During much of the time I was running Ubuntu, I told myself that I’d be running Debian instead, if only I could get everything working. I have tried the Ubuntu Lucid Alpha 2 build, and I still appreciate so many things working out of the box on my 2002-03-era Toshiba Satellite 1100-S101 laptop. Even the USB Headphone Set sound module I’ve been using was able to play system sounds and Flash audio in Ubuntu. However, I recently was able to get that sound module to work in Debian Lenny. All I had to do was plug it into a different USB port on the Toshiba, and now it’s working fine.
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Archive for January, 2010
120v switching
Posted in January 31st, 2010
[Kenneth] built a 5v controlled power outlet inside of a junction box. We’ve seen plenty of projects that can switch 120v outlets using 5v logic for refrigerator controllers, lighting controllers, or grow systems, but they almost always use solid state relays to facilitate the switching. This iteration uses mechanical relays along with the necessary protection [...]
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Hacking a digital bathroom scale
Posted in January 31st, 2010
[Micah] was inspired by projects he had seen of people using the Wii balance board as an input. He realized the balance board was overkill, and pricey for many applications. Since it is basically just 4 weight sensors, he thought, why not just use a scale? Often, only one sensor is needed and they’re really [...]
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Amateur Radio Articles and Newsletter
Posted in January 31st, 2010
For those that have been waiting patiently for the Amateur Radio articles from the January 2010 edition to be available on line, your wait is over! You will find a permanent link to them in the Linux Journal Virtual Ham Shack, but for your convenience, I will put them here too: more>>
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Recycled cat feeder
Posted in January 31st, 2010
I find that I do a lot of fun projects but I’m very bad about documenting them when I’m done. Holidays are for hacking (in my mind) so I usually plan ahead and do something cool during my time off. This project, which I loving call the Autodine-2009, was a spontaneous event over Thanksgiving that [...]
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VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 9.10 Server
Posted in January 31st, 2010
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VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 9.10 Server
This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1
on a headless Ubuntu 9.10 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI
to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop
environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called
VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a
remote desktop connection, so there’s no need for the VirtualBox GUI.
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Add a Bluetooth terminal to your Kindle
Posted in January 31st, 2010
This is an Amazon Kindle DX with a Sparkfun Bluetooth Mate stuck in it. [Darron] hacked the two together in order to have a wireless serial terminal on the device. There are three big pads in the middle of the Kindle PCB labelled GND, RX and TX, making it easy to figure out those connections. [...]
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Hackaday links: January 31st, 2010
Posted in January 31st, 2010
Marble Junker
Here’s a quick and dirty kinetic sculpture. It’s a track for a steel marble to roll around in with a magnet on a rotating wheel to pick it up and start it over again. Not every hack has to be a beautiful masterpiece, they just need to be fun. Of course, if this were [...]
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Google digs heels in over censorship in China
Posted in January 31st, 2010
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Sunday 31 January 2010 at 09:45:00
Eric Schmidt restates web giant’s intention to ‘make some changes’
Google’s standoff in China grew even more pronounced last week after chief
executive Eric Schmidt restated the web giant’s opposition to internet
censorship, according to a Bloomberg report.
Schmidt said at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday that, although
the web giant is still complying with Chinese law in censoring search results on
Google.cn, in a “reasonably short time from now we will be making some changes
there”.
“We love what China is doing as a country and its growth,” Schmidt is
reported as saying. “We just don’t like the censorship. We hope to apply some
negotiation or pressure to make things better for the Chinese people.”
Google shocked the tech world earlier this month by
threatening
to pull out of China after discovering that hackers it believed originated
in the country had tried to infiltrate its systems to monitor the email accounts
of human rights activists.
Although Schmidt reportedly added that the firm had already “made a strong
statement that we wish to remain in China”, the chances of that happening are
slim, given the Chinese government’s hard line on censorship.
“Foreign enterprises in China need to adhere to China’s laws and regulations,
respect the interests of the general public and cultural traditions and shoulder
corresponding responsibilities. Google is no exception,” a Chinese foreign
ministry spokesman said last week.
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Is Bill Gates’ New Website Really Running On Linux?
Posted in January 31st, 2010
Sometimes tips come in that seem too good to be true. Take today, for example. I got a tip that Bill Gates’ new site, The Gates Notes, was running on a Linux-powered server. This would be ironic since Gates is of course the founder of Microsoft, which is Linux’s biggest competitor in the server market. It would be the equivalent of catching Gates or CEO Steve Ballmer being caught using (and not just signing) a MacBook at a conference. So is it true?
