I think the idea of some home tinkerer coming up with the latest innovation is very cool. Perhaps it is that “American Dream” in me wanting the little guy to succeed. Last night I received an email from a former coworker. Her husband has started a business designing and ultimately selling electric [...]

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There are times that you need to maintain a long-term SSH connection. This may be because you need to keep a tunnel open, or you just want to stay logged into a machine. However, depending on the settings and network conditions of all the intervening computers it may be difficult to keep this [...]

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As someone with an Electrical Engineering degree I can appreciate how easy it is to get into the hobby of collecting old “junk” and doing cool stuff with it. I found this article today, titled Amateur Time Hackers Play With Atomic Clocks at Home. While I think what he is doing is very [...]

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In this day of rising fuel costs I am totally in to alternate fuel sources. However, this article by ecoble lists some that might be a little too “alternate.”
Personally, I really hope that the salt water discovery turns into something viable. It would sure put an end to battling over oil. If [...]

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Growing up watching Star Trek I always wanted one of those cool hand held tablets that always seemed to know everything. They could tap into the ship’s computer and get at any information they needed. All from a small device they could carry with them. Gee, wouldn’t it be cool if someone [...]

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My desktop computer is broken right now, so I have been looking into upgrading. The problem in the interim is that ALL of my photos are stored on that machine. I just hope the hard drive is still OK. I suspect the drive controller, but if it is the drive itself that [...]

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Today I ran into a really cool web site, http://www.myfaceicons.com/. If you send them in a picture, and $49, they will create a custom caricature for you. If I had an extra $49 I think I would actually do this. I can envision a caricature of me with my ham radio. [...]

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