World's First Fossil-free Hybrid Vehicle

The innovative Saab BioPower Hybrid Concept, making its world premiere at the Stockholm Motor Show (March 30 - April 9, 2006), delivers zero fossil CO2 emissions, enhanced performance and a range of energy-saving features by combining the use of pure bioethanol fuel and electric power generation for the first time.

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"Easy Button" Hack

MAKE Flickr photo pool member TommyBear turned a $5 Staples Easy Button into a switch for his garage door. Here's how you do it, easy!

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Windows Linux Dual Boot Tutorial

This tutorial was written to help set up a dual boot on a SATA drive but it will also work for PATA. In order to have a fully functional Windows/Linux dual boot system it is preferred that Windows is loaded first. After that you can load Linux and easily dump the boot configuration on Windows NTLDR file (comparable to Linux boot file).

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64GB USB 2.0 flash drive. Yes, flash.

Insanely huge storage for a flash drive that size. Yes, it is 6-4, sixty four, gigabytes, of flash memory. This dwarfs many hard disk based portable usb drives as well, and at a fraction of the size. Imagine a 60 gigs flash based iPod..

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Cerium Oxide Nanotubes Get Noticed

"Cerium oxide nanotubes have potential applications as catalysts in vehicle emission-control systems and even fuel cells," says Brookhaven chemist Wei-Qiang Han, the lead scientist involved in the work.

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Safely install and test software in a virtual layer

This step-by-step guide details how you can safely install software to a virtual layer without running a virtual machine using Altiris Software Virtualization Solution. The guide shows how to install Firefox Bon Echo Alpha to a virtual layer that snags all attempts that the program makes to write to your system.

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Cassini's View of Jupiter's South Pole!

Cassini took many photographs of Jupiter on the way to Saturn, including this unusual montage of its southern pole. This photograph was made up of 36 separate images, stitched together on computer.

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How to build a dead silent PC

yep that humming noise you have to hear 8 hours a day can be completely silent, you read that correctly, absolutely no noise.

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Roll Your Own Firewall

A comprehensive user friendly guide to setting up your own firewall on GNU/Linux.

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Cute Cousins

Cute Cousins

David (5), Sara (13) and Leah (8 months) - March '06 

These lego creations just get better and better!

I've seen lego aircraft carriers, buildings and even the golden gate bridge. But IMHO this one takes the "lego cake" so far...

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British To Flight Test 5,600 MPH ScramJet

"If everything goes to plan, the experiment will begin at a height of 35km. As the engine continues its downward path the fuel in the scramjet is expected to automatically ignite."

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Solar Powered Plane Might Fly Continuously For Weeks

Called the Zephyr, it's an aircraft that can fly continuously using nothing but solar power and "low drag aerodynamics". The combination of solar panels on the upper wing surface and rechargeable batteries allows Zephyr to be flown for for many weeks and even months.

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SpaceX Falcon 1 "is lost" after launch

After successfully leaving the launch pad under its own power, the first Falcon 1 failed: "We did lose the vehicle," says Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX vice president of business development.

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Sell your used books to Barnes & Nobles (Shipping covered)

You can see how much they pay for any book with ISBN. If interested, you can complete the transaction and they will send you a prepaid postal cover to send the book. After the book is received they will mail you the check. Though the rate offered is pretty less (it depends on the demand for a book), you can make some money out of the unused books.

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Linspire Mini

Linspire has announced a Mac Mini-like computer that will retail for $399 and come preloaded with Linspire. Just throw Ubuntu or Debian on there and you'll be all set!


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I-Mesh GIG of RAM runs Windows at blazing speed!

I've never seen Windows move so fast! Could this be real? If so I want some now. (link goes direct to google video of it windows machine running I-Mesh RAM)

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Gmail power tips - Become a Gmail master

This article describes techniques and add-ons for getting the most out of your Gmail account, including how to set up mouseless navigation and quick, automated replies. It's a great resource for anyone who uses Gmail as their primary email client.

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PortaPuTTY - Portable Putty for USB

Finally, someone has hacked the venerable PuTTY ssh client to store its settings in the filesystem rather than the registry. That means, settings are easily copied to other machines and especially your USB flash drive.

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Who owns the Internet pipes?

