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  1. OMNI antennae by hwk_br · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With Old Coaxial Cable?

    Make omni antennae... for the kids, you kow... http://wireless.gumph.org/arti...

  2. Re:Yes and no by h4rr4r · · Score: 1 · on State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe

    Certainly.

    http://howto.gumph.org/content/customize-firefox-installer/

    You may also contact me at h4rr4rATgmail(dot)com.

  3. Re:Uhhh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Low-End Approach To Wireless Hacking

    Indeed. One would think that low-end would equate to homemade, not to the guys who live down the hall from me.

    I mean, anyone who can call themselves a geek can thrown in a bunch of electronics into their car and do the same thing. How is a shopping cart so inventive?

  4. Re:Firefox needs manufacturers more than features by Zane+Hopkins · · Score: 2, Informative · on Browsers Fighting to Keep up with the Web

    You can already install firefox without user intervention, it's a one line change in the config.ini to set "Run Mode=Silent"

  5. Re:I'm not surprised by 2300cc · · Score: 1 · on Seagate Announces First Hybrid Hard Drive

    Loading the OS into ram is done by creating a RAMDISK filesystem which I believe is universal among most Linux distributions. If anyone's interested here's a link on how to do it: http://silent.gumph.org/content/4/1/011-linux-on-c f.html It's for compact flash but I'm sure it could be adapted to work on a USB stick without too much trouble.

    Boot speed with a RAMDISK setup is not too great. During boot the kernel is loaded from the flash, a compressed filesystem is copied into ram from the flash and then that gets decompressed. The fastest I could get my 300Mhz PC104 system to boot to a console prompt was 67 seconds (and that's with a stripped out kernel and barely anything running on boot...maybe 10 processes). Also keep in mind that your main filesystem can only be about 2/3rds the size of memory or else you'll run out of room when it goes to decompress the RAMDISK filesystem (for example, an 80mb decompressed filesystem and 30mb compressed filesystem would be the max for a system with 128MB of ram).

  6. Re:Usage as Hard Drives? by slackerboy · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Samsung Demos Future Memory Chips

    if the flash ram retains it's data when the PC is off, couldnt we use it as a hard drive substitute rather than a RAM substitute?

    You mean like this ?

  7. Re:Poor countries... by Capacitor · · Score: 1 · on UN Recommends WiFi for Poor Countries

    Right on the money - plus 802.11* is really cool if you play around with it a bit more than what is suggested in your access point manual. I recently succeeded in creating a 2.5km wireless link using some of the ingenious (and very very cheap) antenna designs you can find here. Third world countries will certainly be able to get somewhat more up to speed using affordable technologies like this. I feel bad about having thrown so many Pringles cans away.