Canada goes on strike!

Canadians want more money and decide to stage a strike

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How to avoid liability for a data breach

Picture the scene: it's almost 5pm on Friday afternoon and a key database server crashes moments before a scheduled backup. Close analysis reveals it's not accident; rogue code has infected the machine, potentially exposing hundreds of customer records. What's the first thing you do?

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Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know

Useless facts but entertaining.

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All About April Fool's Day

Here is your handy-dandy HuffPost guide to everything you need to know about April Fool's Day.

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10 great health foods: Best bets for eating well

Here are your best bets for eating well. These 10 health foods are some of the healthiest because they meet at least three of the following criteria

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Scientology preschools spark outcry

Three Church of Scientology kindergartens are operating in Tel Aviv without the knowledge or the approval of the Education Ministry, reports Yediot Tel Aviv. One of the three, in Nahalat Yitzhak, received a ministry license without the ministry's knowing that it operates on Scientology principles.

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Think Scientology’s Weird? Read This!

Here is a list of of questions asked during a sec check. What’s a sec check? Good question, because as far as I know Scientology’s the only “religion” which requires them and then logs them. This isn’t the same as a Catholic confession, and here’s why

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Fighting College Plagiarism With Plagiarism?

students threw a draft of the new honor code onto the Internet for feedback, some noticed a problem: Parts of the code appeared to have been lifted word for word from another school’s honor code, without attribution. Even the definition of plagiarism was, well, plagiarized.

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Free Divx Full Movies Download

If you want free divx full movies download or download dvd movies, I highly recommend MoviesCapital. MoviesCapital is a movie download site that allows you to download unlimited full movie downloads for a one time cost of $34.95. There are no download limits and the download speeds are fast.

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Google search behind most phishing sites

Three-quarters of phishing sites are built on hacked servers that have been tracked down using pre-programmed Google search terms, according to research from brand-protection firm MarkMonitor.

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VBA Tips: A Pop-up Calendar for Excel

One of the biggest problems in maintaining "good" data is the entry of dates. People seem to get confused about entering dates. Should they enter dd/mm/yy or mm/dd/yy? Do they enter slashes or dashes or dots? And what was the date of the third Thursday in September last year anyway? What you really need is a calendar!

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It's not a toy, it's a baby polar bear

A German zoo has released a new video of young polar bear favourite, three-and-a-half month old Flocke.

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U.S. economy key to BlackBerry sales

The slowdown in the U.S. economy and its impact on BlackBerry sales will be among the top things to watch for when Research In Motion

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Clicks may sound alarm for Google

Google has suffered a second consecutive month of weak growth in advertising clicks, fuelling concern that the high-flying internet search specialist is suffering in the economic slowdown.

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The Toilet House //PIC

Actually this home dwellers are full of s**t, so it makes sense.

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How to refill a disposable Brita brand water filter CHEAP

Why buy a replacement filter for $6 to $10 (or more) when you can refill your old filter cartridge housing for about 50 cents?!

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Family Guy preparing another Star Wars spoof

A teaser for the next Star Wars parody from the Family Guy is hidden in the Blue Harvest DVD.

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Got a story featured on Diggnation Yay!!!

Just saw the episode #143 of Diggnation and found they talked about the Star Wars (Sweded): A Cardboard Hope story I submitted to Digg last week, and got displayed on the Movies front page.

I'm happy to learn Alex Albrecht dugg the story, and Kevin Rose had a great last comment: "We should digg more stuff like that" (hombrew stuff).

Congrats to Chris Parrot for his awesome work.

Thanks for the honor Alex, Kevin and all the crew at Revision 3.

Bonlebon.

Just in case, diggnation is a trademark of Revision3 Corporation.

Top 10 Reasons to Watch Battlestar Galactica

"Top Ten Reasons to Watch the New Season of 'Battlestar Galactica'" from "The Late Show with David Letterman."

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Nuclear Energy Breakthrough

Materials that directly convert radiation into electricity could produce a new era of spacecraft and even Earth-based vehicles powered by high-powered nuclear batteries, say US researchers.

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Hi Tech Swimsuit blows records out of the water

Each of the LZR Racer swimsuits cost $550.

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The Stormtropper golf club bag

This kick ass good looking piece doesn't come cheap but it's totally worth it. More links in the comments.

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Wal-Mart smiley not so happy now

A federal judge today upheld a Georgia man’s First Amendment right to criticize Wal-Mart’s business practices by using satire to compare its destructive effects on communities to both the Holocaust and al-Qaeda terrorists.

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Right Wing Nut Job Better Suited To Handle Iraq

National Review Online: Dems Won't Capitalize On Public Exhaustion With “100 Years War”

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STOPPING CHINA: Boycott Coke, Samsung and Lenovo

So far the soft-drink giant and other sponsors won't temper support for the Games because of China's Himalayan crackdown. That might change (If we do something about it)

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Iraqi TV Debate: Is the Earth Flat?

It's the year 2008 and the debate about Earth's shape is still alive.

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Sniper position for hire - any takers?

Stringent security measures before a Nato summit in Bucharest next week to be attended by George Bush and Gordon Brown, irritated Bogdan Surdu, 29, a web designer, so much that he posted an internet ad offering his terrace with a clear view of the conference hall as a “sniper position”

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The Parrot™ stealz passwordz!!

Did it ever occurred to you your parrot could hear your password and repeat it?

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The museum of analog audio tape cassettes

Remember the mix tapes you used to make? Memories....

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All the truth about Wi-Fi devices

A silent assassin is hiding at your place...

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Einstein at the age of fourteen with his sister Maja

A rare photo of the grand genius at the odd age we all went through.

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10 things IT needs to know about Ajax

The introduction of any new Web technology will affect a network's infrastructure in ways that range from inconsequential to earth shattering. Ajax is one of the more disruptive new Web technologies traveling across networks today. To help you minimize future surprises on your network, we've outlined the 10 things you should take to heart about Aja

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AL GORE LIES

Since the popular liberal media is so biased and many people donât understand how deceptive Al Gore really is, I want to print some of his lies.

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Rock Band tours Wii on June 22

Harmonix ready to bring the noise to Nintendo gamers in the US and Canada with five bonus songs and wireless guitar in $169.99 bundle.

