Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Changing the default resolution of a Logitech webcam

I found myself needing to take some photos with my webcam because it was a simple setup and had excellent image quality when given enough light. However, when using the default webcam application in Windows XP/Vista/7, it will only capture images in 320×240; hugely disappointing when the webcam will do up to 2MP. Enter the [...]

1Mbit BroadBand Internet Access a Legal Right in Finland

Signs of a culture moving forward, or just frivolous waste of government money? Finland has announced that by next July, 1mbit broandband internet access, which is roughly 20 times quicker than dial up (assuming a generous 50kbps assumption for dial-up) is now a legal human right. While it’s certainly a step towards the future, Finland still plans [...]

Wee new dev box

Recently ordered up a pair of Opteron 280’s to stick in my GT24 – looking forward to having a dev box. Too bad it doesn’t support hardware virtualization – otherwise it’d be an ESX box.
Additionally, here’s a picture of the live network traffic on my box – it is generated with MRTG and cron and [...]

Conficker Toolage

For those of you paranoid about the talk of the Conficker work poking around the interwebnets, you can scan computers for signs of it very easily now with a beta version of nmap – details here. The best thing about nmap? You can script it so it automatically scans every node on the subnet. Easy!

Over-Boost Is My Rush

You know you want it – a blog dedicated to boosted cars, and here it is – http://over-boost.net - recent things we’ve posted include a 500+whp turbo Galant, a freshly turboed V6 Tiburon, as well as a fair share of video debauchery. Head on over and check it out!

Crisis of Credit Explained

 
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
Came upon a great website the other day that explained the credit crunch very well. The video was done by Jonathan Jarvis – a media designer and animator. His video was done with stunning animation and a great narration that explains the problem with the economy [...]

Obama to back return to Moon – Horray!

Looks like the US Space program is going to get a healthy boost in budget to fund further “human exploration” activities. This is good, for a while I was worried Obama was going to cut the space program to save money.
But on Wednesday, the US House of Representatives passed an omnibus bill to fund NASA [...]