I wasn’t planning on posting this, but in light of recent events I think I have to. Yep, we completed 2,000,000 points in half the time it took to get the first million. Celebrate over at the unofficial Team Hack-A-Day forum.
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Yeah, I know Engadget is F@H now. I doesn’t bother me since we’re already sitting at #175 and are top 20 producers. If you need help troubleshooting your setup check out the unofficial Team Hack-A-Day Folding@HOME forum. [pocketlnt]
Speaking of Engadget: Did you see the low tech tea serving automata? You can build one entirely out of paper. [Manion]
Linux kernel 2.6.14 release impacts nearly every architecture. Lots of cool stuff has been merged like Centrino support and FUSE filesystem (think GmailFS). I’d be all over this, but still no Reiser4.
I hope someone gives [Peter] a proper rotary tool as a present. Maybe his future projects won’t look as gnarly as his CD player iPod disguise.
Modifying a Dell PowerEdge SC420 to accept a 16X PCI-E video card [h-tech]
[dcgrendel] wrote some dhtml to generate VMware .vmx config files.
Xbox-scene has some info on Xbox 360 security measures. [SilverX]
SnakeOil Labs has a couple how-tos up. Setting up FreeNX on Ubuntu and using Firefox with SwitchProxy.
[Alex Harris] has written up his experience installing Linux on his 2G iPod mini.
Live Knoppix CD for running a PPC and x86 distributed compiler (distcc) [Corey]
[John Bokma]’s experience making an XP Pro VM for the VMware player
[sle118] has an autoassociate script for WRT client mode.
Have a good weekend and we can always use good tips.
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I’ve been getting a ton mail on the tip line saying “You should make the iPod photo do video”. The iPod Linux team pulled this off already.
Another one that comes up from time-to-time is “You should let me plug my PSP into my iPod so I can use all of that storage space”. The reason this can’t work is because USB needs a host. In the case of a PSP, iPod, keyboard, mouse, PDA… a computer is the host device. USB devices can have other devices plugged into them if they feature a hub, but they still require a host device for control. Unless a device is specifically designed for “USB host mode” attaching peripherals won’t work. This is why the iPod photo needs the camera adapter. It isn’t just a gender changer; it performs the USB host magic that is missing from the iPod.
Harald has started a the OpenEZX project to gather information about Motorola’s EZX Linux based phone platform.
I grew up on a dairy farm, but we didn’t have Linux powered robotic cow-milkers. Somehow I still ended up with this job.
From the bored folks who brought you the dancing bug we get the frog racer. [brian]
I think the flash based eBay auction mapper that [Gary] built is really slick.
Porting Firefox Extensions To Flock
Flock is the new “social” web browser based on Mozilla’s Firefox source code. They recently released a “developer preview” for those of us that must try every piece of bleeding edge software. Flock’s claim to fame is its ability to integrate with web services like Flickr, del.icio.us, and blogging software. Most people aren’t willing to jump ship without their Firefox extensions though. You can force an extension to install by unpacking the .xpi and replacing the version checking code. Whether the extension works or not is still up in the air. Geoff has all of the details you need to port extensions to Flock.
Solderless Breadboard Transporter
[Adam Wolf] sent along this great tip for transporting projects. He chopped out the center section of a tackle box clearing the way for two breadboards to be stuck to the lid. The boards are spaced for a DIP40 chip. Two binding post are epoxied in place to provide power. Now you can move your projects and parts without knocking wires loose. More details at his blog.
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MAKE:Blog has posted photos from their Make Faire at Euro OSCON. Have a look and you’ll see my co-conspirator Fabienne and regular commenter [Markie]. I know [led] was planning on attending. Did anyone else get a chance to go?
We were included in PC Mag’s Top 101 Web Sites under the category Computing – Experts. From the text it sounds like someone actually reads the site, which makes me even happier. [DigitalDame]
The Duxbury high school hacking contest entry deadline was the 14th. Have a look at some of the projects.
[Aleksandyr] wonders why anyone would settle for less than full cellphone SSH. You could even use J2MEVNC if you’re crazy enough.
VGA over Cat5 He says 800×600 works at over 50ft. [jubilantjeremy]
Google Random Number Generator [ravidgemole]
Beautiful mechanical clock that is accurate for 10k years
Palm pilot controlled tattoo machine [dANIEL]
[eric]’s guide for destroying CDs using duct tape.
A roundup of all of the ways to add a Firefox download counter to your site
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By popular demand: Please post your favorite TV torrent sites with RSS feeds in the comments. When I was putting the how-to together I was using Mininova.
[Tom]’s silly Skype hack to get out of meetings.
[DeeJay] posted instructions on his site for region unlocking a Philips DVP 3007/69 DVD player. He lucked out since it is the same method as a 3005.
Increase the signal strength of your iTrip. [chphilli]
[evan b] pointed out the Bluetooth vibrator. I hope for their sake they aren‘t using a default PIN. Makes me wonder if anyone ever built a vibrator with a MIDI interface. I should stop thinking out loud.
[Willb3rg] sent in a site that has been a favorite of mine purely for its recipe structure: Cooking for Engineers.
GEN H-4 Personal Helicopter Fly with all the grace of a dandelion caught in an updraft. Video
Cellphone Unix Terminal [weijie90]
[sprocket] continues to mod the roboraptor, adding tail tilt sensors this time.
How-to control stepper motors using a parallel port and some VB. [monkmo]
