Destructive Incorporated

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PLoP Boot Manager v5.0

page update: 05/Oct/2009

[2]1. Introduction
[3]2. Features
[4]3. Screenshots
[5]4. Download
[6]5. Licence
[7]6. Harddisk installation
[8]7. Running without harddisk installation from Floppy, CD, Windows
boot menu, Syslinux, LILO, GRUB, network
[9]8. The Boot Manager
[10]9. Configure the Boot Manager binary plpbt.bin with plpcfgbt
[11]10. Disable the USB driver under DOS

Ben Brown has finished an amazing piece of work, and is showing it off here!

You can read more about this project at his Vimeo page or listen to more of his work at benbrown.desinc.net

Ben's also been featured over at monome.org

Just in case you've been in the dark, one of our friends and Burning Man cohort is building an epic art project to be displayed on the Playa this year.

You can find out much more about it at :

http://kaleidoscopicdreams.com

I'm currently enrolled in a materials fabrication course where our final project is to build an enclosure for a power supply. The schematic and design of the power supply are provided by the instructor. These things use big stupid 0-15v analog gauges. I thought I could design a better interface using a microcontroller and an HD44780 LCD, so here it is. Special thanks to Micah Carrick for the lcd library and Cory Meyer for general advice. The most difficult part of this project was squeezing it all into the 1024 bytes available on the tiny13 microcontroller.

so, desinc clan is back. on may 19th we defeated the "new underground killers" in our first official cal match since 2006. the final score was 20-4 in our glorious victory, keep it up guys.

Sacramento Kings and Intel Engineering Challenge
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I just found this competition on kings.com and wanted to sign up.. so I click the link and it brings me to the completed projects that I can vote on... so I watch some of the videos. simply amazing.

I must say I love the images from Galt HS.
Some bullshit about e=mc^2+4a and other scattered nonsense..

check out the video to see how the project turned out.
http://www.nba.com/kings/promotions/Intel_Engineering_Challenge.html

Can you believe how hard it is to find a quick cheat sheet for using mencoder (included with mplayer) to encode various video formats?

>> Ok, first of all, the dowloader for the updates - exclusively for Windows XP? Did Microsoft and EA Games have a behinds the door meeting because the crappy, buggy, full'o'holes OS XP sales are down? Another theory thought up from my next door nieghbor is that they hired a mentally challenged individual (a retard who doesn't speak liberal) and asked for his input at critical stages of the game remake - er - developement. Then once he was done giving him his heartfelt advice, they fired him like a steak on a grill.
>> All I know I recieved a game for my birthday I cannot play on Windows 2000 (My current OS). Thanks EA Games for excluding the few (I'm guessing here) who still run the reliable and non-intrusive (as far as I know) operating system Windows 2000. As for that NSA key, the CryptoAPI and the mysterious 3rd key in the encryption coding, I think it belongs to Mulder from the X-Files (See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/security/news/backdoor.mspx?mfr=true

Is there any flight simulator games out there that play the actual scream or wine of the jet engines as they are coming up to speed on the runway.Microsoft,s flight simulator X doesnt and I am very disappointed as that is the neatest sound of a jet engine.Micro soft simX stinks.

This Gentoo-based distro is going to be one to watch. Rock-solid stability and endless flexibility, all wrapped into a 3.3GB LiveDVD environment packed to the brim with the latest builds of the latest software. So then, what makes Sabayon Linux so special? I'm glad you asked.

The strength of this OS comes not only from the abundance of current software available, but also from its roots in Gentoo Linux, which has long been known for its adaptability and pure speed. Gentoo's portage houses thousands (tens of thousands?) of programs which can be installed, via source, using every setting specified in make.conf, using build options depending on my USE flags. Dependencies are all resolved automatically by emerge (best thing since sliced bread). Boot scripts are easily modified with rc-update (so far my favorite runlevel modification tool). System updates (Sabayon follows the ~arch branch) can be made as easily as 'emerge –sync && emerge -uvDNa world' followed by 'etc-update' which will keep my install up to date with the latest security patches, bug fixes, and killer new features. There are hundreds of Gentoo reviews online and anything more in-depth goes beyond the scope of this article. Sabayon provides a very capable "livecd" environment with tons of the newest software all pre-installed to accomplish work fast. If work isn't your thing you can always kick back and play a little Cold War, or Quake 4 as both