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  1. Linksys Quadcopter on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    I was working on a Linksys Quadcopter with the help of friends at work:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRzf-Yvx3uk

    This actually used the router and WiFi (I think one of the first quadcopters to do so) with a home-made web server to take commands from a PC. The web server relayed commands over the router's UART to an Atmel ATtiny2313 chip. The program used to send commands to the router used a standard PC flight simulator stick.

    Documented a lot of what was done (more pics / videos) on my web page... was afraid to link directly for fear of being slash dotted :).

  2. Re:Title misleading, er, totally wrong on Microsoft Exec Says, "You'll Miss Vista" · · Score: 1

    Per application volume control? Is that done in software or hardware?

    If it's done in software, then this features is as equal as adding a pole in the back of my car that drags sparks on the street as I drive. Sure it might look cool having sparks fly while I drive, but it wastes resources and slows down the car for something I don't really need or want.

  3. Lead or Melamine on Reliable Male Contraceptive In the Works · · Score: 1

    I think there needs to be some trials to see if it was actually the high levels of testosterone that causes the infertility or the high levels of lead and melamine that they probably added in to save money.

  4. Tempted to put up pro-Tibet things on my website on Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm tempted to put up pro-Tibet / anti-Chinese government things on my website just so they block me. Maybe it will help cut down on hacker attempts and spam email.

    Spread a good message and hinder the jerks.. it's win-win if you ask me.

  5. drums++ on Linux as A Musician's OS? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use drums++ (http://dpp.mikekohn.net/) to do my drum programming on Linux and record with either Timidity or a Dr. Rhythm drum machine into a Tascam digital 8 track.

  6. This sucks... on ICANN Finally Rejects .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    Now where am I supposed to post naked pictures of myelf?

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  7. SCAMP disease on SCO Offers Up The 'SCAMP' Stack · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who thinks the word SCAMP sounds like a disease? It's like: "I got the SCAMP from a burrito at Taco Bell last night".

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  8. Dijkstra on Is Visual Basic a Good Beginner's Language? · · Score: 1

    I could think of so many reasons why VB is a terrible language and terrible to teach to anyone, both from the language itself and Microsofts runtime environment for it. But really I think Edsger Dijkstra said it best:

    "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

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  9. Obvious? on Early Puberty Often More Hazardous · · Score: 1

    Isn't this obvious? I mean everyone knows that early puberty leads to masturbation which causes hairy palms and blindness... :)

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  10. Aftonbladet on What Magazines Do You Read? · · Score: 1

    My favorite magazine/newspaper is Aftonbladet. But then again that might because they wrote an article about one of my websites:

    http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/0003/11/hallick2 .html

    And SWEDEN rocks :)

    /mike

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  11. I bought this cd... on Copy-protected CD Tops U.S. Charts · · Score: 1


    I bought this cd (Velvet Revolver) a couple days ago. The first thing I did when I got inside my house is threw it in my computer CD player and ripped it to mp3's (using GRIP on Slackware 9.something).

    No problems here. Infact i'm listening to one of the mp3's right now.

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  12. another way to fix the problem... on New Linux Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered · · Score: 5, Funny


    #include
    #include
    #include

    static void Handler(int ignore)
    {
    char fpubuf[108]; // __asm__ __volatile__ ("fsave %0\n" : : "m"(fpubuf));
    write(2, "*", 1); // __asm__ __volatile__ ("frstor %0\n" : : "m"(fpubuf));
    }

    int main(int argc, char *argv[])
    {
    struct itimerval spec;
    signal(SIGALRM, Handler);
    spec.it_interval.tv_sec=0;
    spec.it_interval.tv_usec=100;
    spec.it_value.tv_sec=0;
    spec.it_value.tv_usec=100;
    setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &spec, NULL);
    while(1)
    write(1, ".", 1);

    return 0;
    }

    by simply commenting out the inline assembly, i fixed crash.c so it can no longer crash Linux!

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  13. Glad bags on Recommendations For A Good Laptop Bag? · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you own a Dell and their tech support screws you like they screwed me.. i'd highly recommend a Glad bag. Infact, you should be able to fit other things in there and when you carry it out to the front of your driveway, it will hold up...

    Don't get mad... get glad...

