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Hi all,

Figure this is a longshot, but trying anyways.

This box has been in my family, and belonged to my great-grandfather and possibly his father. My great-great grandfather lived in New Jersey but traveled extensively, including internationally, and was the founder and CEO of a large company.

The box has a slide out drawer on one-side, which is hidden and sits flush with the side of the box. I don't think it has any real value, but I'd love to know more about it. I recall seeing a less ornate version at a friends house as a child, which also featured the motif of an alligator fighting a snake and a slide-out drawer.

The box has no maker's marks. I can't figure out how to post ad

I have a specific individual I need to keep off premises in a corporate environment, at an office space which is sometimes opened to the public for events of 50-250 attendees. The individual in question carries a phone that beacons for their home wifi. We have the SSID and BSSID of the home wifi. Would a Hak5 Coconut be useful as a device which could monitor for this individual (by looking for the beacons) during "open to public" events?

And, because I know this will be asked, we have other measures in place to keep this individual off of our worksite (trespass order, BOLO flyers, security has his picture)

Hi all,

I've recently ordered a Mach-E, and I currently live in a relatively high crime area (my neighborhood is relatively safe, but carjackings and wheel thefts do happen in surrounding areas). I have a few questions about which precautions would be prudent for someone in my circumstance.

1. Are wheel thefts common with this specific car, and are there any recommended wheel locks/anything different with EV wheels?

2. I know Tesla has some remote disable options for theft/car jacking -- does the Mach E have anything similar?

Appreciate advice in advance!

I've been an X1C user since the first generation, and my current daily driver is an X1C5 (i5/16gb running linux). Several days per week I take this machine with me on a long (2+ hours round trip) train commute and use it at work. Otherwise it largely stays docked at my home office. This is essentially my primary computer, though I do have a Xeon processor server for more intensive compute tasks. I'm looking at replacing it sometime in the next year or two, and considering the X13 Gen 2 with maxed AMD and 32gb RAM instead. I'd be appreciative of general feedback, but would also be interested in any insight around these particular questions:

1. How is the build quality of the X13 versus t

This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm looking for the website of this crazy inventor who was trolled real hard in the early 2000s. The site I'm looking for was created by a crazy Chinese autodidact "inventor" who would post ultra-shitty, scientifically impossible "inventions" that he claimed were revolutionary advances in their respective fields. All I remember about the site was that it was poorly designed, and had some sort of comments section, and the "inventions" all had terrible illustrations and pictures and were often scientifically impossible (i.e. perpetual motion machines).

This site got trolled hard in 2002-2003ish. Please help me track down some of the earliest lulz I ever ha

Hi all,

Looking for some advice on breaking into a netsec/pentesting career. I'm in my early 30s, and was very active in the hacker scene as a teenager, but have largely checked out. I have a couple degrees in non-CS field, and have spent my post-grad career working in an investigatory field.

I've tried to keep a finger on the netsec world as much as time allows. I've taught myself python and have a couple of (non-netsec) active, public projects using python and MySQL. I'm very comfortable with debian, which I've used exclusively outside of work for nearly a decade.

My industry is on a rough footing, and I'd like to spend some time trying to up my netsec skills as a backup if things

I live in an older home. Several of the rooms have dropped ceilings, made by spanning sheetrock over painted 2 x 3s, with 1x2s running around the perimeter of the wall. As you might imagine, this isn't exactly a wonderful aesthetic choice. I'd love to install a pressed tin ceiling, but I'd obviously need to create a flat surface to nail in the tin tiles. Ideally, I'd like something lighter than plywood, as I'm worried about the increased weight on the 2x material. Are there any engineered solutions that might work for me? I'd be willing to pay a premium over plywood to make this work.

Edit: Picture here.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Quick question. My partner and I are looking to purchase a house in another city, which has a very weak housing market. We currently own a condo in a very hot market, and have paid off all but 20% of the appraised value of that condo. For a variety of reasons, we do not want to buy the second house contingent on the sale of the condo.

We have enough money saved to pay the 20% down on the house we want. The city we are buying in has very high closing costs, and we don't have enough to cover the entirety of the closing costs and the down-payment. We're able to save roughly $4k/month, and could theoretically save enough for the rest of the closing costs in three months. But we don't want

Just wanted to point this out for anyone looking for a DIY alternative to Peterson's prybar.

1.75 inch flooring nails are $16 per thousand, and are made out of 18 gauge steel which is just a bit thicker than the .05 Peterson prybar. I don't know how much less durable stainless steel is than government steel, but at $0.02/each, snapping a few wouldn't be much of a problem. They feel fairly strong though, I don't think it would snap easily.

You need to file the end down for thickness, but only ever so slightly

I'm getting started learning banjo, and I've been using tabs like those in Rocket Science Banjo and Mike Iverson's page. I was looking at tabs for a more contemporary song, and I have no idea how to read them.

The tabs are for "For the widows in paradise" by Sufjan Stevens. I have the fingering and the strumming part mostly down, but I'm having problems trying to polish the rest. Some of the fingering is in parenthesis, and I can't figure out what the hell it means. I get the hammer-on shorthand, but I can't figure out the parenthetical bit.

I tried google, but all I found was