Look What I Found
Mind you I only think that the title is funny…not the story itself. (Found via Fark.com)
TheNewMexicoChannel.com – News – Police Recover Man’s Body From Elephant Butte
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — State police have recovered the body of a 33-year-old Mexican man who apparently drown after jumping off a boat into Elephant Butte Reservoir to retrieve his hat.
Interesting… Hack-a-day always has a lot of cool hacks, but this one peaked my interested.
Read on about this guy resurrecting his laptop, especially the part about his battery.
HOW-TO: Laptop resurrection and upgrade – hack a day – www.hackaday.com _
I have been known to keep old hardware alive, long past it’s use-by date. Over the last year I acquired a couple of laptops. One of them had been smashed up (I think someone sat on it..) and the other got a drink spilled in to the keyboard. So I ended up with enough parts to make a cheap laptop.
Looks fixed by now…but that is funny.
Looks like when you search for anything at walmart.com you only get Bibles… Hacked or is this what we’ve come to.. I want an iPod, no you want a Bible!
This Chimp has been smoking for 15 years, and _now_ they are worried?
Chinese Try to Get Chimp to Quit Smoking – Yahoo! News
The 26-year-old female chimpanzee has been smoking for 15 years. Her mate died recently, which caused her to smoke even more.Now, the chimp’s keepers are worried about her health as a result of her intense smoking. So, they’re trying to give her milk instead of cigarettes
Yea, Milk will help.
These Rovers are just simply amazing. From thier function, life span, to the pictures that they are sending back.
SPACE.com — Mars Spirit Rover Makes the Grade
NASA’s Spirit rover is sitting atop the summit of Husband Hill, with rover scientists and engineers overjoyed in achieving the exploration high point.
Found this via Newsforge. I can talk to a MS-SQL server from linux using the Zend IDE, but I havne’t tried using unixODBC…
Green Leaf Technologies – Connecting to a SQL Server database from a Linux box with UnixODBC/PHP
This article explains how to connect from a Linux (or Unix) based server to an MS SQL Server using a combination of unixODBC and PHP. PHP’s documentation covers connecting to a SQL Server from a Windows machine running PHP, but not a Unix/Linux machine.
Weird, stupid and pointless. I love it! Download the FULL GAME at this link.
“An overhaul upgrade to the original Duck Hunt, featuring new difficulty levels, graphics effects, remixed music & enhanced sound, the BFG-9000, and more!”
Once again, I wonder how misguided the IE team is. In this clip I have highlighted below, Rob Franco states:
IEBlog : Security strategy for IE7: Beta 1 overview, Beta 2 preview
Powerful add-ons like ActiveX controls are part of what make browsing such a rich experience but any extensibility can also introduce threats to browser security.
It is the first part I take issue with. It is NOT ActiveX controls that make browsing a rich experience. It is the great web standards that we have (ie CSS and Javascript…). I use Firefox exclusivly, I dont use ActiveX and sites like Google Maps and others seem pretty rich to me. Point being that I think that they need to focus on making IE standards complient, and secure.
Now that second part of that sentence, I do agree with.
Another interesting implementation of Getting Things Done with VIM.
Implementing GTD with vim, remind, and grep
The initial segment on my adventures with setting up Getting Things Done. I have big plans for this as it is a gold mine for integration of a number of unix tools into a personal information system that is starting to work for me.
There can be only one!
Star Wars and LOTR will not join forces!
Playbill – Actor-performer Charles Ross’ One-Man Stars Wars Trilogy is doing such solid business at the Lamb’s Theater that a plan to add One-Man Lord of the Rings to the mix has been nixed.