Monday, April 30, 2007

Wanna buy an embassy? 29 are for sale

From Kinshasa to Katmandu, Bangkok to Bogota, U.S. embassies, ambassadorial residences and other diplomatic digs are up for sale as the State Department moves its employees to more secure locations, upgrades facilities and combines operations in multipurpose compounds.



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Writing device drivers in Linux: A brief tutorial

A quick and easy intro to writing device drivers for Linux like a true kernel developer!



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Employer beheads worker for not milking cows

An employer in eastern India beheaded one of his workers for failing to milk his cows, police said on Saturday.



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Wii Shotgun... Boom Head shot!!!!

If you want your Wii shooters to be even more realistic, perhaps you'd enjoy this Wii Blaster. Scheduled for release on June 26 by a company called Core Gamer, the Blaster houses the Wiimote in a casing shaped like a shotgun.



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Commercial Zero-Gravity Flights Begin in Las Vegas

Zero Gravity Corp. inaugurated service to Las Vegas April 21, the latest step in the company's quest to give the average citizen the opportunity to experience weightlessness the same way astronauts in training and in spaceflight do.



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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Intro To Yahoo Maps API

There is of course the fancy new maps.yahoo.com/beta site which is fun, but as far as I am concerned the killer app here is the geocoding platform that drives this. And it is completely accessible for anyone to use. It's also a sane API that anybody can figure out in minutes. Here are a few tips for using this API from PHP 5.



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How to Impress your Boss with Sniglets

We’ve collected a few of the words, phrases and sniglets (”a word that should be in the dictionary, but isn’t”) that capture the flavor of our profession. But there is more work to be done; share your ideas in the comments and we will update this post on the fly. With any luck, we can be bamboozling your data-phobic friends in no time.



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Dictionary of Analytics Terms

We got a great response to our previous post about building a language for data analysts. Thank you all for sharing. Attribution is in parentheses next to the terms. We can keep adding to this resources as new idea come in.



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London goes Coconuts for Python: Smash Guinness record

The comedy troupe Monty Python, loved by fans worldwide, held a special mass coconut orchestra for an attempt at the Guinness records, and they achieved it handily in London.



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A Novel That Unfolds from the Email's Inbox

This is Holly, get to know her reading her email.



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Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972. The Journal is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to know what happened during the missions and why. It includes a corrected transcript of all recorded conversations between the



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Look what IBM’s doing with the PS3’s processor

IBM, in a joint venture with with Hoplon Infotainment, will soon be integrating the PS3’s Cell Broadband Engine™ into its one-of-a-kind mainframe to aid in the handling of next-gen “virtual world” applications and massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs).



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Migraines linked with brain damage

People with migraines also may be suffering from some brain damage as brain cells swell and become starved of oxygen -- a finding that may help explain why migraine sufferers have a higher risk of stroke, researchers reported on Sunday.



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Wii's popularity catches game firms by surprise

Nearly six months after its U.S. debut, Nintendo's Wii is still really hard to find. That hasn't put a dent in its popularity: In March, the Wii easily outsold its flashier competitors, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.



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Saturday, April 28, 2007

Baldwin's Daughter Calls Back

Alec Baldwin's daughter got her Dad's message. She called back, and left a nasty, nasty message, and got really, really mean.



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login (security through obscurity) - weird PHP script

This was the idea with which I have won the regional web apps contest… well actually I did a CMS but the security part of it was the most appreciated. Maybe because it was weird, you’ll see…



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Saudi tribe holds camel beauty pageant

Contestants in this Saudi-style beauty pageant have all the features you might expect anywhere else in the world, but with one crucial difference -- the competitors are camels.



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Linux On Wall Street Is Not An Oxymoron. Or Is It?

The Linux on Wall Street conference in New York is an attempt to highlight Linux and open source vendors and solutions, demonstrating and pontificating on how they all can work together. But can they work together



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Torvalds publishes delayed Linux kernel

Linus Torvalds has finally published the Linux 2.6.21 kernel, adding efficiency and virtualisation improvements, after a development process that dragged on for months.



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Firefox gets tight with Digg

Simple and a little scary: Digg stats for every page you visit.



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How To Utilize Your New Multimedia Keyboard Under Linux

Xbindkeys is a program that allows you to launch shell commands with your keyboard or your mouse under X Window. It links commands to keys or mouse buttons, using its configuration file. It does not depend on the window manager and can capture all keyboard keys.



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How to be a Pirate: Introduction

Ahoy, ye scurvy swabs. And so on and so forth. Stand by for the world’s first truly frank and useful treatise on pirates. I am your host, Steve H. Graham. An actual pirate.



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A visual history of Internet Explorer from 1 to 7

In this gallery, you'll be able to browse through the main user interface and several common dialog boxes from Internet Explorer 1 to Windows Internet Explorer 7.



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Want more dolphin with your tuna sandwich?

The U.S. government has arbitrarily and capriciously sought to ease rules for foreign fisherman on "dolphin-safe" tuna, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled on Friday in upholding current standards.



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"Star Trek" actor's ashes prepare to reach final frontier - Yahoo! News

Dozens of fans prepared to bid farewell Saturday to "Star Trek" star James Doohan, whose ashes are to be blasted into space on a private rocket.



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Satellites shed light on global warming

As climate change continues to make headlines across the world, participants at the 2007 Envisat Symposium this week are hearing how Earth observation satellites allow scientists to better understand the parameters involved in global warming and how this is impacting the planet.



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Making XML/XSLT driven site using PHP

XML and XSLT technologies provides standard ways of separation of presentation and data. This article contains an example of simple php "xslt engine" for XML driven web-sites which implements caching techniques and Apache-based XML file processing.



