Picture your disk space with 3-D filesystem browsers

Whether you're searching for an unused nook in a cramped disk partition, or trying to find the bloated temp/ folder that's crashing your system, sometimes the flat folder view of a traditional GUI file browser is little help. Luckily, Linux offers a variety of 3-D filesystem that can make your disk usage statistics come alive.

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How to install Linux on an eMac

Why replace Mac OS X with Linux on an Apple eMac? I did it to revive an aging hardware platform and provide a computer to a friend. Here's how I replaced "Puma" (OS X 10.1) first with Debian, then Ubuntu.

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Lightweight fnord serves HTTP admirably

After playing around with Apache, LightTPD, and thttpd, I tried fnord and never looked back.

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Surprises Inside Microsoft Vista's EULA

Scott Granneman takes a look at some big surprises in Microsoft's Vista EULA that limit what security professionals and others can do with the forthcoming operating system.

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Surprises Inside Microsoft Vista's EULA

Scott Granneman takes a look at some big surprises in Microsoft's Vista EULA that limit what security professionals and others can do with the forthcoming operating system.

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DOS Wireless Cards, be the terror of the cybercafe

This paper describes a new style of DoS attack against 802.11 networks that abuses flaws in the firmware of popular 802.11 wireless cards. The impact of this attack is more damaging than other 802.11 DoS attacks, requiring as few as two packets from an attacker to deny service to all target users, often requiring a system restart to recover.

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DoS exploit for Windows XP firewall, ICS in the wild

Windows XP platforms running a shared internet access service are at risk from an in-the-wild remote DoS exploit, vulnerability management firm nCircle reported Sunday.

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katana vs .50 machine gun

Watch a katana split bullets!!!!.

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Jack-O-Laser of Doom

Ok, I thought the Laser Vortex was the coolest Halloween project yet. So this project pays homage to it. For my project, however I needed to make it small and portable to fit into a pumpkin.

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Can I ping you now?

Customers of Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. mobile provider, can now have the contacts in their phones automatically updated without manually entering the data, according to Plaxo Inc, which created the service.

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Remote Power Control For Battery Powered Devices

Thin conductors on both sides of a thin insulator are connected by wires to a remote switch. Slide it between the batteries. It breaks the connection until the switch is turned on.

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Biohazard Halloween Candy

With some paper, blacklight paint, and LEDs, you can make a super sweet Halloween treat AND a profound statement about healthy living. Pffft!

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Laptop keyboard LED

I could take a maglite with me every time I think I'm going to be in a dark situation, but it's much more fun to hack up my own Thinklight-clone. And that's what I've done.

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Geekcorps: A Peace Corps for the rest of us

Freelance software consultant Renaud Gaudin longed to parlay his passion for free and open source software into something that would help developing countries access and use technology. In March, he joined Geekcorps.

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Command-line contact management

There's an ancient Unix practice of keeping a system-wide phone directory in /usr/share/ with one-line entries containing name, location, and number, and a shell script named something like phone or tel that calls grep to output lines that match whatever arguments you give. You can improve on that method to create a personal contact manager with su

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Spooky Blue's Halloween Home Made Coffin

With your very own coffin, you can put a corpse prop in it, shake it up with a vibrating motor, or do lots of other devious things to scare the boots off your trick or treaters. The entire project takes about 4 hours, less if your paint dries faster.

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Duffman Costume

I came up with the idea for a Duffman costume by realizing a slim blond web dev was going to have a hard time pulling off a pudgey italian plumber. For the hell of it I documented the costume construction as I went.

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The hardware Microstumbler

The Microstumbler project is aimed at adding autonomous network scanning capabilities to a wireless card ; that's to say, your can scan wireless networks using just your wifi card and no computer : a LCD and a simple 3-key keypad are connected to it, and it's powered by a battery.

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If you look happy you are a terrorist

Travelers have been ordered not to look too happy in their passport photographs to avoid confusing facial recognition scanners.

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Rolling Stone : COVER STORY: Time to Go! Inside the Worst Congress Ever

How our national legislature has become a stable of thieves and perverts -- in five easy steps

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Spectacular Design of Household Items

Your every day items won't look the same under STEPHEN REED's eyes.

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DIY Shrunken heads for Halloween

These little faces, made from dried apples, can look really nasty and sinister -- the perfect thing to decorate a Halloween party. Tuck them in among the food at your Halloween Buffet. You can also make lots of dried apple heads and string them up like a spooky garland.

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Keg Costume

Take an old keg, and with a few hours, a plasma cutter, a jig saw, and some big suspenders you have yourself a nice keg costume.

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Ghosts of Halloween: Extended Arms and Hands

While messing around with our new costumes (black cloaks with a hidden face) I kept thinking about how at Knott's Scary Farm they have these guys that are about 10 feet tall with really long arms. I grabbed the tubing from gift wrapping paper put them under the costume and up to my sholders straight out.

