Recently, I’ve heard a lot of people talking about the Everex TC2502, a $200 Linux PC that’s now selling at Walmart, and it’s probably not because “TC2502” is such an awesome name. By most standards, it’s a pretty slow system. What’s different is that it’s packaged and sold with Ubuntu Linux and Google’s various desktop […]
Rich Burridge writes: This is a GreaseMonkey script that works with your website. If enabled, it will replace the contents of your main page with a list of categories and under each category heading, will be a list of all your posts to that category. Very handy to see everything you’ve created in the past, […]
James Duncan Davidson has a post titled Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, where he explains his font choices for working at the Mac OS X Terminal. That post has triggered some suggestions from other folks, so if you’ve been itching for something other than 10pt Monaco, check it out – Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
When you have more than a passing interest in amateur astronomy, you quickly find that the hobby can get expensive fast, especially when you start dreaming about getting a bigger scope that will collect more light. Maximizing the aperture to cost ratio is the Dobsonian telescope, a simple large-aperture reflector on an alt-azimuth mount, named […]
Make’s own Katie Dougherty sent a few copies of Astronomy Hacks to the Las Vegas Astronomical Society, and she heard back from Geary Keilman, the President of the group. Sounds like the books made it into good hands! Here are the names and some pictures of the winners of the Astronomy Hacks books you generously […]
A lot of people use TOR as a sort of anonymity and encryption magic bullet, but that’s really not what it’s designed for. Your packets are encrypted and routed through various TOR nodes, each node only knowing about the node on either side of it and unaware of the full routing path, until finally it […]
T-Mobile just announced that when you participate in the “Give One, Get One” program (donate an XO laptop to a child in a developing country for $400, get one of your own), you’ll get a year of free Wi-Fi at T-Mobile hotspots: The Give One Get One philanthropic campaign puts laptops into the hands of […]
