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Finally! An iPhone killer! |
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
 In case you were wondering, the iPhone is not bullet proof. Unlike James Bond's cigarette case, it will NOT save your life if shot by a mad scientist. Apparently this was a big question over at 1337PWN.com, could the iPhone take a gunshot and keep on going. So they grabbed their first generation iPhone (they're getting a second gen iPhone anyways) and went to the firing range with .308 caliber rifle.
The end result is a blown apart iPhone; don't watch if you are sensitive to violence. The shooter actually gets a bullet through the home button, but this was an obvious lucky shot as he emptied the clip in his M1 Garand. A M1's clip holds 8 x .30 caliber rounds, and it looks like he hit it only two times. So he gets a double D as a grade for this project. A D for being a lousy shot on camera and a D for dumb for wasting a perfectly good iPhone.
Watch the video at YouTube, from TUAW
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Duct Tape can do anything. |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
Okay. So all modders know that Duct Tape can fix almost anything. We've also seen a lot of stuff made out of the wonderfully tacky material. But now we get to see it used for something, err, good? The Duct Tape Server II (DTS II) is the second of the duct tape servers. I missed out on the first one, so this is new to me. The original Duct Tape Server (DTS I) collapsed, so this one is built a bit more rigid and with more sides to support it's weight.
DTS II is made out of over 11 rolls of Duct Tape (9 gray, 2 translucent & a bit of black) and packs a modest computer to top. Running a 2.2 GHz Pentium with 1GB of DDR RAM and an 80 GB hard drive. The DTS II was used as a Teamspark server, FTP server and Armagetron Tournament in the Million Man Lan which finished up on the 6th.
Duct Tape really can do just about anything.
From DuctTapeServer.com via engadget, with a thanks to Jacob.
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Network Home Directories for all |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
 Found this handy "how-to" and thought I would pass it along as it seems like it would come in handy for people with multiple Macs in their home. A few command line edits and you can have a network home directory for each user. You still have to make a local user account on each machine, but it will pull the home directory from another Mac (via NFS). While this doesn't make much sense for a lab or small office, this would work well for a home with a few networked Macs. It uses bonjour for host resolution and NFS for mounting.
From Protecht.com
On the machine that you want to automount directories on, execute:
dscl -change Local/Default/Users/kate NFSHomeDirectory /Users/kate /home/kate
dscl will change the home directory of kate from the normal /Users/kate
to /home/kate. This step readies for the use of the automounter.
Edit /etc/auto_home to look like:
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# Automounter map for /home
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+auto_home # Use directory service
kate dining-room.local:/Users/kate
If it works for you, stop by Protecht.com and say thanks.
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Go Vertical with your MacBook Pro |
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Sunday, 06 July 2008 |
 One of the coolest features of the MacBook & MacBook Pro is that you can use them as a Desktop computer with the lid closed. Just plug in your monitor and your keyboard/mouse and you have a fully functional Mac. The only downside is what to do with the laptop while using it as a desktop. If you block the fans you will overheat your machine, and you also need it easily accessible for when you do want to use it as a laptop. Making a home-made laptop holder is great, if you have the tools to do it, but there is an easier way thanks to Balmuda Design.
Balmuda Design's Floater allows you to house your MacBook Pro in a sleek holder in a vertical position. Designed to allow the air vents to work and have access to your optical drive. Made of machined aluminum to a 1/10 of a millimeter precision, it is a true mixture of form and function. We all know that the cases can take a beating and keep on ticking, but they might not be as streamlined as the out of the box MBP's. Balmuda Designs has taken this into consideration by allowing a 2mm give in the design for the occasional dented or warped MBP.
While the price tag is a little bit high ($309.99), if you live by the notebook this is worth the money. As they say on their site, "our biggest challenge was to design something better than two bricks, because two bricks are all you need to keep a notebook computer upright!" They've taken the time to design a great notebook holder, far better than the two bricks needed.
Balmuda Design's Floater via unplggd.com
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Japanese Anime Mod a unique taste |
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Saturday, 05 July 2008 |
 Japanese modders Kanna Higashi & Katsuya Matsumura have a unique taste, Anime. They have built a simple computer with an extraordinary case named "KANA ". The Anime character is based around Vinyl Chloride Pipes (PVC) and Styrene Foams (Styrofoam), with a modest 1GHz CPU on the inside. The exterior was made with a resin, then painted and re-assembled.
The computer was built originally back in the day (2004), this is still an interesting mod to take a look at. Lots of details went into making the mod.
ERN005-PC *KANA* via kh-vids.net
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Why Amit Bhawani is an idiot. |
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
So there will always be Mac haters, that's just a fact. As much as we wish everyone would move on over to the Church of Mac, there will always be the people who just try slamming Apple's software and hardware whenever they can. It becomes unfortunate when the slammers start spewing out complete and total nonsense, and for the most part I tend to just ignore them. As much flawed logic as they have, I generally say a Mac blessing for them, "Please let the light of Steve shine down on them", and call it a night. But not for Amit Bhawani.
I don't know why this guy bugged me so much, but his 12 point blog entry on why he thinks the Mac sucks (the MacBook specifically) and Windows Rocks is so lame I had to respond. Maybe it's because I use a MacBook and love it, or maybe it's his flawed logic, whatever it is, here are the highlights from his blog entry "Why Apple Macbook Sucks Windows Rocks".
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