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
World smallest TV-B-Gone
Capacitive discharge cutting
Lego modded antenna tuner
Last day to preorder your Bus Pirate
Tiniest bot, sort of. CNC controlled
WTF-O-meter
SparkFun open-sources latest kits
Self-portrait machine
Crack WEP using BackTrack
Scratchbot: Whiskers to the rescue
How-to: Bus Pirate probe cable
Clever stair climbing robot
T.G.I.M.B.O.E.J. turns one
Poor manβs thermographic camera
Firework ignitors and controllers roundup
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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....
