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By Dave, August 30, 2007 10:07 am

The Knight Shift: Viacom hits me with copyright infringement for posting on YouTube a video that Viacom made by infringing on my own copyright!

Some days you got to wonder what kind of world it would be “without” lawyers… 🙁

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By Dave, August 28, 2007 6:18 pm

Slashdot | TorrentSpy Must Preserve Data In RAM For MPAA

It would be so nice if judges on tech cases had at least SOME idea what the hell they were dealing with. Idiots…

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By Dave, August 28, 2007 12:51 pm

FSF – Microsoft cannot declare itself exempt from the requirements of GPLv3

That’s just not the way licensing works. And Microsloths legal department knows this. Idiots.

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By Dave, August 28, 2007 11:28 am

Awoke this am to a non functioning iBook hard drive.

After a while with a bottle of ice applied to the outside of the case got the temp down enough to get it back running. Shortly after that went down again. Been having problems with this drive off and on for a while so decided to boot from the external firewire drive. Again with the ice and after a while got it up and going on external drive. Which is what I am running on now.

Guess I will try to replace the internal drive with the broken 80 gb drive that “someone” has left here for a while. Not looking forward to the surgery at all. From what is shown at http://www.sterpin.net/uk/ddibookg4uk.htm it looks to be a real pain in the arse. No real rhyme nor reason for them (Apple) to have used 3 different types of screws nor as many of them. Nor is there ANY reason (other than designer stupidity) for the hard drive to be this difficult to get to. But it is and I bought it so I get to try to salvage it.

If I am back on today that means either I decided to continue running on the external drive or I managed to get the internal replaced and going. Or I decided to see if I could get the Linux box back up and going. Or something.

Not a good day for this for me either mentally or physically but computer breakdown wait for no one to feel better…

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By Dave, August 27, 2007 10:33 pm

Power Your TV, Cell Phone, or Laptop by Pedaling (TreeHugger)

Whereas the video of him playing the video game isn’t that thrilling, the concept that he proves will work with is rather interesting.

The high speed start up is what keeps me from using an old stationary bike for this. Problem is the wheel is too small. Could use a smaller pulley on the alternator. May look and see if a knerled sleeve would fit over the alternator shaft where the pulley mounts and try for a spring loaded drive right off the wheel. That might get the speed up enough to self energize. Will have to do some math and see how close I can come that way.

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By Dave, August 27, 2007 9:42 pm

Afternoon Tea Recipes, High Tea Recipes, English/American High Tea, Tea party

Several here that I want to try. Several of the scones look quite good.

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By Dave, August 27, 2007 9:32 pm

Alcohol – Australian Alcohol Guidelines Quiz HTML Version

I like their guidelines! 😉

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By Dave, August 27, 2007 4:26 pm

Techdirt: Australian Internet Porn Filter Cracked By Kid; Politicians Get The Wrong Message

Things like this make me wonder if all politicians have their brains removed when going into office. Stupid, stupid, stupid…

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By Dave, August 27, 2007 4:23 pm

Brass Goggles » Blog Archive » The Torch of St. Dismus – Steampunk Glory

More wondrous steampunk craftsmanship brought to us through Brass Goggles with this Hand of Glory lamp. Beautiful work!

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By Dave, August 26, 2007 9:24 pm

TechEBlog » LEGO Pinball Machine Sports Medieval Theme

Somewhat old but still in my tabs so here’s the Hogwarts pinball machine built out of lego. Interesting and well built. Cool stuff!

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By Dave, August 26, 2007 8:47 pm

Brass Goggles » Blog Archive » Mr Quentin’s Remington Keyboard Mod

And one final one (for today anyway) from Brass Goggles with the leather covered Remington Keyboard Mod. Cool concept.

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By Dave, August 26, 2007 8:41 pm

Brass Goggles » Blog Archive » Steampunk Organs and Humors by Ms Williams

More steampunk bionics from Brass Goggles! Unlike the previous one these aren’t real. But they are certainly cool!

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By Dave, August 26, 2007 8:39 pm

Lighter Footstep – Review: EarthLED’s Bright Idea

LED house lights are here and cost is starting to get, if not reasonable, then closer to it. The 3 watt units claims to output the same light as a 40 watt bulb and are under $30.00 us each. At 50,000 hours expected life thats cheap per hour. With the added benefit of not containing mercury like the compact fluorescents if these are on the shelves at the store they are gonna sell! Glad to see these on the market.

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By Dave, August 26, 2007 8:29 pm

Groklaw – Novell’s Motion in Limine No. 3 to Preclude SCO’s New Theory of Apportionment

Looks like SCO is still up to it’s old tricks.

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By Dave, August 26, 2007 8:16 pm

The 40 coolest free applications around – Seopher.com

Pretty good list. Several I had not seen before and want to know more about. Well worth the time to study.

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By Dave, August 26, 2007 8:14 pm

blog gnist org – Synergy – two screens, two OSes

Have read about (and may have even posted about) synergy before but never tried it. Tis a good read and he does several things to ensure that no one snoops. Good pointers and code to go with them. When I get another monitor (ain’t giving my flat screen/iBook dual screen setup up) for the linux box and get it back up and running I’d like to try to set it up like this dude has done. Nice!

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By Dave, August 26, 2007 8:06 pm

Brass Goggles » Blog Archive » The Vanderbilt Steam-Powered Arm

Neat! Love the tolerances they are dealing with! 50 millionths of an inch works whereas 100 doesn’t. Steam is some tenacious stuff!

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By Dave, August 26, 2007 3:35 pm

Boing Boing: The IT Crowd — season two, episode one

Good stuff! So glad to see it back for a second season.

Note for those with Macs or at least those with older iBook G4s with 10.3.X on them – The name is cut off with a * at the end. Need to remove the last 4 or more characters and add a .avi and Quicktime will play it fine.

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By Dave, August 26, 2007 11:57 am

Opus Comics, by Bloom County’s Berkeley Breathed – Salon

For those whos papers aren’t running this sundays Opus, cause it MIGHT offend SOMEONE SOMEWHERE, it’s available at the above link.

Personally, I want to see her as the Amish Nudist… 🙂

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By Dave, August 24, 2007 11:28 pm

So, what’s the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum? | The Register
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* Football pitch = 194.89nWa
* Wales = 1,000,000,000nWa
* Belgium = 1.47Wa
* Democratic Republic of Congo = 113.3Wa
* Known universe (rolled out flat) = 19468502x1012x10256Wa

Steve alerted me to this one (Wish he would post them himself 🙂 ). Thanks dude! Funny as h e double toothpicks…