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A Hack A Day

Posted by michael on Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:00 PM
from the into-the-outdoors-with-gun-and-solder dept.

Hardwyred writes "Another webpage for the DIY minded has popped up, Hack A Day promises '...a fresh hack each day, every day from around the web and a special how-to hack each week.' Just a few days worth of content up so far, but shows a lot of promise."

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From the title... (Score:5, Funny)

by Ghostgate (800445) on Friday October 08 2004, @11:04PM (#10477067)

... I expected a site showing screenshots of some poor sucker's hacked web pages, with a new poor sucker each day ;)
Ah, but... (Score:5, Funny)

by VistaBoy (570995) on Friday October 08 2004, @11:05PM (#10477069)

...does a hack a day keep the DMCA away?
- Re:Ah, but... by theparanoidcynic (Score:3) Friday October 08 2004, @11:36PM
- Re:Ah, but... by Anonymous Coward (Score:3) Saturday October 09 2004, @12:07AM
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So disappointed! (Score:5, Funny)

by zaxios (776027) <zaxios@gmail.com> on Friday October 08 2004, @11:05PM (#10477070)
(Last Journal: Thursday July 14 2005, @08:37PM)

Misunderstood "Hack A Day". I was hoping to find out a way to make time itself run Linux.

Oh, come on, groaning is a type of laughing.
- Re:So disappointed! by LostCluster (Score:3) Friday October 08 2004, @11:24PM
  - Re:So disappointed! by zaxios (Score:3) Friday October 08 2004, @11:31PM
    - Re:So disappointed! (Score:4, Funny)
      
      by Jerf (17166) on Saturday October 09 2004, @12:39AM (#10477371)
      (Last Journal: Saturday August 18 2001, @11:04AM)
      
      "If I failed, I was successful."
      
      You're no geek, you're a politician . I invoke the sacred names of Babbage, Turing, and Cantor and order you back from whence you came.
      
      THE POWER OF CANTOR COMPELS YOU.
      
      THE POWER OF CANTOR COMPELS YOU.
      
      THE POWER OF CANTOR COMPELS YOU.
      
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      - Re:So disappointed! by Reteo Varala (Score:2) Saturday October 09 2004, @04:25AM
        Re:So disappointed! by Senzei (Score:1) Saturday October 09 2004, @05:01PM
    - Re:So disappointed! by Phoenixhunter (Score:2) Saturday October 09 2004, @12:55AM
    - So you're saying by Aexia (Score:2) Saturday October 09 2004, @03:27PM
- Re:So disappointed! by Lord Kano (Score:2) Saturday October 09 2004, @12:41AM
- Re:So disappointed! by liquidpele (Score:2) Saturday October 09 2004, @01:42AM
Good Ideas (Score:5, Funny)

by b0lt (729408) <b0ltz0r@gmail.com> on Friday October 08 2004, @11:06PM (#10477075)
(http://pg-solutions.com/)

They have good ideas, but is there any way to submit an idea for other people to do, if you're not so mechanically oriented? (I soldered my screwdriver to a case once) It looks like you have to do everything yourself for any submissions =/
- Re:Good Ideas (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by drinkypoo (153816) <martin.espinoza@gmail.com> on Friday October 08 2004, @11:55PM (#10477252)
  (http://www.hyperlogos.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday July 18, @08:19PM)
  
  Not so mechanically oriented? Sounds like you're more like "how the fuck did you do that"-prone.
  
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- Re:Good Ideas by Nos. (Score:3) Saturday October 09 2004, @12:08AM
- Re:Good Ideas by pjt33 (Score:2) Saturday October 09 2004, @04:38AM
Bottle Cap Tri-Pod (Score:3, Funny)

by mr_tremor69 (820324) on Friday October 08 2004, @11:07PM (#10477080)

I gotta make myself one of those bottle cap tri-pods. I am glad they warned me about the potential for poisoning I might have actually made it before drinking the pop and refilling it with water.
- Re:Bottle Cap Tri-Pod by sammyo (Score:2) Friday October 08 2004, @11:13PM
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only one? (Score:5, Funny)

by tomsuchy (813628) on Friday October 08 2004, @11:10PM (#10477091)

I get in like 8-12 hacks a day, usually in the morning, right before my first cigarette.
- Re:only one? by Myrmi (Score:2) Saturday October 09 2004, @12:28AM
I hope Engadget is paying Slashdot for all the ads (Score:1, Insightful)

by Proc6 (518858) on Friday October 08 2004, @11:13PM (#10477101)

Jesus Christ, Slashdot is like the Engadget-Repost-Site. Like every 3rd article is from Engadget and now they're making articles about Engadgets new sub-sites.
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lava lamp (Score:1)

by davesplace1 (729794) on Friday October 08 2004, @11:15PM (#10477111)
(Last Journal: Tuesday December 14 2004, @08:36PM)

