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Miles and I had a cheery trip to the Secret Nuclear Bunker at Hack Green a couple of weeks ago. Originally a Starfish site in the Second World War to decoy attacks from Crewe, then a radar site it became the site of an R6 hardened Regional Seat of Government Bunker. In time of nuclear war from the 1960's to the 1990's, the county of Chester would have been governed from this place. Situated in countryside south west of Nantwich, it was connected to a hardened communication network with other RGHQ's and central government. Many people would have lived and worked in the semi buried bunker.
Abandonned in 1992 as a dividend of the end of the Cold War it was opened in 1998 as a tourist attraction and house a large collection of Cold War relics and a number of deactivated nuclear weapons.
*sigh*
I know MOCpages doesn't mean much to a lot of you anymore, but I know a lot of you had your start in the LEGO community there. I don't know what I did to piss somebody off, but I seem to be in someone's crosshairs. For now, it's still civil in so much as that MOCs have not been deleted, but they changed the e-mail and the password. I do have a way to hack my way back in, but you know, it's just not worth it right now.
And of course it's right in the middle of the Eight Piece Building Challenge which I have helped spread the word about. I also recently helped someone to upload creations to the site. Yeah, the site is broken, hence why I am being hacked, but far be it from me to try and bolster activity for those that actually want to populate the site.
A few weeks ago, I had been removed from the Eight Piece Building Challenge group after sharing the news of its return. About a week ago, I gave Ben Cossy a proper critique on his latest MOC, Breathless, which is beautiful by the way, but I wanted to give him some fair opinions and suggestions for improvements; that comment was deleted not of Ben's or my own volition. And just a few days ago, my e-mail had been changed, but the password had not so I was able to get right back in. Clearly I am being watched and they've retaliated with more action. I never made a big stink about it because of how quickly I was able to get back to work, but now I can't even write comments in groups telling people what's happened.
With the news about Flickr's photo limitations for free users, I planned to use MOCpages now more than ever until a new platform arose. I already used MOCpages a lot to store all my photos and go in more depth with details, but it's no longer a safe place. Luckily, I'm a hoarder and have backlogs on all my photos, but not all the text and details. If the hack goes further, all that information is gone. But I guess the plan to use it even more is out the window.
Like I said, I do have a way where I could gain control again, but the hacker knows the same tricks, so it would just be a never ending loop. I could even create a new account with a different e-mail, but I imagine the second I was found out, that, too, would be hacked. So I guess this is good-bye to MOCpages for all those that want to see whatever is left. I'm not deleting anything. I'll leave being a dick to the dick that likes to hack people. Here's a LINK to my homepage.
*sigh*
Made from the Sunny Wheat (with brown boot feet and masked head under the helmet) Blank and Black Armor set. A mysterious villain, sort of like War Duke I suppose
this was original found in a chinese xitek.com forum thread:
forum.xitek.com/showthread.php?threadid=349607&pagenu...
then passed on to dyxum.com by jvc2000 in this thread:
www.dyxum.com/dforum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12549&PN=1
since there wasn't a picture other than from the xitek.com, i thought i'd post my hack job.
the minolta AF 35-70 F4 lens has no auto-focus when you use the macro. this hack is very simple, allow auto-focus to be used when in macro mode.
all you need are:
1] xacto knife
2] "scotch"/transparent tape
3] scissors
4] 5 minutes
5] some steady hands.
since i have 3 of these lens I decided to take the plunge with 1 of them.
- go into macro mode
- pry off the rubber grip using the knife.
- you will see a black tape. again use the knife to pull it off on one side
- this will expose the gold contacts
- the third large band is where you will put the scotch/transparent tape over. (view the picture above). you can also tape over the thin band to the right of it.
- for me, the width of the scotch/transparent tape is the same length as the entire macro gold contact.
- because the hole is smaller than the entire length of the macro gold contact, i had to put the tape on the start of the macro gold contact and taped it down, and then turned the zoom to expose the end of the macro gold contact and pushed the tape down.
- be careful not to bend the pins on the white plastic while doing all this!
- close the black tape back up
- put the grip back on. you don't need any glue. the adhesive on the grip should be plenty sticky.
