JohnGrahamCumming - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Great idea, probably not happening (Score 5, Informative) 132

by JohnGrahamCumming on Sunday April 29, @04:59PM (#39839421) Attached to: The Greatest Machine Never Built

You are correct that I care about the PR side of things. I need to because I need to raise a substantial amount of money.

But it's far from all PR. There's now a registered British charity with a board of trustees and the pre-eminent Babbage expert, Doron Swade, who built the Difference Engine No. 2 at the Science Museum is running the technical side of the project.

Study of the digitized plans has been underway since February and some first results will be announced this summer. We actively want to build a 3D working model in a tool like Autodesk.

A hacked WiFi Router, an API and a toy bus: it's the ambient bus arrival monitor-> 0

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on Tuesday March 20, @07:13AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes "In this simple project a hacked Linksys WRT54GL talks to a public API to get real-time bus information and displays the times of the next buses on a model bus. Never miss the bus again!"
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The GCHQ Challenge hasn't been solved... completel-> 0

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on Monday December 05 2011, @09:06AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes "It's been reported that the GCHQ code challenge has been solved and 'complete' solutions posted on the web, but there's more to it than meets the eye. There's a whole block of undecrypted data just waiting to be examined."
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GE Color Effects Christmas lights get hacked into -> 0

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on Monday November 07 2011, @06:50AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes "Unable to resist a string of programmable Christmas lights I cut them up and built and 7x7 color display from them. The string is controlled by an Arduino Pro and hidden in a picture frame."
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The 100-year leap-> 0

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on Tuesday October 05 2010, @06:27AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes "In 1837 Charles Babbage laid down plans for a general purpose digital computer with memory, a CPU, a printer and a plotter. Now there a project afoot to actual build the massive steam-powered machine."
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'Wildfire' brings social news to Facebook 0

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on Friday September 07 2007, @08:33AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes "My newly released Wildfire application brings social news to Facebook by exploiting Facebook's social graph. Instead of "digging" stories, or "voting up/down", stories gain credibility only if you deem them worthy of being passed onto your friends. Wildfire offers users three views of the news: the news you and your friends deem interesting, the news that the great unwashed deem interesting and a random view. Randomness means that the Wisdom of Crowds is harnessed without succumbing to mob rule. And RSS integration means you can automatically bring your feeds to Facebook and pass on a subset of the stories. Personally, I started with the Slashdot feed."

The Long Tail of Facebook Applications 0

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on Monday July 02 2007, @05:16PM

JohnGrahamCumming writes "1,225 Facebook applications. 73,109,074 installed in profiles. Hence, the average application has 59,700 users. The problem with the average is that it hides a savage reality of Facebook applications: some have many users, most have almost none. 86% of applications on Facebook have less than 10,000 users, with 62% having less than 1,000."

Generating a CAPTCHA of your email address->

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on Wednesday June 20 2007, @08:26AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes "Web crawlers that search for email addresses on web sites are a big problem. My simple and free email image generator service generates a randomized image containing your email adddress. Simply copy and paste the relevant HTML to your web site to get a human-readable image that contains your email address but hides it from web crawlers."
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