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Submission + - Knex Machine Gun

Submitted by

edmandu

on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @07:46PM

edmandu writes: "Here's an impressive machine gun made out of K'nex that fires off 10 shots per second. The gun's creator writes: "It uses a bullet-type design i made 4 years ago and i put them all on a chain; so it can shoot as many times as you want, it just takes a while to make more bullets. The one i made shoots about 30 Ft at 10 shots per second and has 40 "bullets" on its chain." Here is a link to some instructions on instructables and a link to a video of the machine gun in action."

Submission + - Bizarre IT setups.

Submitted by MicklePickle on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @06:04PM

MicklePickle writes: I was talking to a co-worker the other day about the history of our company, (which shall remain nameless), and he started reminiscing about some of the IT hacks that our company did. Like running 10BaseT down a storm water drain to connect two buildings, using a dripping tap to keep the sewerage U-bend full of water in a computer room, (huh?). And some not so strange ones like running SCSI out to 100m, and running a major financial system on a long forgotten computer in a cupboard.
I know that there must be a plethora of IT hacks around. What are some you've seen?

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by seamuskrat on Monday January 01, 2007 @07:28PM

Submission + - One Drop of Milk + Coffee + Camera = Art

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 01, 2007 @07:18PM

An anonymous reader writes: "Milk meets Coffee" (photo gallery #1, photo gallery #2). Once again we witness the beauty of fluid mechanics.

Submission + - UFO Above Chicago O'Hare International Airport

Submitted by Aglassis on Monday January 01, 2007 @07:00PM

Aglassis writes: On Nov 7, 2006 at about 4:30 p.m. several United Airlines employees including several pilots observed a 6 to 24 ft diameter flying saucer-like object above Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. After hovering for several minutes without displaying any lights it then shot straight up and punched a hole in the 1,900 ft cloud ceiling. No explanation has been given nor did the air traffic control tower detect the purported craft on radar. One controller did note that "to fly 7 million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable."

Submission + - Google Calculator is Broken

Submitted by

Ozan Guven

on Monday January 01, 2007 @06:24PM

Ozan Guven writes: "Google's built-in calculator function is broken and if you type a math function it only returns weired web search results.

None of the functions described on http://www.google.com/help/calculator.html is working...

Is this a new year gift from Google?"

Submission + - Connector pinout site reborn as a wiki

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 01, 2007 @06:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: Hardware Book has been around for more than 10 years. Full with 500+ pinouts and cable descriptions for the poor students or hardware enthusiasts. Now reborn as a Wiki and updated with new pinouts. You'll find everything for your old C64 and your new Nintendo Wii.

Journal Journal: Ten Must Have Free Software Packages for 2007

Journal by blue234 on Monday January 01, 2007 @03:53PM

Having worked for Microsoft Corporation for a portion of my career, with stats such as 95% of the world uses Microsoft. I was in for a real eye opener on the number of different software packages available in the Open Source world.I have put together a list of the top top ten free tools for any internet professional. The first five are devoted to your desktop and the next five are for you

Submission + - Free Windows XP to Vista Transformation Pack!

Submitted by xt on Saturday December 30, 2006 @02:57PM

xt writes: If you think Vista is just a visually glorified version of XP, not worthy of your money, rejoice; using the free Vista Transformation Pack, you can transform your Windows user interface to ultimate Windows Vista! The project has no ties with Microsoft. It's a clever hack, replacing various resources and files to achieve the Vista look. Details and downloads at the project's forum and various other sites!

Submission + - typo takes tourist 13,000 km off-course

Submitted by jfeldredge on Saturday December 30, 2006 @12:52PM

jfeldredge writes: A 21-year-old German tourist, who intended to visit his girlfriend in Sydney, Australia, instead ended up close to Sidney, Montana, USA, 13,000 km away (over 8000 miles) after mistyping his destination in a flight-booking web site. He was routed through Portland, Oregon to Billings, Montana, and realized his error when he was about to board a commuter flight to Sidney, Montana. He ended up having to stay in the Billings, Montana airport for three days until his family and friends sent him 600 Euros to buy a new ticket to Australia. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/29/germany .tourist.reut/

The old saying applies, "Be careful what you ask for. You may get it."

Journal Journal: it didnt go off, and its not a dud

Journal by linuxbert on Friday May 02, 2003 @08:32PM

an update on my last entry. i am stil alive, and nothing blew up. i really quite unexpectedly met someone. its going great. it seems you allways find what you want when you stop looking for it. i havent been this happy in a while..

Journal Journal: hmmmm

Journal by linuxbert on Monday April 14, 2003 @12:09AM

choices, choices, so many choices. all apealling, most of them likely to blow up in my face. i really guess i have to pick one, and pick the peices out of me if it goes off.

In other news i had two great days with my friend marybeth. we say a movie (free with gift certs :) and skied the next day.

Today i installed fog lights in my car. it went well, but we had issues finding a hole to run the wire through, and one of the connectors was miss wired.

FIN

Journal Journal: grrrrrrrr

Journal by linuxbert on Tuesday March 25, 2003 @01:11AM

micro management sucks. The best way to manage is to let people do their thing and to let them do it their way, as long as everything gets done.

im not happy. i used to look forward to going, but now i nearly dread each day, wishing it wouldnt come. i have been repurposed into something i dont like. i have no benifits, no hope for advancement, my only chance is escape.

Journal Journal: hmmmm

Journal by linuxbert on Saturday March 15, 2003 @01:28AM

this lj thing is somewhat addictive.
i have decided to do something productive with the hour or so a day I spend in the car going to and from work. Im going to get a set of cd's, and learn to speak french. i dont really care if i can write in french, if i need to i guess ill just sound it out like i do in english.. perhaps ill add the french dictionary to my mac.. anyway, converstional french will be usefull to have.

Journal Journal: random bits

Journal by linuxbert on Friday March 14, 2003 @01:36AM

hmmm blogs facinate me. You think you know someone, and then you read their blog. They seem much more eloquint in text then they do in life. i would imagine i sound less inteligent in text, given my lack of capitalization and horendus spelling.

I'm interested in this girl.. ive known her for years, allways had a thing for her. Shes a cutie, and has a great personality, today i casually approched her. next step Coffee.

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