http://hardware.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2009, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-11-09T21:00:15+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://hardware.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/yP15e1UfyFs/MIT-Grad-To-Make-Digital-SixthSense-Open-Source yuveraj writes to mention that Pranav Mistry, the brain behind the innovative "SixthSense" application demoed earlier this year, plans to open source the technology in order to get this to the streets faster. "Mistry&rsquo;s decision has meaning beyond Sixth Sense. The desire of inventors is always to get their work into the market as quickly as possible. Usually this means waiting for it to be turned into a useful, profitable invention. Mistry is bypassing this by going straight to open source. There is no report on which license he will use, but whichever one he does choose he has put paid to the canard that open source and innovation are incompatible, for all time."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/171204/MIT-Grad-To-Make-Digital-SixthSense-Open-Source?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/09/171204"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/171204/MIT-Grad-To-Make-Digital-SixthSense-Open-Source?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Z37tarEQKvIXw4wii12n6N3DfDQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Z37tarEQKvIXw4wii12n6N3DfDQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Z37tarEQKvIXw4wii12n6N3DfDQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Z37tarEQKvIXw4wii12n6N3DfDQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/yP15e1UfyFs" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-11-09T19:14:00+00:00 software enhanced-reality-is-the-only-way-to-roll technology 66 66,66,58,37,7,3,1 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/171204/MIT-Grad-To-Make-Digital-SixthSense-Open-Source?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/x1q7_4VXVoQ/Japan-Eyes-Solar-Station-In-Space An anonymous reader writes ""By 2030 [Japan] wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves. The government has just picked a group of companies and a team of researchers tasked with turning the ambitious, multi-billion-dollar dream of unlimited clean energy into reality in coming decades.""<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1520226/Japan-Eyes-Solar-Station-In-Space?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/09/1520226"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1520226/Japan-Eyes-Solar-Station-In-Space?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9Vt1UzB9-a5SsPZsQrVwqTDoszg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9Vt1UzB9-a5SsPZsQrVwqTDoszg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9Vt1UzB9-a5SsPZsQrVwqTDoszg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9Vt1UzB9-a5SsPZsQrVwqTDoszg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/x1q7_4VXVoQ" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2009-11-09T15:24:00+00:00 power they're-gonna-need-a-gundam-to-defend-it hardware 166 166,166,145,103,34,18,12 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1520226/Japan-Eyes-Solar-Station-In-Space?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/4lxWUJ2eDD0/UKs-Channel-4-To-Broadcast-In-3D fatnickc writes "The UK's Channel 4, from the 16th of September, will be broadcasting a few programmes in 3D, the full list of which can be found here. While the likes of a 3D Miley Cyrus concert aren't exactly groundbreaking, this will give 3D viewing at home much more publicity, paving the way for even more interesting projects in the future. In partnership with retailer Sainsbury's, Channel 4 are producing free 3D glasses so that as many people as possible can watch them, although it's unclear which of the various types they'll be. "<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0431232/UKs-Channel-4-To-Broadcast-In-3D?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/09/0431232"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0431232/UKs-Channel-4-To-Broadcast-In-3D?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VlUsnEZhhsCSChUknTrI7XvGjJE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VlUsnEZhhsCSChUknTrI7XvGjJE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VlUsnEZhhsCSChUknTrI7XvGjJE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VlUsnEZhhsCSChUknTrI7XvGjJE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/4lxWUJ2eDD0" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-09T09:42:00+00:00 displays out-of-thin-air hardware 113 113,109,92,73,19,11,8 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0431232/UKs-Channel-4-To-Broadcast-In-3D?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/wi_T-0ljnAw/Massive-Power-Outages-In-Brazil-Caused-By-Hackers Hugh Pickens writes "CBS reports on 60 minutes that a massive two-day power outage in Brazil's Espirito Santo State affecting more than three million people in 2007, and another, smaller event in three cities north of Rio de Janeiro in January 2005, were perpetrated by hackers manipulating control systems. Former Chief of US National Intelligence Retired Adm. Mike McConnell says that the 'United States is not prepared for such an attack' and believes it could happen in America. 