...a map of the North American Internet backbone, including 134,855 routers, colored by telecom company (Verizon, AT&T, Qwest, Level 3, Sprint Nextel, cable companies, smaller players)... while AT&T and Verizon have the biggest piece, they don't dominate enough to be considered monopolist candidates.

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Mozilla - Lightning (Calendar) RELEASED!!!!

The Lightning Project is a redesign of the Calendar component. Its goal is to tightly integrate calendar functionality (scheduling, tasks, etc.) into Mozilla Thunderbird.

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OLD APPLE SWITCH ADS!

here are all the old apple switch ads including tony hawk, will farrel, will as santa, and even the parody by dave chapell.

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Wikipedia wallpapers

Here is another reason to raise the "I love Open Source" placard higher.

Check out these GFDL wallpapers on Wikipedia.

Enjoy! ;-)

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Rare 1972 Documentary on ARPAnet

I seldom-seen look at the beginnings of the Internet we know and love. Watch the architects of ARPAnet explain what it is and what they envisioned for the future of ARPAnet and networks as a whole.

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List of only the best Windows Open-Source Software

Perfectly simple and great for getting non-techies using F/OSS. Open Source Windows is a 'simple list of the best free and open-source software for Windows'. The site is based on Open Source Mac, which has been on Digg previously.

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Automatix kicks Ubuntu into gear

Automatix installs a laundry list of applications, plugins, and utilities that are supposed to turn a barebones Ubuntu install into desktop perfection. You can pick and choose what you want. Need codecs of various kinds? This is so not legal in some countries.

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Automatix kicks Ubuntu into gear

Automatix installs a laundry list of applications, plugins, and utilities that are supposed to turn a barebones Ubuntu install into desktop perfection. You can pick and choose what you want. Need codecs of various kinds? This is so not legal in some countries.

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Fold.com Public Beta now online:Firefox Only

Firefox has set the standard for safe and secure access to the internet. At the moment only Firefox or compatible browsers are supported by Fold.

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10 Best Security Live CD Distros (Pen-Test, Forensics & Recovery)

A summary of the 10 best LiveCD distributions dealing with security (pen testing, forensics & recovery). With links to download and a little information about each one.

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Google Launches "Google Mars"

Google has just launched a new service called "Google Mars" that lets you browse the martian land just as you would with Google Maps.

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The Perfect Linux Firewall -- IPCop

This tutorial deals with setting up a Linux firewall based on IPCop.

The first part describes how to install the IPCop firewall and create a small home office network, in the second we create a DMZ for hosting your own web server and the Copfilter proxy for filtering your application layer ingress and egress network traffic.

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The Pirate Bay: Here to Stay?

An article on WIRED explains how there's a national movement behind the site.

MPAA and RIAA ....TAKE THIS

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The Linux Dictionary

Look up over 24,700 definitions about everything you ever needed to know about Linux, and then some.

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How To: Kubuntu Wireless

This guide tell you how to get wireless working on Kubuntu; step by step through use of ndiswrapper.

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Physics question: Can the plane take off?

A plane is standing on a runway that is made of a large conveyor belt. The plane fires up its engines, but as it moves forward, the conveyor belt senses the speed of the plane's wheels and moves at exactly the same speed in the opposite direction. Can the plane take off?

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Who needs to pirate software with a list like this?

List of free softwares

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Package Tracking With Google Maps

I've just published an update to my universal package tracking tool that now enables you to view a map of your package�s progress as it travels across the country in addition to an RSS feed of shipping status.

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More than 30 excellent, hand-picked game downloads...

A great post featuring 30+ of the greatest (perhaps even the best) freeware downloads. Included games: GTA, GTA2, Apprentice, Freeciv, Anarchy Online etc... Not mods, not shareware. Just free and legal. Oh, there is some surreal humor there too... Enjoy. You will!

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Ubuntu Lite

Ubuntu Lite is a unofficial Ubuntu project aimed at letting users with older PCs run Ubuntu Linux. Low amounts of memory and slow CPUs alike can now use the most popular Linux distro.

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New Knoppix Live-CD that Boots in Under a Minute!

Accelerated-KNOPPIX Ver.1.0 just came out today, and the whole thing boots in under a minute, and retains all of the functionality of the original Knoppix CD. I wonder how fast it would boot off of a hard drive?

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