Whoo hooo now I can build my own lava lamp and its all thank to Hack A Day.
Tomorrow's hack... (Score:2, Funny)

by Nuclear Elephant (700938) on Friday October 08 2004, @11:16PM (#10477114)
(http://www.nuclearelephant.com/)

I suspect tomorrow's hack will be "how to keep your server running during a slashdot"
- Re:Tomorrow's hack... by Kizzle (Score:3) Friday October 08 2004, @11:34PM
  - Re:Tomorrow's hack... by polecat_redux (Score:3) Saturday October 09 2004, @02:07AM
Hack_A_Day chmoded (Score:3, Insightful)

by 1davo (692334) on Friday October 08 2004, @11:36PM (#10477181)
(Last Journal: Wednesday March 09 2005, @09:21PM)

Is it just me or is this the most dismal discussion on ./ in recent memory? Perhaps some folks were looking for a 2600 site?
People nothing to see here, keep surfing. >;-)
- Re:Hack_A_Day chmoded by NidStyles (Score:1) Saturday October 09 2004, @02:26AM
- Re:Hack_A_Day chmoded by TommydCat (Score:1) Saturday October 09 2004, @10:00AM
  - Re:Hack_A_Day chmoded by 1davo (Score:1) Saturday October 09 2004, @07:44PM
Wow (Score:4, Funny)

by rampant mac (561036) <toast1911@nOspaM.mac.com> on Friday October 08 2004, @11:44PM (#10477219)

Reminds me a lot of Mac OS X Hints [macosxhints.com], but extended to include non-computing hardware.
Any hints on how to hack the model D83 Swedish sure-grip suck machine yet? /naked gun 2 1/2
Blog shills (Score:4, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 08 2004, @11:52PM (#10477244)

Let's see... hackaday simply links to other peoples' sites, especially engadget.com. Phillip Torrone also runs flashenabled.com, which lists pretty much the same items also by referencing engadget.com. And now Slashdot routinely shills for engadget and engadget's own shills-within-shills. As though there aren't enough bloggers out there already regurgitating n-th hand news of dubious utility.
- Re:Blog shills by ptorrone (Score:3) Saturday October 09 2004, @12:21AM
  - Re:Blog shills by Zen Punk (Score:2) Saturday October 09 2004, @03:07AM
    - Re:Blog shills by ptorrone (Score:3) Saturday October 09 2004, @03:12AM
- Re:Blog shills by egm06 (Score:1) Saturday October 09 2004, @08:49AM
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Hmmm... (Score:3, Insightful)

by ssand (702570) on Friday October 08 2004, @11:59PM (#10477269)

It's interesting, however I couldn't help but notice that all links were external, so it seems more of a collection of previous ones, without new ones.

While making a new one a day would be challanging, some unique ones would make the site stand out from the ones it links to.
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I'm not too impressed (Score:4, Informative)

by Bob Cat - NYMPHS (313647) on Saturday October 09 2004, @12:01AM (#10477273)
(http://nymphs.org/)

He has an entry pointing to the retarded 'external battery for your iPod in a playing card box' that was reported here on slashdot. Nah, find it yourself, I'm not THAT informative.

If he doesn't realize that thing will get you a pocketfull of hot acid, he needs to review what a good hack is.
Nostalgia (Score:1)

by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 09 2004, @12:10AM (#10477315)

This site makes me miss alt.hackers. :(
Awww... (Score:4, Funny)

by ComputerSherpa (813913) on Saturday October 09 2004, @12:58AM (#10477440)
(http://computersherpa.livejournal.com/)

Poor upstart site, just getting on its feet, and you /. it already? For shame!
Didn't anyone notice? (Score:5, Insightful)

by Max Romantschuk (132276) <max@romantschuk.fi> on Saturday October 09 2004, @02:23AM (#10477678)
(http://max.romantschuk.fi/)

While this is a cool site, it's not like they are writing these articles. It'a a nicely themed blog, but if you ask me proper blogging etiquette would demand more visible recognition of the sites featuring the actual content.

Just my 2 cents, anyway.
- Re:Didn't anyone notice? by smartin (Score:3) Saturday October 09 2004, @07:08AM
Oh... OK (Score:4, Funny)

by conan776 (723791) on Saturday October 09 2004, @03:28AM (#10477844)

So that's how you steal a car! I have the half a tennis ball [rotteneggs.com] thing down pat, I just needed a bic pen. That BMW is all mine! Thank you /.ers. Write me in prison, won't you?
I got an idea for a hack.... (Score:3, Funny)

by LiquidMind (150126) on Saturday October 09 2004, @03:28AM (#10477845)

You know these navigation systems that come in most newer/expensive cars that have a little gps system and map and talks to you (turn left....here).
I'd love to hack one of those and add "bitch" to everything. as in...

