The Black Art of Grounding
Posted: June 18th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Layer 1 | No Comments »Per the US gov’ment. Very useful pdf here.
Heads up
Posted: June 16th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »Snow Leopard changes default gamma to 2.2.
Twitter grows up
Posted: June 16th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »US State department asks Twitter to stay online during Iran unrest. It’s like, all adult and stuff.
Phrack 66 is out
Posted: June 11th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »Phrack 66 is out. Lots of osx specific concerns… uh oh.
Apollo 11 Haynes Manual
Posted: June 8th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Flight, Informational | No Comments »If you’ve ever used (a non-OEM) car repair manual, chances are it’s a Haynes. Unbelievably, they’ve come out with a version for the Apollo 11, including the requisite cheesy cover:
Homebrew CPU (and a computer)
Posted: May 28th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Layer 1 | No Comments »Really, really, well done. Check out the Big Mess O Wires.
Interview with Stephen Wolfram
Posted: May 20th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Math, Parallel | No Comments »It’s at the end of this week’s TWiT podcast, which is also pretty interesting in it’s own right. Good questions are asked- everyone struggles with load balancing. Connects it all together with CA and Mathematica.
A beautiful collection of homebrew IC engines
Posted: May 20th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Layer 1, Uncategorized | No Comments »Made at home, with not much more than a 3n1 machine. Pictures here.
Blast from the past
Posted: May 18th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Flight | No Comments »Looks like we had this whole “manned mission to mars” thing figured out way back in the post Apollo era. NERVA, a nuclear powered rocket engine, was to be used as an upper stage in the Saturn V for interplanetary missions.
Bring it back!