Monthly Archives: October 2005

The greatest conman ever… for now!

“AN INGENIOUS fraudster is believed to be sunning himself on a beach after persuading leading banks to pay him more than €5 million (£3.5 million) in the belief that he was a secret service agent engaged in the fight against terrorist money-laundering.” Bank managers were convinced of Gilbert C’s identity when he revealed not only

SVN your whole damn life!

Well it’s happened again, meaning that this isn’t the first time. I’m habitually using ‘ * ‘ on the command line and of course I shot myself in the foot today. I managed to erase everything in my home directory that’s not a directory. The hundreds of lines of useful text I’ve been carefully squirreling

Mod your X-Box in 10 Minutes

Pertinent because I own one. Link via make

Embedded Linux Box in your CD drive bay

Team ASA has managed to fit an X-scale processor (600 MHz), 64 to 2048 MB of DDR-233 SDRAM, 16-32MB of Flash for the O.S., and a removable 160GB SATA hard drive in a Linux system designed to fit in a CD drive bay. According to Team ASA, the NPWR-SCE can be installed in any PC

My A.D.I.D.A.S.

Adidas Spider Originally uploaded by mleak. Awesome insect art.