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Friday, April 27, 2007

Zfone: Zimmermann's VoIP encryption software

Zfone is a new secure VoIP phone software product which lets you make encrypted phone calls over the Internet. Its principal designer is Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP, the most widely used email encryption software in the world. Zfone uses a new protocol called ZRTP, which has a better architecture than the other approaches to secure VoIP.



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PHP: Basic Remote File Inclusion

Remote file inclusion, commonly known as RFI is a form of attack where the attacker trys to inject there own php code inside your php app's. If an attacker can successfully achieve this they will be able to execute any code they wish on your webserver.



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Basic XSS injection

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly known as XSS, is a type of attack that gathers malicious information about a user; typically in the form of a specially crafted hyperlink that will save the users credentials. An example of this would be a well known XSS vulnerability in phpBB that allows the attacker to forge his/her credentials to that of the admini



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Thursday, April 26, 2007

[IMG] The real fantastic four

A team hard to beat or prove wrong.



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[IMG] Pirates of the constitution

For your politically incorrect cubicle.



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Linux-powered robots go global

Researchers have unveiled internet-controlled wireless robots which are simple enough for "almost anyone" to build with off-the-shelf parts.



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Oracle's Unbreakable Linux...All about Microsoft

had lunch with a friend today that is making me reconsider some of my previous comments on Oracle's Unbreakable Linux moves. I still think the company went about it in the wrong way, but it makes more sense to me now.



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Five Basic Mistakes Not to Make in DNS

Here are five things you can do to make sure your DNS is in good shape and not causing problems for the rest of the Internet, which, by the way, also includes you.



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Code As Data: Reflection in PHP

As programmers, many of us instinctively draw a distinction between the programs we write and work with, and the data that they are meant to process. While this is often a useful thing to do, it does tend to hide one key fact: programs are themselves nothing but well-defined data. In order to run a program, some other program must parse it and turn



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Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Debian Etch

This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with this setup.



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Hell on Earth is Real: "Women's only town" to put men in their place

Chinese tourism authorities are seeking investment to build a novel concept attraction -- the world's first "women's town," where men get punished for disobedience, an official said Thursday.



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'Monster Mash' singer Pickett dies at 69

He does the "Monster Mash" no more. Bobby "Boris" Pickett, whose dead-on Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween anthem to the top of the charts in 1962, making him one of pop music's most enduring one-hit wonders, has died of leukemia. He was 69.



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Make a Techie Name Badge

Reclaim discarded technology and make yourself a name tag that will forever brand you as a member of the technical elite.



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DIY: Cheap cooling system

This instructable will show you how to make cheap cooling system.



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DIY Luxury Ant Farm: The mANTsion

This ant farm is made from old windows, has a warm LED "sun", some structures for the ants to play on, and is tricked out with a few laser etched/cut accouterments that hopefully make this more than just any regular ant farm. I like to think of it as a luxury ant farm, or mANTsion.



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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Father of Web Services Publishes "Security in a SOA" Article

Rajiv Gupta, is widely known as the father of Web Services and SOA. He is the founder and CEO of Securent, and has more than 17 years of successful enterprise software and security experience.



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Adding sound effects to Firefox

An add-on called PopupSound seems to do the trick for sound effects. It generates sounds when you click a link, hit "enter" in one of the browser windows, download a file or block a pop-up window.



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Firefox Tip: URL Shortcuts Made Easy

This morning I posted about OpenDNS’s new URL bar shortcuts option and Compiler reader Ron pointed out that I had overlooked the fact that Firefox offers that feature by default. While it doesn’t provide for network-wide shortcuts, Firefox (and IE as well) offers named bookmark shortcuts.



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QuickTime-Java ‘attack vector’ reported: now can affect all browsers

Nist.org's Network Information Security and Technology's Network Information Security & Technology News reported earlier this week about some incompatibilities between Apple's Quicktime player (shown above) and Apple's Safari browser.



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Open source kingmaker IBM crowns MySQL

IBM today announced a technology and marketing partnership that will have IBM selling MySQL's database, among other things:



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MySQL hits $50 million revenue, plans IPO

MySQL, purveyor of the open-source database of the same name, is on the road to becoming a publicly traded company, bolstered by $50 million in revenue in 2006.



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Wii Creator Honored By Time Magazine

Anyone who thinks video games don't make a difference in the world should check out Time magazine's voting for the 100 Most Influential People list.



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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Drunk man parks horse in German bank

An early-morning German bank customer had a bit of a shock when he found a horse already in line at the automatic teller machine in front of him. It seems the horse's owner, identified only as Wolfgang H., had a bit too much to drink the night before and decided to sleep it off inside the bank's heated foyer, police said Tuesday.



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NYC radio hosts suspended for prank call

Still recovering from the Don Imus scandal, CBS Radio suspended two local shock jocks after they twice broadcast a racially charged prank call to employees at a Chinese restaurant.



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Rawstudio: A fast and light RAW photo converter

Rawstudio is an open source, GTK+-based RAW photo converter. It takes a straightforward approach -- no outside-the-box interface designs, no fancy frills. The result is an easy-to-use application that is stable enough for everyday usage, even though it is still undergoing constant development.



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Dell Offers 32GB SSD on Select Latitude Models

Dell is jumping into the solid-state disk arena today by offering 1.8" SanDisk UATA 5000 drives on its Latitude D420 ultra-mobile and Latitude D620 ATG semi-rugged notebooks.



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Real-time Linux helps design military cargo plane

Airbus reportedly tapped real-time Linux in designing its A400M military transport plane, set to ship this year. Concurrent said it supplied the German airplane manufacturer with real-time Linux-based systems used for hardware-in-loop (HIL) simulation test stands used to perfect the A400M's "high-lift control computers."



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Your PC could knock your GPS out

Computers used anywhere near a GPS receiver can knock your sat-nav system out. Many Intel processors disturb the frequency signals used in GPS systems, a study by the Swedish Defence Research Agency has found.



