from The Awful Forums
Looks like Apple uses WAY too much Thermal grease on the new MacBook Pros. This guy took his apart and reapplied correctly and saw an 11deg difference! If you know someone with a MacBook pro, I would recommend they read this!
It just takes a slight misapplication of thermal grease on a MacBook Pro to make the temperatures skyrocket. After reapplying thermal grease properly, the fans actually turn on and keep the system much cooler, to the point that pg. 107 in the MacBook manual becomes unneccesary. They don’t even get loud (unless you’re running over about 65% processor usage, in my case). Apple seriously fucked this up, and it’s relatively simple to fix and prevent. I sit with this thing on my lap all the time now, and while it gets warm (I expect it to), it’s not uncomfortable.
From National Weather Service -
This page provides access to NWS watches, warnings, advisories, and other similar products several different formats. Select a state or product name to view a list of active alerts in your web browser. These files are updated about every two minutes. Tropical Prediction Center/Storm Prediction center feeds are updated on an as needed basis. RSS and CAP/XML lists based on state and NWS forecast zones are provided to aid the automated dissemination of this information. More information on RSS and CAP/XML formats/feeds. This is an experimental product of the National Weather Service. Comments and feedback are welcome. A Product Description Document is also available.
Finally! NOAA has an RSS feed!
from The Mozmonkey Blog
This year I decided to go all out for April Fools and do something that could be duplicated across multiple computers without permanent damage — and so the singing keyboard hack was born.
Concept
Take the musical element from a musical greeting card and connect it to the caps lock LED on the user’s keyboard. Each time the victim presses caps lock the music plays (and quite loud too). This is a great sleeping prank…It might be found on the first day, or weeks from implementation. It’s the perfect prank.
Why Caps?
True, most people don’t use caps lock very often, if ever, but unfortunately not many other keys are linked to an LED. Also most keys are only pressed momentarily, which would require a solid-state bounceless switch; which I had trouble getting to work. The num lock LED turns on and off several times during boot time, so that’s out and only leaves the caps lock as a viable solution.
Hey All,
I am in beta-testing on my new site http://www.dealspy.org and I could really use some help with traffic. Yes, I realize that it is another “deal site” but it is quite a bit different than AT/FW/GD/SD (or really any of the other deal sites out there)
DealSpy.org is a “Hot Deals” site which combines social bookmarking, RSS, and gives editorial control back to the USERS. With DealSpy.org, users submit deals for review, and vote on deals that other users submit. Those deals that receive enough votes from the community are promoted to the front page (rather than one or two editors deciding). YOU DECIDE. This site was influenced by the extremely popular technology site digg.com.
Basically all that boils down to is this: Users submit deals, and others vote on them. The ones that receive enough votes are moved to the main page.
Why is this different? Well think about the RSS implications (RSS of the main page would tell you the HOTTEST deals going on), and the PEOPLE decide what is hot, not the admins. Deal discussion is directly connected to the deal, and it is EXTREMELY easy to find what you are looking for.
I know there are bugs, and I would like help flushing them out. Could you give it a spin and see what you find? Anything you like/dont like? I am in the final stages of the template, so I am working on the few couple bugs left, but I could really use some traffic so I can work out others.
When I launch I plan to have some give aways to users who helped build the site by submitting links & voting on articles.. So you might want to get a head start now! (wink wink)
Thanks!
-Bill (hevnsnt)
from usersmanualguide.com
Literly hundreds of User Manuals and User Guides for many equipment like mobile phones, photo cameras, monther board, monitors, software, tv, dvd, and othes..
This is a great resource, if nothing else bookmark it so you can come back to it when you need it!
from binaervarianz.de – KisMAC
After nearly a year there is a stable KisMAC Version again! It has many new features and a lot less bugs. Therefore it is a recommended update for all users using MacOS 10.4.
New stuff:
* passive AirPort Extreme mode (except for MacBookPro and newest Mac Minis)
* KisMAC is now a Universal binary
* IP-Addressen of Clients will be shown
* Extenended configuration capabilities
* Growl integration
* Google Earth export
* Advanced search options
* Reworked Atheros integration
* and lots of bugs were squished.
Also please take a look at Robin Darrochs Google Earth Plugin.
Hey everyone,
I know that the main page of I-hacked.com is currently throwing some SQL errors. We have had some power issues throughout the day in the datacenter, (you may have noticed some downtime throughout the day) however the last time we went down we had some database corruption. Don’t worry the data is all still there, we just need to do some maintenance on it. It should be back up sometime tonight.
from devo-e.com
Well friends, lets get some parts and diagrams shall we? (please be aware that there is still more testing going on)
The following diagram has been made purely to make it as simple as possible for beginners and advanced users alike.
(Special thanks to JohnnyTk26 for drawing up the diagram)
Full Diagram:
http://devo-e.com/dvdhax/images/Diagram_New.jpg
Adapter Pinout
[X] [8] [6] [4] [2] [0]
[X] [9] [7] [5] [3] [1]
X = Dead Pins
Full Parts List:
- Capacitors – .o1 micro Farads (symbol looks like .01 uF) [any small value should work, it is just used to filter AC out of the line so a “true earth†ground is achived]
- Voltage regualtor- 1086V33
- Small wire andything around the 20-22 gauge should work
- A small PC board
- Some small heatshrink might come in handy.
- You will need a power connector from a orginal xbox, or you can make your own. The connector pin spacing on the power connector is 2mm.
Now, there are other ways to build this, but we felt for newbies and pros alike, the best middleground were the parts listed above. I have taken into consideration some suggested parts, and will be adding them soon, but as an actual page to this blog, not a post.
from washingtonpost.com
Microsoft today began expanding its anti-piracy program by quietly pushing out a software update that in many cases automatically scans Windows computers and reports on whether they are powered by unlicensed software.
The “new pilot program” is a fairly broad expansion of Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage program, under which the anti-piracy check was required only for users who wish to download security updates or other free programs from Microsoft’s site. Under WGA, users who chose to receive fixes via Automatic Updates were not prompted to install and run the anti-piracy software.
Starting today, however, Windows XP users in the United States who have set up automatic security updates will receive the anti-piracy tool. After installation and reboot, they may find their computers popping up an alert that reads: “This copy of Windows is not genuine; you may be a victim of software counterfeiting.” Microsoft also is pushing the new tool out to auto-update users in Britain, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.
from theinquirer.net
THE NEW look Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) seems to be giving the world an unusual moral code.
Details of the upgraded act, which has the blessing of the music and film industry and the Bush administration, are now coming to light. It appears that the DMCA will have a maximum sentence of ten years inside for the crime of software and music piracy. It will also give the FBI the powers to wiretap suspected pirates.
Although sentencing varies in the US, the new law does send a very strange message as to what the government considers ‘bad’ in the 21st century.
For example assaulting a police officer will get you five years, downloading child porn will get you seven years, assaulting without a weapon will get you ten years and aggravated assault six years.
So in other words if you copy a Disney CD and sell it you will be in the same league as a paedophile who is distributing pictures of sexual attacks on children.
If you copy Craig David’s CD you get ten years, but if you punch him in the face and pummel him into a seven day coma you will only get six. You are more likely to get the respect of the prison population with your six year sentence as well
