Posted by Krux on Sunday February 10, 2013 @ 11:00am
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Hey Rub, can you sneak one of these out of the country?

Posted by Krux on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @ 08:01pm
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Hey, I'm famous!

Posted by Stealth on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @ 08:51pm
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I saw this today on the interwebs (http://o.canada.com/2012/09/25/will-we-have-a-christmas-comet-in-2013/) Looks pretty cool. i remember when Hale Bopp came around.. what a specticle that was.

Posted by Krux on Saturday September 15, 2012 @ 02:46pm
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Hey Rub, you have something to do with this one:

Posted by Krux on Thursday August 23, 2012 @ 01:54pm
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So the Oatmeal raised enough money to purchase Wardenclyffe. Pretty awesome. So far they are at $986,293, and have 37 days left.

Posted by Krux on Thursday August 16, 2012 @ 07:28am
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So the folks over at Hackerbot Labs have a cool project they brought to Toorcamp, a giant FAA Approved Laser in order to measure the diffuse reflections of the atmosphere using a distributed array of semi-autonomous sensors. It's built with twenty-four 1 Watt lasers taken from a Casio DLP projector. The laser is housed on top of a yurt, which contains the controls and cooling system.

Posted by Stealth on Monday August 6, 2012 @ 02:39pm
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I think this was an interesting quote.. "..A $2.5 billion mission -- a cost that is not that much more than what NBC paid for the Olympics -- was celebrated for its ability to inspire an entire country, not to mention a planet.". There where over 4 million people watching it last night on the ustream feed. It was fantastic. And then to see how fast the pictures (oh boy 64x64!) started to come back. Brilliant. Very cool to see things work that well.

Posted by Krux on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @ 07:47am
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And we have a successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocke, making SpaceX the first commercial company in history to attempt to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station.

Posted by Krux on Sunday April 15, 2012 @ 01:07pm
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Sand Flea is an 11-lb robot with one trick up its sleeve: Normally it drives like an RC car, but when it needs to it can jump 30 feet into the air. An onboard stabilization system keeps it oriented during flight to improve the view from the video uplink and to control landings. Current development of Sand Flea is funded by the The US Army's Rapid Equipping Force.

Posted by Krux on Sunday March 25, 2012 @ 08:51am
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This has to be one of the cooler things I've seen in awhile:

Posted by unicron on Wednesday January 4, 2012 @ 03:11pm
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Time Cloak

Posted by Krux on Sunday December 18, 2011 @ 10:54am
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This is an interesting kickstarter project. A desktop interactive liquid sculpture using ferrofluid.

Posted by unicron on Sunday November 13, 2011 @ 05:35pm
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This is just too cool. Be sure to full screen it.

Posted by Stealth on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @ 09:17pm
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Saw this.. thought some of you all might find it useful.. I don't need one yet.. but if I start paying with micro stuff.. maybe.

Posted by Krux on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @ 05:55pm
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This is awesome.

Posted by Krux on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @ 11:27am
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This one is pertinant to Rub's Chinese interests.

Posted by Krux on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @ 10:16am
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Some great pictures of the National Ignition Facility

Posted by Stealth on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @ 09:02pm
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I think this is kind of a hack..living 10 weeks underground in that little mine.. finally getting out through that little hole and the crazy tools that NASA built. Very cool. Glad that wasn't me.. glad it had /is having a good ending.

Posted by Stealth on Saturday September 11, 2010 @ 12:13pm
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Read this interesting article today on BBC in regards to how kids are taught math today. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11258175

Posted by Caliber on Saturday May 8, 2010 @ 08:33pm
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http://www.martinjetpack.com/video-gallery.aspx

Posted by Stealth on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @ 02:12pm
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Interesting idea.. add another LED and increase the range of color gamut that the TV can output.

Posted by Krux on Friday April 16, 2010 @ 11:43am
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This is pretty cool. A guy decided that the price on laser cutters is stupidly expensive, and he could probably build his own machine, less than just the tax on a commercial machine. I figure this will be my next project after building the Mendel RepRap 3D printer.

Posted by Krux on Friday March 5, 2010 @ 09:54am
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This was very entertaining. Clifford Stoll gives a talk on, well, everything.

Posted by Stealth on Saturday February 13, 2010 @ 06:27pm
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Ok.. new topic. Loopback addresses. Seeing that we have a network inspection coming up, there's a number of CAT II and CAT III findings regarding having snmp/syslog/snmp/etc coming from loopback addresses. We aren't using loopbaks now, we do single in/out routes, statically with only one AS at one site and the rest are static routes back to the provider so it's not like source/destination ips change for management. We have lots of extra /24's that I can use to figure out a scheme to address the devices, but I'm more curious as to how the routing should be done. We aren't doing any out-of-band or tunneling the inband over and site-2-site, but that could be setup also. So.. does anyone use loopbacks for management? Do you use 10.xxx.yyy.zzz addresses with site2site tunnels or routable /32 addresses with lots of static route maps?

Posted by Caliber on Wednesday February 3, 2010 @ 10:05pm
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Hey dude, I am right there with you on some of the hows and whys of your deletion plans, but was curious if you would be interested in continuing the conversation here. I'm actually quite interested in what volt's comments, as he dropped the hint that he had something to say. Besides that, this is one of the few places where we can talk about shit like this without having someone go psycho nutbag about it... except maybe krux... because of his mormon roots and all

Posted by Krux on Friday January 29, 2010 @ 10:34am
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"The only way to get to the bottom of the problem is to set maggie on fire and watch her burn."

Posted by formatc on Sunday November 29, 2009 @ 09:51am
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I say arm the Amish. How cool would that be? A horse-drawn buggy with a mounted howitzer? That'll make you think twice about passing them and honking to spook their horses!

Posted by formatc on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @ 07:29pm
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What do you get by mixing biology, physics, and LSD? <more>

Posted by Stealth on Thursday October 29, 2009 @ 05:48am
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"At 2100, on 29 October 1969, engineers 400 miles apart at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford Research Institute (SRI) prepared to send data between the first nodes of what was then known as Arpanet." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8331253.stm

Posted by unicron on Sunday October 25, 2009 @ 11:43am
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Everyone go shotgun a 6 pack and let's discuss this.