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Potentially habitable planet found

For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big step in the search for "life in the universe."



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Manage a media collection with Atom

You might know the Atom syndication format as a way to provide blog entry information. But, did you know that in conjunction with the Atom Publishing Protocol, you can use it to manage media files? This article shows you how to create a Web-based media repository with Atom.



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Scientists unearth Superman's "kryptonite"

Kryptonite, which robbed Superman of his powers, is no longer the stuff of comic books and films.



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Monday, April 23, 2007

Is Alberto Gonzales above the law?

Bolstered by a fresh show of support from President Bush, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales sought Monday to move beyond calls for his resignation and lingering questions about his credibility after the firings of federal prosecutors.



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Professor fired over Va. Tech discussion

An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said "pow."



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Nurse guilty of dismembering husband

A jury convicted a nurse Monday of killing her husband, hacking up his body and stuffing the parts into three suitcases she tossed into Chesapeake Bay.



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Alcohol damages women's brains faster than men's

The brain-damaging effects of alcohol strike women more quickly than men, a new study conducted in Russia confirms.



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British Firm Offers Economy Ticket to the Moon

World leading small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) welcomes the recent signing of an agreement between NASA and the UK government's British National Space Centre (BNSC) that will establish co-operation between the two countries related to planetary exploration.



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Speaking UNIX: Regular expressions

Find and manipulate text



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Dexpot 1.4 - The utility for virtual desktops

Dexpot 1.4 turns your monitor into up to 20. It creates and manages virtual desktops and enables you to work far more efficiently and comfortably with many simultaneously opened windows on Windows 95/98/ME and NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista.



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Seven post-install tips for Ubuntu 7.04

So, you've just installed Ubuntu 7.04, otherwise known as the "Feisty Fawn" release of everyone's favorite (for now) flavor of Linux. You booted the installation disc , looked around the test environment to discover that your hardware was working, and double-clicked the Install icon on the desktop. The Ubuntu installer helped you make room for Linu



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Protester at Bill Gates Beijing ceremony sparks debate

The "free software" protester who barged into an award ceremony with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates at Beijing's prestigious Peking University has triggered a vigorous debate among China's Internet users on his motives and cause.



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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Nazgul Mask for $15-20

This is a quick, 2-hour project I pieced together for one of my students who requested a Nazgul King mask for a production he was working on.



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Civic meets Tron

Awesome commercial from Honda.



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DIY Bicycle mounted steadicam

This instructables project details the latest version of the bicycle mounted steadicam arm (constructed from hardware store and hobby shop parts) for a miniDV camera. I've used the video that I've captured to create DVDs for: a bicycle shop and for myself (as motivation for my indoor biking).



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OpenOffice Taps Business Smarts

The open source OpenOffice.org (OOo) office suite is about to get an injection of business intelligence thanks to a cooperative effort between Sun Microsystems and open source BI vendor Pentaho.



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Police seek clues from eBay account, Virginia Tech victim's laptop

Investigators are examining the computer and cell phone of the woman believed to have been the first victim of the Virginia Tech massacre, as well as an eBay account the gunman may have used.



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Felixtimlock Electric Go Kart

Some videos of my electric go kart, and soon some of some bicycle wheelies and hopefully some 4wding.



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DIY Star Wars Paper Figures

Paper, scissors and glue are the ingredients for awesome star wars figures.



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Everingham Rotating House

The idea was born when our neighbours were expounding the virtues of their new home and commented that if they could start again they would orientate the house 15 degrees more to the north. Deb said, "Wouldn't it be handy to have a house that could move?"



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The Best Collection of Airplane Photos on the Net

If you like aircrafts photos, this is a place to keep handy.



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Enviropedia, all you need to know about the enviroment

300+ topics about the Environment



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Inventors turn creations into cash

What do the automatic fish catcher, the easy sushi-maker, and the body-shaping petticoat all have in common? They're creations of some of the world's most innovative minds for the world's laziest bodies.



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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Technical ways to get around censorship

Filtering technology allows controls to be placed on access to Internet content. Although the initial focus of such technology was on the individual level - allowing parents to restrict children’s access to inappropriate content - filtering technology is now being widely deployed at institutional and national level.



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Let sleeping Oggs lie

An industry giant could drive support for Ogg, but why would they bother? What's the profit margin on free?



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Game: Max-xion

Here's one of the nicer Blender games I've seen in a while: Max-xion by p00f. It's a bit of a mashup of several games such as Astrosmash, Breakout and Asteroids. A great way to waste away a few hours at work while waiting for the weekend ;-)



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Google Snaps Up More Of The Online Advertising Sector

THREE TIMES in a row now Microsoft has been trumped by Google as they tussle to acquire juicy online operators. First it was for a stake in AOL, then for YouTube and most recently for internet advertising company DoubleClick.



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Gaming A Disaster For Microsoft

Maybe the meme that became fact, that Microsoft's Xbox is merely a trojan horse to get into everybody's front room and control their lives hasn't been properly communicated to a chap called Roger Ehrenberg.



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Blender/Gimp Texturing and Unwrapping Tutorial

The goal of this tutorial is to show to people, how to make textures with an image manipulation program, "The Gimp" in this particular case, and use them in Blender's "Game Engine", in a and "easy" and "fast" manner, I hope.



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Microsoft Licenses Samsung Linux Rights

The boilerplate announcing the deal says "Samsung and its distributors and customer may utilize Microsoft's patents in Samsung's products with proprietary software, and Samsung will also obtain coverage from Microsoft for its customers' use of certain Linux-based products."



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Wii creams Xbox 360 and PS3 in the US

US sales figures from market research company NDP Group show that the Wii continues to dominate sales of next generation consoles.



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Add USB to a Sweex LB000021 router

The Sweex LB000021 is about the cheapest hardware router one can get. I bought mine for E25,- new. The fun thing about these routers is that there's a complete MIPS-architecture processor in it, the ADM5120, which runs Linux.



