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Submission + - Hardware Developers Come Together to Engineer Humanity's Future (hackaday.com)

Submitted by szczys on Monday March 14, 2016 @10:41AM

szczys writes: The decentralization of knowledge, tools, and materials has caused a groundswell in the number of people who are doing their own hardware research and development in personal workshops, garages, and basements. This is far more widespread than at the beginning of the computer revolution, this is the unique hardware revolution. Those skills are being tested with the 2016 Hackaday Prize, a competition synonymous with creating for social change. Hardware Developers are competing in a collection of five week challenges to create the most forward-thinking Automation, Assistive Technology, Lab Equipment, and more for huge cash rewards, notoriety, and the opportunity to change the world.

Submission + - Take Your Home Internet With You

Submitted by Nighttime on Monday July 07, 2014 @09:13AM

Nighttime writes: How do you use the Internet when you're in an area with no 3G or wi-fi signal. Well, a start-up on Indiegogo appears to have the answer, the WiFiEx. It's a USB device you plug into your home computer and charge it up with Internet. When you're out and about you can then use the Internet charge stored on the device; the more you've charged it, the longer you get. So far they've raised over US$2000 and the project has 9 days left to part fools from their money.

Submission + - How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux (linuxvoice.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 09, 2014 @06:05AM

An anonymous reader writes: It's one of the biggest migrations in the history of Linux, and it made Steve Ballmer very angry: Munich, in south west Germany, has completed its transition of 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux. It has saved money, fuelled the local economy, and improved security. Linux Voice talked to the man behind the migration, and is making the PDF article free (CC-BY-SA) so that everyone can send it to their local councillors and encourage them to investigate Linux.

Comment Can't really imagine it... (Score 1) 224

by yenrabbit on Thursday April 24, 2014 @05:48AM (#46831113) Attached to: How much use would you get from a 1 gigabit internet connection?

Considering that gigabit internet is 10000-100000 times faster than my home connection :P Good old Zimbabwe...

Submission + - Linux Voice Aiming to be Different

Submitted by yenrabbit on Monday November 11, 2013 @10:59AM

yenrabbit writes: A crowd funding campain went live today for a new magazine — Linux Voice. Begun by three members of the editorial team responsible for Linux Format who left because

we wanted to do something different. We want to create an even better magazine; a bigger, more entertaining and more accountable magazine for the community we love to serve. The magazine we want to make is called Linux Voice.

What makes this interesting is the mission behind the magazine — their plan revolves around giving back to the community (to the tune of 50% of the profits) and providing reader-oriented content as affordably as possible. In a world where print media seems to be going out of fashion, will this new approach succeed? Drop your opinion in the comments, or show them some support through their Indiegogo campaign.

Comment Re:More importantly (Score 3, Informative) 1293

by yenrabbit on Friday September 20, 2013 @05:46AM (#44900707) Attached to: Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design?

Retinas the other way around (in front of the blood vessels) would soon be damage by UV light. Sea creatures such as octupii (octopusses?) don't have to worry about UV, hence the "better" arrangement.

Submission + - Vendetta Online becomes the first MMO to launch support for the Oculus Rift. (vendetta-online.com)

Submitted by Incarnate-VO on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @06:11AM

Incarnate-VO writes: Many-platform space MMORPG Vendetta Online has added another first, with the official launch of support for the Oculus Rift family of head-mounted VR displays. The VR adds another level of immersion to the twitch-combat space title.

Comment ~3000ms.... Poor old Zimbabwe (Score 1) 558

by yenrabbit on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @09:31AM (#43535821) Attached to: Average latency to Slashdot.org?

Lagging years behind the world as usual :) Up to last year the fastest i could concieve was 100kb/s. Now its getting slightly better but it will still be some time before we come near the speed that most of America considers slow. To be fair its usually closer to 300 ms, sometimes even faster to google or the like, sometimes slower or time-out.

Comment Surprised no-ones mentioned... (Score 1) 591

by yenrabbit on Thursday April 04, 2013 @07:40AM (#43356161) Attached to: If I could change what's "typical" about typical laptops ...

Changing the "typical" user :) Seriously though an OS like linux and a much better resolution would be nice to see.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Projects for a heap of junk? 2

Submitted by yenrabbit on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @11:33AM

yenrabbit writes: A friend has just told me that he has 80 CRT TVs, a stach of DVD players and hundereds of VCR machines, all broken and all mine free of charge. I can already think of a few awesome components i can extract (flyback transformers for high voltage contraptions and so on) and have a few ideas such as DVD lasers etc that i can build, but what else can be made from such a treasure-trove of components, and how would one go about processing such a large volume of stuff with the least amount of effort? Also, i don't have access to online shopping so i'd also like a pain free way of salvaging many simpler parts such as resistors as well.

Comment 5.3 and climbing... (Score 1) 441

by yenrabbit on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:33AM (#42689491) Attached to: My cumulative GPA, thus far:

Because my school decided to make up its own system that works out of six and grades you according to effort for both academics and sport. Why do things the same as everyone else? Gotta love Zimbabwe... :D

Comment Bagpipes (Score 1) 256

by yenrabbit on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @05:14AM (#42440045) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Is Your New Years Eve Tradition?

Every year my band gets about five different gigs for new years eve parties, and when the drinks flow the tips flow too :) All in all its not a bad way to welcome in a new year and earn some extra cash.

Comment Re:Hahaha - Unity even fails mobile (Score 1) 202

by yenrabbit on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @02:25PM (#42396485) Attached to: Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013

It seems to be the trend to give Unity flack, but it was my first non-windows experience, so i approached it without any experience of desktop environments that didn't suck. Since then i have used KDE, Gnome (and variants like cinnamon) and XFCE, and to be honest out of all of them them i'd pick Unity. Just because it goes against what some people believe to be the 'One and only way of doing things' doesn't automatically make it bad. Linux is all about choice and if you don't like it, sudo apt-get install plasma-desktop or switch to a different distro

Comment Computer Security Rules (Score 1) 314

by yenrabbit on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @02:12PM (#42396347) Attached to: How Do YOU Establish a Secure Computing Environment?

To ensure you have a secure computing environment: 1) Don't buy a computer and 2) Don't turn it on -the first line of pretty much every book on information security...

Comment As many as i want! (Score 1) 111

by yenrabbit on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @01:58PM (#42388729) Attached to: I can juggle ...

At least, i can throw 5+ things up in the air no problem. Keeping them there is the hardest part... Seriously though, i love juggling and it has to be good for things like spatial reasoning (i had a maths teacher who taught the class to juggle to improve our marks).

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