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.
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Twitter IRC server, tircd
Parts: Digital proximity sensor (Sharp GP2Y0D02)
Homebrew on the PSP3000
7 color hand held laser projector
Parallel parking system
Hacking at Random 2009 call for papers
Light to sound converter
Tiny projector teardown
Game Boy Pocket backlight
Washing machine generator
The Malware Challenge
Microwave timer switch
Make: television premiering today
Automated wire cutter and stripper
Twittering washing machine
more....
Tag Archive for 'fun'
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....