"Merge onto...freeway....bitch"
- Re:I got an idea for a hack.... by Archon-X (Score:3) Saturday October 09 2004, @08:28AM
  - Re:I got an idea for a hack.... by Stinking Pig (Score:2) Saturday October 09 2004, @09:42AM
Hack A Day issue 12... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 09 2004, @03:38AM (#10477863)

How to hack a web server to survive a saturday morning slashdoting.

Smoking ruin footage at 11.
hack a server... (Score:1)

by zxflash (773348) on Saturday October 09 2004, @03:40AM (#10477870)
(http://www.solidz.com/)

hope they can hack a new server together real quick so i can check it out... sounds cool.
The iPod remote hack. Three words... (Score:1)

by Cl1mh4224rd (265427) on Saturday October 09 2004, @05:51AM (#10478120)

Nintendo Power Glove.
Sweet! (Score:1)

by JamesGecko (797637) on Sunday October 10 2004, @02:16PM (#10487288)
(http://frem.wordpress.com/)

That is one of the coolest sites I have ever seen. It's prety much just a LinkBlog, but still. I would have never found out about osX on the Xbox if not for that site.
Re:Missing Shift Key? (Score:3, Interesting)

by Jeff DeMaagd (2015) on Friday October 08 2004, @11:10PM (#10477090)
(http://www.demaagd.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday October 27 2002, @06:53PM)

At least it isn't all caps. All lower case is still relatively easy to read, but I do agree it is easier to handle proper grammar. It tells the reader what the proper nouns are and it gives an added visual cue that a sentence might start here.

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- Re:Missing Shift Key? by l1nuxpunk (Score:1) Friday October 08 2004, @11:47PM
Re:Missing Shift Key? (Score:1)

by erick99 (743982) <homerun@gmail.com> on Friday October 08 2004, @11:12PM (#10477096)

This guy has kids and writes rather well compared to most other homebrew websites. Don't know what's up with the all lower case letters thing.

[ Parent ]
- Re:Missing Shift Key? by Gentlewhisper (Score:2) Saturday October 09 2004, @01:47AM
Re:Very cool! (Score:3, Interesting)

by BrokenHalo (565198) on Saturday October 09 2004, @12:48AM (#10477397)

I saw the thing about lava lamps - I made one of my own a while back (as a biotech student, I have ready access to quantities of polyethylene glycol), but there's no way I would subject a USB port to that kind of power load...

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Re:Missing Shift Key? (Score:4, Funny)

by polecat_redux (779887) <spamwich@g[ ]l.com ['mai' in gap]> on Saturday October 09 2004, @01:59AM (#10477583)

I've always been a fan of capital letters -- especially when trying to read an entire paragraph of text. Looks wonderfully professional, huh?

Go easy on him, he's just trying to add a little character...

[ Parent ]
Re:Missing Shift Key? (Score:2, Funny)

by krymsin01 (700838) on Saturday October 09 2004, @02:02AM (#10477592)
(http://pemdasi.net/ | Last Journal: Monday November 08 2004, @10:51AM)

Yeah, because every thing on the "internets" is true.

[ Parent ]
Re:Very cool! (Score:2)

by superpulpsicle (533373) on Saturday October 09 2004, @01:08PM (#10480108)

Just went to the site and it is down. Looks like it's already been hacked.

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From the title... (Score:5, Funny)

Ah, but... (Score:5, Funny)

So disappointed! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:So disappointed! (Score:4, Funny)

Good Ideas (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Good Ideas (Score:5, Funny)

Bottle Cap Tri-Pod (Score:3, Funny)

only one? (Score:5, Funny)

I hope Engadget is paying Slashdot for all the ads (Score:1, Insightful)

lava lamp (Score:1)

Tomorrow's hack... (Score:2, Funny)

Hack_A_Day chmoded (Score:3, Insightful)

Wow (Score:4, Funny)

Blog shills (Score:4, Insightful)

Hmmm... (Score:3, Insightful)

I'm not too impressed (Score:4, Informative)

Nostalgia (Score:1)

Awww... (Score:4, Funny)

Didn't anyone notice? (Score:5, Insightful)

Oh... OK (Score:4, Funny)

I got an idea for a hack.... (Score:3, Funny)

Hack A Day issue 12... (Score:1, Funny)

hack a server... (Score:1)

The iPod remote hack. Three words... (Score:1)

Sweet! (Score:1)

Re:Missing Shift Key? (Score:3, Interesting)

Re:Missing Shift Key? (Score:1)

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