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Friday, April 20, 2007

Republican McCain defends his musical `Bomb Iran' frolic

Republican presidential contender Senator John McCain has a message for any critics who thought his musical joke about bombing Iran was not funny: Get a life.



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Church & Winehouse - Beat It

Charlotte Church & Amy Winehouse cover Michael Jackson's classic Beat It as the finale to her first Channel 4 series on Friday 13th October 2006



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Why the Web 2.0 Conference Was Hell

John C. Dvorak gives us his take on the Web 2.0 Conference experience with Justin of JustinTV and Yahoo!'s Director of Product Management Matthew Skyrm and explains why, after too much sleep, Justin should be happy he didn't knock him down!



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Blind Guitarrist plays Billy Jean

Recorded live in Vienna in 1987, another version of the Michael Jackson 80s hit by the great guitar player and singer Jose Feliciano



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MySpace takes on Digg and Google News

MySpace is to take on Google and Digg with a news aggregator service that combs the web for stories and allows users to rank their favourites.



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Microsoft's anti-Linux whisper game

Well, Microsoft never committed to play fair. The company has entered into two more patent agreements with Fuji and Samsung, as reported by Matthew Aslett. As ever, Microsoft doesn't actually say there are any IP infringement problems with Linux (there aren't, at least, no more than Microsoft has in its own products), but rather uses these cross-li



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Slashdot killing PERL, maybe Slash

Looking for PHP programmer who can swiftly complete projects using clean, efficient, annotated code, as part of a team building a series of new sites.



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Wii sales up, PlayStation 2 still in the lead

Keeping their momentum for the year up, Nintendo is celebrating the Wii as it continues to outsell other consoles.



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PS3 sales decrease 18 percent; No. 5 in Japan

Sales for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 continue to decrease in Japan on strong competition from Nintendo Co.'s video game hardware and its other Playstation branded offerings.



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Man kills hostage, self at NASA building

A NASA contract worker took a handgun inside an office building Friday at the Johnson Space Center and fatally shot a hostage before killing himself, police said.



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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Who will fix my pc? The Computer man can

He's the computer man...



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Corevette-Powered Jeep

We imagine one could immediately bypass crawling rocks with this Wrangler and instead just jump them. At the moment, the high bid is $10,000 with 11 bids on record and about 5 days left to go



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How to: Extract Image from Background in Photoshop

In this tutorial, “Luv2help” shows us how to extract an image from its background in just a few easy steps, using Photoshop. Continue reading for the video.



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(Video) One Man Re-Building Stonehenge

Wally Wallington has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes this so special is that he does it using only himself, gravity, and his incredible ingenuity



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The programming languages index

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, and Yahoo! are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TI



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DIY Ten Second Pillow

Make a Glad-Bag pillow with only a soldering iron, baking paper, zip-lock bag, a pen, scissors, and a paper clip. Feel free to play the MacGuyver theme in the background.



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Home Brew Aluminum USB Flash Case

So here’s a guy who took geekness to the next level. After the enclosure broke off Russell’s 1GB UFD Voyager, he decided to up the durability factor by a Thousand.



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Giant Treadmill Built For NASCAR Testing

Man, how crazy is this? While wind tunnel testing is perfect for planes and other flying vehicles at times they’re not so perfect when dealing with cars, especially at very high speeds.



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Sony may cut Europe game workforce after PS3 launch

Bloomberg on Wed. reported that Sony may cut 160 positions in its Europe game unit to reduce costs following the launch of the Playstation 3 in the region. The only one keeping his job is the idiot of Kuratagi



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DIY PS/2 Keyboard IR Receiver

A few years ago, someone gave me a small wireless infra-red keyboard, part no. RC-KB2, designed to be used with a Kenwood audio system. As soon as I saw it, I wanted to discover it's transmission format. Why? Because I would then be able to build a small receiver which would allow me to use this keyboard on a PC with a PS/2 port.



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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Robot controlled by stereo remote

Here is a 47 sec. clip of my latest bot I call Infra-Tank due to the fact that it is controlled with my infrared stereo remote controller. This is a custom design/build, but is based on the parallax boe-bot.



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Digg in Canada!!!!, digg.ca

If you're looking for Technology, Science, World & Business or anything Technology related... You have come to the right website!



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Pac-Man Live Action

Japanese Comedy Skit Of Pac-Man the video game re-enacted. Pac-Man keeps getting a beatdown.



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PS3: The bigger it gets, the harder it falls

SONY is considering launching PlayStation 3 (PS3) game consoles with larger hard disk capacity, in a bid to cater to the needs of hardcore gamers and other heavy users.



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Monday, April 16, 2007

The next McDonalds: Jellyfish cookies shacks

Who would have ever thought that cookies made of jellyfish would become a hit product?



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PSP Phone a Possibility

According to Internet rumors Sony is development of a Playstation Portable Phone/Game Player. It makes since PSP recently lowered its price 15% and when Sony lowers the price it usually means that they have a bigger, better product in the works.



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Capitalizing on the Wii aftermarket

They may not have invented the popular gaming console, but that doesn't mean these entrepreneurs can't make a profit on it.



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Arm reattached after crocodile attack at zoo

A zoo worker had his forearm reattached Thursday after his colleagues recovered the severed limb from the mouth of a 440-pound Nile crocodile, an official said.



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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Computer Controlled RC Car

After working on this project all night, I've finally managed to control the RC car with my computer! I bought this cheap car from a local toy store a few days ago. I didn't go for high-end cars because, apart from being expensive, they use analogue signals to give precise speed and direction control.



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How to Mobilize your WRT54G

A simple but powerful RC car controlled via WiFi



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Build Log for The Journey Robot

An Autonomous Six Wheel Off-Road Robot with Differential All-Wheel Drive, All-Wheel Independent Suspension and Static/Dynamic Stability.



