Check his full episode parody of Glen Beck
If you are a fan of Beck, you may want to watch it more than once.
Archive for March, 2010
The Daily Show Spears Glen Beck
March 24th, 2010Gamer v SAS in Real Life MW2
March 24th, 2010Magpul Release Schedule
March 22nd, 2010I found this looking though Magpul’s Facebook fan photos. It appears to be a list of forthcoming Magpul products. Apparently, “Stickman” took the photo. Although I have seen that name elsewhere I am not sure who it is.
MBUS v2, Vertical Rail Grip, What looks like Angled Fore Grip v2. Looks like Magpul will be releasing some interesting stuff. Can’t wait to check it out.
Magpul iPhone Case At MidwayUSA
March 16th, 2010
If you have been wondering when and where you can get your Magpul iPhone case, I believe I have an answer. MidwayUSA and 3/31/2010.
This link will take you there., If that does not work just head over to MidwayUSA and search for “magpul iphone”.
Currently they are on backorder but both their website and customer service said they will have them by the end of the month. I placed my order so I was sure to get one as soon as they are in.
The only down side is shipping is $8, so a $10 case becomes around $20. I was also buying a Wilson Combat 1911 mag and mag well and a scope mount for my 870, so the shipping was not that big of an issue.
Update: There is a $3 shipping option (USPS)! Thanks to thefirearmblog.com and Mark for pointing that out!
Update: See Magpul iPhone Case Delayed
List Shortened – Potential Next Trucks
March 15th, 2010My Suby has 173k miles on it and its starting to show its age. I have been planning on replacing it in the next 1 to 1.5 years. On the short list has been the Toyota Tacoma (Hilux), these clips from Top Gear may have pushed be other the edge. Watch as the Top Gear Guys abuse, crash, smash, drowned, and burn one very sturdy truck.
Hive Mind: Does Installing an Ambi Safety on a 1911 Require a Gunsmith?
March 12th, 2010So I have a full size Kimber 1911. I want to convert its safety to ambi, does this require a gunsmith? I have been looking around forums and opinions seem to be mixed. If its just a case of taking apart and reassembling then I will be golden but if any sort of major metal modification is required I will get nervous and just pay a gunsmith to do it.
I try to do an much as possible because I enjoy it. For reference I can disassemble and reassemble a 10/22 trigger assembly with ease and disassembling a 1911 for cleaning is brain dead.
Tactical FireFox Plugins
March 11th, 2010If you can’t tell I am a bit of a nerd. For fun I have decided to outline a few of the FireFox plugins that warm my heart. Much of this revolves around pretending to be things that I am not. You might say these are Tactical FireFox Plugins. Basically, it is few and far between when I tell a server straight up who I am and where I came from.
- Tamper Data: Ever wonder what you browser is telling all the servers it talks to? Tamper Data will tell you. You may be surprised. If you know what is going on then you can fake, manipulate and control.
- Ref Control: When a normal browser visits your site it politely tells the server how it got there. This allows your server or your analytics package to logs all of this information for later use. When I visit you site, especially if you are the “search keyword roundup” type blogger, my browser tells you that Google sent me and then gives you some crazy set of keywords or maybe a bit of name dropping.
- Firebug: Client side validation is dumb. Firebug lets you edit and render the code of the sites you are visiting. Designed to help developers but you can have so much more fun with it.
- User Agent Switcher: Ever wonder what the world looks like when you are google? This is the way to find out. Many sites for legitimate or malicious purposes cloak their content. If you are google bot sometimes you see lots of spam and sometimes you breze past forum and news outlet logins screens or ads. Although I have not tried it I hear you can get free Wifi at Starbucks if you claim to be an iPhone.
- Web Developer Toolbar: Infinitely useful for development work. I use the cookie control and the form control a lot. The outline feature makes working with CSS ok.
- Reloader: Reload a page every… Handy if you are watching something or just want to generate a bunch of page views
Maybe if you guys are really good I will teach you how to update twitter using cURL. ohhhh….
Red Dot vs Holographic in Real Life and Modern Warfare.