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Easy Real-time data acquisition

Using Java and Linux to capture real-time data

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Apple hater gets iPod

The title is a bit misleading, I don't hate Apple, but I'm very critical to the seemingly blind media and general fanboism Apple is surrounded with, but after resisting the collective hive mind that is the Apple marketing machine I finally caved in. I got my non-Apple hands firmly gripped around a brand new iPod Touch. Black, sleek and very shiny

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It's Official Guitar Hero for the Commodore 64 available NOW

Shredz64 is a modern day game for the Commodore 64 that makes use of the Playstation guitar controller hooked through the PSX64 interface. Its design is modeled against the popular “Guitar Hero” series, geared toward the ability to play along to your favorite C64 music on the guitar. Thanks Make magazine ^_^.

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How to configure support for GMAIL (IMAP) in Windows Vista

Do you want to migrate your email from another email client to Gmail? If so, you can now take advantage of IMAP support in Gmail. Here is how to configure Windows Mail to connect to Gmail.

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Rails Powered by the GlassFish Application Server

This article introduces JRuby, JRuby on Rails, and the GlassFish application server. It presents a traditional Ruby-on-Rails application deployment, describes an alternative using the GlassFish application server, and explains the various options for deploying JRuby applications on GlassFish.

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Build a real life Scrubbing Bubble robot

The BristleBot is a simple and tiny robot with an agenda: clean the corners of your bathroom where the sun doesn't hit.

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How to analyse your handwriting

Every time you scribble a few lines of handwriting you are giving away a great deal about yourself and your character. Everyone has an individual style of writing - this is why, occasionally, we can tell who a letter is from before we even open the envelope!

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Microsoft buries hatchet with Apache

Apache POI project to provide support for Office Open XML format

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Google Bites Microhoo Yet Again

Nielsen Online data confirms both Yahoo!'s and Microsoft's gradual path to irrelevance in search, making it seem less likely that the two will be able to take on Big G in the long run.

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Google and the threat to free speech

Activists are trying to make Google stand up for free speech. The signs are that they face an uphill struggle

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The Parking Lot at Digg's Headquarters

The most shocking thing is one member of the Digg crew stills Yahoo....

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The Parking Lot at Digg's Headquarters

The most shocking thing is one member of the Digg crew stills Yahoo....

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The Parking Lot at Digg's Headquarters

The most shocking thing is one member of the Digg crew stills Yahoo....

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The Parking Lot at Digg's Headquarters

The most shocking thing is one member of the Digg crew stills Yahoo....

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Musical Japanese Road

Here's a road in Japan with grooves cut to different widths to create a melody as a car drives over them. Only in Japan... 100 points to the first comment naming the tune :)

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Reverse Callback Templating in Perl

Programmers have long recognized that separating code logic from presentation is good. The Perl community has produced many fine systems for doing just this. While there are many systems, they largely fall within two execution models, pipeline and callback (as noted by Perrin Harkins in Choosing a Templating System). HTML::Template and Template Too

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AJAX: Six major drawbacks

AJAX introduces its own set of hazards in various areas, which include: development time, browsing history and experience, search engine interaction, accessibility, server load and security.

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Love doesn't care about size //PIC

The company of the loved one is all one needs.

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Sun announces MySQL bundle

As Sun Microsystems prepares to close its acquisition of MySQL, the GlassFish and MySQL communities are announcing the availability of an optimized bundled release.

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Java performance improvements touted

Technologists acknowledge previous shortcomings but point out that Java's performance now equals or tops apps developed in C

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Vancouver man cracks Facebook to access private photos

A security breach on Facebook allowed a Vancouver computer technician to find photos of a partying Paris Hilton and ones of her younger brother in private online albums intended to be accessible only to their friends.

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SELL NOW Report shows Google ad viewership flattening

Google Inc showed modest growth during February in a closely watched report released on Wednesday on how search sites like Google get paid by advertisers, and its shares fell 3.2 percent.

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How to Advance Your Career And Still Have a Personal Life

Logging in long hours to get ahead? By strategically organizing your workday, you may be able to get on the fast track without sacrificing your personal life.

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Flash and Java on the iPhone - Similar Problems Same Fate

Even before the SDK beta was officially released, everyone concerned knew that it was going to be limited in several ways. We knew that Apple would act as the gatekeeper for applications that made it onto the iPhone and would restrict access to a lot of features, the thirty-pin dock connector being the prime target.

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Insanely happy or insanely crazy?

beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder

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Credit Cards by Country

Chart of the day is a nice one from Foreign Policy comparing the number of credit cards per person, per country around the world

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U.S. asks tourists: Don't give me the finger, give me ten

International visitors flying into New York now face being identified by all ten fingerprints, part of a heightened security system aimed at identifying potential terror suspects and visa fraud, officials said on Tuesday.

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Mastering the VI editor

A cool guide for your Vi hacking.

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One more knife on Yahoo's throat

Yahoo said on Tuesday it supports a program by archrival Google to develop applications for social networks and will help create a joint foundation to keep it alive.

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Use an XML database in PHP and Java applications

Native XML databases have grown in popularity along with XML, because data is stored as native XML, rather than through tables in a traditional database. Using a native XML database means that a change to the schema requires minimal changes to your code and no change to the database. PHP and Java™ developers can benefit greatly from using native

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Howto create a Transparent Terminal in Ubuntu Desktop

Get rid of the plain looking terminal.

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Meet my SUPER BIG BUNNY

A Day in the Life of a Monster Bunny Breeder

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Largest tower crane in the World

All the facts about the biggest crane in the world.

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Jesus was a Pirate

You don't believe it yet. Here is the justification.

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Securing your PHP applications

In this 2 part article we'll be discussing different ways that hackers try and break into our applications and how we go about protecting our applications from possible harm.

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gcipher - A simple “encryption” tool

This is a simple “encryption” tool to work with common simple encryption algorithms (ROT13, Caesar, Vigenère, …) Gcipher does not provide any strong encryption and should not be used to encrypt any private data.Gcipher can run as either a GUI, a command-line application, or a network proxy.

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Linux and UNIX shell variables

Shell variables give us a place to store values for use by the system, our shell, shell scripts or by programs we run. Each session in UNIX has a set of variables that collectively are referred to as the environmental variables.

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OpenOffice 3.0 promises to bash Office

Microsoft's Office suite could have plausible challenger on the desktop for the first time since Lotus gave up trying to take on Redmond a decade ago.

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AJAX-powered Web apps disappoint power users, Forrester says

Most power users are disappointed with the performance of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) based on Asynchronous JavaScript with XML, or AJAX, according to a new research report from Forrester Research Inc.

