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How to destroy a filesystemhackaday.com » Hack a Day - Nov 9, 2008 The G1 ‘execute every command you type‘ bug naturally spawned ‘rm -rf /’ jokes. rm is the Linux command for deleting files. The -r and -f flags will cause it to remove files recursively and ignore confirmation … Also tagged: google, linux, unix, t mobile, solaris, rm, android, g1, t mobile g1, security hacks, rm rf |
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PCjr 25 years laterhackaday.com » Hack a Day - Nov 9, 2008 [Trixter], connoisseur of old hardware, is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the PCjr. IBM’s PCjr was killed only 18th months after being revealed and [Trixter] lays out exactly why. Overall, it was designed to be … |
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IR glass level detectionhackaday.com » Hack a Day - Nov 7, 2008 [Johnny Lee]’s colleague [Paul Dietz] has done some interesting work using interactive tables. He’s specifically researched how to determine how full a drink glass is. In the video above, he’s using Microsoft’s … Also tagged: rfid, ir, surface, multitouch, microsoft surface, johnny lee, home entertainment hacks, paul dietz |
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Install OSX on the HP TouchSmarthackaday.com » Hack a Day - Nov 6, 2008 [Aaron Nelson] of Hijinks Inc. wrote up how he installed OSX on his HP TouchSmart IQ507. It looks and works like you would expect, save for a few things. The touchscreen works, but the calibration is so far off it’s … Also tagged: apple, hp, os x, hp touchsmart, macs hacks |
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Battle of the thumb drive linux distroshackaday.com » Hack a Day - Oct 30, 2008 We were expecting eye gouging and body slams, but this review of several thumb drive Linux distributions will do. They compared Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Xubuntu, and Fedora. They don’t mention why they chose … Also tagged: news, linux, thumb drive, live cd |
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Buy an oil cooled pc for $11khackaday.com » Hack a Day - Oct 20, 2008 For roughly $11,000 you cold have this awesome oil cooled computer rig. This system was designed specifically to be able to keep the electronics submerged in oil. The system uses SSD for storage, so everything can be … Also tagged: news, submerged, oil cooling |
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LED POV hard drive clockhackaday.com » Hack a Day - Oct 17, 2008 [Ian Smith] sent us this POV display made from an old hard drive. It works by flashing some LEDs under the platter, which has a line cut in it. Since the platter spins at roughly 90 rotations per second, we perceive a … Also tagged: led, daily, clock, pov, light emitting diode |
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UberBong: Evaporative PC cooling, probablyhackaday.com » Hack a Day - Oct 16, 2008 We’re not 100% sure what exactly is going on here. It appears to be a massive evaporative cooling rig for a computer, though the title has us wondering if it doesn’t have any other uses. There isn’t much of a … Also tagged: news, water cooling, bong, evaporative |
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Passively cooled computerhackaday.com » Hack a Day - Oct 11, 2008 This came in on the tipline: [Ville 'Willek' Kyrö] wanted to build a fully passively cooled computer. That means no fans at all. He started with scrap aluminum heatsinks, ripped apart a cpu heatsink to get the copper … Also tagged: computer, cooling, heatsink, passive, misc hacks, passively cooled computer |
hackaday.com » Hack a Day - Oct 7, 2008
[acabtp] has already started hacking on his Dell Mini 9. He wanted to add GPS functionality, but didn’t want a dongle or anything external. After ordering the smallest GPS unit he could find, he found a place to wire …
Also tagged: gps, portable, ultra portable, eeepc, dell mini, dellmini, gps hacks, handhelds hacks