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  14. Re:Whut???? on Coffee Flavored Breakfast Cereal · · Score: 1


    Of course cereal matters. It's food.. all nerds need food.. therefore there is nothing wrong with a little cereal commercial mixed in with normal slashdot articles...

    "Can't get enough of those sugar crisps.."

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  15. Re:Free Software on SCO on SCO May Countersue Red Hat, SuSE Joins The Fray · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just because software isn't open source doesn't mean it's not free to use..

    RETARD!

  16. Free Software on SCO on SCO May Countersue Red Hat, SuSE Joins The Fray · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not that any of my software is important, but to help alienate SCO I've changed all my licenses so that my software cannot be installed on SCO operating systems:

    http://ringtonetools.mikekohn.net/license.php
    h ttp://nakenchat.naken.cc/license.php
    http://asp2p hp.naken.cc/license.php

    for example.

    Maybe other free software developers will do the same? /mike

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  17. "Region Codes are enitrely optional..." on Regulator Challenges DVD Zoning · · Score: 1

    See this URL:

    http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#1.10

    Not that I support region codes, but, if Australians wanted to they could make DVD's that work on any player...

  18. My guess on Guess When Mir Will Splash · · Score: 1

    MIR will come down exactly at this time

    2001-03-14 13:34:40

    :)

    "perit nim vas MIR... pasadi Amerika!" - Aria

  19. Build your own PPC on Jason Haas on LinuxPPC -- and Drunk Drivers · · Score: 4

    Motorola used to sell PPC motherboards.. With PCI and AGP and everything. Take a look: http://www.mcg.mot.com/cfm/templates/product.cfm?P ageID=875&ProductID=39&PageTypeID=1

    I'm not sure if this is what I found before, but it's worth a look...

  20. Copyright or Patent Exploit on BugTraq No Longer Able To Publish MS Security UPDATED · · Score: 2

    Someone ought to copyright an exploit or patent an exploit in the Windows operating system and make it illegal for them to fix it...

  21. Sell out on Uncensored Media Considered Harmless · · Score: 1

    Amazing. Three months ago Slashdot was making fun of Al Gore because he was a pathological liar. Now slashdot supports him. Slashdot wants a pathological liar for president?

    I wonder how much Al Gore is paying Slashdot for the endorsement :)

    Hmm.. The "I created the Internet" incident was kinda goofy... but the Union Label song lie... now THAT is freakin' scary...

  22. US Postal Service on Package Shipping From USA To Russia? · · Score: 1

    I used to send stuff to Taganrog, Russia using the US Postal Service. I don't think anything has every costed more than $10-15 to send. The only problems I've had was it usually takes around 3 to 4 weeks for the package to get there and there is a chance your package will get lost in the mail and disappear. I've also heard (altho I've never had this problem I think) that their customs have a tendency to sometimes open packages and take stuff inside. The worst I had tho is at least one package that disappeared and once I sent a video tape and when my friend got it she said it looked like someone put their foot through it to break it (of course she blames the American gov't.. I have my doubts about that... )

  23. Re:8K limit ? on MySQL And PostgreSQL Compared · · Score: 1

    If you're putting pictures and stuff into database
    I think you're really making things harder and slower than they need to be.... it's better to
    insert a path to a picture on your harddrive than
    to put the whole thing in... (the longer the row,
    the slower the select...

    btw.. for anyone interested.. check out:

    http://www.naken.cc/mp2p/

    My project that converts PHP scripts written for
    MySQL into PHP scripts for Postgres :)

  24. Re:I wonder if they are going to open source it. on Cobalt buys Chilli!soft · · Score: 1

    With comments like these I wonder why I even
    bother working on asp2php anymore...

    -Mike
    http://home.i1.net/~naken/

  25. Re:No company will pay if they don't have to on How Do You Fund an OpenSource Project? · · Score: 1

    And this is the wierdest part of the whole situation. The people who want to pay to support asp2php aren't businesses, but people who want to see me continue with the project.

    I wouldn't feel right taking money unless you directly made money from it. This is why the original license that asked for money asked for money if it was used commercially. I've seen ASP applications that cost in the $50,000 range. I didn't see why a company making lots of money off the program couldn't spare $100 to pay for a license.