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Sun Microsystems to Gets DoD Funding

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday said it received $44.3 million in funding from the Department of Defense to research microchip interconnectivity.

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Mayhem planing for Earth Hour - March 29th

On Saturday, March 29, from 8-9 p.m., I'll be in the dark. Now, people who know me might suggest that I'm in the dark most of the time, but on this particular day, for that particular hour, I'll truly be in the dark as we turn off all our lights in honour of Earth Hour.

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What will you do with your Economic Stimulus Payment?

So, what are you going to do with your government kickback?

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Top 8 Episodes of the Simpsons

There is not one definitive list of the top episodes of the Simpsons. It would be impossible for fans and aficionados of the hit FOX television to agree on such a list. But here is a stab at one such list, partially put together by Patrick Enright, a Simpsons fan and contributor to MSNBC.com

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DIY Micro FM transmitters/bugs

It's pretty hard to believe that these generic micro transmitter (bug) circuits give such high quality reception on a standard FM radio. Fundamentally they are nothing more than high frequency oscillators with their frequency modulated by a microphone. The concept is simple enough and it works well because the FM radio you use to monitor them does

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Having FUN with Ubuntu

I am increasingly impressed with Ubuntu. Their level of documentation, usability and support seems to surpass Novell’s with SUSE. I could recommend this to my relatives without feeling the least bit guilty or religious.

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SecurityCompass Exploit-Me - Firefox Web Application Testing

Exploit-Me is a suite of Firefox web application security testing tools. Exploit-Me tools are designed to be lightweight and easy to use. Instead of using a proxy like many web application testing tools, Exploit-Me integrates directly with Firefox. It currently consists of two tools, one for XSS and one for SQL Injection.

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RAW Images to play with galore

Part of the GIMP is about digital image creation, but much more is about digital image manipulation. One of the primary problems in any project, then, is finding the necessary raw materials: the digital images to be manipulated. Here is an extensive list.

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Loader for NASA/ESA PDS/EDR images to GIMP Plugin Registry

PDS/EDR format is the image format used by NASA Planetary Data System and by ESA Planetary Science Archives. From the mars missions to satellite pictures, you can'r have enough spaces pics.

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Truck crash unleashes millions of bees

Millions of swarming honey bees are on the loose after a truck carrying crates of the insects flipped over on a California highway.

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How to Code a Video Game/Computer Emulator

I have long wondered how emulators work, and how to program one myself. Let me tell you, it is no easy task. It will take a long time, and a lot of patience in order to relive the memories of past electronics. But even those who are ready for the challenge will have a hard time finding documentation on how to begin. Information on emulator structur

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SQL for Web Nerds

Quick, simple and neat.

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Replacing noscript with unobtrusive DOM/JavaScript

Peter-Paul Koch in his book "ppk on JavaScript", points out that the element has a limitation. Modern user agents with JavaScript enabled will hide content contained within , and reveal it when JavaScript is disabled.

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Armed America - Photos of Gun Owners in Their Homes

Kyle Cassidy traveled fifteen-thousand miles over a period of two years, photographing Americans in their homes and asking only one question: “Why do you own a gun?”

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How to get yourself arrested -- YouTube-style

"How to Scam Del Taco" was a minor hit on YouTube but, unfortunately for the filmmaker, some Rialto police officers were among the 20,000-plus viewers.

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Digg’s Kevin Rose leaks information about next iPhone

Digg.com founder Kevin Rose has leaked some information about the next iPhone on the weekly Digg podcast, Diggnation. Here’s what he mentioned:

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Installing Perl 5.10 breaks Ubuntu

Larry [Wall] where are ya!!!

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Wikipedia Ponders How to Cash In

Wikipedia Insiders Hotly Debate Online Encyclopedia's Financial Future

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Is Pizza Brain Food?

I think I’m on to something here. Perhaps Pizza is brain food. I wonder if it’s the Mozzarella or the Pepperoni. Of course, the problem for me now is that college was a long time ago. While the question of whether Pizza is brain food is mere idle speculation

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Gnu vs 4 Rhinos

You have to give it to the small guy for trying.

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Browsing the Web on an Apple II

The little old machine keeps on going.

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Alibaba seeks buyers for Yahoo-owned stake

Alibaba, the Chinese internet company part-owned by Yahoo, is in late-stage talks with investors about buying back the US company’s multibillion-dollar stake, should Yahoo be acquired by Microsoft.

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Goal Seeking Code

Great piece of code you can easily implement.

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How to handle 200M page views w/3 web servers & 8 db servers

Unlike Java, PHP is sufficiently dynamic to run literally as lightweight as you require - for example, you could write a web service in just ten lines of code that could easily handle millions of hits a day, as opposed to the overhead of pulling in a significant chunk of enterprise-sized libraries that you probably don't need.

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New Coke, 20 years later, and other marketing fiascoes

Or how some well paid execs got the boot.

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The funiest LIVE SUPER MARIO Play

Featuring Warp to World: 6-9 and some timeless Nintendo memories.

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Create OpenSocial applications with Project Zero

Use the Zero programming model to implement the server and client pieces of OpenSocial

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Running Linux on the PlayStation 3: More than a toy

The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux®, but getting it to run well requires some tweaking. In this article, first in a series, Peter Seebach introduces the features and benefits of PS3 Linux, and explains some of the issues that might benefit from a bit of tweaking.

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The mother of all neighbor feuds

DIY expert sabotaged neighbors' home in feud over loud music

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This isn't your boring high school driver's ed

Sound like the driver's education of your youth? At the Audi Sportscar Experience, the tool of the trade is the exotic R8 sports car worth well over $100,000. The classroom is Infineon Raceway, formerly Sears Point, set among the green hills of Sonoma, Calif. The two-day program, at $3,495 US, is sensationally fun.

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China orders shutdown of 25 websites - PORN sites targeted

China will shut down or punish dozens of video-sharing websites for carrying content deemed pornographic, violent or a threat to national security under rules that tighten Internet controls, a regulator said Friday.

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Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time

The program's creators told Reuters on Thursday that the privately-held company's trial version of Firefox 3 browser is ready for the masses to use after months of development.

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Wii knocks Blu-ray backed PS3 out of top 10 list

A restock of Nintendo Co.’s Wii knocked Sony Corp.’s Playstation 3 out of the top ten at Amazon.com on Wed. evening

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7 Pains You Shouldn't Ignore

Experts describe the types of pain that require prompt medical attention.

