It seems that our friends at Apple have come up with something new. They have released the Mighty Mouse: Meet the mouse that reinvented the wheel. The scroll wheel, that is. At $49, Mighty Mouse features the revolutionary Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger. And with touch-sensitive [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Hardware'
Build Your Own Wardriving Box
July 29th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, OpenBSD, Security
Some dude has written a HOWTO on making your own small portable wardriving box with Soekris / WRAP & OpenBSD: it’s very easy, but this is not a step by step HOWTO, only a guide to build your own box. To start, you need a small up and running OpenBSD System on an Intel based [...]
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Gamepad Interface For PSP
July 24th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Video Games
In what wins the award for cool hack of the day someone has made a controller interface for the PSP: The target of this project is creating a low-cost interface that allows multiple Gamepads to be connected to the PSP’s infrared port. As it is in a pretty early (but working) stage, the interface only [...]
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Do You Know Where That Memory Stick’s Been?
July 24th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Security
Yet again Microsoft Windows security is in the spotlight as it seems that the whole USB codebase is inherently insecure. At least this is what eweek says: Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed Universal Serial Bus device, according to an executive [...]
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A Thorough History Of The Amiga
July 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware
Reading on Slashdot that the Amiga is 20 years old today, I decided to link to a very thorough history of it that someone wrote. A random excerpt: While Commodore were focussing their resources into the Amiga, the Tramiel-owned Atari had not abandoned their goal of 16-bit domination. Through the use of off-the-shelf hardware and [...]
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Build Your Own RiscOS Driven Laptop
July 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware
It seems that some Acorn freak who has too much free time has created his own RiscOS driven laptop: This is my first attempt to a solution for the missing mobility issue in the Acorn Scene. Whether you like it or not, remains open. Believe me building a DIY Laptop was not my first intention. [...]
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How Do Computers Work – A Trip To The Past
July 19th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware
In a wonderful piece of kitsch someone has scanned a “How Do Computers Work” book from 1970 an put the scans on a web page. An example of the chapters: Inside Cover Title Page What Are Computers? How Computers Developed Different Designs Data Processing The Main Parts Of A Computer Combining The Parts The Computer [...]
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Sick Of Spyware? Throw Away Your PC
July 19th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Privacy
It seems that some people who are technically incompetent, have money to burn or a mixture of the two have found a new solution to spyware. Throw away your PC and get a new one (annoying registration required, use Bugmenot to get around it): SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 – Add personal computers to the list [...]
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Cool Casemod In A Coffin
July 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware
Just wanted to post this cool casemod I found:
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Floppy Drives – This Is The End, My Friend
July 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware
Flexbeta has an excellent essay on the floppy drive and why it’s had its day (duh): It’s something universally recognized with computers, and something I’ve come to loathe with a passion. Even though it’s changed over the years, it’s still mostly the same. I speak of none other than the floppy disk. We all know [...]
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