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Re:MIT OpenCourseWare

On: Stanford Classes Now Available on iTunes

MIT World has over 300 full length videos of lectures and various presentations given at MIT. Its all free and complements the videos that are in OCW. For example, Prof. Walter Lewin has ~94 class lectures in OCW and 6 on MIT World. The ones on MIT World offer content that's more accessible to the general thinking public.

Re:Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They

On: Great Hacks and Pranks Of Our Time

Also of note: (1) The official library of congress catalog information lists the author as T. F. Peterson, which is in itself a hack, T.F. Peterson is part of the hacking tradition, the full fictional name is: Institute Historian T. F. Peterson (IHTFP). (2) MIT's home page on 12/25 featured this spotlight: Hacky Holidays.

Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They

On: Great Hacks and Pranks Of Our Time

In this video, MIT's Samuel Jay Keyser discusses the culture and history of hacks at MIT; he's for them. You can read excerpts from the Nightwork book on the MIT alumni site.

Re:Too many questions, not enough answers

On: First Military Exoskeleton Reaches Prototype

I think DARPA will be better off looking into the cooling systems and making things smaller rather than helping us carry bigger and more...

Well, the US Army is... Institute for Soldiering Nanotechnology. "At MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, researchers are studying the structure and mechanics of the tough inner layer of mollusc shells, called "nacre" or mother-of-pearl, at extremely small, nanometer-length scales" link to press release

Re:Wonder if Windows Kerberos will be affected?

On: MIT Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities in Kerberos 5

OS X Panther Server (10.3) ships with the ability to be a KDC, using Krb5 for authentication to a variety of services including OpenDirectory.