If you’ve read this post, or this, or this, then you might be interested in another great ghetto hack. But for this one I had to grab deep back into time. With a little help of the WaybackMachine I got this back to present: The Ghettotenna. A great story, btw.
Found in the abyss: glitch13.com via archive.org.
found at longtail.com:
The price of a typical gadget reflects two factors: the cost of making it and the price its inventor is charging for the intellectual property in it. Often the second can be many times the first (as in the case of an Intel processor chip, for example, which costs just a few dollars to make but can sell for hundreds of dollars).
But if you don’t charge for intellectual property, gadgets can get a lot cheaper, and potentially reach a much larger market. That’s the philosophy behind “open source hardware”. You give away all the intellectual property (schematics, PCB files, firmware, software, assembly instructions, etc.) but sell the completed units, charging only a set markup on the cost of the hardware itself, which you disclose.
But what’s the right markup that leads to the lowest cost for consumers and still makes money for you? With the help of some open source hardware experts (Lenore Edman, Limor Fried and Phillip Torrone), Chris Anderson found the business model he settled on.
I was looking for a free (yea, completely free) Subversion Repository where I can store my stuff but not having it published somewhere which is one of the reasons I didn’t want to use Google Code either. You may want to try www.freesubversion.com. Go for it and create a Repository on the fly. File access performance is okay so far. But hey, it’s free. I wonder why I haven’t found that one before.
After hearing that his video card might be repairable by heating it up to reflow it, this user did just that. He stripped it down and tossed it in his oven. It’s amazing how often this type of hackish repair works. We’ve heard of people using candles on ibooks, tossing video cards in ovens and wrapping an xbox 360 in a towel and running it for 30 minutes to get it hot enough to reflow itself. Why even bother with controlled temperatures and exact measurements? What other crazy fixes have you had to employ? We had a Playstation that only worked upside down.
Well, I once had for myself a 2.5″ hard disk that operated as long as one would keep waving it gently around. A kind of gyro-driven hard disk.
The Open Root Server Network (ORSN) team decided to shutdown the project by 2008/12/31 00:00 (UTC). The ORSN operates since 2002 an alternative network for the Domain Name System (DNS) that in contrast to the official root servers ICANN and IANA had early IPv6 support.
Although in the course of the discussion about the DNS Safety DNSSEC it gets quite clear that such an alternative is neccessary.
Visit http://european.ch.orsn.net for more info.
