Putting a RAID 0 (striped) disk array in your laptop is a double edged sword. One the one hand, it’s twice as likely to have a disk failure. One the other hand, it can make disk-bound activity, such as uncompressed video reading and writing, much faster. Frankly, with processor, bus and memory speeds as fast […]
Rod McFarland has put together some really cool AJAX-based CLI themes for WordPress. With his CLI 2.0 theme, you can browse blog entries by “cd”-ing through categories, typing “ls” to list article titles and “cat [articlenum]” to read a post. AJAX is used to make the whole experience seem like you are typing at a […]
Zfone is a VoIP encryption package developed by Phil Zimmermann, the author of PGP. There’s a software utility for Linux, Mac and Windows that automatically detects VoIP calls, negotiates a secure connection, and then filters all call traffic. So now you can have a secure iChat A/V call and protect against packet snoopers and man-in-the-middle […]
Jeff sent in the latest PDF story from Carl & Jerry: Their Complete Adventures called “Abetting or Not” first published in October 1956 by Popular Electronics, he writes – It’s one of my personal favorites for a couple of reasons. The boys were playing with (roughly) the same frequencies in 1956 that we now use […]
Interesting story on CNET about these open robots, the best part is the documentation on TeRK site, it’s outstanding – Carnegie Mellon University unveiled a new project Thursday designed to help people make robots from parts found at the local hardware store. The Telepresence Robot Kit, dubbed Terk, was developed by Illah Nourbakhsh, an associate […]
Kevin made a simple and useful cable catcher from PVC to keep all his cables tidy – [via] Link.
Michael K. wrote in, asking for a hack to “enable someone to play a game on a computer with an incompatible graphics card.” Normally, I would have thought such a thing impossible, but I’ve been itching to try out Neverwinter Nights 2, and I don’t have a graphics card that supports it. I recently learned […]
