Spider Cat, Spider Cat...

Does whatever a spider car does....

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[PIC] The 1000 faces of a Mazda Miata

Miata + Photoshop = Fun!

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LG to develop iPod washing machine

Sorting out your dirty clothes, chucking them in the washing machine and waiting for its spin cycle to finish isn't exactly the height of fun. LG wants to change all that with a new washing machine featuring a built-in MP3 player - at least then you'll be able to listen to your favourite tracks while doing your chores.

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PS3 To Get DVR Functions, Digital Tuner In 2008

Maybe they'll throw a washing machine in too.

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Wfuzz - The web 2.0 bruteforcer

Wfuzz is a tool designed for bruteforcing Web Applications, it can be used for finding resources not linked (directories, servlets, scripts, etc), bruteforce GET and POST parameters for checking different kind of injections (SQL, XSS, LDAP,etc), bruteforce Forms parameters (User/Password), Fuzzing,etc.

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Build a custom search engine with PHP

While Google and its ilk are virtually omniscient, the Web's mighty search engines aren't well suited to every site. If your site content is highly specialized or distinctly categorized, use Sphinx and PHP to create a finely tuned local search system.

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Linux tip: Controlling the duration of scheduled jobs

How to stop a job after a certain time

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Gates putting foot in mouth in 3, 2, 1 ....

Microsoft Corp.'s Bill Gates does not see Google Inc. becoming a successful competitor in the market for software for cellular phones, the New York Times reported on its Web site on Monday.

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How to Cope with Job Burnout

You could leave your job for another — and that might be exactly what you need to do — but that’s not always feasible or sensible. Before taking that drastic step, try these things first:

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TomTom's SatNav 'Community' Raises Bar For Rivals

Satellite navigation device maker TomTom has jumped ahead of its rivals with a plan to mine information from drivers -- echoing the Web "community" approach that has worked for Wikipedia and YouTube

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The Twitter Lesson: No Business Plans Please

Seeing that Twitter closed a funding round, and spotting the associated incredulity about Evan's company not having a business plan, reminded me of something: Whatever your feelings about Twitter, business plans are overrated, and profits perhaps even more so.

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Bad Apple

Apple Computer (AAPL) released an update to their 10.3.x operating system (Panther). Version 10.3.9, which became available Friday is, in my opinion, a mess.

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Dell's Dirty Little Secret

Dell might have a dirty little secret. Actually, it might be their's and Intel's. Here's the jist of it: the PCI Express architecture in the PowerEdge 2850 servers (2U, rackmount, multi-CPU capable) takes a HUGE hole out of available memory.

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Hackers steal U.S. government, corporate data from PCs

- Hackers stole information from the U.S. Department of Transportation and several U.S. companies by seducing employees with fake job-listings on advertisements and e-mail, a computer security firm said.

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Reviewing the summer blockbusters of 2008.

Not impressed with this summer's blockbusters? Check out what's on tap for summer 2008.

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To Those About to Hack

The Zen way of computer hacking.

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Worst way to quit your high paying job

A splash of drama hit OSCON this morning, as the COO of software maker Fotango resigned from the company during his keynote, protesting a decision not to open source the Zimki utility computing platform.

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Google still waiting for the big one to happen

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo.

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And this is how the war between religions started

Catholic missionaries have always trekked to dangerous parts of the Earth to spread the word of God -- now they are being encouraged to go into the virtual realm of Second Life to save virtual souls.

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Use of drugs in Japan is getting out of control, see this woman for example

She never cease to scare a few of the locals and tourists alike with her intensity and seemingly free form style.

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Saudi turns his back on jihad

But the rest of the kingdom keep their wallet open

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Nike suspends Vick contract without pay

Nike suspended its lucrative contract with Michael Vick on Friday, while Reebok took the unprecedented step of stopping sales of his No. 7 jersey.

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Make Potato Plastic!

This is a project for all you environmentalists, tree hungers, global warming believers (I am not one by the way), and especially you Al Gore.