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Razer Pro|Solutions 1.6 Mouse

What makes a gamer-mouse more suitable for playing games than an ordinary mouse, you ask? Well, they claim greater sensitivity and optical sensor processor-speed, thus giving you more control for fast action-type games.

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Aerial imagery inspires industry

Since map programs with satellite images took the world by storm in 2005, aerial photography has become crucial to everyone from firefighters to real estate tax assessors.

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Podcast Pickle: Focused on Podcasters and the Podcasting Community

Got a digital media player, but you don't know what to slap onto it? No worries! Every day, The Guest Pickler will pick out a truly great podcast or vidcast that is certainly worth your earbud time.

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HOWTO: Lego Minifig costume

Two years ago, I decided to make a Lego minifig (ie: "Lego man") costume for Halloween. The hardest part was building the head. Here's how I did it.

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Moving from Linux to Windows with Elan

Elan Home Systems once used embedded Linux in its home digital music servers. But company executives say issues with digital rights management and platform flexibility led Elan to make a switch to Windows XP Embedded.

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Zotero: A seriously useful research tool

If you spend most of your time doing research on the Web, you need Zotero, a Firefox extension that helps you manage research sources. With Zotero installed, Firefox is not confined to the Web, and you can use it as a standalone application for all sorts of online and offline research.

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Tetris Weightlifting

The controls for Tetris weightlifting are relatively simple. Users hold two handle grips while seated. Each grip has a button that can be used to rotate pieces.

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Regular Gas with Ethanol Injection Boost Engine Developed

MIT engineers have developed an engine that uses direct ethanol injection to get more power during peak demand times, such as hill climbing or passing, but the (turbocharged) engine just runs normally on regular gasoline the rest of the time.

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New Theory For Mass Extinctions

A new theory on just what causes Earth's worst mass extinctions may help settle the endless scientific dust-up on the matter.

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Watch the Great Bear Hibernate

This week, as darkness falls, we can see Ursa Major, the Great Bear, low in the northwest sky. Its lower extremities are currently out of view, lying below the horizon.

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Vacuum to Wet-Vac

I came up with this when I was house sitting for my parents and the basement started to flood. The original was made with a 5 gallon bucket. I have made two since and found that culligan style water jugs work better.

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Gamemaker courts new controversy - boys kissing

The video game maker that sparked uproar over a hidden sex scene in "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," is courting new controversy with its latest schoolyard title "Bully" -- featuring boys kissing.

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All you wanted to know about pneumatics and more

Having fun with compressed air....

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Dot-Com Bubble: Why It's So Hard to Value Social Networking Sites

Less than three years after emerging from nowhere, the hot social networking website MySpace is on pace to be worth a whopping $15 billion in just three more years. Or is it? And is the much smaller Facebook really worth the $900 million or more Yahoo is reported to have offered for it? The problem, say Wharton experts, is a dearth of information -

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Reap the Benefits of Web Caching, Part 1: Explicit Content Expiration

In this three-part series, Ivan Pepelnjak describes how you can benefit from the web caching architecture to increase the speed of your ASP or PHP applications while reducing the load on your web server. Part 1 shows you how to use explicit content expiration.

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Building a Human Firewall: Protect Against Social Engineering

Never heard of the human firewall? The concept behind it is to build a persistent consciousness about information security in the minds of the information system's users so they won't make errors or misbehave when dealing with information. In this article, Thierry Wohnlich proposes an alternate view of information security awareness.

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Linus Van Pelt's PC

See Charlie Brown the great pumpkin is for real.

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Ubuntu Edgy is nice, but not so edgy

The Ubuntu team is scheduled to release Ubuntu 6.10, codenamed Edgy Eft, today. After working with beta and release candidates over the last few weeks, I've found it to be a solid and usable upgrade for Dapper -- but not a particularly cutting-edge release.

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Ubuntu now more popular than Mac OS X!

The dude from the apple ads will get a seizure after reading this.

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Floppy Drive Pan Cam

The goal of the game was to make a webcam panning unit out of things I had lying around on my table. Then this would be made accesible via a web interface, so that a person watching the webcam images could move the camera.

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Own the neighborhood withe PaintBall Tank

Tank driving would be most people's idea of fun, but imagine the thrill of actually taking part in a tank battle - not with live ammunition, but with paint!!

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North Korea ranked 'worst Internet black hole'

The tragically backward, sometimes absurdist hallmarks of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea and in particular its leader, Kim Jong Il, are well known. There's Kim's Elton John eyeglasses and cotton-candy hairdo, for instance.

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DIY The Body Slinger

The body slinger is a nifty animation that looks like a benign corpse in a coffin until its triggered, then leaps almost straight up over your head! Add a loud scream, and your guests will need to change their underwear....

