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MacBook Mod Gives Base Station Chassis New Purpose 129

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @11:30AM from the hyper-extension dept.

odysseus31173 writes "A little over a year ago, I began developing for the iPhone and needed a working mac (not a Hackintosh), so I decided to purchase a MacBook logic board to save on cost. I modded a Linksys case to accept the logic board (along with all of the other hardware) and made it function again. The Mac currently runs Leopard and has a working iSight and mic along with fully functional WiFi and bluetooth. The RAM is the standard 1 gig, but the hard drive has been upgraded to 160 gigs. The iSight/mic holes in the front panel are hard to see and this could be used as a nanny cam of sorts."

STEREO Satellites Spot Solar Flare Tsunami 89

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @12:08PM from the gonna-need-more-spf dept.

westtxfun writes "The STEREO satellites recently confirmed the existence of solar mega-tsunamis when they captured height data after a sunspot recently erupted. The scale of this tsunami literally dwarfs the Earth's diameter — it was 62,000 miles high and raced across the surface at 560,000 mph! STEREO A and B orbit 90 degrees apart and luckily, one was overhead while the other saw the eruption on the limb. This gave NASA scientists enough data to confirm the tsunami wasn't a shadow, solving a modern solar mystery. The images are simply stunning, to boot."

"Mandelbulb," a 3D Mandlebrot Construct, Discovered 255

Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 15, 2009 @08:13PM from the to-boldly-go dept.

symbolset writes "Many know the beauty and complexity of the Mandelbrot set. For some years now a few enterprising mathematicians / rendering fiends have been seeking a true 3D Mandelbrot set. A month ago a solution was found, and it is awesome to behold."

Brian Eno Releases Second iPhone App 196

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 21, 2009 @12:53PM from the oblique-strategies-ftw dept.

Brian Eno, or as he is known to many in my office, "God," has released his second iPhone App. A followup to Bloom, this one is called Trope and supposedly creates darker music. You create music by drawing shapes on the iPhone's screen.

Comment My Ancient computer (Score 1) 2

by Raisputin on Friday July 10, 2009 @06:27PM (#28655627) Attached to: My Classic PC, Still Working After All These Years

I still have the very first computer I ever owned, an Apple ][e Specs (may be slightly off on the printer name because I am not at home currently) Apple ][e circa 1982/3 6502 processor @ 1.023 MHz 128k RAM 1 Apple Duodisk (2, yes 2 5.25" floppy drives) 13" I believe it is monochrome (green) monitor I still have the majority of the software as well ::) Last time I booted this thing was about 5-10 years ago, and it still worked like a champ. Maybe I will hook it up again this evening hehe Okidata Microline 92c (or something similar to that)

Comment Re:isn't this what Safari and Chrome are for? (Score 1) 174

by Raisputin on Thursday July 02, 2009 @03:14PM (#28562317) Attached to: Your Browser History Is Showing

It came up with nothing when I did it within Safari (MacOS X)

Getting Beyond the Helldesk 474

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 18, 2009 @12:19AM from the through-the-perly-gates dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I've been working as a helpdesk monkey for over a year in a small-medium sized law firm of around 200 users and I don't know if my patience and sanity can last much longer. I'd like to remain in IT, but in less of a front-line role where I can actually get some work done without being interrupted every five minutes by a jamming printer or frozen instance of Outlook. There isn't really any room for progression at my current employer, and with the weak job market it seems I can only move sideways into another support role. I've been considering a full-time Masters degree in a specialized Computer Science area such as databases or Web development, but I don't know if the financial cost and the loss of a year's income and experience can justify it. Do any Slashdotters who have made it beyond the helpdesk have any knowledge or wisdom to impart? Is formal education a good avenue, or would I better off moving back home, getting a mindless but low-stress job, and teaching myself technologies in my free time?"

6000-Year-Old Tomb Complex Discovered 83

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @11:46PM from the nobody-knows-who-they-were-or-what-they-were-doing dept.

duh P3rf3ss3r writes "National Geographic reports that a 6000-year-old tomb complex on 200 hectares (500 acres) has been discovered on the Salisbury Plain just 24 km (15 miles) from Stonehenge. The site has come as a surprise to the archaeologists who had thought that the area had been studied in such depth that few discoveries of such magnitude remained. The site, fully 1000 years older than Stonehenge, has been called 'Britain's oldest architecture.'"

Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved? 99

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @07:04PM from the hide-and-go-seek dept.

PRB_Ohio writes "The sun is in the middle of a century long solar minimum, and sunspots have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. Now, for the first time, solar physicists might understand why. The gist is that there is a 'jet stream' like phenomenon about 7,000km below the surface of the sun. The streams migrate slowly from the poles to the equator and when a jet stream reaches the critical latitude of 22 degrees, new-cycle sunspots begin to appear. Scientists at the National Solar Observatory (NSO) in Tucson, Arizona, used a technique called helioseismology to track and analyze the streams."

Inflatable Tower Could Climb To the Edge of Space 296

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 08, 2009 @05:53PM from the out-of-breath dept.

MonkeyClicker writes with mention of a proposal that could see an inflatable tower helping to carry people to the edge of space without the need for rocket propulsion. This would function in place of previous space elevator designs which featured a large cable and could be completed much faster, if proponents of the project are to be believed. "To stay upright and withstand winds, full-scale structures would require gyroscopes and active stabilization systems in each module. The team modeled a 15-kilometer tower made up of 100 modules, each one 150 meters tall and 230 meters in diameter, built from inflatable tubes 2 meters across. Quine estimates it would weigh about 800,000 tonnes when pressurized — around twice the weight of the world's largest supertanker."

Swedish Anti-Piracy Lawyer Gets New Name 'Pirate' 178

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 08, 2009 @04:28PM from the the-power-of-the-prank dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet (in Swedish) reports that Henrik Pontén, a lawyer of Antipiratbyrån, a Swedish organization against file sharing, has received a notification from officials that an application for change of his name has been approved and a new first name 'Pirate' has been added to his name. Authorities do not check the identity of persons applying for name changes. Pirate Pontén now has to apply for another change in order to revert the change."

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