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
Low Cost Killer Robot
DIY scratch controller
Update: Nintendo DS camera control
Hardware jailbreak eases reboot pains
Coffee powered Car-puccino
50MHz to 100Mhz scope conversion
Jeri makes integrated circuits
Noisy Super 8
Game glove learns your weakness
R2D2 build video
Will this mouse get me kicked out of the coffee shop?
One minute review of your wasted time
Add a clean room to your workshop
LEGO sequencer builds sound in 3D
Tube clock database
more....
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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....
Wordpress, the software I use for this blog is great and has a wonderful plugin system that allows people to add functionality that is not originally included in wordpress. Unfortunately many of the available plugins are not so wonderful and often do not work as expected (advertised). more....