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How to Get Rid of Razor Burn

Some great tips that will come handy.

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Google releases AJAX Translation API

Google has been releasing lots of API’s lately — their latest is the AJAX Translation API. What does that mean? Webmasters can now let users do on-the-fly translations and language detection.

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Everybody Hates Google

RBC Capital Markets became the latest firm to rain on Google's parade, with analyst Ross Sandler slashing the search-engine giant's stock price target from $675 to $530 this morning. He feels that while the company will continue to gain market share in the lucrative search-engine market, Google's online growth will nonetheless slow this year.

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Prime Factor Decomposition

Enter a comma separated list of natural numbers, then click SUBMIT to decompose the numbers into prime factors, calculate the Smallest Common Multiple, and the Largest Common Divisor.

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Create a Killer Band Site with Drupal

This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of the bands on Sony’s record label are powered by Drupal.

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20 Beautiful HDR Pictures

There are some photography techniques that really give me the goose bumps, but the good ones. HDR is one of those techniques... and you'll probably love these as much as I do.

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Vista: Add Flip 3D Window Switcher to the Context

Instead of having to use the keyboard combo of the Windows key and the Tab key, why not add the cool Flip 3D window switcher to your context (right-click) menu? Now you can easily access it using only your mouse. Here's how.

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Wind Generator from old scanner

I'll show you how to recycle an old scanner into an amazing wind generator. You need it, clean energy!

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Popeye's mother has been found //PIC

Olive Oil has an ugly mother in law.

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Yahoo needs to understand Resistance is Futile

With a downward economy and a looming quarterly earning report just around the quarter at Yahoo, the Yahoo board probably realizes that they need to move forward even though I am sure it is with great resistance.

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Online video finding it hard to get advertisers

AP reports about the slow uptake of sponsors to video sharing sites like You-Tube. According to the managers (from the video sharing sites) that are quoted in the article the issue is the comfort level of the marketers. In my opinion the marketers are right to be hesitant.

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How they hacked it: The MiFare RFID crack explained

Last month, the Dutch government issued a warning about the security of access keys based on the ubiquitous MiFare Classic RFID chip. The warning comes on the heels of an ingenious hack, spearheaded by Henryk Plotz, a German researcher, and Karsten Nohl, a doctoral candidate in computer science at the University of Virginia, that demonstrated a way

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Things You Didn't Know About Your Penis

Here are some things you might have wondered about your penis, but were afraid to ask.

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Eclipse 3.3 or NetBeans 6.0?

Andrew Binstock compares popular favorite Eclipse 3.3 and recent Jolt award winner NetBeans 6. Find out how these free, open source development environments compare out of the box, feature-for-feature, and gain insight into the hidden quirks and bonuses that could make deciding between them easier.

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Wii Shortages to Continue for Six Months

Speaking on an investor's conference call about inventory expectations in 2008, DeMatteo stated that he expects the retailer's supplies of the Nintendo Wii to fall short of demand for "the next two quarters at the least.

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Weird and Interesting Ubuntu Derivatives

Ubuntu is certainly one of the best newbie-user-oriented Linux distros out there, but many Linux fans forget to point out that there are many other Ubuntu distributions to choose from.

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When Laziness is Too Much

We'd never tell you to get up and get outside but here are some tips on how to seem less lazy

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Transparency in Ajax Applications

A traditional Web application is like a microwave oven. Most users don't know how Web applications work—and don't even care to know how they work. Furthermore, most users have no way to find out how a given application works even if they did care

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The Tibetan Protest Videos That Made China Ban YouTube

The videos show some of the violence of the March 15 protest in Lhasa.

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Writing your first Django app

Throughout this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the creation of a basic poll application.

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Python as Config Language -- Forget XML and INI files

Recently, I started working on reverse engineering an venerable C program that relied on a set of INI-like files. It isn't cost-effective to write (or even download) an INI-file parser for Java. Instead, most of the configuration parameters could be simply moved into a garden-variety Java properties file.

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The BEST reason to get laid

SCIENTISTS have brought new meaning to the term "super mum" with fresh research suggesting pregnancy sparks changes in the brain that make women quicker and smarter for decades after giving birth.

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Canvas shoes made out of hemp

Need a new pair of kicks? Try Simple's ecoSneaks on for size. They're made for both chicks and guys, and are fashioned from low-impact stuff like recycled car tires (for the soles), hemp and recycled plastic soda bottles.

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How do I… Create a 3D logo in GIMP?

The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is the open source answer to Photoshop. There are many who would disagree with that statement, but when you really get into it, GIMP can do pretty much everything Photoshop can do and do it just as easily.

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Using Wii to Get in Shape: Will It Work?

Nintendo is at it again. This spring, gamers will no longer be limited to just standing and playing video games at the same time. Now, with the company's newest game Wii Fit, players can work out as well.

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Hilarious: Welcome to Connecticut //PIC

Birthplace of G.W. Bush

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Survive the digg plow with Django

Django handles lots of traffic with ease; Django sites have survived slashdottings, farkings, and more. Here are some notes on how we tweak our servers to get that type of high performance.

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Python - 15 Line HTTP Server - Web Interface For Your Tools

Quick and dirty server to test your scripts or test your tools.

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Huge PS3 Announcement For E3?

Maybe the PS3 will be able to play Wii games, GO SONY!!!

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Mario Kart Wii orders up 282,600% at Amazon

Advanced orders for Nintendo Co.'s Mario Kart Wii increased 282,600 at Amazon.com following availability to customers.

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2.4 million magnetic toys recalled

Federal safety regulators recalled another 2.4 million potentially deadly Mega Brands magnetic toys Monday, at least 14 months after learning there might be problems with some of those products.

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OpenAjax Alliance New Initiatives Around Secure Mashups

The OpenAjax Alliance today revealed new standards and open source initiatives for secure mashups, Ajax on mobile devices, and a unified browser wish-list from Ajax toolkit suppliers.

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UFO Home Didn't Take Off

Falling Home Prices May Be Intergalatic: Tenn. Flying-Saucer House Sells for Just $135K

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How to run Windows XP from a USB stick

The live CD can become a problem solver when the system wont boot up or something happened with the system & you may rescue the files with CD. Beside the CDs, one of merely known Linux named DSL are comes with damn live USB! Note that this method required a computer which have ability to boot from USB devices.