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Stripper teaches you physics

Welcome to PopSci's newest blog feature, "The Breakdown." Each week, we'll pick a YouTube video that involves a minor crash, explosion or other nonfatal mishap and invite one of our experts to explain, in scientific terms, what went wrong. In this week's edition, physics whiz Michael Moyer analyzes the case of the tumbling pole dancer...

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Oops DVDJon did it again

A hacker known for cracking the copy-protection technology in DVDs claims to have unlocked the playback restrictions of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and iTunes music products and plans to license his code to others.

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MS downfall Trailfire

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) this week will begin a coupon program for personal computer buyers to upgrade to the new Vista operating system when it premiers next year in an effort to avoid a drop-off in PC sales over the holidays and ahead of the software's release. I'll update this trail as M$ sees their flagship sink.

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A javascript hacking framework

AttackAPI provides simple and intuitive web programmable interface for composing attack vectors with JavaScript and other client (and server) related technologies. The current release supports several browser based attacking techniques, simple but powerful JavaScript console and powerful attack channel and associated API for controlling zombies.

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US online brokers hit by pump and dump fraud

Hackers in Eastern Europe and Asia have been infiltrating customer accounts at US online brokers and making unauthorised trades to artificially inflate the price of some stocks. The 'pump and dump' fraud has reportedly cost E*Trade at least $18 million in the third quarter alone.

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Hacking contactless credit cards made easy

US security researchers have demonstrated how easy it might be for crooks to read sensitive personal information from RFID-based credit and debit cards.

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Make a robosheep for your shagging/amusement

Very nice introduction to robotics.

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Make a robosheep for your shagging/amusement

Very nice introduction to robotics.

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Make time for GnoTime

GnoTime, the GNOME Time Tracker, is a lightweight task/time tracking tool. It's easy to use and not overloaded with project management features, but it suffers from weak reporting tools.

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Salvage lost partitions with gpart

his utility scans a hard disk and prepares a partition table of areas that resemble a partition, which you can use to make the disk bootable again.

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Bionic vision just around the corner

A silicon retina that reproduces signals in the optic nerve

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Candy Propellant Experiments

If the rockets doesn't go off at leat you can eat it.

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Propelling rockets with Sugar

The fundamental difference of the Sugar Shot to Space project is to achieve the goal using an honest-to-goodness amateur propellant, rather than the ubiquitous ammonium perchlorate composite propellant (APCP) that the GoFast and nearly all professional and military rockets use.

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Car free falls 18 stories into Chicago River

priceless....

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Finding Love on the Internet: It Works

When it comes to love, fate is a thing of the past.

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Fan Modding with LEDs

Giving an old fan new life.

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Automate windows tasks with this simple scripting language

AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys).

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Red Hat boosts CEO's salary to $600,000

Red Hat Inc., which distributes the open-source Linux operating system, this week raised the annual base salary of its president and chief executive officer by 50 percent to $600,000, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Recover a dead hard drive using dd

The Unix program dd is a disk copying util that you can use at the command line in order to make a disk image. It makes a bit-by-bit copy of the drive it's copying, caring nothing about filesystem type, files, or anything else. It's a great way to workaround the need for Norton Ghost.

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Making the web accessible for all

Despite many efforts to move away from those most traditional interfaces - the ubiquitous computer keyboard and mouse - they remain the bedrock on which nearly all computer interfaces rest.

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Aircraftspotting: Think of bird watching with a twist

The following is an overview of the approximately 1250 aircraft photographs in my collection. Photos that are included in my photo gallery are hyperlinked.

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Hacking the Kodak Max Single Use Flash Camera into a Self-Repeating Strobe

A portable strobe light for practically nothing.

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DIY Angle Bracket Laptop Stand

I was never that happy with using a laptop flat on the desk: it's really bad for your posture. I looked at laptop stands and there are some nice ones, but expensive and have features like tilt and swivel which serve no purpose to me.

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Rubik's Cube Solver

Just input the faces of your cude and this application will take you by the hand on how to solve it.

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Halloween Props SUPER Page

Easy to make props for this Halloween, stuff your mega super store doesn't sell, for originality, this is the page to visit.

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Don't play as Goku BE Goku with Nintendo WII

Dragonball Z Sparking Neo - Wii Training

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100 MPG Available Now!

Where's the magic carburetor? Where's the car that runs on water? Those are fantasies, but listen up: A four-door that gets 100 mpg really is possible. Today, with current technology.

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D-SLR Digital Cameras: It's All in the Menu

We show you how to find a powerful camera that's both powerful and easy to operate. Check out the settings on these five D-SLR favorites.

