Windell at Evil Mad Scientist writes: Hanukkah in particular has been a festival of lights for more than a dozen centuries longer than there have been lights on Christmas trees. History notwithstanding, Hanukkah still lags behind Christmas in the transition from traditional light sources like candles towards microcontroller driven arrays of LEDs. While that may […]
MD5, the cryptographic hash function that’s often used to verify that files have not been tampered with, has been broken for a couple of years now. A lot of times when you hear about some algorithm being compromised, it’s not something that’s immediately practical to exploit… an encryption algorithm’s effective strength is reduced by a […]
Most people get around Actionscript 2.0’s lack of constant variables by just naming member variables in all capital letters and remembering not to alter their value. This works okay, assuming you obey the rules, but what if you want to enforce a constant value so that it cannot be changed during runtime. Edgar De Loa […]
The photo above is taken from a Wikipedia entry titled Xbox 360 Technical Problems, which describes a hardware failure issue that is not uncommon for Xbox 360 owners. The general problem is that the array of solder joints that attach the GPU and CPU to the motherboard can break overtime due to heat expansion during […]
This seems like a pretty easy way to make your real desktop clutter even worse than it is on your normal computer desktop. Still, it’s a cool way of bringing the “virtual” into physical space in order to remind us exactly how much the desktop metaphor has become entrenched in our daily lives. Move Your […]
Paul Badger, the maker of the Bare Bones Board (an Arduino-compatible board you can build yourself) is presenting at this month’s Providence Geek Dinner. At Maker Faire Austin, Paul gave a couple of talks on the BBB and helped some folks assemble theirs at the Maker Store. Paul Badger teaches physical computing and electronic media […]
Via Avi Abrams’ most-excellent Dark Roasted Blends comes this gorgeous AMD Athlon 64×2 Dual Core PC w/ 400GB HD housed in a 1961 REKORD Soviet TV unit. Soviet TV receiver PC case mod – [via] Link
