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Submission + - Weird Science offered as University Class

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ludwigvan968

on Monday December 10, 2007 @03:51PM

ludwigvan968 writes: "The ACTLab at the University of Texas at Austin is making waves with it's Weird Science class. Yes that is right, you get a grade for making "weird science." Check out the TA's blog with documentation of some of the projects: a laser harp, a 3D environment constructed with fog and an LCD projector, and a "water bridge" using a 50,000 volt transformer. Next semester, they're introducing a new class called "Disruptive Technologies"."

Submission + - Sharing Files with BitTorrent Easier Than Ever

Submitted by on Monday August 28, 2006 @03:38PM

ludwigvan968 writes: The University of Texas New Media Initiative in association with Google's Summer of Code program have been working on a project to make sharing files over the internet easier than ever before. Summer of Code intern Evan Wilson just released Project Snakebite, the first fully automatic BitTorrent server. Just as with a normal webserver, you drop files in a folder to share them. Snakebite takes care of generating torrent files and running a tracker and a seeder for each file. Additionally, it builds a user-customizable link page with all of your files. It will even register your Snakebite server with an easy to remember URL for people that don't know their IP (most people). Snakebite is free and open software and is currently released for Debian. It's fully portable to both Windows and OS X and the developers just need some help packaging it.

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