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Sony's Annus Horribilis

You've got to feel bad for Sony. Once upon a time the company was mighty, its logo a guarantee of consumer-electronics nirvana. Their decline has been slow -- I was aghast when my father, an affirmed Sony man, recommended a Samsung TV ten years ago

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NVidia bug puts Linux systems at risk

A security flaw in the binary NVidia graphics drivers used by many Linux systems could allow an attacker to compromise, through a malicious Web page, any computer using the company's driver, security firm Rapid7 stated on Monday. Source code for the exploit in the comments.

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The Boy Scouts Now Have An MPAA Merit Badge In Misleading Arguments

Chris writes in to let us know that the MPAA's latest effort in brainwashing kids to their one sided argument is that they've convinced the Boy Scouts of America to offer a merit badge for "learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music."

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Awesome Halloween Prop

Short on candy to give away this halloween?, build this prop to keep children away.

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Creating a Windows Live CD for System Recovery and Pen-Testing

Pretty much what the title says, building a BartPE CD for Pen-Testing and system recovery. Some of the tools I will show off are Sala's Password Renew, Cain, RunScanner and XPE.

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How Hot Is the New Firefox Browser?

The version, called RC3 -- short for Release Candidate 3 -- sports several user-friendly features, including a sleeker interface with buttons that glow when a user positions the mouse over them.

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Job at PC plant may raise risk of cancer death

Death rates, both overall and cancer-related, are considerably higher among workers engaged in manufacturing computers and component parts, when compared with the general population, according to a report in the journal Environmental Health.

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Sony gives PlayStation 3 online service details

Video game console leader Sony Corp. on Thursday demonstrated the online service for its upcoming PlayStation 3, which will let players compete and chat online and download games, music and movies.

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Your Questions on Lasik Eye Surgery

We asked for your questions last week after features on the vision-correcting surgical procedures Lasik and radial keratotomy.

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Open Tools for MySQL Administrators

MySQL provides some tools to monitor and troubleshoot a MySQL server, but they don't always suit a MySQL developer or administrator's common needs, or may not work in some scenarios, such as remote or over-the-web monitoring. Fortunately, the MySQL community has created a variety of free tools to fill the gaps.

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Beating Speed Monitoring Cameras

This video proves those speed monitoring cameras can in fact be beat. Its ironic that the only way to beat them is to exploit the very thing they are trying to prevent.

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MySQL Enterprise -- Double your DBA Staff without Adding Headcount

MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced 'MySQL Enterprise', a new version of its flagship commercial subscription service that includes new automated, proactive technology to help corporate users monitor and tune their production MySQL database systems.

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Slackware goes to 11

Slackware Linux 11 was released at the beginning of this month, which marks 13 years of continued development. Slackware Linux, while not the first Linux distribution, is the oldest surviving one, and is starting to show signs of aging.

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New images may give clues on universe's origins

The newly discovered collision of two galaxies millions of years ago, which sparked rings of fire that are still expanding, may offer new clues on the origins of the universe, astronomers said on Wednesday.

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Recording Industry Willing To Admit That File Sharers Are Big Music Fans

Since Napster first hit the scene in about 1999 just about everyone outside of the record labels immediately realized that it was a great place to market to music fans.

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New images may give clues on universe's origins

The newly discovered collision of two galaxies millions of years ago, which sparked rings of fire that are still expanding, may offer new clues on the origins of the universe, astronomers said on Wednesday.

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Videogame player scarcity may lift old-model sales

Two new video game consoles, Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii, are expected to top holiday wish lists as they debut in mid-November, but fans may have trouble buying them.

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Videogame player scarcity may lift old-model sales

Two new video game consoles, Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii, are expected to top holiday wish lists as they debut in mid-November, but fans may have trouble buying them.

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Bush signs law authorizing harsh interrogation

President George W. Bush signed a law on Tuesday allowing tough CIA interrogation and military trials for terrorism suspects, triggering bitter election-year denunciations from Democrats.

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LG unveils new mobile phone to succeed "Chocolate"

the world's number four mobile phone maker, on Wednesday unveiled a new handset model aimed at repeating the success of its premium "Chocolate" phone and building market share.

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You Too Can Be A Flaming Carrot!-DIY Costume

Nothing would make a parent prouder than to hear their child proclaim, "Mommy! Daddy! When I grow up, I want to be a Flaming Carrot!" Now, I'm sure some of you are all grown-up now, but still have yet to accomplish those dreams. Well it's time to take said dreams off the backburner and make them a reality!

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Cantenna Diagram and Parts List

Easy to follow instructions for that cantenna you want to build.

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Sun's Fowler Maps The Future Of Computer Systems And Virtualization

Sun Microsystems' computer systems business had undergone a major transformation in the past few years, beginning with the dramatic shift to offer systems based on x86-based processors from Advanced Micro Devices to the introduction less than a year ago of the first Sparc-based servers based on the UltraSparc T1 processor,.

