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Yes, there is.

There are also automation programs like ffmpegX (for Mac) that can write appropriate movie files.

Well, if your're crazy, then HackADay.com is your asylum: that's precisely today's hack.

I don't have neither gadget, but looks like that Videora iPod Converter is using PSPVideo9 codecs to prepare video for the iPod. Donate if you enjoy it!

I forgot to link to Bunnie's printer disassembly [via]

The basic conclusion is that many of the watermarked printers share a Canon print engine -- he suspects it is this engine that is doing the watermarking. The US Government just had to convince the critical-equipment supplier to add the tracking - not all the printer companies. He also notes that the Tek Phaser printers don't have this because they were developed before the Canon engine. (Oh, how I longed for a phaser back in the day!)

And now errrr... http://slashdot.org/

From the site: Status: We have been under a slashdot like effect all day. After being featured on http://www.engadget.com/ http://www.hackaday.com/ http://digg.com/ http://qj.net/ and a bunch of other sites or PSP crashes every couple of minutes.

Well now you get the Real Thing!

You could do it yourself

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000430062396/

and it showed up at hackaday.com on the 21st
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000427059760/

Maybe Slashddot could just put a big link at the top of the page to the hack a day site instead of constantly ripping their stories?
http://www.hackaday.com/

Nope, this was on Hackaday earlier today, which is a slightly less frequented site than Slashdot. By the way, if you want your karma to go through the roof, just visit Hackaday occasionally and then submit the story here. I've been seeing quite a bit of redundancy lately!

Some info on reviving dead laptop batteries. It's at least worth a shot.

For my money, Compaq makes the R3000z laptop that can be had on eBay and in stores (Best Buy for one) for $400US.

Worth looking at is the project where they managed to get Linux running och the Microsoft Mn-700 router, normally running Windows CE. Apparently the original CE firmware was unstable, lacking some features and was considered problematic on its good days.

http://wireless.hackaday.com/entry/123400001704660 5/

For these kinds of DIY projects, I've been enjoying hackaday and the print version of Make Magazine (although I see they have a fair bit of stuff on the site now.) Being able to buy something doesn't invalidate the many reasons for doing it yourself, or in this case, the entertainment value of seeing that someone else did it.

If I had more time (and didn't live with my girlfriend) I'd probably do lots more of these kinds of things.

Serendipity: http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000600051165/

(I'm no fanboy, unless you count hackaday)

Does anyone know more about hackaday being defaced?

This was on hackaday already, you can check it out at http://www.hackaday.com/ Sorry slashdot, ain't the news site that it used to be. Maybe tomorrow will be better

Well, in their defense, Hackaday stole two of slashdot's links yesterday, so they cant be doing too bad.

Amazing! Hackaday only posted this on Monday! Slashdot's speeding up!

You get a Linksys WRT54G (or other hackable) router and put openwrt on it, put it in "client" mode (so it acts like a client) add an external antenna if needed so you can pick up some open wifi hotspot out there (left open for others to use of course) or starbucks etc... You can get up to 2 miles easy outdoors.

Then on the other end, you plug in a normal router, just pretend that the WRT54GS is a cable modem (it supplies the internet, DHCP and all that on it's ethernet ports).

Everyone logs into the normal router and off you go!

If you have a system that gets internet in the boonies, like satellite internet or something, just turn on connection sharing and connect a normal router to your ethernet. It should all run on a car battery without running it down for weeks so don't wory about solar.

The linksys and other router really don't take much power so you could run them off a large solar panel for 24/7 access.

Here's some links for lazy people:
http://openwrt.org/ClientModeHowto
http://wiki.openwrt.org/ClientModeHowto
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000690043237/

Too bad that if you opened the backpack in public, someone would probably shout "bomb!".

How's about a Zipit device? They're designed as a portable wifi box, but they run Linux and can be flashed with arbitrary code. They're cheap as chips, and you can edit your notes in your favorite editor and then trivially transfer them over Wifi. The only thing to watch out for is the keyboard - it's kinda cheap and the soft rubber keys aren't to everyone's liking, so have a look at it first.

http://hackaday.com/entry/1234000850048287/

Seens someone has been copying Hackaday http://www.hackaday.com/ Again!
It's not the first time i've seen a hackaday article here in slashdot.

He started the engadget Podcast, hackaday, and now MAKE.

it seems like he's really good at getting cool stuff off the ground and then he leaves it to other people once its up and running

http://flashenabled.com/ is his site

This is in no bloody way clever, and cooling a room like this has occurred to everybody on the planet with an IQ greater than 40 at one point or another, none of whom ended up doing it because either (1) they are the ones paying for the ice/water/electricity and realize it's cheaper to buy an A/C; or (2) they have access to free utilities but realize that it is a huge fucking waste of water and energy and therefore completely irresponsible (and certainly not clever enough to warrant ignoring that fact).

This is totally unworthy of a /. story. The guy should buy a goddam $100 air conditioner and quit wasting water and electricity on his fake "heat pump." Eventually his university will come across his self-satisfied little post and put an end to it, at which point he will simply have found a way to cool his room for $28 for two days and make a tool of himself to everybody on the web who knows any physics.

With all the amazing hacks out there that don't get posted here, why do we hear about this kid who didn't even understand the undergrad thermo class he keeps telling us about?

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000680030047/

Just great, now hackaday.com is /.'d.