March 11th, 2010
Ever wonder why Modern Warefare 1 and 2 offer you both a red dot and holographic sights? I did and it turns out there may actually be some real life differences that the game applies.
Both a red dot and a holographic sights are reflex sights. Meaning they reflect a reticle. The advantage of these it you can have booth eyes open and the reticle retains its true point of aim. This is unlike iron sights where improper sight alignment screws your point of aim.
So back to Modern Warfare, in theory the red dot gives you a greater field of vision while the holographic it more restrictive. The holographic sight is more accurate due to parallax error. Essentially, what I stated before about retaining your true point of aim is not entirely accurate. When you get to the limits of the sights viewing angle, you will experience increasing deflection from your true point of aim. Holographic sights are better and retaining their true point of aim but the trade off is decreased viewing angle. Thus in Modern Warefare the holographic is more accurate than the red dot but dominating more of your field of view.
Most red dots like the Truglo that I recently bought use LEDs and the light source while EOTech uses a laser.
So there you go. Next time you are on the range or playing MW2 with your friends you can impress them with big words like, “refraction” and “parallax”, that is if you also read the Wikipedia articles I link to (which I found fascinating).
Later I will blog about my experiment with red dot sights and shotguns.
Successfully Dual Booting Windows 7 and BackTrack 4 with GRUB
March 10th, 2010Warning: The is a more technical post. You have been warned.
Ever try and dual boot Windows 7 and Linux?
Here is the back story. I bought a Compaq Netbook. It came with windows 7, which was all fine and good until you want to do anything fun (ie using BackTrack 4 to pen test your wifi). So I used Unetbootin and created a BackTrack 4 live cd, then used their install script to create partitions and install Backtrack. This all went great. I p0wned some WEP, bla bla bla. So yesterday I am at a conference and I think to my self, “I should use Win 7.” Just at MS Bing’s Directory was stepping up to deliver his Keynote, the fail began.
Windows 7 apparently freaks out when it sees Grub and offers to help.
Then it pulls a suicide bomb maneuver where it reinstalls itself, deleting everything along with your GRUB (the dual boot lintch pin). So wanting my dualbootness back I re-up GRUB buy booting with a Live CD and doing the following:
find /boot/grub/stage1
- It tells you (hdx,y)
root (hdx,y)
setup (hdx)
And WERE BACK… to Windows not working… F…
So I investigate:
The problem is partially Windows and partially Grub. Windows 7 splits its boot loading across two partitions. So when GRUB says, “Windows 7 Partition GO!”, Windows thinks it’s files are missing and reverts to fail. So persevered through A) the desire to gratuitously slander MS for not playing nice with others, B) millions of restarts and C) metric shit tons of not so helpful forums and blogs. So what is the answer?
First we need to understand what partitions I had happening:
load up Linux and “fdisk -l”
/dev/sda1 (hd0,0) This is essentially windows “c” drive
/dev/sda2 (hd0,1) Not really sure
/dev/sda3 (hd0,2) The Win “Recovery” drive (Its A Lie… the Recovery part)
/dev/sda4 (hd0,3) Again labeled “System” but not sure
/dev/sda5 (hd0,4) BackTrack 4
/dev/sda6 (hd0,5) BackTrack 4 Swap
As I said ealier Winsuck 7′s bootloader is a little spread out, so you have to do some workaround crazyness. Your normal Windows GRUB entry would look like this:
root (hd0,4)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
Note: I have a partitioned drive so everything is on hd0. hd0,x x would be the partitions.
For Windows to boot you need to map the “c:” and the “Recovery” partitions together.
map (hd0,0) (hd0,3)
map (hd0,3) (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,3)
chainloader +1
More Notes: I used “rootnoverify” but you might be able to use just “root”.
Once that was set up, the problem was solved. I now have a dual booting system using GRUB and booting to BackTrack 4 and Windows 7. Some people might tell you that you have to wipe you drive, reinstall windows then use windows to configure the partitions, obviously they are wrong. I still might shitcan Win 7 for Ubuntu, you never know.
What Is Missing?
March 8th, 2010That’s a reddot and a big ass Surefire.
