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O'Reilly's New Magazine for DIY Tech Projects

Posted by michael on Sunday September 19, 2004 @07:00AM from the stay-alert-and-keep-your-soldering-iron-handy dept.

sargon writes "O'Reilly will begin publishing a new magazine, 'Make,' in early 2005 which is aimed at the do-it-yourself crowd. To quote the home page: 'Make brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. Make is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.' The first issue will focus on kite aerial photography." Any suggestions for what they should cover?

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Also in the first magazine by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-19 07:01 · Score: 5, Funny

How to create your own DIY Tech Magazine.
Make by Zorilla · 2004-09-19 07:03 · Score: 4, Funny

user@localhost>make o'reilly No rule to make target 'o'reilly'. Stop.

Fuck. Not for me, I guess.

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1. Re:Make by darkonc · 2004-09-19 07:40 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  user@localhost>make o'reilly
  No rule to make target 'o'reilly'. Stop.
  Lucky you: I just got a greater-than sign that wouldn't go away, no matter how many times I hit 'enter. . I had to enter the command again, then I got this:
  [darkonc@me projects]$ make o'reilly > > > make o'reilly make: *** No rule to make target `oreilly make oreilly'. Stop.
  
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Archives by VistaBoy · 2004-09-19 07:04 · Score: 5, Funny

So the archived copies of Make Magazine will be called Makefiles?
In related news by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-19 07:06 · Score: 5, Funny

Hustler has been providing a magazine which is aimed at the do-it-yourself crowd for decades.

SCNR
1. Re:In related news by advocate_one · 2004-09-19 08:37 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I'd always thought that it was the other way round... those do-it-yourselfers had been aiming at copies of Hustler mag...
  
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Some suggestions... by mikael · 2004-09-19 07:07 · Score: 4, Funny

...How to build your own personal reusable spacecraft using only an old washing up liquid bottle, some sellotape, a couple of lemons and a box of bicarbonate of soda.

If that proves too difficult, I'll settle for a flying car.

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1. Re:Some suggestions... by wertarbyte · 2004-09-19 07:10 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You mixed something up, that's a topic from MakeGyver Magazine.
  
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2. Re:Some suggestions... by wfberg · 2004-09-19 07:36 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Sellotape? You must mean "sticky backed plastic".... ;-)
  
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Old issue reprints will include by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-19 07:08 · Score: 0, Funny

"Don't Get Burned By Fire"
"Roll Your Own Wheel"
"Print This With Your Own Printing Press"
"The Shocking Truth About Electricity"
Re:X10 ads by Zorilla · 2004-09-19 07:08 · Score: 2, Funny

Oh, this is print?

In other news, internet ad agencies that are fed up with popup blockers in the newest generation of web browsers are adopting technology originating from children's popout books in their new campaign for traditional magazine advertising.

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Ob. Beavis and Butt-head quote by Zorilla · 2004-09-19 07:11 · Score: 2, Funny

Mechanic: "Well, how the hell am I supposed to change the oil if you don't have a car?.....Oh, I get it. You guys are do-it-yourselfers."

Butt-head: "Uhh...Beavis is a do-it-yourselfer."

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Tech Books for IT pros no longer profitable? by Cryofan · 2004-09-19 07:12 · Score: 2, Funny

Probably, they now that all the "Learn Programming in N Days" books are no longer such a big profit center, they are turning to the recreational side of technology, like so many former IT professionals who have been laid off....

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Re:(full text of article incase of /.'ing) by Zorilla · 2004-09-19 07:13 · Score: 5, Funny

I agree with this guy; carriage returns are overrated.

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Please. by OmegaBlac · 2004-09-19 07:14 · Score: 2, Funny

"O'Reilly will begin publishing a new magazine, 'Make,' in early 2005"
Instead of O'Reilly running:

# make Make

maybe they should run:

# apt-get install Make

and it will be here now instead of 2005!
1. Re:Please. by darkonc · 2004-09-19 07:22 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  # apt-get install Make
  I think of apt-get being for prepackaged and (nearly) complete builds.
  If you're in the DIY mode, you're more likely to be using Make. Once you have a (semi) complete product then you'd be making it available to the apt-get crowd.
  
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Make is so passe! by OmegaBlac · 2004-09-19 07:17 · Score: 2, Funny

Wake me up when O'Reilly publishes Apt-Get, Emerge, or Pkg-Add. ;)
Obvious suggestion for issue #2 by Zocalo · 2004-09-19 07:19 · Score: 3, Funny

One of those digital photoframes to display the pictures from your kitecam. The panoramas... the approaching ground... the horrified expression on the face of a soon to be ex-digicam owner...

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Re:This is a tough format. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-19 07:19 · Score: 4, Funny

I think the real question is, do we still need magazines?
Are you the guy I saw on Flight 2451 bringing his laptop into the shitter?
Huh... by josh3736 · 2004-09-19 07:25 · Score: 3, Funny

This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.

Funny, that's not what the good people over at the RIAA/MPAA have been telling me...
What should they cover? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-19 07:44 · Score: 1, Funny

The first issue will focus on kite aerial photography." Any suggestions for what they should cover?

Good techniques to photograph HOT BABES, of course!
Wired House, Wired Car by Duke+Machesne · 2004-09-19 07:44 · Score: 4, Funny

I want to see hacks for things like dashboard-console mp3 servers running out of the trunk on the existing alternator,

how to make my computer trick my thermostat into thinking it's a full-fledged climate control system,

how to make an uber-scary AI haunted house at halloween,

how to make a creepy surveillance systems that automatically close the storm shutters and say nasty things to intruders...

I'm envisioning Martha Stuart meets Kevin Mitnick

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1. Re:Wired House, Wired Car by unitron · 2004-09-19 11:43 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  "I'm envisioning Martha Stuart meets Kevin Mitnick"
  Why? Are you expecting Kevin to violate parole and get sent back inside?
  
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MacGyver by cronius · 2004-09-19 08:05 · Score: 2, Funny

I really hope they get MacGyver to write some articles, I already got a Swiss Army Knife and a roll of duct tape standing by.

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Please do an article on toilets!! by Helpadingoatemybaby · 2004-09-19 08:46 · Score: 3, Funny

I've been working for some time now on hacking my toilet. Basically some previous person had installed a "low flush system" into a high flush toilet which is very, very bad for pressure. Those who have this "serpent" configuration will sympathize.
So I've been working on "improving" the toilet with various weights and countermeasures so that the water will submerge the low flush system but not overfill the tank.
If you look at how a toilet is designed, you'll see it's actually quite brilliant. Most designs use the water itself as a counterweight to keep the valve open -- quite ingenious actually. But this only works if the tank is exerting the right pressure, otherwise as soon as you lift the handle, the valve closes.
And for those of us with four or five death logs sticking six inches past the rim it's either hack the toilet or use the plunger as a club -- "Die! Die! Die! Why! Won't! You! Go! Down!"
Anyway, that's what I'D like to see. Umm... because of my girlfriend. (*cough*)

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