We’re a top 100 Folding@HOME team! Take that Tom’s Hardware Community! No, seriously, we are that freakin‘ big now. I celebrated by buying some more hardware to fold with. You can discover out more at the team Hack-A-Day Forum. If you don’t understand what this folding thing is all about, inspect the team wiki. You might always decrease by our long standing IRC channel, #hackaday on EFnet.
On the topic of distributed projects. Did you see that somebody was suggesting we might get hacked by aliens with SETI@HOME? Sure, very first SETI would have to really discover something as well as by that point somebody would have hacked it locally. Aliens’ computers are unfortunately extremely similar to ours though.
I composed up How-To: Stream almost anything utilizing VLC for Engadget. I understand I utilized the most fundamental technique for streaming, however a great deal of people truly enjoyed it. anybody else in like with this program? [Brent Norris] has some Linux associated VLC info.
Slashdot (and others) chosen up our XBox 360 post. I had begun to believe they had forgotten about us.
bunnie is going to wait till 360s are quickly offered before buying one, however if you’ve got one that’s damaged as well as not covered by guarantee he’ll buy it from you.
Did you see Llama‘s entry for Joystiq‘s faceplate contest? His prep advice:
Painting tip, clean with alcohol before painting plastic. There are other sensitizers however alcohol works fine as well as is inexpensive as well as easily available. Disassemble whatever completely, this means cutting plastic sometimes like the bit doors on the face.
Kismet for Windows It’s been bundled with all of the necessary Cygwin DLLs so you don’t have to set up Cygwin separately. [Στέφανος]
Podtropolis has RSS feeds. perhaps they’ve been there all along as well as I just missed it the very first time around. [yuro]
prince Rupert’s decrease is produced by dripping molten glass into water. The fast cooling of the outside of the decrease sets an enormous tensile stress in in the droplet. hit the droplet with a hammer as well as it won’t break, however if you break a bit bit of the tail the droplet will explode. Here’s a video of prince Rupert’s Drops. [Frogz]
[Underwater Spiderman] noticed some weirdness while playing with magnets around his Sony Ericsson Z600.
FreeMAC is an ambitious job to compose GPL firmware for Conexant chipsets. [lekernel]
Another Christmas light controller. unfortunately lacking plans. [σπάθη]
[Sean Shrum] upgraded the drive in Iomega‘s inexpensive NAS-100d.
Tis’ the season to gather inexpensive LEDs from Christmas lights. [nate]
Quick leather RAZR case
The engine utilized by Lucasart‘s experience games has been ported for the DS: ScummVM DS. [elg0nz]
Robosapien V2 mods [Manion]
Simple Skype VoIP adapter [lordofheat]
Disassembly of a Dell DJ Ditty [Auger Duval]
Office gun developed from binder clips [tutejszy]
Adding rubber grips to a Treo 650 [anonyomouse]
It’s the time of year to provide as well as [Matt Westervelt] told us about SeattleWireless.net’s Towertop Node fundraiser. They are off to a fantastic start. I am personally going to be contributing to the EFF this year.
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