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Boot and Run Ubuntu from a Flash Drive

This Instructable will show you how to install, boot, and run the popular Linux distro, Ubuntu from your flash drive. You will be able to automatically save your changes and settings back to the flash drive and restore them on each boot using a second partition.

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Building Skills in OO Design FREE ebook

How do you move from OO programming to OO design? Do a lot of design focused on building a sophisticated application program.

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Building Skills in Python FREE eBook

How do you learn Python? By doing a series of exercises, each of which adds a single new feature of the language. This 450+ page book has 42 chapters that will help you build Python programming skills through a series of exercises. This book includes six projects from straight-forward to sophisticated that will help solidify your Python skills.

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Building Skills in Programming FREE ebook

How do you learn to solve your own programs by writing programs? By doing a series of exercises, each of which builds up a part of the skill set we call "computer programming".

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'Dilbert' Strips Featuring Jesus Causes Stir

The series "caused quite a stir," cartoonist Scott Adams wrote in his blog today. "I drew those strips a few months ago, and in my typical careless way I didn't realize they would be running around Easter time. Oops."

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11 Spectacular Tunnels From Around the Underworld

Whereas the bridge steals the headlines for its aesthetics and breathtaking views, its brother the tunnel is often unfairly overlooked. But however unglamorous it may be, the tunnel is still a hugely important way of transporting our cars and trains, and often takes on the jobs the bridge simply can’t handle.

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More Linux Apps Now Possible with Mono

Novell has sent out MonoDevelop 1.0, an open source Mono development tool that supports Visual Studio project formats

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Customize YouTube Player via JavaScript API

Very cool: the recently released YouTube JavaScript Player API allows you to embed completely customized YouTube players, among other uses. I came up with this sample player that is supposed to be a sort of “hello world” of how you can implement the “chromeless player“;

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NetBeans beta 6.1 to ship

Sun cites JavaScript, MySQL links as new features available in NetBeans 6.1

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Second round of Anonymous vs Scientology

ABOUT 800 people attended protests against the Church of Scientology in Australian capital cities this weekend in the second round of "raids" organised by a collection of internet users known as Anonymous.

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Customize or remove the splash screen in OpenOffice

The splash screen can be a useful way of providing visual feedback that OpenOffice.org is starting, so the user does not keep trying to start it. However, some people people prefer to remove splash screen, and others prefer to customize the splash screen to match the system theme.

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Sun's plan for Java on iPhone could hit roadblock

iPhone SDK agreement conditions could prevent use of a Java Virtual Machine on the handheld

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Where are all of the FREE MARKET Gurus

Now that the Fed has chopped interest rates (and will chop again, not that it's going to translate into lower rates for consumers) and they pumped $200 billion into Wall Street, I'd like to know where exactly the so-called free market/industry self-regulate people are. Where are they?

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Brazil, Germany to develop night-vision radar satellite

Brazil and Germany have signed an agreement to develop a night-vision radar satellite to observe the Amazon region, the National Space Research Institute (INPE) said Sunday.

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Brazil, Germany to develop night-vision radar satellite

Brazil and Germany have signed an agreement to develop a night-vision radar satellite to observe the Amazon region, the National Space Research Institute (INPE) said Sunday.

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Wii Blu-ray Console Spotted in Dark Alley in Tokyo

“Nintendo’s CEO Satoru Iwata stated in a February press release that “Nintendo is reviewing the Blu-ray technology and considering how it could enhance the Wii gaming experience.”

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insomnia and productivity

My insomniac productivity a few days ago wasn't just geared toward writing lengthy rambles about the differences between various forms of philosophical libertarianism. I also wrote code — in particular, I wrote an entire program from start to finish, inspired by code I found online for doing the same thing that (frankly speaking) sucked.

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100 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Beautiful Art

You shouldn't suck at photoshop after reading these tutorials.

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CSS: 'most viewed YouTube video of all time'?

If the figures are correct, the video would be the most viewed YouTube clip of all time, surpassing the previous record holder, 'Evolution of Dance', by over 20 million views.

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China outclicks the US

China has surpassed the United States in terms of Internet users, a research firm confirmed yesterday.

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How To Build A Catapult

Build a cool but powerful medieval weapon.

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Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit

This is the story of a clever trick that's been around for at least 35 years, in which array values can be left uninitialized and then read during normal operations, yet the code behaves correctly no matter what garbage is sitting in the array. Like the best programming tricks, this one is the right tool for the job in certain situations.

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The tao of Chuck Norris

You wanna be tough uh? So learn the Chuck Norris Tao, live it, use it and love it.

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The tao of Chuck Norris

You wanna be tough uh? So learn the Chuck Norris Tao, live it, use it and love it.

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Wave-Powered Boat Looks to Set Record

A 69-Year-Old Sailor Plans to Cross the Pacific at Six Miles an Hour

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An Economic Recession Could Mean BIG Business

Video Game Sales Jump 34 Percent in February Even With Xbox 360, Wii in Short Supply

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Ooops!!! I crashed an F-16 and I quitted the airforce

Crews searched a rugged area of western Arizona on Saturday for the student pilot of an F-16 that crashed during a training exercise.

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Russia's powerful defense system is driven by eyes

Eleven silver balls not far from Afghanistan's border. They are the key to Russia's space shield, an optical-electronic unit called "The Window".

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Burn Your House Down

Fire is awesome, and so is new stuff. If I were you, I would stop reading this website and totally go burn my house down right now.

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Now you can play brewed games on the WII with your SD Card!

No more extra hardware!!! Play brewed games on the Wii NOW!!!

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The garden of the odd shaped vegetables //NSFW

See what kind of vegetables don't make the cut.

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A great St. Patrick's Gift, The Dollar Bill Shamrock

Don't blow your cash on disposable leprechaun hat or cheap green beer. Instead, take advantage of its green tint and fold it into a shamrock.

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Do you know why Hardvard is so damn expensive?

To answer this question all you have to do is to take a look to their "canteen"

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The geometry of death [PIC]

When you die, you will be part of a BIG geometrical pattern.

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Extremely gross rattlesnake bite

This is the worst thing that can happen to you when you get bitten by a rattlesnake.

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Impresive photos: Before the Storm

Some really mystic landscapes.

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The Essential Guide to IP Phones for VoIP

What you need to know about IP Phones and how they can benefit your business.

