi, recorder
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… more »

14/04/11

Permalink 10:45:37 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: capacitor, microwave, parts, tear down, transformer
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 anyon… more »

11/04/11

Permalink 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… more »

10/04/11

Permalink 05:49:51 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: 3ds, damage, fix, hinge, kit, lid, nintendo, screen
Apprant issue with the new Nintendo 3DS that results in poor closure of lid and damage to the screen. Apprant fix 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 N… more »
Permalink 05:36:12 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: crap, funny, geeky, pics, random
Todays random pic(s)* Why only to buy real toners... more »

08/04/11

Permalink 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.Contact : dizzy@busydizzys.com leave a comment or use the contact… more »

28/03/11

Permalink 04:02:31 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: crap, funny, geeky, pics, random
Todays random pic(s)   more »

27/03/11

Permalink 10:36:31 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: 404, dns error, error page, server issue, site error
A collection of a few weird 404 error pages. * Githubs has some interactive animation : https://github.com/cwholt/error_page* Lots of animation, music player, interactive and in Russian :p http://proteys.info/404/* Animated  more »
Permalink 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...  … more »

26/03/11

Permalink 07:40:21 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: 16bit, 8bit, arcade, endings, game, mad world, video
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. [video:youtube:gJ6APKIjFQY] more »
Permalink 05:48:48 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: crap, funny, geeky, pics, random
Todays random pic(s) * Seems likly a VERY similar hole exsists in Windows XP using the text to speech engine, IE and the help from a locked out machines login window. more »

25/03/11

Permalink 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… more »
Permalink 04:03:39 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: crap, funny, geeky, pics, random
Todays random pic(s) more »

24/03/11

Permalink 05:25:33 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: crap, funny, geeky, pics, random
Todays random pic(s), lets start off with a company we all have a hatred for, this sums up there operation pretty wellLike many things from Virgin this is also broken...Seems it can, although it does not look as epic I guess... more »

23/03/11

Permalink 04:28:35 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: blocked, china, gsm, mobile phones, protests
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. T… more »

22/03/11

Permalink 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… more »

21/03/11

Permalink 03:46:04 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: crap, funny, geeky, pics, random
Todays random pics...  * The author most likly lives here then 8yrs of this.... you get used to it...* Most people know THAT pad, those that do not are better off... more »

20/03/11

Permalink 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… more »

15/03/11

Permalink 08:07:38 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: crap, funny, geeky, pics, random
Todays random pic(s)...   Yeah that was a great packaging plan... Not alot better.... more »

14/03/11

Permalink 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 n… more »

13/03/11

Permalink 07:57:19 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: crap, funny, geeky, pics, random
Todays random pics now with a "MORE" button because the front page was getting too long :[ more »

10/03/11

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 c… more »

09/03/11

Permalink 10:15:17 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: crap, funny, geeky, pics, random
Things may return to normal around here soon, that being i'll and the total lack of anything interesting dont help... * This has actually happened to me before :/* Predates Adobe Systems trademark via use of medievil "shoppe" more »

08/03/11

Permalink 07:34:49 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: crap, funny, geeky, pics, random
Nothing to report, bored as hell, also think ive contracted rabies... again... so random pics :   more »

06/03/11

Permalink 06:54:28 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: crap, funny, geeky, pics, random
Random pics of the day with a "lets rip on Apple" theme :    more »

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