YMMV and do at your own risk :)
Meeting with the hacker&activist "g", France 2016
Documentary project with Jerry O'riordan
From series of "couleur de la nature, France 2016"
(color of nature, France 2016)
Hackness, a small village on the edge of the North Yorks Moors, captured in sunshine - a relief from the winter snow.
Textures by Pareeerica.
This is side view. Its in beater shape than front view
With the construction of the transcontinental railroad, a vast number of railroad ties were needed. Cutting timber to produce railroad ties was known as ‘tie hacking.’ The Bridger-Teton has a long history of tie hack activities from 1867 to 1952. Ties were cut on the forested mountain slopes, skidded to a river’s edge, and floated to the nearest railroad. Evidence of tie hack activity, including abandoned cabins, can still be found along the Green River, the Hams Fork River, and in the mountains west of LaBarge and Big Piney.
The history of tie hack activities on the Bridger-Teton begins in 1867 along the upper Green River. In that year, Charles Delony contracted with the Union Pacific Railroad to supply ties to the rail head in the town of Green River. During the winter of 1867, Delony constructed a cook shack, commissary, bunkhouse, and saw mill on the banks of the Green River near the present day Forest boundary. He hired 30 men to cut ties during the winter near the head quarters. These ties were skidded down to the river's edge then floated 130 miles downstream to Green River City where Delony built a boom to catch the ties. Delony continued tie hack operations in the area until 1869, at which time the railroad company had completed its construction.
Tie hack activities along the upper Green River ceased until 1895 at which time the Green River Lumber and Tie Company was created. The headquarters for this operation was below Red Hills where the current Kendall Guard Station is located, and just two miles north from where Charles Delony cut ties 30 years earlier. The Green River Lumber and Tie Company continued its operation along the Green until 1904 at which time they had completed their orders from the Union Pacific.
A number of isolated tie hack cabins can still be found throughout the Forest in the upper Green River area. Most notable are cabins located in the Klondike Hill and Red Hills area. Isolated cabins have also been found along Rock Creek and in the Twin Creek Basin southwest of Klondike Hill.
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Angi Viper brings the Cassie Hack, the Slasher Slayer to life at Long Beach Comic-Con.
You can see more of Angi's wonderful cosplay on her facebook page at: www.facebook.com/AngiViper
And on Twitter at: twitter.com/AngiViper
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I've had neither the time (lie) nor the inclination (truth) to sit down and do any more of these recently and so I'm giving you some old ones for a while. Accept me apology?
This one was taken around the time I discovered the White Balance setting on my camera and thought I was so smart when I changed it. The wrapping paper here was bright silver. The blue is courtesy of Tungsten.
Interestingness: May 19th, 2008 (26)
This past weekend, I picked up a Fuji Instax instant film camera and had a blast taking it to parties. There were a few things I've seen that attracted me to this camera. One of them was the incredibly cool instax windows shots by slightlynorth (I'm still experimenting with the concept...nothing too exciting to show yet). Another was the clever hack by the good reverend ogalthorpe to enable off-camera flash.
I sat down last night to do ogalthorpe's hack and got to the point where I needed to saw the "lens" off of the optical trigger. The saw was down in storage and I am eternally lazy, so I started thinking about other ways to hack the camera. I got the idea of trying to install an honest sync port in the thing...something I could plug a pocket wizard in to without the use of the optical trigger. I had an extra mini jack lying around from a previous project, so I started trying to take the camera apart to see if I couldn't find some place to install the thing...why not? I mean I've had the thing for over 48 hours...the novelty has surely worn off by now. ;)
Opening the Instax was a bit of a pain in the ass. I couldn't find any instructions for taking the thing apart on the Internets, so I just had to kinda wing it. I did end up breaking a tab in the process, but nothing a little super glue (or gaffer's tape) can't fix.
After I got the thing open, I was able to find the flash triggering circuit and just barely enough room to accommodate my mini-jack. I soldered an optoisolater across the points to insulate the camera from any crazy sync voltages (just to be safe) and then I drilled a hole in the bottom and installed the mini-jack.
The end result is a fully working flash sync-port on the Instax. :D
The built-in flash still works normally and you still have to cover it with some gaffer's tape if you don't want to use it in the shot. This is my first test shot last night. Exposure issues aside, you can see that both the built in flash and the speedlight I'm holding in my hand are going off. The speedlight is triggered by the pocket wizard connected to the instax.