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Wii beats PS3 by almost fivefold, Sony still in denial

The Wii outsold the PlayStation 3 almost fivefold in the quarter to June as Nintendo ratchets up the pressure on Sony in the multibillion dollar video game industry, figures showed Thursday.

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Google is not ready for Microsoft's BIG wreck ball

Microsoft announced Thursday it is adding another weapon to its arsenal in the battle for online advertising dollars with the purchase of Internet ad exchange AdECN Inc.

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Sony gives universities PSP SDK

So, if you're studying gaming or if you just fancy having a tinker with the PSP SDK then be sure keep an eye on the headlines so you can find out how to get a copy!

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Creating a PHP-Based Content Management System

Writing your own CMS can lead to a solution that is better suited to your requirements, better addresses the needs of your users, and is better understood by your development team. If you have the time and expertise to write your own in-house system, it may well prove the better option.

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Netflix bubble burst. Is this the begining of the end?

Netflix Inc. frustrated investors and customers alike Tuesday as its stock price plunged to its lowest point in more than two years while its Web site was inaccessible most of the day because of unexplained technical problems.

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Canadian gym puts Wii workout on its schedule

A Canadian health club is offering a new form of exercise for people bored with the treadmill or cycling classes -- the Wii Workout Station.

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Damn you Maddox: Apple falls on initial iPhone activation numbers

Shares of Apple Inc fell 4 percent on Tuesday after AT&T Inc issued initial subscriber numbers for customers of Apple's iPhone that were below analyst estimates.

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Digg releases new widgets for Web sites

Digg.com yesterday released new tools called Digg Widgets that are designed to make it easier to embed content from Digg on to other Web sites.

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Digg and Slashdot spreading FUD... Oh wait...

There you go, the "wisdon of crowds" shows its face again. One of the top stories on Digg and Slashdot this weekend is how the "US Government is checking up on Vista Users"...

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Apple Patent Posits Antitheft iPods

Apple has filed a patent that could make stealing Macs and iPods pointless. Is it called pAdlock?, read more here.

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Google riding the iPhone wave

Google has rolled out a search interface optimized for the iPhone.

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Stop using the embed tag damn it!!!!

A lot of people insert medias in their web page with the non-standard tag. But there is a standard tag for this insertion kind, . Effectively this is not immediate to use it manner cross-browsers, but we'll see that there are some techniques for that practically all the browsers be able to understand the code.

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FastCGI -- The Forgotten Treasure

The FastCGI interface, as specified in [FastCGISpec], is a packet-oriented communications protocol. Even though the underlying transport mechanism is connection-oriented, the FastCGI protocol is not.

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A Python Generators Tutorial / Introduction

Generators are a cool Python feature that was introduced back in Python 2.2 (as a __future__ import) and became standard in Python 2.3. They are a very neat abstraction that allows you to simplify control flow and in many instances the resulting elegance also leads to much lower memory consumption.

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The AJAX cheatsheet

In fact, 'AJAX' is a lot simpler to understand than the 600-page books on it might lead you to think. This one page no-nonsense guide for experienced Javascript and HTTP coders contains all the core info you will need to make practical use of this terribly-monikered, but indispensable, technology.

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Play that funky music Wii

Cool mash up between vanilla ice and the Wii sports theme.

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Play that funky music Wii

Cool mash up between vanilla ice and the Wii sports theme.

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FlightGear: FREE Flight Simulator for every major OS out there

Eat your heart out M$ Flight Simulator.

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Wonder Woman had let her go

Don't let the weight of justice fall on you.

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HUSBAND TRICKED INTO MARRIAGE REGRETS DOING THE RIGHT THING

Looking back, it was not the right thing to do. I have stayed married and we have had a second child. Again, she was on the pill, and again I thought I was doing the right thing by staying around to be the father.

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Are you a geek or a nerd?

Just because no one's called you a nerd since junior high doesn't mean you aren't one. David Christiansen sheds light on why being a geek is good, but being a nerd is bad. Do you know which one you are?