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FREE Textures for the 3D modeler

TextureKing is a project by REH3design. Throughout this site you will find a growing repository of high quality stock photos that are free for professional and personal use.

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DIY knex gatling gun

This shows pictures of my gatling gun i made which fires 8 piecies in a second

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Run AC Tools on Batteries Directly, without an Inverter

The secret: Just do it. They're designed for that.
Nearly all power tools use a "universal" brushmotor that doesn't care if it gets AC or DC

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Setting up basic x10 for newbies

Turning on and off your lights with a non-ir remote is really easier and cheaper then it looks and sounds. This how-to shows how to configure an x10 remote for 2 lights. Also shows using a label-making machine to label the remote.

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MAKE a CD player

I made this before we found out that music CDs from the store had viruses on them,
because I knew it was possible and suspected it was true.

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Reuters opens virtual news bureau in Second Life

Reuters Group Plc (RTR.L) is opening a news bureau in the simulation game Second Life this week, joining a race by corporate name brands to take part in the hottest virtual world on the Internet.

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PHP: Multidimensional Arrays

Array does not have to be a simple list of keys and values; each array element can contain another array as a value, which in turn can hold other arrays as well. In such a way you can create two-dimensional or three-dimensional array.

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DIY PVC FIG RIG

This is a Fig Rig Steadicam made from PVC pipe. This parts, which can be picked up at Home Depot, cost about $10. Assembly took 30 minutes.

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South Park's 9/11 Fact and Coverup Megathread

All about being part of 1/4 of the population that is retarded.

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DIY Sequential battery charging

The following pages describe using relays with a high-current adjustable 13.5/15V power supply to automatically charge EV batteries one at a time, instead of concurrently in series. It will only work if you are not in a hurry to charge your pack.

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Red Hat Linux rises over Chicago

The City of Chicago had always been a Sun shop, but when it was time to begin a hardware replacement cycle two years ago, platform architect Amy Niersbach knew the city needed to reduce costs without sacrificing quality. That's why she turned to Linux.

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Nexenta combines OpenSolaris, GNU, and Ubuntu

What do you get when you combine OpenSolaris, the GNU utilities, and Ubuntu? Nexenta -- a GNU-based open source operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime.

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Cisco administration 101: Understanding Ethernet MAC addresses

While you're probably familiar with Ethernet MAC addresses, how much do you know about working with them in the Cisco IOS? In this edition of Cisco Routers and Switches, David Davis tells you how to determine the MAC address, change it, and use it to filter traffic.

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Stop Viruses for Free!

I have three subjects today, and each of them is a winner in its way. The interesting fact about them is that all three start with the first letter of the alphabet, their names being Avira PersonalEdition Classic, AVG Free Edition and Avast! Home Edition.

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WiCrawl - Next-gen WiFi auditor

"At ToorCon, our friends at Midnight Research Labs released a new automated WiFi auditing tool called WiCrawl. WiCrawl automatically scans for accesspoints."

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Linux babes: What windows will N E V E R have

Want more explanations to move to Linux? ;).

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Riding the band-aid skate board

Very original and nice looking skateboard,

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Linux kernel adds real-time features

Basic support for real-time features has been added to the mainline Linux kernel, easing the development of embedded Linux applications, according to Linux developer service provider TimeSys.

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Universal lamp shade polygon building kit

One simple cut-out shape lets you build all sorts of different designer-looking lampshades! You can make dozens different geometric forms using various numbers of the cut-out shape made from paper or plastic. All the standard mathematical polyhedrons and such are possible.

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DIY bean bag sofa / bed

i started out thinking about building a beanbag, but being the prototypically exuberant man's man that i am i thought: "i am going to go huge! why make a beanbag just like everyone else? i'll make the biggest, baddest beanbag evah!!!"

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Make blowgun darts out of ordinary stuff

this will tell you how to make fairly effective blowgun darts out of a straw, flag cocktail toothpick, blu-tac and knitting wool or yarn of any colour.

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Make your own throwing darts from household materials

this instructable will, uh, instruct you on how to make a functional throwing dart from a drinking straw, nail, electrical and regular tape, blu-tac and a memo pad.

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Learn PHP with Trailfire

Using trailfaire I built a trail that will help you learn PHP in no time. I'll keep updating the trail as I find more useful tutorial.

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Goodbye Eudora, Hello Thunderbird

Eudora, once one of the most popular e-mail clients, is finally being retired.

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Sony PS3 to outsell Xbox 360, Wii: Japan publisher

ony Corp. may fall behind rivals in the initial phase of the next-generation game console race, but is likely to grab the top spot eventually, Japan's top video game magazine publisher, Enterbrain, said on Friday.

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How Do You Secure 100 Million Laptops?

If the plan is perfectly executed, Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project will deploy 100 million laptops in the first year. In one fell swoop, the nonprofit organization will create the largest computing monoculture in history.