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RC CAR DATA TELEMETRY

A Wireless Data Telemetry system that receives acceleration, proximity and external temperature data from a remote vehicle and displays them on an NTSC television screen.



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Control RC-car with PC

For controlling a Car with a pc I build a simple little hardware with an Atmel Mega 8 microcontroller, a Max232 (Serial Port Voltage converter) and some resistors and capacitors.



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Wi-Drive: A WiFi Controled RC Car

Remote Control (RC) Cars provide an excellent platform for working with robotics. We have developed a system that will allow control of an RC car over a wireless network. This project spans the full range of embedded system development from building windows applications to pulsing DC motors.



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Creating a World without Sexual Violence

This site is provided to coordinate the "Creating a World without Sexual Violence: National Day of Truthtelling" event that will be happening on April 28th, 2007 in Durham, North Carolina!



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You can sell your cell phone plan

I feel stuck in my mobile phone plan. I'm three months into a two-year contract and the reception I get on my cell is disappointing. However, my contract states that I will have to pay more than $200 to terminate the plan early. There are a couple of prominent Web sites that specialize in ridding people of undesirable plans.



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Pope's car falls short on Ebay

A car that once belonged to Pope Benedict XVI remains unsold after spending two years on an online auction site.



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Dutch Submarines: Mystery pictures and unidentified Dutch Submarines

Are these photos for real?



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Awesome photos of soap bubbles

Adding a simple soap bubble to your pictures and see how much they change.



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Ubuntu 7.04 arrives Thursday

For Linux business users, the most important Linux release of 2007 so far is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. But for most other Linux fans, the upcoming release of Ubuntu Version 7.04 on April 19 demands more attention.



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IRS: Cell phone users eligible for tax refund

Many cell phone users appear to be overlooking the telephone tax refund in the mistaken belief that the one-time refund applies only to land-line customers.



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Why Windows Vista on your PC with 4GB RAM can only see 3GB - or less...

Many times I've seen people asking "I have 4GB RAM on my PC but Windows Vista can only see 3GB. What's going on?"...



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Using Google as a Proxy (or HOW TO: View MySpace at School)

It's very interesting that Google, a host unlikely to end up on most blacklists, has a couple of tools that can essentially act as a web proxy!



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DIY Webcam Laser Rangefinder

This page describes how a mini laser pointer can be configured along with a single camera to provide mono-machine vision with range information.



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Saturday, April 14, 2007

(Video) Students Build Motorized SnoDeck

A group of students from the University of Waterloo have built the SnoDeck, a motorized snowboard of sorts that “has a turning radius of two meters, and a kill switch to prevent it from taking out by-standers when the rider falls off.” Video after the jump.



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Was Einstein Right?

Today, at the American Physical Society (APS) meeting in Jacksonville, Fla., Professor Francis Everitt, a Stanford University physicist and principal investigator of the Gravity Probe B (GP-B) Relativity Mission, a collaboration of Stanford, NASA and Lockheed Martin, will provide the first public peek at data that will reveal whether Einstein’s the



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Amazing Green Building: The ACROS Fukuoka

In Fukuoka City in Japan, they have an amazing building called "ACROS Fukuoka" with two very distinct sides: one side looks like a conventional office building with glass walls, but on the other side there is a huge terraced roof that merges with a park.



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Overclocking a laptop, well almost....

With Notebook Hardware Control you can easily control the hardware components of your Notebook



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Autodesk Announces Spy Gadget Design Contest

Competition seeks fun, intriguing inventions from members of the Autodesk Manufacturing Community.



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Teen animator wins award

Sam Brubaker sits with a frame from his animation “Infinitum,” for which he recently won a Suzanne award and an audience award for best animation during November’s Asheville Film Festival.



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The geeks should NOT govern.

Police in Moscow on Saturday detained Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion who has emerged as a political opposition leader, press reports and a Kasparov spokesman said.



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Oops, NASA did it again, error blamed for Mars probe's loss

Human error triggered a cascade of events that caused the battery to fail on the Mars Global Surveyor last year, according to a preliminary report released Friday.



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DIY Dual Waterproof Consumer Electronics

It is reported that Navy SEALS commonly use two condoms to seal firing assemblies for their underwater explosives, having thus coined the term: "Dual Waterproof Firing Assemblies". This instructable is a tribute to their ingenuity, and it expands on the concept of the waterproof condom, in order to make a waterproof housing for my digital camera (a



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Friday, April 13, 2007

How to Make Raw Cat Food

keeping your pet happy and healthy without serving him all the unnecessary additives that are in the canned food, which have been recalled for making pets fatally ill recently and in the past. The following recommendation will better suit your cat's body and health.



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The Economist Writing Style Guide

The Economist Style Guide is based on a book published by the Economist magazine that lists dos and don'ts when writing for it.



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Trying to break the Google habit

Google's dominance of the search market, which in the UK stands at 75%, is increasingly being challenged by rivals desperate to become popular with a generation of web users growing up with Google as their homepage.



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Perl Object Oriented Programming POOP

Most people are not aware of the fact that Perl has support for object-oriented programming. If you've used another object-oriented programming language such as Java or C++ or been exposed to object-orientation, then object oriented programming in Perl is nothing like that. To do real useful object-oriented programming in Perl, you only need to use



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Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition Preview

A quick summary of the RE4 Wii Edition: take the content of the PS2 version, and add Wii functionality on top. All of the enhancements that the PS2 release had, such as true 16x9 widescreen in 480p, the extra costumes, and the Ada-centric "Separate Ways" minigame, are present in the Wii version.



