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
Converting transparency sheets to an LCD monitor
Reverse Engineering an AC Signal Protocol
A.R.T. sorts your recyclables for you
Using routers as displays
Weekly Roundup 2/4/12
Office game show buzzer keeps things fair and square
Coffee table puts on a show behind smoked glass
Reclaim the wireless controller module from a broken Xbox 360
Dog Pod Grid one step closer to reality
Printable wire stripper lights up when you hit the conductor
Kitchen timer makes Mario your Sous-chef
Measure radiation with military surplus
Rapid fire, remote controlled ping pong ball turret
Creating a Game for the CoCo
Kinect for Windows released
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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....
