Neighborhood crime fighting robot 03/05/2008 Someone in Atlanta created what appears to be a homemade Dalek to help deal with streetcorner criminal activity: Rufus Terrill...
Ram dump over Firewire 03/04/2008 Unlike USB2, the Firewire spec allows devices to have full DMA access. By impersonating the appropriate device, a PC can...
View YouTube in high-res 03/03/2008 YouTube has been testing higher bitrate encodings of it videos, which you can see if you add a &fmt=8 or...
Point polygon intersection in SQL 03/02/2008 update: As readers noted, it’s not the 0 degrees longitude that’s the problem, it’s at 180 degrees where you could...
Recover data from RAM after a crash 03/01/2008 After Princeton’s cold-boot encryption key recovery hack, I got to thinking about what other useful things might be lying around...
Single character commenting 02/29/2008 It’s a pretty common practice to comment and uncomment big chunks of code during the development and testing of software....
MAKE open source MP3 player (daisy) – getting started guide 02/29/2008 I had some time this weekend to assemble my Daisy MP3 player kit. This amounted to 3 or 4 hours...
HOW TO – Secure your privacy with the iPeep 02/29/2008 Make reader Brian Moore writes – “If you have a Macbook, a Macbook Pro, an intel iMac, or any Mac...
HOW TO – Give Front Row a new theme 02/29/2008 I’ve been toying around with my new iMac and so far my favorite new feature is Front Row, the simple...
HOW TO – Make a geodesic dome 02/29/2008 Our pal Gavin Harper cooked up this great how-to on making a geodesic dome… In this article, we are going...
