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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Howto Walk
So what can we do?
We can wear Vivo Barefoot shoes:
where the sole is so thin that it feels like you’re walking on bare feet but are protected.
Or there’s the Vibram five fingers shoes:
You can buy them from toesocks.nl
Of course if you want to wear socks with them you need toe socks!
or more high tech socks
California uses DNA database to find relatives of criminals
Dleex.com
Wanna be Pro Guitar Hero Uber Specialist?
L3DGEWorld 2.3
Insects use plant like a telephone
Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already %u2018occupied%u2019.
Insects use plant like a telephone
Garfield sans Garfield
Some Classified DoD Documents are Too Secret to Protect
The Department of Defense (DOD) relies on a global network of critical physical and cyber infrastructure to project, support, and sustain its forces and operations worldwide. The incapacitation, exploitation, or destruction of one or more of its assets would seriously damage DOD’s ability to carry out its core missions. To identify and help assure the availability of this mission-critical infrastructure, in August 2005, DOD established the Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP), assigning overall responsibility for the program to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs (ASD[HD&ASA]).
Quadruple-Neck monster requires true guitar hero to play it
Confirm your geeky marriage with CAT5 connector wedding bands
Delta to install revolutionary Cozy Suite seats in economy class, tourists rejoice
Wedging yourself into an economy-class airplane seat is one of the atrocities of our age, but there’s help on the way. The Cozy Suite is a revolution in airline seating, giving you more room to yourself while giving the airlines the opportunity to pack even more sardines into their pressurized tin cans. Sure, it’s not as tricked-out as some of the latest business class seating, but it’s a whole lot better then the disgraceful seats in steerage now.
Designed by Thompson Solutions, Delta Air Lines plans to place the “fixed cocoons” in its Boeing 777 and 767 economy classes by 2010. With the seats’ staggered arrangement, the design not only keeps that person next to you out of your face, you also end up with a comfy place to rest your weary head. You can also recline without smacking into that unfortunate soul behind you, and there’s a footrest along with an extra 2 inches of legroom. Another major advantage: the passenger in the window seat can get to the aisle without the other two getting up.
Of course, Delta’s new merger mate Northwest Airlines (we call it “Northworst”) will probably help the new combined company find a way to make these great-looking seats uncomfortable, too, cramming even more people into those horrid, stuffy (albeit safe) airborne rattletraps. See the gallery for more shots of the Cozy Suite, and also see Thompson’s other version (with the orange seats) using a diagonal arrangement that’s a bit less fancy.
Judge issues arrest warrant for Darth Vader
A judge has demanded a Darth Vader impersonator be dragged before him after he succumbed to the Dark Side, attacked two Jedi with a metal crutch, and failed to show up for the resulting court appearance on an assault rap.
According to the Telegraph, Arwel Wynne Jones interrupted an outdoors TV interview* with brothers Barney and Michael Jones – the former aka Jedi Master Jonba Heho and founder of the UK’s Jedi Church – by jumping over a garden fence in Holyhead dressed in a black bin liner and “shiny black helmet” while shouting “Darth Vader” and quickly getting busy with the aforementioned crutch.
However, although Wynne Jones intially turned up at court earlier this week to receive justice, by the time his case was up he’d disappeared. Accordingly, District Judge Andrew Shaw ordered police to hunt down the miscreant, and concluded: “I hope the force will soon be with him.” ®
Seagate ships 1 billionth drive
The ST506 hard drive
Seagate is celebrating the shipment of its one billionth disk drive after 29 years in biz. The storage giant reckons it will reach its second billion in less than five-years’ time.
Seagate said it’s shipped the equivalent of 79 million terabytes of storage since the company made its first hard drive in 1979.
Its debut product, the ST506 hard drive, had a 5MB capacity, weighed about five pounds, and cost $1,500 (£757). Today, Seagate sells 1TB drives for under a third of that price.
