Karma Sutra for the Computer Repairman
Because sometimes, a screwdriver simply isn’t enough to get those old beige computer boxes opened. [Source: Unknown]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Spiceworks 3.0: Taking Network Management to the Next Level
By Rob Dunn Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you already are familiar with Spiceworks, then you can skip ahead to “Brief History” – but if not, read on. Network Inventory for the budget-crunched masses If you are a systems administrator or IT manager who maintains a small to medium sized shop, you probably don’t have a […]
Steve Ballmer getting egged in Budapest
Yes folks, Mr. Ballmer can finally join his buddy Bill in the “getting food trown at me” club. In the following video, you’ll see steve about to start talking at a conference at the Hungarian University of Economy in Budapest, when suddenly, an angry student gets up and start throwing eggs at him while yelling […]
Web games to help computers get smarter
By Mark O’Neill Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have introduced a website with games designed to make peoples computers get better at doing certain tasks. It’s one of those “for the common good” things, where you play the games and the researchers collect the results together and then use them to improve existing applications for […]
The Underwear of the Future?
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Boxers, briefs, or high-tech underwear that can monitor your health? No joke, gentlemen: Scientists have just filed a new patent for underpants that monitor your blood pressure. The special skivvies come equipped with waistband sensors that use conductive rubber to measure how fast your blood is pulsing through your […]
Indiana Jones wannabe gets chased by Lego Boulder
These guys really do have too much time on their hands. They built a lego boulder composed of 5 million pieces of the ultimate geek toy, and then pushed it down a slope to reenact the indy-gets-chased-by-a-boulder scene from the first Indiana Jones flick. Check it out below.
Open Culture – one of the best sites on the internet
By Mark O’Neill There are a lot of crap websites on the net that I wouldn’t miss for an instant if they disappeared. But if Open Culture vanished, I would be really hacked off. This is one website that I monitor constantly for updates because everything they post is interesting. I mean, look at what […]
The amazing intelligence of crows
In the following video, Hacker and writer Joshua Klein talks about the fascination he has for crows and their surprising intelligence. After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he’s come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human. Check it out.
Surveillance Through Your Home Appliances
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] All right, surveillance junkies, I’ve got a new one for you: a just-developed device that can turn your air conditioning system into a sophisticated home monitoring tool. Shwetak Patel of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta came up with the protocol, featured in New Scientist today. The tool […]
Are all mathematicians geeks?
By Mark O’Neill I had to laugh at this one because to me, being viewed as a geek is probably not the only reason people don’t continue to study mathematics. I didn’t continue it because I sucked at it and my maths teacher begged me to leave her class before I forced her into a […]