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Haunted Paper Toys

Here you'll find a variety of rather unusual paper toys, all free for you to print out and enjoy. The toys include a hearse playset, coffin gift boxes (with occupants), a little cemetery, several unusual board games, a gloomy little haunted house, a rusty old-style robot, and quite a few other dark delights.

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How To Install VMware Server On Debian Sarge

VMware has just released version 1.0 of its free VMware Server. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system.

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How to shoot a million-plus rounds per minute

An all-electronic firing control mechanism is easily adapted to include a fingerprint-based user-ID system, and an on-the-fly selection of different rounds for different situations.

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Google Code Search and Security

Google's position on the full disclosure of software vulnerabilities.

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Linux XP Desktop: A Windows face on an old Linux base

Late last month Linux-Online launched the English edition of Linux XP Desktop. The screenshots look pretty and amazingly similar to Windows XP. As a commercial distro for non-techie desktop users, does it do enough to challenge the likes of Linspire and Xandros?

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HP chief apologizes, denies he knew of hacking

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard's CEO Mark Hurd announced on Friday that he would replace the board's chair Patricia Dunn immediately and apologized for the extent of the spying that took place in the chairwoman's investigation of a media leak on the board of directors.

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Google helps you hack any computer.

Want to know which programs have security issues that need to be fixed? Using Google Code Search, finding likely candidates is a snap.

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Google Docs & Spreadsheets: Google's stand against Microsoft.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a web-based word processing and spreadsheet program that keeps documents current and lets the people you choose update files from their own computers. You can, for example, coordinate your student group's homework assignments, access your family to-do list from work or home, or collaborate with remote colleagues on a n

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California: Bring Worms to Work - Effective waste recycling

Always on the cutting edge of all things environmental, California is encouraging public and private-sector employees to bring worms to work so that the creatures can chew up apple cores, sandwich scraps and other lunch leftovers and produce compost.

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Nokia expects to sell WiMAX cell phones in 2008

Nokia expects to start selling cell phones using the new WiMAX Internet technology in 2008, the world's top handset maker said on Wednesday while unveiling network technology for WiMAX.

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Your Jack-O-Lantern is a source of energy.... in Africa

Palm and pumpkin seed oil could soon be generating electricity to help power cell phone networks across Africa under a plan to replace fossil fuels with sustainable biofuels made from crops grown by local farmers.

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Make a robot with off the shelf parts

The "Old School" project is aimed at building an inexpensive ROV with parts from surplus dealers and "big box" stores like HD and Lowe's. I will have to make a few custom machined parts, but I plan to keep this to a minimum.

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Writing your own IRC bot (Eggdrop)

Eggdrop is the world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use, and is freely distributable under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Eggdrop was originally developed by Robey Pointer; however, he no longer works on Eggdrop so please do not contact him for help solving a problem or bug.

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Quake Raises Fears of 2nd N. Korea Test

A strong earthquake in northern Japan on Wednesday may have led the Tokyo government to suspect North Korea had conducted a second nuclear test, while key powers mulled punitive action against the communist nation for its first atomic blast.

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Red Hat's Fedora Core 6 slips a notch

Red Hat has delayed release of its latest enthusiast version of Linux, Fedora Core 6, by a few days.

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Running multiple jobs with xjobs

Ever feel like you're not getting the most out of your multiprocessor machine? The xjobs utility allows you to schedule several processes to run simultaneously to make the most of your system's resources.

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Behind the Debian and Mozilla dispute over use of Firefox

Debian plans to release its newest version, Etch, in December, and wants Mozilla's Firefox Web browser to be part of the distribution. Mozilla, however, told Debian it couldn't release the software without its accompanying artwork. Now a legal expert says that the existing distinctions between copyright and trademark laws should have prevented this

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Watch more than 200 channels on your PC - Nothing to install.

ChooseAndWatch is a free TV portal where you can watch only the best online TV channels. Now with bigger screen and more channels than ever.

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Ron Wise's Geographical Directory Of World Paper Money

The banknotes link on this page will take you to scanned images from my private collection and donated images from the general public. There are currently 20,000+ scans (over 10,000 notes - with individual front and back scans).

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Version control for Linux

This article provides an overview of Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems and their benefits. It also reviews the most common SCM architectures. Finally, it explores some of the new approaches that are available and how they differ from the earlier methods.

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Build Little autonomous robot V2

This page described my new robotic project. One year ago, I built a very simple little robot with a Comfile PICBASIC 3B microcontroler and a Cybot chassis. This new project is based on a very much more powerfull Microchip PIC 18F4620 (or PIC18F4520)

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Build your own AWESOM-O

Cheap to build costume for the south park fan,

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Sony Reader Is a Work in Progress

Electronic Jane on the left, paper Jane on the right. Holding a paperback version of Pride and Prejudice next to the Sony Reader's prerelease e-book version is a study in similarities and contrasts.