'If I were an attacker and wanted to do strategic damage to the United States, I would either take the cold of winter or the heat of summer,' says McConnell, 'I would probably sack electric power on the US East Coast, maybe the West Coast and attempt to cause a cascading effect.' Congressman Jim Langevin says that US power companies need to be forced to deal with the issue after they told Congress they would take steps to defend their operations but did not follow up. 'They admit that they misled Congress. The private sector has different priorities than we do in providing security. Their bottom line is about profits,' says Langevin. 'We need to change their motivation so that when see vulnerability like this, we can require them to fix it.' McConnell adds that a similar attack to the one in Brazil is poised to take place on US soil and that it may take some horrific event to get the country focused on shoring up cyber security. 'If the power grid was taken off line in the middle of winter and it caused people to suffer and die, that would galvanize the nation. I hope we don't get there.'"<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0012226/Massive-Power-Outages-In-Brazil-Caused-By-Hackers?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/09/0012226"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0012226/Massive-Power-Outages-In-Brazil-Caused-By-Hackers?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lQeCnGHJ8k-4IAaiDIaC48Tpjns/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lQeCnGHJ8k-4IAaiDIaC48Tpjns/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lQeCnGHJ8k-4IAaiDIaC48Tpjns/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lQeCnGHJ8k-4IAaiDIaC48Tpjns/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/wi_T-0ljnAw" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-09T00:17:00+00:00 security mongering-engine-warming-up it 416 416,404,292,232,70,37,29 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0012226/Massive-Power-Outages-In-Brazil-Caused-By-Hackers?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/VLX93Ved-3Y/Tech-Allows-Stable-Integration-of-Wind-In-the-Power-Grid diegocgteleline.es writes "One of the most frequently raised arguments against renewable power sources is that they can only supply a low percentage of the total power because their unpredictability can destabilize the grid. Spain seems to have disproved this assertion. In the last three days, the wind power generation records with respect to the total demand were beaten twice (in special conditions: a very windy weekend, at night): 45% on November 5 and almost 54% last night (Google translation; Spanish original). There was no instability. These milestones were accomplished with the help of a control center that processes meteorologic data from the whole country and predicts, with high certainty, the wind and solar power that will be generated, allowing a stable integration of all the renewable power. You can see a graphic of the record here."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1911234/Tech-Allows-Stable-Integration-of-Wind-In-the-Power-Grid?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/1911234"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1911234/Tech-Allows-Stable-Integration-of-Wind-In-the-Power-Grid?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/izYeMYjWICLCJeDuMODXB-mJYIE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/izYeMYjWICLCJeDuMODXB-mJYIE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/izYeMYjWICLCJeDuMODXB-mJYIE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/izYeMYjWICLCJeDuMODXB-mJYIE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/VLX93Ved-3Y" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-08T20:36:00+00:00 earth giant-whooshing-sound news 218 218,212,171,125,40,21,13 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1911234/Tech-Allows-Stable-Integration-of-Wind-In-the-Power-Grid?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/fmlHrEPIDXU/Reusing-Old-TiVo-Hardware buss_error writes "I have old TiVo hardware that I'd like to reuse &mdash; however, I find in searching that the most frequent reply is: 'Don't cheat TiVo!' I don't want to cheat TiVo &mdash; in fact, I'd like to nuke the drive with a completely open-source distro with no TiVo drivers at all. Some uses I think would be interesting: recording video for security cameras or a drive cam; a unit for weather reporting; fax/telephone; a power monitor for the home; or other home automation. I would prefer a completely TiVo-free install &mdash; this is because I have major issues with TiVo and don't want the slightest taint of their intellectual property. But, since I paid for the hardware, I'd like to wring some use out of it rather than simply putting it in the landfill."<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1659227/Reusing-Old-TiVo-Hardware?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/1659227"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1659227/Reusing-Old-TiVo-Hardware?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o_OQsVYG_LzbPXWU88keBbTZyKE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o_OQsVYG_LzbPXWU88keBbTZyKE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o_OQsVYG_LzbPXWU88keBbTZyKE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o_OQsVYG_LzbPXWU88keBbTZyKE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/fmlHrEPIDXU" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-08T17:17:00+00:00 hardhack self-warming-feline-nap-station askslashdot 163 163,157,124,101,38,27,22 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1659227/Reusing-Old-TiVo-Hardware?