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
C Sharp Development 101 – A Tutorial Series
The Spindicator
EEVblog dissects a kindle 3
Controlling the power of a flash with a tv remote
Trossen Robotics holding another contest
Using an NES controller on an Android phone
Car computer requires PIN for ignition
Meter clock using the TI Launchpad
Firmware hacking on Behringer midi devices
Meat smoker texts you when it is done
Barcode Infiltrator
Spy Video TRAKR: software and first hack
LED suit lights up the night
Alarm clock learns new trick, opening doors
How to fix AVR-SIZE on Ubuntu 10.04
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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....