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Magnetic Tool Rack

A thrifty, nifty method to make a good looking tool rack for your lab, garage or shop using recycled materials and magnet

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Build your own 3D scanner

When the rotating table is constructed, we're able place an object on the table, and use a technology called discreete light to create a 3D model of it.

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Caller ID decoder for PC.

Some time ago, I subscribed to the Caller Id service to know who is calling me without being required to pick-up the phone. Unfortunately, my basic caller id display could not memorize enough numbers, and I had to write them manually in a computer to keep them. That's why I decided to find a way to log the calling numbers directly to my computer.

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Tales from the Crypt: Encrypting Laptops

Chances are that right now you're reading this article on a laptop computer. Whether you're working at your desk or the local Starbucks, your laptop may just "take a walk" while you're not looking. If that happens, is the data on that machine .

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Insane motorcycle stunts video

Hollywood stunt men envy these guys.

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They took our jobs and sold our ids!!!!!!!.....

An undercover TV investigation claims to have infiltrated criminal gangs selling thousands of U.K. credit card and passport details for as little as $9.50 each from offshore call centers.

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Inker - the hand inkjet

"...He built a driver circuit for a HP inkjet cartridge that allows him to print by hand. Ideal for printing on other people, their white boards or their beer. He had to do some blackbox reverse engineering to figure out what the onboard driver chip does on the cartridge." VIA HACK A DAY

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DIY Stealth DDR-mat

My brother has a DDR mat which interfaces with his PC. It's nice, and you can play games like StepMania really good on it, but I know if I got myself one, it would be all around the room irritating me when I wouldn't use it. So i thought about a less obvious DDR mat... and this is what I came up with: The stealth DDR mat. It even is cheaper.

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In Soviet Russia Beer Drinks You

The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters

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Electronic teenager repellant and scraping fingernails, the sounds of Ig No

It's a device with a variety of practical applications; an ingenious gadget that disperses gangs of loitering teenagers by emitting a piercing shriek only they can hear. Not the pinnacle of science, perhaps, but high enough to win the Welsh engineer who designed it an award from Harvard.

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Hydroponics - at Home and for Beginners

If you've heard of this word, it may have been on the news due to some illegal drug growing operation in someone's garage. That, or you saw the word on the packaging on some very good looking and expensive lettuce. If not - kudos to you :D

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Matchstick Motor

Good experiment to reproduce.

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Duplicate Keys by Hand

This will explain the process I went through to copy a key with a vice, a file and patience.

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All about Ogg, WAV, and MP3 under Linux

What is described in the following may be illegal where you live. Where I live, the law permits making a small number of copies of the contents of legally acquired media for personal use as long as this does not involve circumventing copy protection. Strangely enough, "personal use" includes giving a copy to close relatives. And "small number" cert

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Versioning Your Linux Configuration

Going back to previous configurations just got easier.

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NetBSD: Not Just for Toasters

NetBSD is the oldest and least-used of the three major BSD derivatives. David Chisnall takes a look at how it's survived for so long and where it's going in preparation for the next release.

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How to Speak Anonymously in Public: A Hacker's Guide

It's a dangerous world out there for security researchers. Between DMCA violations, full disclosure issues, miscellaneous lawsuits, government harassment, or simply having your name dragged through [WWW] the mud by corporate spin....

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God now collects your donations with ATMs

Giving just got a whole lot easier for church congregations across the country with the advent of a new device that's a high-tech, modern version of the traditional collection basket.

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Lemony Snicket reaches 'The End'

Lemony Snicket, aka Daniel Handler, has concluded "A Series of Unfortunate Events," his dreadful (a word that here literally means "full of dread" ) 13-volume series about the adventures of the orphaned Baudelaire children.

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Hacking an ATM Machine

Default configurations are your friend.

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A clean example of compact embedded Linux

As an MP3 and MPEG player, the Hauppauge MediaMVP lets you play digital media through your television set. As a tightly purposed embedded device, it is an excellent example of a compact Linux implementation on minimal hardware.

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JEFF KINDER'S BASEMENT ARCADE

Transforming that dull basement into the ultimate arcade joint.

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Shaq Uses Kobe Doll in Voodoo Rites

In the latest salvo between the two ex-teammates, it was discovered that Shaquille O'Neal has been participating in voodoo ceremonies � aimed at Kobe Bryant � with a Haitian witch doctor in Miami.

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Robbers grab ATMs with forklifts

Leave the gun. Bank robbers have found an easier way to make off with other people's money: Around the country, thieves have hot-wired forklifts at construction sites, chugged up to banks and scooped up their ATMs, with all the cash inside.

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This is eight years worth of photographs combined into one video.

People change... really change....