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/xx5YPZkXmQI/Turning-a-Cell-Phone-Into-a-Microscope stupendou writes with this excerpt from the New York Times: "Microscopes are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they are also bulky and expensive. Now an engineer, using software that he developed and about $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, has adapted cellphones to substitute for microscopes." But not based on optical magnification: the article explains that Aydogan Ozcan, a UCLA assistant professor of electrical engineering, has combined the wireless transmission abilities and imaging sensors now typical in wireless phones to make the phones capable of detecting cell abnormalities and more by capturing wave interference patterns from body fluids &mdash; like blood &mdash; and sending them on for analysis. Update 20091108 15:03 GMT by timothy: Dave Bullock mentions this gallery he shot last year for Wired showing how a phone is hacked to add microscope abilities. "The new version looks a bit more polished, to say the least," he writes.<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0829202/Turning-a-Cell-Phone-Into-a-Microscope?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/0829202"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0829202/Turning-a-Cell-Phone-Into-a-Microscope?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ww8NgkGL8z69jZIFQgVqbc4WUP0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ww8NgkGL8z69jZIFQgVqbc4WUP0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ww8NgkGL8z69jZIFQgVqbc4WUP0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ww8NgkGL8z69jZIFQgVqbc4WUP0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/xx5YPZkXmQI" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-08T09:49:00+00:00 medicine in-line-for-a-macarthur-grant science 45 45,44,37,26,12,9,5 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0829202/Turning-a-Cell-Phone-Into-a-Microscope?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/6v-j4z13j8Q/Simple-Cost-Effective-Multiroom-Audio jimicus writes "I'd like a multiroom audio system but I'm thoroughly confused by the options available &mdash; and the difference in prices is huge. For instance, Philips have a wireless system which starts at around &pound;280 &mdash; and Russound have a product which comes in around &pound;1,000. I've already got all my music as MP3s and it lives on a NAS box &mdash; I don't really want to repeat that process. I also have a perfectly capable amp and speakers in my living room, so I don't really need anything else there. Whatever I go for has to pass the wife test &mdash; so something which requires a separate amp, speakers and PC in each room and requires a keyboard to control is right out. I don't mind spending a little money but I don't really want to find that every little extra thing adds up to &pound;thousands. Has anyone else dealt with a similar problem? How did you solve it?"<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2256218/Simple-Cost-Effective-Multiroom-Audio?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/07/2256218"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2256218/Simple-Cost-Effective-Multiroom-Audio?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TGE5S1s-hPoBkQgeuhm3o2cNbqI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TGE5S1s-hPoBkQgeuhm3o2cNbqI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TGE5S1s-hPoBkQgeuhm3o2cNbqI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TGE5S1s-hPoBkQgeuhm3o2cNbqI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/6v-j4z13j8Q" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-07T23:00:00+00:00 music powered-monitors-and-long-cables hardware 423 423,421,307,203,52,37,21 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2256218/Simple-Cost-Effective-Multiroom-Audio?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/-Q389Fqzrec/Sony-Demos-Natal-Like-Control-System An anonymous reader writes "It's not just Microsoft investigating full body, markerless motion capture. Sony has enlisted the help of Swiss firm Atracsys to develop similar technology. Sony has openly discussed the technology with New Scientist, and has realistic expectations for the new system &mdash; it can capture broad body gestures but not individual fingers. That's just one trade-off needed in order to develop a real-time system that anyone can use, according to a markerless motion-capture expert." It's still in the early stages of development, but the accompanying video shows the use of face-recognition software as well. The demo game has players moving their heads left or right to position their character, and then smiling to "catch" an object.<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2346212/Sony-Demos-Natal-Like-Control-System?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/2346212"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2346212/Sony-Demos-Natal-Like-Control-System?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4fNRUZt8x9B_il9tyMjgChfJYHg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4fNRUZt8x9B_il9tyMjgChfJYHg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4fNRUZt8x9B_il9tyMjgChfJYHg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4fNRUZt8x9B_il9tyMjgChfJYHg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/-Q389Fqzrec" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T01:03:00+00:00 inputdev wink-to-fire-the-cannon games 63 63,59,40,28,10,6,3 http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2346212/Sony-Demos-Natal-Like-Control-System?