there are a few reports floating around that suggest that bittorrent is 35% of the internet’s traffic, which seems like bs, regardless, if you do use bittorrent here are some helpful hints on configuring your router to get the best download speeds.

also here’s how to configure an apple airport extreme base station (aebs) and apple macintosh computer for firewall port forwarding. the apple airport  extreme base station includes a built-in firewall that will decrease your bittorrent download speeds  unless you enable port forwarding to your mac.

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hey, if you’re working on a cool hack let us know, here’s one that just came in. “neo2” sent this–“just built one of these (on a breadboard for now), and it is as fun to play with as it looks. as for the question of how to program it, you need a pic programmer. i got mine off ebay for about $20. pictures of orignal program and my change to say “matt” here.

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we’re not really sure why, but some people told us they wanted to be frozen for the next 4 years. any hoo, you can’t do that yet, but you can put a lego guy in your mouse and make it a little tiny cryo container complete with LED so your plastic pal can rip can winkle it away while you mouse in to the future.

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