How is this any different than the about:config pipeling trick for Firefox? Instructions on how to speed up your Firefox pageviewing (for broadband users)

*chuckles* now that's something to do and submit to http://www.hackaday.com/ -- ofcourse if you ever tried to resell your house I doubt the real estate agent would know what to make of it... probably list it as 'ideal for smokers'

Here is a cool article on Hackaday that describes GeoCamming, another Google exploit.
I like to find interesting cameras and then use NeoTrace to trace the addresses to find out exactly where the camera is. It's quite fun.

User 7471 here. Could you go into more detail?

Just kidding. I am still unemployed, and did not do my taxes yet, and I have a student loan that I need to pay off from a sponsor that might have been a Nazi supporter (Mr Ford). But for some reason, I think things are going to be OK.
http://www.godhatesamerica.com

Vote or Die. Jack!
http://freenet.sourceforge.net

I have a video with an 18 inch object. Anyone want to see it?

Why everyone is going digital:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265459/.

How is the E911 programming coming?

Now do you know why I bough my LVLT stock now?

Anyone seen this yet?
http://whitehat.co.il
http://www.whoppix.net

If you can not beat-um, join um.

Not to be confused with a bomb.
http://hackaday.com/entry/1234000073038748/

Happy flying.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/01/18/airbus.380/

I have copy of Bill Gates talking about the ROM if anyone wants it.
http://news.com.com/Battle+brews+over+unlocking+PC +secrets/2100-1016_3-5654272.html

Also on the CD are the first 3 episodes of /. Geeks in Space.

"THATS HOT!" Copy Right Paris Hilton.

Ahh... http://www.mlb.tv More Micro$oft.
Good old. Omniture again.
http://www.omniture.com

Sex, America's real past time activity.
Wake me in 2008!

Actually Hackaday had just what you want.
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000583030620/
Okay it is not exactly but pretty close. Would make a good project.
Back in the old days IBM mainframes used an interesting power conditioning system. It was an electric motor that turned a big flywheel that was then connected to an generator. A very effective if not efficient way to decouple you computer from the power lines. Of course the often added a diesel motor and clutch to the mix. Power drops clutch connects the engine to the flywheel, generator combo and instant UPS.

It's been done.

"The designer of the Pez MP3 player says his inspiration was the Altoid tin can."

past 2 days slashdot has stolen stories off hackaday...

Yeah, but they didn't credit hackaday which is where they got it from

I'm not sure about the table, but I do know that the laptop was on hackaday a while ago http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000490035133/ . Why don't we just have a little side box for Hackaday stuff from now on?

I think one of the best way to conserve energy would be to generate it with different means as well as using it less, therefore more energy to go round to a shrinking market so there will be lots of excess energy; other raw materials can be saved instead of used.

I have a 2 different torches, neither need a battery and neither will need a battery. One is powered by shaking it for a few minutes which charges some electromagnetic coils (like in Science at school) which powers the torch for 10 or so minutes. The other torch is a better; for about 10 seconds of squeesing this weird thingy sticking out the side (i love technical language) if gives the torch about 10 or 15 minutes of power.

I think there should be other ways that people could do during their everyday lives that generate power. Instead of walking or jogging to keep fit, someone should invent some kind of huge hamster wheel that generates electricity - you keep fit AND generate electricity. Although storing a huge hanster wheel somewhere would be hard.

I remember reading on hackaday a few weeks ago about a Gurrilla Solar (PDF) device.

• All Electronics usually has good deals on power supplies and DC-DC converters.
• Meci has some great deals on DC-DC converters right now too.
• Electronics Goldmine might have some too.

Perhaps if I come up with some spare change and a bit of free time I'll hack one together. Keep an eye on Hack A Day in the next month. :)

A great deal of people are buying iPod's these days. If more of them would buy mac's too Apple's market share for personal computers would greatly increase. I'm sure they originally put the dock idea in the low-cost model to attract these windows iPod buyers but the purists at Apple fought to keep the box cheap, simple, and clean.
Also, since I have karma to spare, with I googled for mac mini ipod dock I got a picture of this crazy contraption. Just thought I'd share.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play

Hah! Way back around last Saturday, this actual story ran on hackaday. :P

Woah, slow down there, bucko, don't be so sure of yourself. That's the SJ reality distortion field (TM) talking. In fact, quality recording is a suppressed feature. We aren't talking about a design ethos here, we're talking about crippleware.

It's a digital audio player. I'm proposing an attachment that adds decent-quality recording, which is something found on, oh, lets see, my freakin' cheapo minidisc player? Oh, and quite a few of the even cheaper portable cassette players I've had over the years. All Apple has to do is stop disabling this in firmware.

PDA's do it.
iRiver's do it.
iPod's running linux seem to be able to do it.

Stupid hardware crippling! It's pathetic!

Hack A Day's story referencing Miller's night-vision project can be found here;
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000107028849/

Lots of similar DIY projects, including peltier beverage coolers and linux-powered weather balloons, can be found at;
http://www.hackaday.com/

Hack A Day's story referencing Miller's night-vision project can be found here;
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000107028849/

Lots of similar DIY projects, including peltier beverage coolers and linux-powered weather balloons, can be found at;
http://www.hackaday.com/

here is a list of things that can make your firefox render and download faster.

There's a neat hack here that allows you to do it.

Want to make that number rise?

Do this.

Spread it around...

As well as yesterday's hack a day...

Lucky for me, I've seen it already, after being featured on http://hackaday.com/

You could have read about this last Friday as posted on hack a day.