A quick search on Netcraft shows that thegatesreport.com sure enough looks to be running on the Linux OS. But wait. The results also say that web server is Microsoft-IIS/7.0. That doesn’t sound right, so what gives? Well, it turns out that because Gates is using Akamai to mirror his sites’ content in the event of massive traffic (or more specifically, something like a DDoS attack), this data is being filtered through there. Akamai uses Linux for its servers, so that’s what OS is being passed back to Netcraft. But at the same time, to make things more confusing, the Akamai servers are still passing back the correct server header for Gates’ site: Microsoft-IIS/7.0.
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Why Bigger Is Better: The iPad And The Arc of Computing
Posted in January 31st, 2010
The following guest post was written by Edo Segal (@edosegal).
Earlier last week, as the day was coming to an end and I was speaking with my 5 year old at bedtime we shared the highlights of our day. I started by telling him the company that created the iPhone is about to come out with . . . I paused—how do I describe it?—well, a “big iPhone” I said. About this big, I gestured holding my hands about 10 inches apart. “Wow, Amazing!” was his instant reaction as his eyes lit up. Even my 5-year-old knows that bigger is better, especially when it comes to tactile interfaces. In fact, the advantages are probably more obvious to his generation than it is to ours.
For this first generation born into a world of the iPhone, Wii and soon the Xbox’s Project Natal, the distance between the metaphor created by these devices and the reality of their interaction is constantly shrinking. My wife is currently doing her PhD research on the merits of tangible interfaces for young children in education and the data is telling. There is no doubt that there is great potential to enhance learning with tactile computing. Through that lens the “Bigger iPhone” is akin to a bigger yard to play in or a bigger room. This insight is telling. For these kids the iPhone’s primary function is by no means a phone. It is first and formost a gaming device, followed by a networked camera, followed by everything else. Through this lens one can see the importance of the iPad in the historical trajectory of our human-computer interaction. What’s lost in all the complaints about what the iPad is lacking (multitasking, camera, etc.) is that people need to view the iPad on more than its merits as a first-generation product. Rather, they need to understand it in context of the evolutionary arc of computing.
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Hybrid analog/binary clock, the MK2
Posted in January 31st, 2010
by admin in analog, arduino, arduino hacks, binary, chronodot, clock, digital, multimeter, rss, telcom linesman
[Kieran] let us know about his hybrid analog/binary clock. The circuitry behind the clock is nothing too new. An Arduino combined with a Chronodot to produce an accurate clock. What we really enjoyed however was the creative implementation of an old British Telecom Linesman’s Multimeter as the case. The analog meter acts as the seconds [...]
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The UltimateSIMON
Posted in January 31st, 2010
[Simon Inns] designed a circuit board to retrofit an original Simon electronic game. This hack is immediately a win because he made sure that his design required no modification of the original case. The new PCB has many improvements. It moves the device from using 2 D-cells over to a 9 volt battery, the incandescent [...]
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Robot band gives us so much to make fun of
Posted in January 31st, 2010
by admin in digital audio hacks, drums, easy listening, percussion, robot, robots hacks, rss, solenoid
[Pat Metheny] has a robot armada backing him up when he performs on stage. They’re going on tour and he’s done an interview explaining his mechanical band. Like the auto-drummer, this setup uses multitudes of solenoids to play the percussion instruments, each getting commands from a computer. It’s pretty wicked to see him use his [...]
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ClientShow Debuts Realtime Collaboration App For Creative Pitches
Posted in January 30th, 2010
Last fall, TechCrunch50 startup ClientShow presented its innovative application to help creative, advertising and marketing professionals show, pitch, share and sell their work to clients more effectively through real-time collaboration and communication. Similar to a WebEx for creative professionals, ClientShow allows users to essentially create a “virtual agency” to collaborate and share ideas with clients. This week, the startup is debuting its platform in private beta. We have 1000 invites for Techcrunch readers here.
The application, which is built on Adobe Air, includes a dashboard which lets the agency view client lists, projects and pitch sessions at a single glance. The dashboard acts as an organizational launching pad, where you can see attached notes and images about upcoming pitches and a schedule of sessions. The second feature is a “work” section which actually lets you set up and prepare for the sessions. You can drag and drop your files into the application, where you can view the projects.
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