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Seven Common CSS Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Although CSS is one of those technologies that you should learn systematically from a high-quality source, most of us jump into it erratically and try to learn by doing. Instead of repeating the same mistakes over and over, Ivan Pepelnjak summarizes some of the most common ones and tells you how to avoid them.

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HUSBAND TRICKED INTO MARRIAGE REGRETS DOING THE RIGHT THING

Looking back, it was not the right thing to do. I have stayed married and we have had a second child. Again, she was on the pill, and again I thought I was doing the right thing by staying around to be the father.

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Get FREE days at work: Chronic fatigue syndrome finally gains respect

For decades, people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome have struggled to convince doctors, employers, friends and even family members that they were not imagining their debilitating symptoms.

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Aggressive PHP Smart Caching

Many ideas have been thrown around for a simple cache layer to add to the front-end portion of a web site to allow it to passively cache web pages as flat files. I have analyzed the methods I have seen people use, noted what I like about them and what I don't like, and then added what I feel such a caching system should be capable of

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ZZEE PHP GUI: easily run and test your PHP scripts in Windows in GUI mode

Before ZZEE PHP GUI you were not able to run PHP files directly in GUI mode. If you wanted, for example, to develop a PHP script with a form for selecting some options, that manipulates files on your computer, this would become a non-trivial task.

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PWND: Computer program can't lose at checkers

Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in a game popular with young and old alike for more than a thousand years.

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So you think you know how to set a firewall. FTester will prove you wrong

The Firewall Tester (FTester) is a tool designed for testing firewalls filtering policies and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) capabilities.

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X-ray satellites discover the biggest collisions in the Universe

The orbiting X-ray telescopes XMM-Newton and Chandra have caught a pair of galaxy clusters merging into a giant cluster. The discovery adds to existing evidence that galaxy clusters can collide faster than previously thought.

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How To Tie A Neck Tie: Instructions, Diagrams and Videos

This article will give very thorough and simple, step-by-step, instructions on how to tie the four main neck tie knots: Windsor Knot (aka Double Windsor Knot), Half Windsor Knot, Four-in-Hand Knot, and the Pratt Knot.

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[PIC] The Nintendo Birthday Cake You Never Had But Wished For

Think you have seen every possible Nintendo cake out there... think again.

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Time to cash that adsense money and jump off the Google ship

Executives of Google Inc., already facing a federal review of the company's proposed $3.1 billion buyout of DoubleClick Inc., are being called to testify before the House and Senate to address questions about the deal's impact on online advertising and consumer privacy.

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NHL fights back low ratings, taking games to the web

NeuLion Inc. to make live games available on the Web starting next season.

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Speech Recognition Using FPGA Technology

My team (David and Kanwen) and I implemented a speech recognition system on an FPGA development board (Altera DE2 Board)

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Damn you Iphone!!!!: Duke Wi-Fi Crippled by iPhones

One of the big selling points of Apple's iPhone is the ability to connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi, but I.T. pros at Duke University might say otherwise. The iPhones on campus are flooding the school's wireless LAN with as many as 18,000 access requests per second, temporarily knocking out access points for 10 to 15 minutes at a time, according to

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Back to the old design: NASA seals deal on new engine for moon rocket

NASA selected California-based Pratt&Whitney Rocketdyne Inc., Monday to develop the upper-stage engine for the rockets intended to succeed the space shuttle and carry American explorers back to the moon.

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Zonbu, a $99 PC, available now!!!!

"A $99 PC, a small footprint, and the ability to play your multimedia files? [...] Zonbu PC pulls it off."

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Guerrilla Combat 101: Camo Sniper bunker/foxhole

Use this for airsoft or paintball. Maybe if your hunting rabbit with an airgun. Also useful in keeping the British crown at bay.

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Debug JavaScript with Mozilla's free debugger

This debugger, which has its origins in Netscape's JavaScript debugger, is available as an add-on for Mozilla

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The Coke Vs. Pepsi Challenge: Who Redirects Better?