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Iron Maiden offers free limited-DRM album download

eople that like digital downloads typically do not like the DRM aspect of it. Musicians and the record industry havw taken note by trying to reduce the presence of DRM in our lives. British rock group Iron Maiden has joined this camp as well.

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Star Wars (Sweded): A Cardboard Hope

If you haven't seen this video, you are not a Star Wars fan at all.

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How to Install gOS in Ubuntu

Transforming an old PC into a super web app monster could no longer be considered an exploit with the advent of the web-based operating system gOS. This Ubuntu based OS can be freely downloaded and burnt into a LiveCD and eventually tested on any of our “worn-out” pc’s.

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Star Wars (Sweded): A Cardboard Hope

If you haven't seen this video, you are not a Star Wars fan at all.

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Surf the internet safely from work

This site converts any web page into a word document.

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DIY ISO 2 Card Reader

The Card Reader project uses a small number of components to read many magnetic card types.

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Modeling How Electric Charges Move

Learning how to control the movement of electrons on the molecular and nanometer scales could help scientists devise small-scale circuits for many applications, including more efficient ways of storing and using solar energy.

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How to Be a Productive Cheapskate

I became maniacal about avoiding having to buy new Microsoft Office, Adobe PhotoShop and Dreamweaver, the three software applications I use daily in my work. Then I bought a PC laptop. There was no way I was going to fork out big bucks for PC-compatible software. What was a cheapskate to do?

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FREE Security Videos by Black Hat

This archive of computer security presentations is provided free of charge as a service to the world wide computer security community.

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No One Votes in Florida Election

Every vote counts. But what happens when there are no votes at all?

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The Last Stand, the zombie game

Survive the night fighting off zombies from your barricade. Survive longer than a day by making use of the daylight hours effectively by:

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Sun and MySQL: How It Stacks Up for Developers

Developers want products that are easy to use during development, that are easy to scale to enterprise levels, and that will last long enough to repay the time investment required to master the technologies. Some MySQL community members wonder if they will continue to enjoy superior open-source products from the combined companies, and if the commu

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You’re Only as Good as Your Next Idea

I’ve especially seen this in writing circles I’ve walked in, where some people can simply generate new ideas at a machine-gun rate compared to others. There are some good software tools designed to help when brainstorming. In this post, I’ll discuss a few popular ones.

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Mysterious Object Didn't Strike Shuttle

Work Begins on Two New Modules That Will Be Added to Station During Record-Five Spacewalk Mission

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Speed Up Your Javascript Load Time

Users hate waiting, so here are a few techniques you can use to trim down your sites.

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Awesome Mental Math Shortcuts

Here’s a collection of time-saving math shortcuts, great for back-of-the-envelope estimates.

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YouTube APIs for developers and for... iguana enthusiasts

Ever wanted to get in on the online video craze? Now's a good time! We've just added upload, write, and authentication functionality to the YouTube Data API. Brand new player APIs and tools are also now available.

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50 Tools that can Improve your Writing Skills

Last year we posted a large list of tips aimed at improving your writing skills. Since then, the site that we referenced changed all of the links and our post was rendered useless.

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How to build your first robot

This is a walkthrough on how to make an autonomous, self-exploring, "own-mind" (not remote-controlled, not strictly pre-programmed, but reacting to surroundings) robot in a few hours.

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Shawn Kelly free animation e-book at BlenderNation

Every month for the last few years, the great Shawn Kelly (senior animator at ILM and co-founder of Animation Mentor) has been sharing his knowledge with cool articles called just "Tips & Tricks".

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Add free video clips to your eBay auctions with Vzaar

zaar acts just like any other Web video host and lets you upload videos from your digital camera in a couple of minutes. What's interesting is that any video that's been hosted on the service can be used on other auctions, meaning that your video of a pair of shoes, a computer, or iPod

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Add free video clips to your eBay auctions with Vzaar

zaar acts just like any other Web video host and lets you upload videos from your digital camera in a couple of minutes. What's interesting is that any video that's been hosted on the service can be used on other auctions, meaning that your video of a pair of shoes, a computer, or iPod

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Spookiest Place On Earth

They say at night you can hear kids saying No Michael, No means NO!

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Legal applications of BitTorrent

The IT Department at INHOLLAND University used the BitTorrent Protocol for dropping 22TB of patches on 6500 PCs in 4 hours. The gargantuan amount of downloads aside, the task used to take almost two dozen servers 4 days in the past.

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Mozilla Fixes 'Hundreds' of Firefox Memory Leaks

Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 Beta 4 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.

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So You Think YOU’RE a Geek?

If you think that software developers represent the pinnacle of alpha geekd

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Python: fastest growing programming language

According to the Tiobe Community Index - based on hits on major search engines - Python is now the seventh most popular programming language. Python had the largest increase in ratings of any language in 2007 and has become the de facto glue language at system level.

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The one and only Strawberry Perl

A 100% Open Source CPAN-capable Perl for your Windows® computer that’s exactly the same as Perl everywhere else.

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PHP: Complete advanced login member system

In this advanced tutorial i will teach you the steps required to create a custom build login/member system with PHP.

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Python for Java Programmers

Python was originally designed to be a procedural language but has been extended to include class definitions for object-oriented programs. It includes an interactive mode which provides a shell for executing individual Python instructions. More complex programs are constructed by creating a source text file as you would do with most programming la

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Embedding IronPython

One of the great things about IronPython is that it is a ready made scripting engine for dotnet applications. Embedding the IronPython engine into an existing application is a great way to expose an API for user scripting; and IronPython makes it almost ridiculously easy.

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Preparing for the Recession: How to Market Your Way Through

Think you can “market your way through [the] recession”? Harvard‘s Prof. John Quelch thinks you can.

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Celebrate March 10, Mario Day

While there isn't a technical National Mario Day, March 10 is commonly celebrated in honor of the video game legend because of its accidental tribute to his name -- MAR10, MARIO, get it?

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Everybody hates Linux

After around 5 months of stocking the gPC in stores, Wal-Mart has decided to stop stocking Linux-based computers in their stores, although they will continue to sell them on their website, according to the AP

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Linux growth tied to personnel issues

Linux has outpaced Windows and Unix in corporate adoption rates, according to research firm IDC’s 2007 server market numbers. The pace of Linux’s future adoption could partly depend upon whether certain people choose early retirement, another researcher says.

