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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.