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The Pringles can windmill

While thinking about the last windmill which I tried to make (from PVC drainage pipe, works quite well) and thinking about the 'Pringles can' projects which you see every now and then (like the Cantenna) the idea was born: The Pringlescan windmill. A year ago I worked on my PVC windmill. Creating windmill blades from a Pringles can is pretty much s



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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Life is not without its sense of irony

Famed crime-fighter Eliot Ness' plaque is missing, stolen right from the Cleveland police headquarters.



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PS3 And Xbox 360 Facing Grim Future Claim Quake Man

The PS3 and the Xbox 360 are facing a grim future according to a leading games expert. The future will be multi processor machines such as as a bog standard gaming PC.



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Why the PS3 might share the same fate as the PSP

The design of the DS actually forced developers to be more imaginative. Developers who tried to release downgraded ports met with utter failure, on the whole. The PSP, on the other hand, had a lot of games that were pretty, but lacking in imagination and often weren’t that suited for portable play. The PS3 so far hasn’t really had games that are th



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PS3 Just Got More Expensive

Sony has killed its $500 version of the PlayStation 3, which was the stripped-down model with the 20GB hard drive and no Wi-Fi support that few gamers were buying anyway.



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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Kcpentrix - Penetration Testing LiveCD

Release 2.0 is a liveDVD, It features a lot of new or up to date tools for auditing and testing a network, from scanning and discovering to exploiting vulnerabilities



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Create a Nintendo like Homebrew or Flash game with these original sprites

Does your game look like crap?, focus on the design and use these cool sprites for your characters.



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DNS Brute Force eXtract

There is another option for DNS Brute Forcing which uses threads, so may be faster than TXDNS 2.0 which we posted about recently.



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Vending Machines for Flash cards

On the heals of iPods and other tech being sold via Vending machines, Kingston Technology and My Memory have gotten together and recently unveiled the world’s first vending machine for flash memory products.



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Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: a first view

Flash is one of those rare programs that doesn't really have any equivalent, so there was very little doubt as to what would happen to Flash once Adobe swallowed up Macromedia (read: it was sticking around). What was in question, however, is just what the newly-christened Adobe Flash would look and feel like, and with the announcement of Adobe Flas



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World’s Most Annoying Man

Yesterday I was flying across the country. My biggest fear when flying isn’t that the jet might crash; it’s that I might end up sitting next to the World’s Most Annoying Man for five hours. Theoretically, such a person exists. I mean, SOMEONE has to be the most annoying man in the world. And there’s a good chance that he flies...



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PS3: Failing in the game market niche, looking for other endeavors

Sony Computer Entertainment is in talks with companies about potential commercial application of the same distributed computing technology utilized by Folding@Home, a Stanford University project that harnesses the computing power of PlayStation 3 consoles to conduct medical research, the Financial Times reported.



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Current Wii shortages see no immediate end in sight

In a recent podcast interview, Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan has some discouraging words for potential Wii buyers: despite ramped-up production, expect more shortages in the near future.



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Super Paper Mario TV Commercial

Old fashion Mario with 3D pizazz.



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Convert/Import from PDF and Keep the Formatting

Recently I found a way to convert a pdf file to other formats, including .doc and .odt which preserves the formatting of the text pretty well. It is not perfect preserved but it is way better than having no formatting at all.



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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

24: the un-aired season

Think this story line never made the cut for a potential season, check it out yourself :).



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Lights, camera, ActionScript 3.0!

Script Adobe movies and applications with the next-generation Flash Player Runtime and Mozilla's Tamarin open source project.



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Some objective advice for structuring your next online game project

Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) are some of the most complicated software systems under development today, often requiring dozens of developers, hundreds of artists, and truly massive infrastructures. This article is the first in a series of articles that will shine a light on the systems, storage, and networks needed to run an MMOG. It



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Nintendo looking for new Wii manufacturer

Nintendo will be holding a meeting in Japan tomorrow with retailers to show off upcoming games and products. They will also announce an increase in Wii shipments across Japan, beginning this week.



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DIY Minibike

I have had the idea of building a minibike rattling around in my head (like the ball in a spraycan) for a couple years. Of course I wanted to build it from scratch, and scrounge up as many of the parts as possible, since I would not feel right spending good money on a minibike. Last summer I found an engine at The Black Hole, and the project began.



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DIY Trebuchet

I want to hear your trebuchet-tips! This project is just starting and will be updated gradually as things progress; I'm sure there's some latent treb-knowledge in the heads of many Instructablers. Let me know what you think of current plans and where you'd like to see the trebuchet go.



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DIY Simplest Intercom

Using your old phones, you could create personal "micro" telephone exchange as simple as above circuit. I manage to solder the test circuit less than a minute. Than connect the phone and test it. It works. So why 39 ohm? From Epanorama Dot Net, the correct value of the resistor should be a resistor that can limit the circuit current around 30mA tot



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Monday, April 09, 2007

Best Indie Games 2007

None of them are perfect, but all of them do at least one thing amazingly well in a new way.



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Debian 4.0 Shows Signs of Trouble

A few months late, Debian 4.0, aka Etch, has been released, but how many people actually will be running it?



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Spring Is In the Air

Opinion: Interface21 and its Spring Framework are hot right now in the open-source enterprise Java space. Will they be gobbled up?



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Lighter Photography

You can make artistic photos with your digital camera, a lighter, and a tripod.



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AppleTV Perl plugin

The idea is this: a lot of people know how to write Perl who don't want to learn to program Cocoa. And you can add new scripts from your normal office work computer (via ssh) but have them all available from Apple TV. You can do date & time, calendars, stock quotes, weather, and so forth. Scrape web pages, subscribe to RSS feeds, whatever.



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Sunday, April 08, 2007

Creating a pyramid in After Effects from simple planes

After Effects 7 doesn't have as much control or success with solid geometry as a true 3D application, but for some rigid bodies, you can create a model that passes. Here's how to set up a pyramid in After Effects.



