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| Evolved antennas rock | (2004/06/28 19:40) |
NASA has a project going to Evolve Antenna Designs.
Some of these defy conventional wisdom and come out looking very cool and
performing significantly better than standard designs. |
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| Assorted cool stuff from Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools blog | (2004/06/28 17:35) |
Kevin Kelly runs a blog called Cool Tools that lists all sorts of cool stuff. Here's a brain dump of things that are I thought were especially useful or just neat.
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| Neat chemical supplies | (2004/06/28 16:45) |
SmallParts.com has tons of fittings for interesting projects (Copper tubing, Lead bricks and the like. Even cooler is United Nuclear's Chemical section which has everything you need to make your own fireworks. |
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| LinkSys USB to WiFi NAS | (2004/06/27 09:25) |
LinkSys has just released a cool little device. The NSLU2 Network Storage Link converts any USB drive into Network Attached Storage over 802.11b. And it's available for as little as $75 if you shop around. |
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| XPCreate - build install media that includes all needed service packs & hotfixes | (2004/06/21 14:30) |
If you have any need to build multiple XP desktops or VMs, you know how much of a pain it is to get the machine up and running safely on an untrusted network. (HINT: boot while disconnected from the network, install the base OS, setup the firewall, go to windows update and install SP1, disconnect network cable, reboot, reconnect network cable, repeatedly hit windows update and reboot until there are no more hotfixes) XPCreate attempts to make this process painless by allowing you to make a single cd that will install WindowsXP + all needed hotfixes and service packs. |
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| Bypassing lame web registrations | (2004/06/21 14:10) |
One of the real annoyances to hit the net over the last few years is the preponderance of required registrations at various sites online. It appears that most sites are just doing it so that they can more accurately report the number of viewers to their advertisers. (See Hits or Misses @ the Christian Science Monitor In the old days, you could pretty much rely on cypherpunk[s]/cypherpunk[s] working everywhere, but these days that account's been deleted most places or the password changed. But now there's BugMeNot.com . You can go to this site and tell it the URL that's requiring a registration and it'll spit out a username/password pair. Also very useful is Mailinator.com which basically is a shared mail system. No passwords, no security, but it's perfect when you just need to confirm a throwaway account or get a reg key for a freeware application mailed to you. |
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| Free Cisco manual | (2004/06/21 14:05) |
According to This SP Times article a fellow named Matt Basham has written an 800 page manual that covers a pile of Cisco technologies. He's giving the electronic version away for free. The book (titled "Learning by Doing: CISCO Certified Network Administrator 3.0") is available for free download at http://www.lulu.com/content/59202 |
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| LawMeme's Law School in a Nutshell (Law for Geeks) | (2004/03/07 00:15) |
I saw this page while Lessig was arguing the Eldred case and was recently telling a friend what an amazing resource it was. Everyone who has any interest in the way law is imacting technology needs to read this. The author James Grimmelmann takes you through how a brief is structured so that you can understand what's really going on. Law School In a Nutshell - Part 1 Law School In a Nutshell - Part 2 Law School In a Nutshell - Part 3 |
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