The company figures its next 1,000,000,000 drives will go down easier based on the ever-increasing demand for storage. Gartner Group last year estimated more than 500 million drives were shipped worldwide, compared to about 30 million in 1990.
Seagate claimed that by the time its closest rival, Western Digital, reaches a billion drives shipped, Seagate will already be close to shipping its second billion. ®
SPAM!
There are a couple of sites out there which give you a good look at the global spam trending. Most of the links in here I found in the following site:
Messagelabs has a weekly overview of virusses, spam and phishing
Commtouch Spam lab has a nice graph with 30 / 100 days or 12 months view
The Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse has MRTG graphs of mail checked and spam ratio over 300 servers with loads of options to search through specific periods
Spamcop has good statistics showing which IP blocks the spam is coming from
Barracuda Central shows you what types of spam / phishing mails are being sent.
GPS Tracker Defense
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Put this into your lighter port and all GPS transmissions within 5m will be blocked by preventing any GPS devices from getting a satellite fix.
USB Data modems
If you want a GPRS / HSPDA / EDGE / GPRS / GSM connection, most mobile providers will sell you a data plan and a PCMCIA card to put your SIM card in and attach your laptop to teh internets. Unfortunately there aren’t that many PCMCIA to USB convertors, nor tabletop PC motherboards with PCMCIA slots. There are now, however, a small crop of Broadband USB modems you can use. These come unlocked and support all bands. If you buy a modem from a provider you should be warned that generally they will be SIMLocked. Also, some come with data plans, but generally you can buy prepaid from a provider as well, with or without the modem. Some come with external antennae to increase the range, some don’t.
The BandLuxe C120 HSDPA USB Modem at EUR. 189,-
ZadaCom has the 3G+ USB HSDPA / UMTS / EDGE 1.8 Mbps modem
and the 3.7Mbps, 7.2 MBps ready modem
Going for GBP 198.58 and GBP 210.33 incl. VAT respectively
In the Netherlands Vodafone and KPN both use Huawei modems.
Vodafone is throwing out the E220
and is now releasing the E270 (or the E272 which is supposed to be an upgrade of the E270)
KPN also uses the E272 / E270.
Huawei also features the E510 which is mobile TV capable as well.
Unfortunately I can’t find any information on buying Huawei products by themselves.
Sony Ericsson is launching the MD400 / MD400g modems. The g version includes a GPS Receiver.
Addonics Snap-In ExDrive25
Old 2.5-Inch Drives can be given a second chance with this. If your old laptop is busted, this is a great $30,- way to get your old data back.Top Gun 2008: Biggest RC Airplane Competition in the World
The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts
Microsoft OKs ethical hacking
GUI Command Codes to improve WoW graphics
This is copy/paist of: http://www.worldofraids.com/ just thougt some ppl might wana try this.
Gfx enhancement macro: WoW will look better
Some players found a way to improve WoW graphics by manipulating several console commands. The following macro will do the job:
/console farclip 777
/console horizonfarclip 6226
/console groundeffectdensity 256
/console groundeffectdist 140
/console smallcull 0
/console skycloudlod 3
/console characterambient 0
You have to restart WoW for some of the effects to be used.
What does this do?
• The vegetation can be seen from miles away (grass flowers etc) plus there seems to be FAR more of it.
• The “bloom” effect seems to be more vivid.
• The view distance is greatly increased.
• Everything seems to be more sharp and crisp.
• The weather effects appear to be more intense.
See below for some examples:
http://www.worldofraids.com/2008/april/terokkar.jpg
http://www.worldofraids.com/2008/april/darkshorem.jpg
However depending on your hardware you might encounter some fps issues (low framerates), so here is the macro to revert the changes (you can also go to video options and pull all the detail options to minimum):
/console groundEffectDensity 16
/console groundEffectDist 1
/console horizonfarclip 1305
/console farclip 177
/console characterAmbient 1
/console smallcull 1
/console skycloudlod 1
/console detailDoodadAlpha 1