Now that compiz fusion is the result of all the different compiz flavours (such as Beryl) having come back together again, it’s not always quite so obvious how to get the different plugins to work. Luckily here is a good howto showing all the options and how to get the cube going again, which is Read more about Getting the cube to work[…]
In a rare display of common sense, the US Congress has put through laws making it illegal to discriminate on DNA – ie. insurance companies can’t raise their rates or refuse to cover someone who has had DNA testing and has had results indicating a risk for certain genetic diseases. Not only is it none Read more about DNA discrimination[…]
Who knew, that damned no-fly list?! A second air marshal said one agent “has been getting harassed for six years because his exact name is on the no-fly list.”
A huge list of softwares to make you digital camera do stuff you might not immediately think it could…
We’re supposed to walk on our feet, but we wear shoes for protection and fashion. This has a drastic impact on the amount of injuries we get as a result of walking the wrong way. This souds a bit wierd, but there’s an excellent article in NY Magazine which had me reading it the whole Read more about Howto Walk[…]
Central databases are great for ALL kinds of things! Not scared yet?
A huge collection of free e-books and magazines
This uses the OpenArena engine (used for Quake) to monitor servers in a 3D environment. When you shoot a server it gives you information about it.
Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already %u2018occupied%u2019. Insects use plant like a telephone
What happens if you take Garfield out of his comic? You’re left with a manic depressive, neurotic Jon, that’s what. Surprisingly the result is readable and funny and even the Davis (the original artist) agrees with the art of this.
There are a couple of sites out there which give you a good look at the global spam trending. Most of the links in here I found in the following site: Spam Links – spam stats Messagelabs has a weekly overview of virusses, spam and phishing Commtouch Spam lab has a nice graph with 30 Read more about SPAM![…]
Put this into your lighter port and all GPS transmissions within 5m will be blocked by preventing any GPS devices from getting a satellite fix.
If you want a GPRS / HSPDA / EDGE / GPRS / GSM connection, most mobile providers will sell you a data plan and a PCMCIA card to put your SIM card in and attach your laptop to teh internets. Unfortunately there aren’t that many PCMCIA to USB convertors, nor tabletop PC motherboards with PCMCIA Read more about USB Data modems[…]
Old 2.5-Inch Drives can be given a second chance with this. If your old laptop is busted, this is a great $30,- way to get your old data back.
These modellers are a bit crazy, but the model aircraft are really nicely built. They have jet engines and some of the aircraft have cameras installed as well. The link has a huge gallery of these beautiful hand made replicas as well as a movie
Robotic parts aren’t good enough and… “The general cited animals like salamanders that can regrow lost tails or limbs. ‘Why can’t a mammal do the same thing?’ he asked.” Good point. I’m all for having my stem cell cloned leg back after it got blown away instead of having a cheap piece of plastic or Read more about The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts[…]
Microsoft has announced that it won’t be prosecuting hackers who hack their legally owned software on their own hardware. As soon as they hack illegal copies or on other people’s hardware, they’re in trouble. They are trying to get hackers to come forward with problems with their products before the hacks are leaked into the Read more about Microsoft OKs ethical hacking[…]
Strange one this. A man had built his own flying car, described as “a go-kart with a propeller attached” and crashed it into some powerlines. The future is now!
Prince William knows how to be King – flying his RAF Chinook to stag parties and his RAF Hawk fighter jet to get a change of clothes. Hell yeah! If I was a royal I’d be doing it too – props and respect mate!
It’s early days in the project but it’s showing good promise
The UK Government is refusing to investigate well grounded claims that BT together with Phorm electronically eavesdropped on hunderds of thousands of ISP users without a legal reason to do so. It seems the UK Home Office stance is that since they’re companies they don’t need to be brought to account, which means basically they’re Read more about BT’s and Phorm eavesdrop and get away with it[…]
Jonas Samson has managed to create wallpaper that through layering several materials emits light. http://www.jonassamson.com/products/wallpaper-5.jpg
Or crashing. In short it comes to running netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled from the command line. If for some reason it goes wrong, change disabled to normal in the line above and run it again!
Lifehacker has a roundup of the top five based on a large user voting base. If you still can’t get enough, there are plenty more ideas in the comments.
Nations Forever is now out – it’s an insanely cool, free racing game with loads of tracks and online play!