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/TfctuYRql4M/Multi-Button-OpenOfficeMouse-At-OOoCon-2009 An anonymous reader writes "WarMouse has announced their new multi-button OpenOfficeMouse for OpenOffice.org at the 2009 OOoCon in Orvieto, Italy. The mouse, which features 18 buttons, a scroll wheel, and an analog joystick, has double-click functionality on every button and stores up to 63 application and game profiles in its 512k of flash memory. The OpenOfficeMouse runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X; its customization software will be released as free and open source software." We couldn't decide if this was a protest against Apple's new magic mouse, an elaborate practical joke, or just plain insanity run amok. In any case, it is hard to imagine a world in which so many tiny buttons on a mouse make sense.<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1728228/Multi-Button-OpenOfficeMouse-At-OOoCon-2009?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/1728228"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1728228/Multi-Button-OpenOfficeMouse-At-OOoCon-2009?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UbnzCLEkwN46dJEBRwYZTQyEbkg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UbnzCLEkwN46dJEBRwYZTQyEbkg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UbnzCLEkwN46dJEBRwYZTQyEbkg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UbnzCLEkwN46dJEBRwYZTQyEbkg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/TfctuYRql4M" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-11-06T21:05:00+00:00 inputdev flying-in-the-face-of-simple-design hardware 263 263,262,218,175,46,31,26 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1728228/Multi-Button-OpenOfficeMouse-At-OOoCon-2009?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/NiF2pJhOeuU/Microsoft-Research-Shows-Off-New-Projects-On-College-Recruiting-Tour In a recent college recruiting tour, Microsoft's Craig Mundie was able to showcase some of the experiments coming out of their Research division. Among some of the interesting projects were another pass at the Minority Report interface, eye-tracking, intelligent data sorting, a global carbon-climate model, and several other software and hardware experiments. A video and supporting slideshow are also available via Microsoft's press site. "Mundie also will discuss the kinds of computers students will soon be using &ndash; machines that will respond to gestures through new natural user interfaces; deploy the power of new microprocessors; migrate data to the cloud; and use live data to drive new simulations and visualizations. He&rsquo;ll center on an environmental theme to show what it might be like to be a research scientist working on zero carbon energy in the future using new interactions with data and computers to increase insight."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1643227/Microsoft-Research-Shows-Off-New-Projects-On-College-Recruiting-Tour?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/1643227"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1643227/Microsoft-Research-Shows-Off-New-Projects-On-College-Recruiting-Tour?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vVF35W9cdOJUJpC4bc3iVHAA1YE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vVF35W9cdOJUJpC4bc3iVHAA1YE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vVF35W9cdOJUJpC4bc3iVHAA1YE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vVF35W9cdOJUJpC4bc3iVHAA1YE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/NiF2pJhOeuU" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-11-06T20:22:00+00:00 microsoft why-do-they-want-computing-to-be-a-workout hardware 61 61,58,36,28,10,4,2 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1643227/Microsoft-Research-Shows-Off-New-Projects-On-College-Recruiting-Tour?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/dwDsJqXph6k/Ubiquiti-Announces-RouterStation-Challenge-Winners Riskable writes "Remember that $200,000 Contest For a Better Open-WRT Wireless Router GUI? Today Ubiquiti posted the winning entries to their support wiki. The grand prize was a tie between PyCI (written by yours truly) and NETSHe with OpenNET as the runner up. Source code and firmware images for each entry are available for download on their respective wiki pages. I'll be setting up a project page for PyCI (and l2sh) soon to make it a participatory open source product. Even if you don't have a RouterStation, or don't care about OpenWRT, there are numerous Python modules and tools inside of PyCI that could prove useful to other open source projects (e.g. iptables.py can read/interpret over 400 permutations of the iptables command). I'll also be checking the comments if anyone has any questions for me about PyCI or the contest in general. BTW: I'd like to thank all the commenters in the original article that insinuated that the technical requirements were impossible and/or that making a GUI to configure such complex things is a waste of time. I read every one and I wouldn't have made it such an obsession otherwise!"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/0030256/Ubiquiti-Announces-RouterStation-Challenge-Winners?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/0030256"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/0030256/Ubiquiti-Announces-RouterStation-Challenge-Winners?