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Six cool things you can build with OpenID

Apart from explaining what OpenID is and how it works, the key point I was trying to get across in the talk was that OpenID is a simple piece of infrastructure on which smart applications can be built—applications that may not have been possible prior to the adoption of OpenID.



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Hidden Linux : A Little Linux Mashup

In Web 2.0 terms a "mashup" is a website that combines content from a variety of sources in order to give users an integrated experience. You can achieve something similar using the vast variety of hidden utilities in Linux - and you don't even need to be a programmer!



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Wireless home router with analogue utilisation meter

The rev counter is a rough aproximation of the traffic utilisation between my home network and the interne



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Tech-savvy marathons keep racers connected with fans

Brendan Burke's cell phone was beeping within minutes of the start of his wife's marathon in San Diego. A text message arrived with her latest time as she crossed the six timing mats around the course.



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Going 3D with Blender: Modeling a clock

In this article we model a clock with Blender.



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DIY An ethernet weather station

Using an add-on card to the already existing avr ethernet board we build a weather station. That is: A weather station with a build-in webserver.



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DIY An ethernet weather station

Using an add-on card to the already existing avr ethernet board we build a weather station. That is: A weather station with a build-in webserver.



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How to save PS2 games on the PS3's hard drive

No one I know. Fortunately, Sony Computer Entertainment America spokesman Patrick Seybold said not only is "GOW2" compatible with the PS3, but he's been playing it on one personally for a while now. Here's how the process to set up a virtual memory card works...



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Saturday, April 07, 2007

'Cheating' the search engines

Generally they (teh serach engines) do a decent job but, up until very recently, if you were to search on the term "miserable failure", top of the Google search results was the official George Bush page on the official White House site.



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DIY G-force logger

For the gravitational pull freak.



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Gamefly Offering New Free Wii Promotion

First free DS Lites, and now a free Wii? Has Gamefly been stockpiling Wii’s all this time? Are THEY the reason no one can find the new Ninty console anywhere?



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DIY POV projector

With this you can project you POV's image onto a wall, ceiling, or pretty much anything!



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Cop killer "enjoyed" life on the run

During more than five months on the run from law enforcement, Ralph "Bucky" Phillips claimed he disguised himself as a state trooper and even spoke with a trooper who failed to recognize him.



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Bluetooth Banana Phone Wireless Handset

This project describes the steps involved to construct a working Bluetooth handset in the shape of a banana.



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Friday, April 06, 2007

Google Voice Local Search

To try this service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone.



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The reality of the American culture in pictures (at least part of it).

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.



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Wii controller under Linux

Control OpenGL objects with the Wiimote. No need to know Spanish, the article contains the universal language: C.



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Wii Sports Cuff protects you from yourself

The Retractable Wii Sports Cuff keeps that Wii-mote securely attached to your wrist at all times, so even if you let it go in a fit of tennis-fueled ecstasy



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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Punishment worse than the crime, Robber shot in the penis

A suspected robber who was taking refuge at a place of safety for people with HIV/Aids was shot in his private parts through the windscreen of a car by one of the crew of a police helicopter hovering above.



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Proof of concept virus for iPods running Linux

Kaspersky Lab has discovered the first virus designed to infect iPod portable media players. The virus, which has been named Podloso, is a proof of concept program which does not pose a real threat.



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Firefox Adds Content-Sharing Tools

Mozilla's research group has developed a set of content-sharing tools that will allow users to swap links and more efficiently track personal content such as blog posts, movies, and photos.



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DIY Metal Detector

BFO ( beat frequency oscillator ) metal detectors use two oscillators, each of which produces a radio frequency. One of these oscillators uses a coil of wire that we call the search loop. The second oscillator uses a much smaller coil of wire, and is usually inside the control box and is called the reference oscillator.



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Foot Pedal Speed Controller Mod for Rotary Tools like Dremel

This is my own setup sitting on a dining table. When doing carving for longer period of time, I try to use the flexi cord so I don't need to hold the whole weight of the rotary tool in my hands. On the floor you'll spot the item we are going to build today. Some may recognize where the donor part is from but more of that on the next page



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Gesture Controlled Computer using a Webcam

What if you give it the finger and shut down windows cold...



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Weapons made out of LEGOS

Sorry no WMD....yet.



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Papercraft Robots and Toys

Paper, paper paper. It’s all I can talk about for the past few days - and thanks to Ts’ai Lun you can find paper just about anywhere. Paper makes for some mighty good DIY projects when combined with a printer, and is even more ubiquitous than my other favorite material; cardboard.



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How to: Collecting Hydrogen and Oxygen

In this instructable I'll give you a simple way to collect Hydrogen gas and if you want also, to collect Oxygen. Depending on the voltage and current that you use for the project this could be hazardous. I used a 14.4 volt power drill battery pack for the process but don't recommend it, I only used it to achieve a noticeable effect in a short time



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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Excel Games

Are you limited in what games your company's IT/IS department will leave installed on your work machine? Well, it seems very unlikely they will take Excel away from you. And Excel, among other things, is an interesting development platform for some fairly amusing programs.



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Dvorak is a TROLL

Else ask the guys from the joy of tech.



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Securing Java applications with Acegi

URL-based security with Acegi Security System



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Virtualization with coLinux

Using, installing, and configuring Cooperative Linux



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Charming Python: Python elegance and warts

In this article, I discuss the non-obvious features that have been added to the last several Python versions, and I weigh in on which are truly valuable and which just add unnecessary complication.



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Tuning LAMP systems

How LAMP systems work, how to measure their performance, and how to tune the underlying operating system



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UNIX processes

This month, let's probe a little deeper than usual to examine how UNIX manages to do so many things simultaneously. While spelunking, let's also glimpse the internals of your shell to see how job-control commands, such as Control-C (terminate) and Control-Z (suspend), are implemented. Headlamps on! To the bat cave!



