I’ve been having some serious static develop up in my office so dad suggested dragging a chain? nah, I’ll just turn up the humidifier. It has been truly poor though; one lightning bolt from a mislaid finger required me to reset my iPod. It got so poor that I really bought a static strap before assembling my latest machine. Something I should have bought 10 years ago.
My PVR-500 double TV tuner card came in the mail yesterday. The driver as well as MythTV set up went quite well as well as didn’t need as well much forum crawling. They won’t tune anything above channel 59 for some reason. ideally I get that figured out soon.
team Hack-A-Day continues to dominate; we completed 6 million pints this week. stating [yehoshua] got off to a fantastic begin would be an understatement. At last count he had 104 active processors in a totally legitimate borg. [scottpdotnet] went into his thin client cluster into the fray as well.
Did you watch the job runway season 2
premier? I can’t discover a torrent for it. I want to see it because
Diana Eng is one of the designers and
loves integrating tech into right here work. Her inflatable gown was featured on the cover of I.D. as well as can be seen at
WMMNA. She’s likewise establishing a
SWITCH a fashion/tech vodcast.
How-to set up the Google Safe
Browsing plugin if you don’t online in the US.
The Jackass! job released
Rockhopper! last week. It is a processor specific
Gentoo stage compiled utilizing GCC 4.0. My Jackass set up has been rock solid so far (I have been trying to utilize as many
stable bundles as possible).
CDM has had some awesome posts this week:
Using LabVIEW as a
synthesizer as well as Robot
drummer responds to human playing.
We covered Hack-A-Day visitor [Jordan]’s
web based iTunes manage on Engadget yesterday. He’d be
happy if somebody made it better.
People always ask me why we are still in beta. It is just a ploy to get listed in the
Museum of contemporary Betas. [via
Waxy]
Mac Minis have appeared in vehicles since the very first day they were sold. now there is a business selling a
car mini dock.
When the iPod mini was very first released people were pulling the 4GB CF cards as well as selling them for a markup on eBay.
That lasted for about two hours then everybody heard what was going on as well as the bottom fell out of the market. Well now
people are upgrading the internals to 8GB. [borre]
WeaKnees is offering $25,000 (and ideally legal protection) to very first person to
hack a
DirecTV DVR.
Hackers are exploiting a flaw in GTA:LCS save games to
run code under PSP firmware 2.5. I guess
the only method to develop a “hack-proof” console is to never release it.
Most people saw The Million dollar Homepage when it was first
getting started, however you should truly look at it now… for searing eye pain. A great deal of the ads are for sites offering
cheaper per pixel pricing. [via BlogCadre]
Graffiti Hackers I truly desire these
alternative printers were documented much better on the web.
Bleach eating Freaks office Bircolage 3 weapons from
office supplies.
If you were a true fan, you’d checked out Hack-A-Day on
vacation too. [thanks rich Willis]
[socketeer]’s Si-Link FM Transmitter Mod [warning:
Geocities] Shouldn’t Yahoo have bandwidth to spare?
iTMS album art browse currently broken, it was
sweet [tristan]
Using IR modules from VCRs [h-tech]
[j4undone] has been utilizing the cellphones at shopping center kiosks to send free photo as well as text messages, since they have
service.
Mac on a USB stick utilizing mini vMac [h-tech]
Here is a thread about a
case designed from forum
responses. It looks now like it may have been
attempted fraud.
[neg2led]
Web managed paintball storage tank This is
one user’s experience. [CYRIX]
[ray as well as cape] tested a couple
different techniques for making shotglasses
out of ice. have a look at their other jobs too.
[Borre] sent some photos of his iPod dock developed out of the packaging:
one,
two,
three,
four.
Related forum thread
[zilli0n]’s got a nicely
modded Xbox 360 situation and
faceplate.
[shadymilkman]’s
air duster gun [warning: tripod as well as thumbnails are full size
images]
From the people who brought you the Telecrapper 2000:
Record Every Waking Moment. I’m sure in the future we will be
recording every second of our everyday lives, however it is going to depend completely on our capability to handle that data once
storage becomes trivial.
[Jim]’s guide to using
Skype as a remote listening device.
[nick carneiro] shows you how-to develop a server using
Slackware.
Spanish guide for building the FisiRadio, an AM radio
receiver. [morfo]
How-to customize Netstumbler to
work with Wireless ZeroConfig [Israel Torres as well as Steve]
[brett]’s inexpensive kitchen area PC
[matthijs heeren] as well as Pieter Jolen have been working on a
project similar to Jason Striegel’s sex bots. Theirs
features a physical fitness function to much better simulate genetic algorithms.
[sega01] covered his laptop in duct tape.
Here is the first
picture. The rest are on his server, however it is kinda
slow.
USB Christmas lights
Free software application listing [warning: Geocities]
[mycroes] had a bios flash fail, however was able to boot a different board switch the bios as well as then flash it using
UniFlash.
[jason] made some skins for the CVS camera.
[tom] has a guide to
dissecting the SmarTrip RFID fare
card over at DCist.
Finally, a note from [john rutherford]:
If you have Cablevision/OptimumOnline as well as have a new cable box (Scientific Atlanta, Explorer 4200) you can access
28 hidden info pages. press the diamond button in the middle of the arrow as well as then press the information button. Use
the right/left arrow secrets to scroll with the pages. You can press the diamond key once again to ensure that you can watch TV and
look at the settings. press exit to close it out.
*Also, you can Reset the box by press the Vol+/Vol- secrets at the exact same time as well as pressing the information button
Keep sending us tips. If it’s truly great as well as you don’t see it here, it
means I’m most likely composing a function on it.