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Robotic Wellington Boot Thrower

2006-08-24 01:09 · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the too-much-time-on-feet dept. · 128 comments

An anonymous reader writes "A long established "sport" in the UK is that of welly wanging or seeing how far you can throw a wellington boot. Scientists at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth have built a robotic arm to perform this task, using an engine from a concrete mixer, and a gearbox from a Citroen along with several computers."
NFS/NIS Recommendations for Windows?

Ask · Linux · 2003-01-03 12:14 · posted by Cliff · from the playing-nicely-on-the-network dept. · 48 comments

Fembot asks: "The Samba team are doing a great job, but I can't help but feel that making Unix machines serve Windows-based protocols is the wrong approach. Back in the days of Windows95 it shipped with an NFS client on the CD which could be installed optionaly. Are there open source (or even just free as in beer) NFS clients for Windows 2000/XP, and is it possible to authenticate users on Windows desktops via NIS?"
Protein Music

Science · Music · 2001-06-17 00:39 · posted by michael · from the adenosine-sharp dept. · 84 comments

isudoru writes: "Ever wondered what the DNA can be converted into? Well the first attempt to convert the letters of DNA is to make them into music. A program called ProteinMusic converts the DNA sequences into midi songs and is able to export to midi too. It's platform independent since it's made in java."