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Kyocera KR1 3G Mobile EV-DO to WiFi Router

This router only works with EV-DO PC cards or EV-DO USB phones. If you are looking for a 3G router that will do all data signals like EV-DO, HSDPA, EDGE, CDMA, GPRS, etc, check out our 3G Phoebus, and the advanced security of the MB8000 3G router.



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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Report warns of critical flaw in Web 2.0, AJAX

Researchers like Billy Hoffman of Atlanta-based SPI Dynamics Inc. have warned for some time that digital outlaws have an easy target in applications based on Web 2.0 and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). At the recent Shmoocon hacker conference, Hoffman demonstrated how JavaScript-rich programs can be compromised with a tool he created called



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Wii Sales More than Double PS3 in Japan

The latest figures from the researchers at Enterbrain are in and it's not very encouraging for the PS3. One analyst said that Sony is racing against time with its PS3, but Sony should definitely not be counted out. As another analyst points out, the PS2 had a slow start as well.



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PS3 sales in the UK drop by an alarming 82%

It appears that the UK’s love affair with the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) was just a brief fling, with UK sales of Sony’s new console dropping by an alarming 82% in the second week after its launch. PS3 Launch in he UK was disaster!!!!.



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No Charges Filed In Nintendo Wii Water Contest Death

No criminal charges will be filed in the water intoxication death of Jennifer Lea Strange, who tragically died in January participating in a radio contest titled “Hold Your Wee for a Wii”. The mother of three had drank nearly two gallons of water trying to win a Nintendo Wii.



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Mario Strikers heading for Wii

A sequel to Super Mario Strikers is coming to the Nintendo Wii. Mario Strikers: Charged is a five-a-side soccer game with players possessing acrobatic skills and super abilities.



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Monday, April 02, 2007

Jay Adelson on Digg Coupons & Tech Deals

On Friday I brought up a couple of points regarding coupons on social news aggregators and used an example that was found on digg and del.icio.us. I also asked Jay Adelson for his thoughts on whether or not they plan on making a more prominent category focused on coupons and got his response. Consider this a mini Q & A and catchup all at the same t



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Digg Bait vs Link Bait

There are two perspectives on creative link building that I’ve been thinking about lately involving creating content and resources that offer value and the sensationalism of content promoted through social news communities. My take is that link bait focuses on creating unique, useful and provocative content that people respond to by linking to it a



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Math Will Rock Your World

A generation ago, quants turned finance upside down. Now they're mapping out ad campaigns and building new businesses from mountains of personal data.



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Computerized pistol engineered to recognize the grip of its owner

Armed with $2 million in federal grants, researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) are close to perfecting the first commercially viable "smart gun." The prototype pistol, unveiled last month, is designed to recognize specific people's grips.



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StarWars Lightsaber WIImote

Playing the WII was great fun and still is but certain games needed a better feel to them. There's mod's out there that help with shooting games but what about the main function of the WII, Sword fighting. So while waiting for the pinnacle game for the WII, a star wars game, i should prepare for it by building the fabled lightsaber/sword that the g



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Cursor Appearance in the Linux Console

Escape sequences to control the cursor appearance in the Linux console (text, no X11) are yet to be included in the manpage on console_codes, but they are tentatively documented in the file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt This article is mainly an interpreted version of the file above, with examples added. The file was written in 19



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Rule-based DoS attacks prevention shell script

In this article, I describe a simple rule-based DoS attack-prevention shell script. However, the proposed shell script is not a perfect tool for preventing DoS attacks, but a powerful tool for alleviating DoS attacks overheads of the Linux servers significantly.



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Copying a partition in Linux

Here is a way to copy a partition which is mounted without copying all the other partitions that are under it.



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Aonix Demonstration: Java™ Roasts C in Speed Test

— Aonix®, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, demonstrates that an all Java code solution executing with PERC Ultra and PERC Pico outstrips an equivalent Java program that uses C code for computing-intensive algorithms.



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Blu-ray Disc Java is coming this fall

Blu-ray Disc Java is coming this fall, and it may be incompatible with some of today's machines



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Sunday, April 01, 2007

American Dental Association Sues FSF, Linux Foundation over FLOSS Acronym

The American Dental Association announced Friday that they are suing both the Free Software Foundation and the Linux Foundation over the use of the acronym FLOSS.



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People missing after tsunami

Several people were feared dead on Monday after a powerful earthquake in the South Pacific sent a tsunami wave into the Solomon Islands, officials said.



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What Are EMI and Steve Jobs Up To?

Hey, the Beatles are finally coming to iTunes! Or maybe a major label is announcing it's dropping DRM! Or something else huge is about to happen, probably involving digital music! Or something disappointingly minor!



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Nintendo to Buy SEGA

This week it sure seemed strange to hear that Nintendo’s Mario and SEGA’s Sonic would be appearing in a video game together, but this was no doubt just to test the waters for a possible merger of the two former rivals.



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John Heder: Figure Skater, Nintendo Fanboy

The folks at GameDaily got a chance to talk with Napoleon Dynamite's dork superhero, John Heder about his new movie with Will Ferrel, Blades of Glory. It didn't take long for the conversation to turn to gaming with Heder revealing that he is a huge Nintendo fan.



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Female hygene explained by a cabby

As any other advice you get from a stranger, get it with a grain of salt.



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The balloon bikinis...

God bless the inventors of these awesome bikinis.



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The balloon bikinis...

God bless the inventors of these awesome bikinis.



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How to create your own TV/Videocast pilot

We shot these tutorial videos for Acceptable.tv, but they're very general and therefore more than applicable to making Channel 101 stuff.



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How to create your own TV/Videocast pilot

We shot these tutorial videos for Acceptable.tv, but they're very general and therefore more than applicable to making Channel 101 stuff.



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