Apparently no one really knows who this guy actually is. Many rumors over the years have suggested things such as that he was a figure in some of the ol’ Miller beer commercials, a porn star, and best of all, a girls cheerleading coach. Some have even speculated that he is former Marlboro Man “Chuck Boyd”, father of lead singer Brandon Boyd. In a reported interview with Brandon, he states that the picture is from 1974 and the only thing he is certain on is that “Chuck” is in fact Charles Mulholland, a Salem cigarette model in 1976. He claims to have met Chuck during the filming of the “Pardon Me” video in which Brandon states that Chuck plays an older version of himself. According to the interview, Brandon thought it was a really cool picture so the band decided to throw it up on the album covers and then spread a bunch of ridiculous rumors about who he is. Brandon states that he was “the coolest guy I ever met”. But we still can only speculate the truth, I mean, Brandon admits to spreading rumors of his Identity and whats to say the band has ever stopped? I even dug up this MySpace Profile in which the user claims to be THE Charles Mulholland himself. Check out the links and decide for yourself. As for getting down to the bottom of the matter, there is really no way to be absolutely certain but one thing I am sure of is that this may very well be one of the best hooks/gimmicks of all time for probably one of the best rock bands of all time. Rock on Incubus and Long Live Chuck!!!!

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This is one of the many reverse engineering scenarios you will get to play through in Ruckingenur II, the latest in a series of games from the Zachtronics “games for engineers” section. The game is designed around the spirit of reverse engineering. With video sequences, realistic electronic systems and datasheets, this free game delivers in excitement and a curiosity. It’s a little heavy at around 38mb, but well worth the gruesome 2 minutes it will cost you to download and install it. Also be sure and stop by Zachtronics Industries website for many other cool applicationa.

Zachtronics Homepage: http://zachtronics.emala.net/
Ruckingenur II: Click Here

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First, check out the CCTV Internet rights holders for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games site and find a country that you think may host the event you wish to see. This site contains a list of all rights holders to the 2008 Olympics and their respective URL addresses, however if you try to access one of the URLs, you will most likely get a message telling you something like your country is restricted to this content, or possibly nothing at all. To access these sites, we must trick these URLs into thinking we are accessing them from another non-restricted country. Do this by configuring a proxy server in Firefox from the specific country who’s URL we are trying to access. For example lets use Japan’s server at http://gorin.jp which does not even come up at all for me.
Note that not all proxies are free so the kind of proxy server we are looking for is typically referred to as an “Open Proxy”. You can do this by either doing some good old fashioned google searching for open proxy servers in “*desired country*”, or check out xroxy.com where they maintain a nice list of free proxies from all over the world.

Searching through xroxy, I find about 5 or so Japanese proxy servers. Lets use 58.80.207.41 on port 3128. Now select “Tools”, “Options” in your Firefox file menu.

Once the options window comes up, click the “advanced” icon in the upper right, then the “Network” tab just below to the left, and then the “settings” button to the right.

Now the “connections settings” window will pop up. First select “Manual Proxy Configuration”. Now we can begin entering in the proxy information. Take note that the proxy we will be using from xroxy is listed as an “SSL” server. Under “SSL Proxy” type in the address “58.80.207.41″ and for the port type in “3128″. Hit “ok” at the bottom of the connections settings windows and then “ok” on the options windows to exit and save.

Now lets give that URL another try.
BAM! There ya go, works like a champ!

Make sure you note that not all proxy servers will be SSL servers and those that are not will simply go under “http proxy server” in Firefox’s Proxy Configuration window.
Mad props to Hackszine for conjuring up this great little trick.

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Normaly a site such as Mygazines.com, who encourages users to “upload, share, and archive”, would have some serious issues with copyright laws. You can be most certain the law is pecking away at such a site however, Mygazines.com has an exception. They have registered their domain abroad and have kept their servers outside of the U.S. hence standing just outside the fire of United States copyright laws. Mygazines has some 16,000 users and about 1,200 magazine issues all available for free viewing or should you choose to sign up for an account, you may even download the full magazine.
Link to Mygazines.com…

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