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There are 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 possible combinations of MD5 hashes.

My laptop can perform 580,000,000 MD5 cross-references per second using all CPU and GPU cores.
Thats 34,800,000,000 per minute.
Thats 2,088,000,000,000 per hour.
Thats 50,112,000,000,000 per day.
Thats 350,784,000,000,000 per week.

Therefore, my laptop can crack every conceivable MD5 hash in 9.7 weeks (around 2.5 months) nope: 9.7 * 10¹⁶ weeks. Not including, of course, indexing all data into a database (a procedure that would take about a week and use up a few terabytes of capacity). It can be done.

the moar you know…

Hello Internet, it’s been a while. A few updates from yours truly.

Life has been a quick one lately, I’m currently sitting in front of my 9 month old laptop (which I will detail after the break) in New Zealand, working as an RFID technician. It’s been a ride over the past 10 months, but I’ll let that be the subject of my conversations. In short, my life is taking some serious transitions into the technology industry, and the next few years are going to be interesting. Anyways, on with the post.

Chesto has released his first EP today, “Pardon My French“. After having freshly listened to this set, I am very pleased with the groove. He has delivered signature sounds with a house flavor. This is Chesto like you’ve never heard before, his previous work comes to life in new form and brings some great samples along for the ride. You may notice some familiar tunes and vocals in here (I’ll let you be the judge of these classical tracks), and it is united with his taste in electronic and dance. These beats will certainly get your body moving and I am excited to hear where these tracks end up over the next few months.

Sun Go Down was my favorite overall, providing a good build and moving drops. This is work from the heart. I want to hear some remixes of this beat, it sounds really flexible.

One quirk I noticed was the stutter effects, a few were noted out of place but overall they add an interesting (albeit, catchy) twist to the tracks. I would rather have them in there than not, however, and they bring the sound to life in their own right. Overall an excellent release that leaves you wanting another track followed by another! Read the rest of this entry

Just had a listen to one of Chesto’s new releases. Not a mix or a mashup, this is a single track he rolled out June 19th. I have been flat out the last couple of months but I had time to listen to this song and listen I did – over and over again. It’s called Morning Sunrise. Read the rest of this entry

Just to be an ass…

My current system pretty much never hits above 20 frames per second on Medium spec. DirectX is limited to 9c for some reason. Hopefully my new laptop (GTX460M!) will play a bit nicer when this game is officially released.

Also…

EA and Crytek must be pretty mad right now. Don’t shoot the messenger, guys.

I’ve been playing this game for a while (I purchased it in August 2010) so this is not necessarily a review but my personal experience with the game.

Minecraft is a sandbox-style game in which there is no set purpose, other than to build. During the day, your objective may be to collect building materials to survive the dangerous creatures that spawn at night, or you might craft yourself a sword to attack said monsters. Read the rest of this entry