Calling all dorks, geeks, nerds, weenies, video/audio artists, AV clubbers, roboticists, tinkerers, hackers, modders and benders.

Dorkbot Melbourne are having a get together with talks, demos and an "open mike" in Fitzroy, 4pm Sunday 29th.

Well, I noticed the image disappeared from my previous entry about the Meraki Mini, a $50 WiFi access point the size of a playing card that can run a pretty complete unix. So I went to their site to look for a new image to link.

It seems they've morphed from a mere hardware seller into a project "to bring affordable Internet access to the next ( Read more... )

Ubuntu Studio. A Multimedia editing derivative of Ubuntu, currently being planned. [although I have heard from someone using it already]

Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.

Further to recent discussions with noteris I present A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection. This is a very long article, it's late, and I'm off to bed. I've barely scratched the surface. But so far it makes for an interesting read. Discussion is invited. I hope to read the whole thing in the next few days.

in order to work, Vista's ( Read more... )

Left Behind: The Game

... controversial new Christian fundamentalist video game in which players battle the "forces of the Anti-Christ" and kill or convert non-believers.

... begins in a time after the "rapture" ... The remaining population on earth must then choose between surrendering to or resisting "the Antichrist", which the game describes ( Read more... )

One for eris and others

How to switch on DMA drive access in Intel Macs running Boot Camp.

I've been thinking about my Dad. Thinking about growing up geek. About curiosity and inquisitiveness, imagination and wonder, play and technology.

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Interesting article about the human-power system for the MIT $100 laptop project. They've done away with the integrated handcrank and gone with a separate 20 watt string-pull system. The laptop uses 2 watts, so a minute of cranking gets you ten minutes of use.

If you like stomach turning stories of creepy unpleasantness: try here

If you get bored with the preamble, skip down to the comment titled Weird??? I got Weird in the bag MAN!!!!. But somehow the suspense works...

What the employees at Microsoft are ordering from Amazon this week.

What Apple employees are reading ( Read more... )