You can see a shot of the solder points here.
One of the easiest little hacks imaginable!
These started off as a 4-pack of fuzzy ponytail scrunchies from the DollarTree store.
Here's the sort of thing I mean:
www.pinterest.com/pin/301459768815570205/
All I had to do was to stitch one end closed.
They make a cute hat for a doll with hair, or a fun wig for a lock-less lady.
Oh yeah - a super cheap hack, too, at just 25¢ per! :-D
I was bugged by the fully-automatic controls of the Instax. Trying out a Fuji Instax 200 with the guts and lens removed. It's fully manual : you put the film in, cover the light seals with electrical tape. To take a photo, you either cover and uncover the pinhole lens, or use the shutter from the Seagull 6x6 TLR lens. The advantage of the Seagull is that it has an adjustable aperture from f/3.5-22, with speeds from 1/300, 1/125, 1/60, 1/30, 1/15, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1" and Bulb. The pinhole [Loreo "Lens in a Cap"] has apertures of f/5.6-f/64.
The first shot was taken at f/5.6, a quick guess of exposure by flicking the tape on and off -- it was around 1:00PM, so quite bright. The second was at f/5.6, 1/2 second approximation without light meters or anything -- I just guessed, covering the lens opening with my finger.
The lens gets really sharp at f/64.
I need to find a reliable shutter cocking mechanism for the Segull lens, as I currently only use that during night time in a dark enviroment -- I have to take the lens off the body in order to cock it.
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The first is blue because of daylight lighting.
The second is red because of incandescent lighting.
Update from Elmophoto: PLEASE NOTE: As of April 22, 2015 the user agent workaround for Chrome and Firefox no longer works to display the pre-March 2014 page look. Unfortunately I don't believe there's any way to return to the pre-"new experience" look..
A real pity as I liked the old Flickr look, but thanks a lot to Lorenzo Montezemolo for giving me a year's respite before being forced to give it up. :)
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I just applied this fix in Firefox. Took about 30 seconds and - for me, at least - it works fine.
Clickable link: www.elmofoto.com/Hacks/FlickrHackr.
Borrowed from my Flickr-friend Sherwood Harrington. Thanks, Pal. :)
Clarence Creek Falls, 45 ft. A lot of hacking and whacking through stinging nettles and over unstable ground was required in order to get down to this waterfall. Unfortunately, I did go the wrong way down, making it much tougher on myself than needed. It is a difficult waterfall to photograph. This straight on view was pretty much the only option I had.
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Inworld & Marketplace
Available inworld and on MP Enjoy !!!!!!!!!!
Available in : Slink, Maitreya, Vista, Omega
inworld: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cherry%20Isle/163/134/2434
Marketplace: marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/219967
Bahamian man gets five years in US prison for hacking celebrities
A Bahamian man was sentenced to five years in US jail on Tuesday (Dec 6) for hacking into big names’ email records to take unreleased film and TV scripts, individual data and sexually unequivocal recordings so as to offer...
I noticed these three birds occasionally hacking away at the sea ice and wondered why. What is hiding in sea ice that is attractive enough for birds to want to spend a considerable amount of time standing around in the freezing cold ? I was also attracted to the strange mix of bluish, greenish and yellowish colours in this otherwise barren winter landscape.
thomashawk.com/2007/01/top-10-hacks-on-flickr.html
1. The number one hack for Flickr would have to be Flickrleech. Flickrleech is a site developed by Andrew Houser (who is also a kick ass photographer), or simply Houser as he is often called, with the tagline, "because paging sucks."
When Houser released Flickrleech originally it would allow you to pull up any Flickr user's photos as a full page of thumbnails with no pagination. Although very cool, loading up 7,000 thumbnails wasn't exactly the nicest things to do to Flickr's servers and Houser actually changed his site to load 500 thumbnails at a time and today it sits at 200 thumbnails at a time.
Still, having the ability to browse a flickr user's photos at 200 thumbnails at a time is remarkable and allows you more photos on a single page than anything Flickr offers up themselves.
I'm constantly using Flickrleech to check out a new photographer's photos or to rapid fire go through someone's stream.
If you like these Flickr hacks feel free to digg them here.