Mac OS X is capable of intelligently detecting whether a cat5 cable is connected to a network device or to another PC. When connected to another PC, it will (digitally) flip the pins to “emulate” a cat5 crossover cable. Here’s an example on how to share files between a Macbook and another box (XP, Linux etc). [...]
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Seriously. All we need to do is build a gigantic Stirling generator; A generator that uses a Stirling engine (similar to a Hot Air engine), which runs on any source of heat, like solar heat, a lighter or the heat generated from my gigantic CRT monitor. Then we have Sen. fossil McCain just stand nearby talking [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Subject: Advisory: File Sharing and Copyright Infringement File-sharing software continues to be a popular way to copy and distribute music, movies, games and software through the Internet. If you use this software, you need to be aware that copying and distributing materials without permission of the owner can create both criminal and civil liability for you. [...]
Thursday, September 18, 2008
I was staring at the 30+ RapidShare tabs I have open, annoyed that I had to keep waiting for the countdown timer before starting each download. The problem was that I kept forgetting about the countdown and the downloads altogether (30 second timer + Geek-ADD… impossible). It literally took me 10+ hours to get one [...]
Monday, September 1, 2008
My friend Javits (Jav1ts, as M.Bison) playing Street Fighter 4 in one of the few arcades in the country that has it:
Monday, September 1, 2008
There are plenty of ways to save pictures you find on Flickr. One way of doing so (in Firefox) is right-clicking the browser page and heading to View Page Info -> Media. This is too much work. Flickr layers a transparent file named spaceball.gif – a 43 byte 1×1 px file – over some images, rendering [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
I recently got an email in my junk folder (I browse it for false positives sometimes) from “Exclusive Domain Investments,” a supposed domain brokerage firm representing a client interested in buying one of my domains. It’s not a scam, but it’s clever. Here’s the email: FROM: “Exclusive Domain Investments” <domianinvestor1999@gmail.com> SUBJECT: Is <domain removed> for sale? Hello, One [...]
Monday, July 28, 2008
In my search for a Basecamp alternative – because it’s not free, and I’d prefer something I can host on my own server – I have come across an excellent piece of software called ProjectPier. This is a branch from ActiveCollab — an open source project that later became a commercial product. ProjectPier is simple, [...]
Monday, July 14, 2008
The following video is a talk by David Heinemeier Hansson (usually referred to simply as DHH) given at Stanford University’s Kresge Auditorium, for the day-long ‘08 Startup School conference. The talk is primarily centered on building a profitable Internet business, and the whole VC/Startup hype currently sliding through the interwebs. DHH gives good points for those [...]
Sunday, July 6, 2008
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine sent me this prediction of the future. I don’t know the origin of it, except that he found it on somebody’s profile on Xanga. Some parts sound familiar, but I can’t tell if this is from a book, movie, comic, etc. 5 years Wafers using Silicon Carbide begins [...]
Thursday, October 2, 2008
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