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SYIM0a3vzFKKmvUCP4f00BHLL0k/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SYIM0a3vzFKKmvUCP4f00BHLL0k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SYIM0a3vzFKKmvUCP4f00BHLL0k/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SYIM0a3vzFKKmvUCP4f00BHLL0k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/dwDsJqXph6k" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-06T02:29:00+00:00 gui congratulations-to-you technology 86 86,78,61,48,18,12,7 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/0030256/Ubiquiti-Announces-RouterStation-Challenge-Winners?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/rJh-rgxCt58/Apple-Not-Disabling-OS-X-Atom-Support-After-All bonch writes "Contrary to previous reports, Atom chip support is working fine in the latest 10C535 build of OS X 10.6.2. Apple's EULA still states that OS X is licensed to run only on Apple hardware, but it looks like OSX86 hackers can breathe easy ... for now."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/2110259/Apple-Not-Disabling-OS-X-Atom-Support-After-All?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/05/2110259"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/2110259/Apple-Not-Disabling-OS-X-Atom-Support-After-All?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JMpcBLjW3NUBU0dl4e-Uq-9Q0zs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JMpcBLjW3NUBU0dl4e-Uq-9Q0zs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JMpcBLjW3NUBU0dl4e-Uq-9Q0zs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JMpcBLjW3NUBU0dl4e-Uq-9Q0zs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/rJh-rgxCt58" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-05T21:32:00+00:00 macosx If-you-like-that-sort-of-thing hardware 272 272,270,225,167,50,28,20 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/2110259/Apple-Not-Disabling-OS-X-Atom-Support-After-All?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/ZRm24waEYXc/On-Demand-Video--CMS--Interactive-Input-For-Museum remolacha writes "I've been given the task of tech chief for a biggish art museum (1,300 m^2, or about 13,000 sq ft) in Spain. The museum's designers want 20 'terminals' that will offer on-demand video and interactive content. The terminals' content will change with the exhibits; many will have touchscreens. More interesting forms of input are planned as well (floor sensors, big buttons). It's all on one floor, and the floors are raised, so I can run cabling and set up floor ethernet jacks. Max cable run is 60m / 190ft. The museum may expand to 4 times its projected size once open, by comandeering other floors in the building. To give an idea of where the designers heads are, they were talking about a massive DVD changer in a closet somewhere. I am thinking an intranet running a web server with a CMS and Flash media server, terminals running Firefox in kiosk mode. I'd love to do everything on Linux. Does anyone have experience with a setup like this, better ideas, or advice?"<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/2236220/On-Demand-Video--CMS--Interactive-Input-For-Museum?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/04/2236220"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/2236220/On-Demand-Video--CMS--Interactive-Input-For-Museum?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/d7apM5qe2nApDuqRVR1TjtiWZNE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/d7apM5qe2nApDuqRVR1TjtiWZNE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/d7apM5qe2nApDuqRVR1TjtiWZNE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/d7apM5qe2nApDuqRVR1TjtiWZNE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/ZRm24waEYXc" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-04T22:55:00+00:00 displays free-reign-in-spain askslashdot 131 131,129,90,56,21,11,5 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/2236220/On-Demand-Video--CMS--Interactive-Input-For-Museum?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/6LrECJX0hsk/Plug-vs-Plug-mdash-Which-Nations-Socket-Is-Best CNETNate writes "Is the American mains socket really so much worse than the Italian design? And does the Italian socket fail at rivaling the sockets in British homes? This feature explores, in a not-at-all-parodic-and-anecdotal fashion, the designs, strengths and weaknesses of Earth's mains adapters. There is only one conclusion, and you're likely not to agree if you live in France. Or Italy. Or in fact most places." (For more plug pics and details, check out Wikipedia's list of the ones in current use.)<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/1844209/Plug-vs-Plug-mdash-Which-Nations-Socket-Is-Best?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/04/1844209"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/1844209/Plug-vs-Plug-mdash-Which-Nations-Socket-Is-Best?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wQCatFn12OOOSlS91VcHfdl4fFA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wQCatFn12OOOSlS91VcHfdl4fFA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wQCatFn12OOOSlS91VcHfdl4fFA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wQCatFn12OOOSlS91VcHfdl4fFA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/6LrECJX0hsk" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-04T19:04:00+00:00 power one-vote-for-three-prong-american hardware 1166 1166,1161,948,725,157,80,55 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/1844209/Plug-vs-Plug-mdash-Which-Nations-Socket-Is-Best?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://hardware.slashdot.org/search.pl