Coke and Pepsi face each other on the internet, read about who wins here.

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Enabling Beryl On A PCLinuxOS 2007 Desktop

This tutorial shows how you can enable Beryl on a PCLinuxOS 2007 desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card). With Beryl you can make your desktop use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube.

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Writing Advanced JavaScript

While web browsers were initially useful for simply displaying markup to the user in a pleasing way, they have evolved now to a point where they can serve as the interface to surprisingly complex pieces of software, rivaling those written in C/C++ and other high-level languages.

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Mess with the bulll....

That had to hurt.

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Best warning sign ever

As seen close to a lava bench in Hawaii.

Update: Hey Digg, welcome to my place, glad you liked the photo. Have a great weekend and hope to see you all soon. Thanks :)

Bonlebon

The march of the rats

This has to be the march of the 1.000.000 mice.

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Ajax -- A guide for the perplexed

The authors draw from their own ramp-up experiences to help you with practical information that will put you on a fast track to effective Ajax development.

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Strawberry iPod

Not in stores, yet.

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Splash screen contest for Blender 2.45

The 3d modeling/animation for the community, is looking for a new splash screen image in the community.

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Apple hit with Apple TV, iTunes lawsuits

Apple is facing a pair of potentially expensive lawsuits relating to intellectual property, according to reports. The first of the two relates to the Apple TV, and specifically its promotional campaign, which has used an iconic image of the product surrounded by dozens of small video screens.

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Canada’s Anit-Semitic Cartoon Controversy

At least two anti-Semitic cartoons were published on the editorial pages of three mainstream newspapers in the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Grand Theft Gadget: SMU's underwater robot stolen in Dallas

A submersible robot owned by Dallas' Southern Methodist University was stolen last weekend while it was being kept in a car near the Texas school.

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Btrfs - A new Linux filesystem by Oracle

Linux has a wealth of filesystems to choose from, but we are facing a number of challenges with scaling to the large storage subsystems that are becoming common in today's data centers. Filesystems need to scale in their ability to address and manage large storage, and also in their ability to detect, repair and tolerate errors in the data stored o

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Apple reportedly plans cheaper iPhone Nano

A JP Morgan analyst is saying that Apple plans to release a cheaper, smaller iPhone based on the ultra-slim Nano in this year's fourth quarter that could render your sparkling new toy little more than a blocky, obsolete hunk of "first-gen" lameness in your suddenly trembling hands?

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How to avoid hacker attacks on Firefox

Firefox users should be aware that hackers can exploit software flaws and design features to launch drive-by attacks.

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Google Buys Online Security Firm Postini In $625 Mil Deal

Google is beefing up security to take a bite out of the online business services market.

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Microsoft uses jobs in Canada to push immigration reform at home

Microsoft Corporation said Thursday that it was planning on opening a software development center in British Columbia, Canada.

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Becoming Bill Gates' right-hand man

Showing signs of genius even as a young boy, it was perhaps not surprising that Dr Zhang Yaqin would rise to become a right-hand man of the world's most powerful billionaire.

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PS3 has proven to be a curse for SONY

A church had demanded Sony Corp. stop selling the game Resistance: Fall of Man, which includes a gun battle between a U.S. soldier and aliens inside a building that resembles Manchester Cathedral in northwest England.

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Apple tights the grip on iPhone users balls/tits

Users would have to submit their iPhone to Apple for battery service. The service will cost users $79 (U.S.), plus $6.95 for shipping, and will take three business days.

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MaPZone Tutorial, creating textures has never been this easy

MaPZone is a newcomer in the world of texture creation that allows artists to create high quality textures from procedural patterns in no time. You can download MaPZone 2.5 for free. If you have any question about this tutorial or MaPZone do not hesitate to come by our forums.

