Before nylon cable ties, bundles of cables were held together by waxed nylon cord. It’s still a nice way to to do harnesses in tight spaces, and, I think, looks much more elegant than nylon ties. It’s almost a lost art- few people under 50 know how to do it! (google “waxed lacing cord” to find sources of cord). Thanks Rob! Link.
I never get tired of these projects- Beakmyn writes “How I took an old Digital laptop and turned it into a digital picture frame using Damn Small Linux, a dremel and copious amounts of hot melt glue”. Link.
It run doom on it! MAME for Digita, the first truly portable version of MAME, emulating Donky Kong and Doom for Digita running shareware Doom on a Kodak DC265 Digita OS based digital camera. MAME for the Sega Dreamcast video game console connected to a TV emulating Xevious. Thanks Doug! Link.
Richard Giles has posted an audio interview with William Foster, Lead Ascent and Entry Ground Controller for Mission Control at NASA. Richard explains: He gave a fairly detailed overview of the communications that they use with the Shuttle from launch to landing. Bill’s has done launch and landing for the last 23 missions, including the last mission. [via] Link.
Thunderstone Media just released iPodderX Public Beta for Windows. For you podcast fans (and historians) iPodderX was one of the original podcasting clients and newsreaders – now you can run it in Windows and get the same features. Link.
Regarding our dispensing for free Wifi over EVDO today…Ian writes “one other thing you can do that’s nifty like that, I did a few years ago at macworld, my powerbook (a titanium) gets notoriously bad reception, however the guy with his iBook next to me had no problem getting on the network. so we did the sharing from airport to ethernet, plugged me in, and since actually both machines have autosensing ports, they connected right up and i was online, didn’t even need a crossover cable”.
Awesome! Want iPodLinux running on your 4th generation iPod, iPod photo, or iPod mini, but hate doing all the steps manually? Well now you can get games, videos, gameboy games, Doom, text input, and much more all on your iPod! [