I guess everyone that has an interest in matters internet related already know that there is a new kid on the block in the search engine market. Go have a look at http://www.cuil.com if you haven’t done it yet. more....
Author Archive for Grumpy Old Techie
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Hack a day serves up a fresh hack each day, every day from around the web and a special how-to hack each week. Have fun reading, I certainly do.
Hack a Day
The pi pad
iPhone charger teardown shows astounding miniaturization.
Building a 6502 in Minecraft
Rain activated light show in an umbrella
DeLorean hovercraft
Making real-life portals with a Kinect
DIY spring and plate reverb
Geeks living off the grid are hard on batteries
Building a color sensor using luminosity
Reminder: SpaceX launch tomorrow. Watch it live!
Conductive ink circuit experiments
Scavenging from consumer electronics to make a flame-powered phone charger
Adding kilometers to a radio meant only for meters
Printing circuitry on a RepRap
Teaching BeagleBone to play with LIDD displays
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Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day
You may ask “What is a System Administrator?”
The answers you will find at http://www.sysadminday.com/ are as good as any. Being a System Administrator is a somewhat stressful job and turns you into a cynic very quickly (see http://www.sysadminday.com/time.html ) and you start hanging out in places like the scary devil monastery. Your (l)users also stop talking to you mainly out of fear of hearing the truth because the last time they complained about not getting e-mail you answered “Well, maybe nobody likes you anymore”
Continue reading ‘If you can read this, thank your sysadmin’
Yesterday Andrew McGill posted the message below on the Gauteng Linux User Group mailing list. Because he is not blogging I’m doing it for him. What he is describing is one of the biggest frustrations people have with so called new and improved software. more....
If you have a look at the page “Where I’ve been” you will see that I have traveled in most of Sub Saharan Africa. I travel in Africa for work, which is installing advertisement monitoring systems for one of my customers. more....