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An introduction to architecture modeling on blender

This tutorial is a general but step-by-step introduction to quick architecture modelling with Blender.

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How to do photoshop-like effects in SVG

Is vector based graphics with a punch.

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Javascript badges powered by JSONP and microformats

In this article you're going to create a JavaScript badge that can be added to any site and which will display relationship data from a service which exposes it (Twitter, in this particular example.

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Logitech says any Microsoft bid without sense

Shares in Swiss-based Logitech rose in January based on speculation Microsoft would launch a takeover bid.

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Britain makes camera that sees under clothes

A British company has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under people's clothes from up to 25 meters away in what could be a breakthrough for the security industry.

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Software engineer is top U.S. Mental Athlete

- A 31-year-old software engineer recalled the correct order of an entire deck of playing cards in 2 minutes and 27 seconds on Saturday to take the title of having the best memory in the United States.

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Using the OS X Leopard Command Line

Brian Tiemann lays the foundation for understanding the UNIX filesystem in OS X Leopard by explaining how files and folders work in the shell.

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Five Steps to Getting Started Server-Side with PHP

Do you think server-side technology such as PHP is so complex that only IT administration professionals can understand it? Not so. Using the right tools, anybody with just one machine can learn all about PHP. To find out how, read on...

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What Will a Digg Buyer Be Buying? Not the Users Who Run it

Today, many Diggers are protesting that if Microsoft buys the company, they’ll flee. (Sample comments: “NNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!” … “If Digg gets bought by the man, I know I’m out!”

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Much-delayed Nintendo Wii brawler completely worth the wait

Fast and furious sums up the full-on brawls. With up to four people competing together, the controller buttons got an intense mashing and the verbal exchanges among players in the room were almost as entertaining as what was happening on-screen.

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Oh my Wii, Disc errors plague some unlucky Brawlers

Nintendo is urging people experiencing this problem to fill in this form and send in their Wiis for repair. They'll be footing the bill for the shipping and repair costs (as they should), so the only thing you'll be losing out on is quality time with your new copy of Brawl.

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Dutch retailer advertises Euro Xbox 360 price drop,me likey!

According to Dutch retailer Bart Smit, the rumored price cut of the Euro Xbox 360 is happening. As previously speculated the Xbox 360 Elite has dropped from 549.95€ to 399.95€ , the Pro console (which includes Viva Pinata and Forza Motorsport 2) was lowered from 399.95€ to 299.95€ while the Arcade bundle is down from 279.95€ to 199.95€.

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Photos of World's First Positive Energy Building

The kind of building that will put big oil in troubles.

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The John McCain Market Selloff

Ever since the Primary on Tuesday, the market's have aggressively sold off. This clearly indicates the equity market's fear of a McCain presidency.

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Don't forget to feed the dog [PIC]

A strving dog is a creepy looking dog

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Ancient Astronauts

There are references to these entities in the bible, in ancient art and other texts. They are all linked with myths about creation found in all ancient civilizations.

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What is Kevin Rose looking at?

Any ideas, please put your thoughts in the comments.

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The reality of linux networking

Makes a great office poster.

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GMail Behind The Scenes

See how hard the people at google work for you.

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Airport security? You must be joking

Did you hear the one about the schoolteacher arrested for trying to board a flight carrying a slide-rule, protractor and setsquare in his hand luggage?

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Learning JavaScript Programming Language with Video Lectures

javascript rhino and yahoo theatreI decided I wanted to learn JavaScript Programming language better. I had been programming in it now and then but I had never really developed any good skills in it.

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WTFs/Minute, the metric you need to measure code quality

If this is not true, you are not a programmer.

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How not to write Python code

Lately I’ve been reading some rather unclean Python code. Maybe this is mainly because the author(s) of the code had no in-depth knowledge of the Python language itself, the ‘platform’ delivered with cPython,… Here’s a list of some of the mistakes you should really try to avoid when writing Python code

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Ten quirky things about Python

Just thought I’d share a bunch of neat (and weird) things I’ve noticed about the Python programming language

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Sun: We'll put Java on the iPhone

Sun Microsystems is developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone and plans to release the JVM some time after June, enabling Java applications to run on the popular mobile device.

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Apple to take on PSP and Nintendo DS

Apple has today moved closer to taking on Sony and Nintendo in the handheld market by placing a strong focus on games at its unveiling of it software developers kit of the iPhone.

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Impresive Microsoft Excel 3D engine

Peter Rakos wrote an article for Gamasutra today which demonstrates how to hack yourself a simple 3D engine by subverting an Excel worksheet. It's not going to win any FPS awards, but the fact that you can even get Excel to draw raw shapes blows my mind.

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Introducing the Google Contacts Data API

A common contact list has helped power applications like Gmail, Google Reader, and Google Calendar. And now, with the launch of the Google Contacts Data API, we're opening up this contact list to your applications as well.

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Read the Zune Collection in .NET from Zune's own API

I was installing the latest version of the Zune software and actually read a bit of the license agreement. This line caught my eye:

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A happy JavaScript-er with the new features of Visual Studio

Because I am currently working on a few websites where JavaScript is a rather important component, JavaScript was my first focus in starting to use VS08. And I was not disappointed!

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PWND!!!! Google Does Not Understand Business Needs

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says Google's tools are no threat to SharePoint, and that Google Talk is hardly changing the world.

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Linux tool speeds up police computer forensics

Australian university students have developed a Linux-based data-forensics tool to help police churn through a growing backlog of computer-related criminal investigations.

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Getting a Web site to a maintainable state

How to take someone else's Web site and maintain it, without overburdening yourself

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Scaling PHP applications with Varnish

Deploy a reverse proxy to stretch your server capacity

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Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'

Security experts have hacked ATMs to show how easy it is to steal money and bank account details from modern cash machines.

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OpenXava, The Mc framework with a vengeance

OpenXava is a productive way for creating Enterprise Applications with Java. Indeed, it's faster developing with OpenXava than with Ruby On Rails, Spring MVC, or any other MVC framework. This is because in OpenXava you only have to write the Model. The Controllers are reused, and the View are generated automatically

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Passenger left a footprint of 35.77 tons of carbon dioxide!

Using about 68,000 liters (15,000 imperial gallons) -- or 13,000 liters per passenger -- of jet fuel for the nine-hour trip from Chicago to London, American Airlines is being accused of unnecessary waste.