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First Look to the official GPS for the PSP

ITmedia Games has shots, as well as new info, on the upcoming PSP GPS attachment and the software that will take advantage of it. The (pictured) MAPLUS navigation system will ship in December and have GPS mapping and navigation functions tailored for folks walking, biking, or driving and will include points of interest.

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Windows Media Encoder: Quality Video Training Done on the Cheap

If you're looking for a fast, reasonably priced tool, Windows Media Encoder is a great way to get your management interested in video. John Tr
�¤nkenschuh shows you how it can be used to create quick and dirty training videos for your organization.

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Before and After Graphics for Business: Creating a Successful Logo

A successful logo can
�t be just creative or clever. Because a logo ends up being an important guest at many occasions, it absolutely must perform and behave well no matter what. It is a tricky balancing act, but one that you can achieve. All you have to do is consider what makes a logo effective. Make sure your design follows these guidelines.

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CloroxBot Recycled Giant Robot Costume

Last Halloween I built a robot costume out of laundry detergent bottles, crutches, football shoulder pads, and several stoned days with a hot glue gun.

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MIB Halloween costume

Be an MIB agent for Halloween! It's a simple costume to do but to really make some impact you'll want to pull out the "big guns."

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3D Modeling Calculator

The calculators below should be helpful in sizing common creatures. Each uses a value such as height or length to determine other dimensions.

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HowTo: controlling a stepper motor with an attiny2313

Here is how I controlled a stepper motor with an Atmel attiny2313. I found an old stepper motor in my junk box. I remembered it was a unipolar stepper but that was about it. Google couldn't find the part number, so I had no data sheet.

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Crash Compilations

They are good at sports and extreme stunts but they excel in the crashes department.

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i rock at basic

As a programming language, BASIC was...well, accurately named. The incredible raw power of the first personal computers caused many of our parents to purchase a Vic-20 or Commodore 64 in the hopes of preparing us early for the information economy, and may even have ambitiously sent you to computer camp to learn programming.

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Integrate Thunderbird with Active Directory

To integrate Thunderbird to the AD, you must already have installed and configured Kerberos and Samba so that you can use the net ads to obtain the information you need. There are a lot of documentation out there to get to that point. I will just highlight the main points for the sake of completeness.

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Jeffrey Spurgeon: From millionare towards being a bum himself

Teenagers call it "bum-hunting" and it is a perverse national trend. Across the country, packs of teenage boys are stalking homeless people and attacking them, shooting them with paintball guns, beating them with baseball bats, even dousing them with gasoline and setting them on fire.

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Gzip multiple security issues

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several vulnerabilities in
gzip. The important bits of his mail are below:

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Massive hacks through holes in cPanel hosting management

Hackers have exploited a previously unknown security hole in the cPanel hosting configuration software to manipulate stored customer pages on the website host HostGator. Based on reports from the service provider and internet statistics firm Netcraft, attackers achieved root access through the hole...

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PERL: Customize your comics with dailystrips

Here's a handy Perl script to automate a critical part of your daily routine. dailystrips can help fetch your favorite Internet comic strips in time for you to enjoy them with your first cup of coffee, without your having to surf for them. You can run it from the CLI, or set it up to run automatically each day in cron.

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RPLinux: China's Answer to the $100 PC

A while back, I stumbled upon something called the Municator PC from YellowSheepRiver Municator, Inc. At first, I thought this had to be yet another hoax, but as I looked deeper into it, I found out that China has done a fairly nice job of taking the distribution, known as RPLinux, and integrating it with Chinese made hardware.

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Porche Boxster gets owned by a bird

German engineering got defeated.

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Killing inocent lives just for the heck of it.

It's Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins.
But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least.

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Build a pneumatically actuated Yeti in a cage for a Halloween Haunted house

This pneumatically actuated, caged Yeti was part of the 2005 Occidental Haunted House that was the brainchild of Dale Dougherty, editor of Make. A giant pneumatic cylinder makes the monkey puppet appear as though it's trying to break out of the cage.

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Animated Hard Drive Recovery & Physical Rebuilds

"Scott Moulton's talk on Hacking Hard Drives for Data Recovery.... It was a great walk through of hard drive technology. Some interesting points: 85% of the time, software recovery is successful. 10% of the time, replacing the controller board succeeds. So, 95% of the time you can probably recover your data fairly easily." Via Hack a Day

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DIY Toy Hovercraft

A simple,free and safe hovercraft model!

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Lame Superman Covers

When creativity is at it's low, editor come up with these aberrations.

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Solve this: The Rubik Cube Costume

For the low on budget geek.

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Scare the beejesus out of your neighbors this Halloween

Awesome costume that will have everybody running for their lives.

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PHP File Download Security

Want to prevent people from linking to your downloads? This script will force a page to be loaded before the download starts. HTML header statements are used to trigger the download of the file. PHP is used to push the file to the browser.

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