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Photoshop CS3: Adjusting Color

You'll Learn : * Evaluating Your Color Adjustment Needs * Adjusting by Eye with Variations * Making Other Adjustments * Preserving the Original with Adjustment Layers * Understanding Channels

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Disney Code reuse

Recycling has been part of our society for a long time, we recycle cans, aluminum and ink cartridges, Disney recycles animation frames (and they fully charge you each DVD they release).

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Get to know JsonML

The rise of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) has gone hand-in-hand with the rise of Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax). JSON is useful because it enables you to easily transmit data that can be turned back into a JavaScript object, but it still requires custom scripting to deal with that object.

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DIY Turbojet Engine

Yes, you too can build your own turbojet engine! I did it, and if I can almost anyone can. The engine presented here is based on a used automotive turbo charger, lots of off the shelf parts, and only a few custom made components.

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Sony will sink with its PS3 boat

Its official, Sony has no plans to cut PS3 price.

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How not to get checked by your country costums officials

Wrap your passport with a cover, here is the how to.

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Make a cool Alien Abduction Lamp

Instructions are with the pictures.

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How to efficiently paginate database results

I'm often asked questions on how to use PEAR::Pager in a number of cases, from paginating database results in an efficient way, to the combined use of Pager and javascript or Pager + AJAX, to the use of Pager and mod_rewrite.

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Cable companies will stick it to their costumers harder with no vaseline

Cable companies are planning to charge more for set-top boxes to help pay for new, more expensive versions mandated by the Federal Communications Commission.

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Venezuela insulted U.S. agents, called them terrorists

U.S. federal agents guarding the American team at South America's top soccer tournament were insulted as "terrorists" and threatened with arrest by Venezuelan officials, the U.S. ambassador said on Wednesday.

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Laser Engraver / Cutter for only $60, w0W!!!

" I figured out how to make one for $60. That's right -- 60 bucks."

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Bill Gates gets beating from Mexi can

Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecom magnate may have surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the world's richest man. Seem like Bill underestimated the wrong Mexican,

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Setting up an Encrypted Debian System

Ever since I heard that the new Debian “etch” installer supports encrypted LVM, I wanted to try having an encrypted disk. Given recent news stories about loss of identity information from stolen laptops, it is certainly not paranoid to want to do this — and if you tell me otherwise you are probably one of those guys trying to steal my identity info

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System Administration Toolkit: Build intelligent, unattended scripts

Look at how to create scripts that are able to record their output, trap and identify errors, and recover from errors and problems so that they either run correctly or fail with a suitable error message and report.

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How to secure an SSL VPN with one-time passcodes and mutual authentication

SSL-based VPNs were designed to eliminate the need for complex configurations on the user's PC. Unfortunately, that was before the dangers of public WiFi networks and tougher regulatory requirements came into being.

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JBoss adds Google Gadgets to portal software

JBoss is introducing an upgrade to its open-source portal software on Monday that features integration with Google Gadgets,

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Make a manual vacuum pump for under $20

A vacuum pump is just an air pump that you use for sucking rather than blowing. You can convert an old-fashioned "floor pump" ("bike pump") into a vacuum pump that can take over 75 percent of the air out of something. That's several times as strong as a vacuum cleaner's pull, and three quarters as strong as the best possible vacuum pump.

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tcpxtract - Never go hacking without it

tcpxtract is a tool for extracting files from network traffic based on file signatures. Extracting files based on file type headers and footers (sometimes called “carving”) is an age old data recovery technique. Tools like Foremost employ this technique to recover files from arbitrary data streams. t

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South Korea: Owning the world in the Linux race

The second annual LinuxWorld Korea took place in Seoul's Coex Convention and Exhibition Center June 20 through June 23. It was held in conjunction with the annual SEK show, the "representative IT exhibition in Korea."

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QEDWiki: Wiki on steroids

An environment that extends current wiki technology to enable rapid deployment, content aggregation, structured data, and powerful extensibility.

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Hi-Res Batpod Pics From The Dark Knight!

Warner Bros. Pictures has provided us with hi-res versions of the two new Batpod.

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