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Computer Uses Brain Scans to Read Minds

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a machine that can read your mind

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Students’ Wii raffle raises $1,600 for Rover, Fluffy

"Animals are living things," student Deonte Doctor said this morning after his class presented the shelter with a cheque for $1,600 and many of the homeless dogs with a stuffed animal. "It's not nice to hurt people and it's not nice to hurt animals."

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Virtually Bored? Entertainment Options in Second Life

In Second Life, you can do just about anything you do in first life (and many things you never could). With freedom like this, you get a wealth of options for entertainment, many of which include social activities like dancing and games with new friends.

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Google pulls some map images at Pentagon's request

Google Inc has complied with a request by the Pentagon to remove some online images from its street-level map service because they pose a security threat to U.S. military bases, military and company officials said on Thursday.

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First Impressions: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

The short answer is yes; it is, worth the wait. Even without voice chat, leaderboards and a few familiar faces, Brawl is an all-around solid title and the first major Game of the Year contender to arrive in 2008.

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Air Force awards $40 billion contract to French Company

No wonder Americans are without jobs because of outsourcing to foreign countries. The United States even outsources jobs.

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Create your own information space with Ajax and del.icio.us

Design an Ajax "super page" to maximize your del.icio.us experience

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Retrofit existing sites with Ajax and jQuery

Improve your user experience and simplify your navigation with modal dialogs

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XML processing in Ajax

Any programming problem can be solved in multiple right ways. This series looks at four approaches for creating an Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) weather badge, a small reusable widget that's easily embedded on any Web page. This first article lays the foundation and examines the first approach—walking the DOM tree.

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New Company with a "Digg.com-Like" Web Site

Simplify IT - is a new social networking site dedicated to allowing IT professionals share information related to keeping software development and IT process simple. They believe that by providing this valuable resource, IT can become more profitable and efficient while providing superior products to consumers

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STFU Gosling: Blu-ray victory to spur Java creativity

The "Father of Java", James Gosling, stated that he sees Blu-ray's victory as a catalyst for more interesting forms of entertainment for the disc format.

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The online Google Hacking, Ethical Penetration Testing Tool

The only web app that will take your google hacking to the next level. And the best thing? It only works on Firefox YAY!!!

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FREE Arduino Programming eBook

A beginner's reference to the programming syntax of the Arduino microcontroller. Includes information on program structure, variables, datatypes, arithmetic, constants, flow control, and most of the common functions of the core library. Also includes an appendix with schematics and simple programs for several common tasks.

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New Guitar Hero III Wii Bundle, Includes Extra Guitar

The bad news is this bundle is only available in Australia.

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Forget R2-D2 meet B3-3R

Forget about the LEGO Millennium Falcon. Here's the definitive toy that mixes three of Giz's favourite themes: LEGO, Star Wars and beer.

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Blu-ray endears, but won't endure

They tried to make me go to Blu-ray, I said no, no, no. And no to Zune, and PlayStation, and BlackBerry, and most other new high-tech gadgets whose gadgetology is invariably overtaken by an even newer high-tech gadget before you've even paid the credit card bill.

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10 Perl modules all Java developers should know

Just like Perl , Java has been around for a while. However, Perl is a scripting language and Java is a true object-oriented language ... which perhaps explains why Java and Perl programmers don't usually hang out at the same bars.

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Super Mario Papercraft: World 7-3

Cool paper craft in all Mario glory.

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Get Ready for the Underwater Digital Camera Mask

Snorkellers everywhere will likely be even more eager than ever to hop into the water this summer when they get a look at a new digital underwater camera mask from Liquid Image Underwater.

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Firefox's market share up fourth consecutive month

Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox owned more than 17% of the Web browser market in February, the fourth consecutive month that the open-source browser has boosted is share, a Web measurement company said Sunday.

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You Used JavaScript to Write WHAT?

The key to understanding when (and when not) to deploy JavaScript has as much to do with the intent of the target application as it does JavaScript itself.

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STFU Gosling: Don't use Emacs, says Java's father

More modern development environments increase productivity

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C# set to take Java's crown as Java drops 50 percent

Using book sales as surrogate tea leaves, Mike Hendrickson of the O'Reilly Radar finds life bleak for pretty much every major programming language except C#, Javascript, and Ruby. Java? It has plunged by 50 percent since 2003.

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Sun hires two key Python developers

Sun Microsystems Inc. is looking to bolster its position in the Python programming realm through the hiring of two prominent developers

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Learning XHTML: Monty Python Style

For reasons unknown to civilized (or uncivilized) man, all programming books are often immensely boring. Seriously. That is, until now. Today, Free Software Magazine presents (in conjunction with Andrew Min Writing Studios) Learning XHTML: Monty Python-Style.

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Functional Programming Seminar Videos

You may view them as streaming video, or download them and watch them locally (using e.g. VLC, QuickTime or the Wimpy FLV Player). I’ve noted some trouble viewing this many embedded flash streams on a single page, so I’ve posted each talk individually under the FP Seminar category.

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Linux 101: a beginner's guide

This class is a primer for those who are unfamiliar with the Linux operating system. You'll learn the concepts and issues around Linux, as well as how to accomplish basic installation, desktop use and administration tasks.

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Adobe to Deliver AIR for Linux

Adobe Systems hopes to make nice with the open-source community and soon deliver a Linux version of its newly released Adobe Integrated Runtime.

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Point polygon intersection in SQL

To find out if a point intersects a polygon, it's as simple as drawing a vector from the point and seeing how many line segments of the polygon it crosses. If the number is even, it's outside the polygon. If it's odd, you have an intersection.

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RF Communications Primer for Robots

RF is a good way to pass information between robot and robot or robot and PC. In the last few years, many cheap RF boards have become available on the market. These low end RF boards are typically AM modulated with a carrier frequency in the 300-400MHz range and do not contain an encoder/decoder.

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HowTo: Create and Manage Genealogy Family with GRAMPS

GRAMPS is a Free Software Project for Genealogy, offering a professional genealogy program, and a wiki open to all. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists.

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An Introduction to Robot Servos

Servos are a very handy resource for people involved in robotics. Servos are basically a small geared motor with a controller. You send an electrical pulse to the servo to tell it where to turn to.

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Meet the Robomagellan

Robots traverse a pre-defined course dealing with various obstacles along the way. Waypoints may be marked with objects that the robot must touch or come within a specified distance. The robots will be guided primarily by GPS and vision systems.

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