Destructive Incorporated

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

Our friend Jer has been working on a multi-part documentary focusing on positive change in various local communities across the United States. From non-profit, pay what you want restaurants to home building and restoration projects there are many wonderful interviews with great programs all over. It might just inspire you to volunteer in your community!

Check them out @ http://www.youtube.com/user/ExitPictures

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.

>> 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

Cloning a hard drive is almost always the fastest and easiest way to migrate from one disk to another. There are several great programs out there that will do just that, the only problem is they're not free. Norton Ghost, Acronis MigrateEasy, and Partition Magic all have the required functionality to do this, but so does any bootable linux or *BSD distribution. Follow these easy steps and you'll be up and running in no time and still have a little cash left in your pocket.

Step One: Initial Configuration

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

Yeah so , I put some of my photographs up so check it out...

Amundphoto Gallery

As obesity continues to plague the US and video games continue to be a favorite past time, one company seems to have found the perfect compliment for video games to help solve the 'epidemic'. The solution: combine your favorite video game with a bit of exercise.

While there are some great games that combine exercise with gaming like DDR and Pump It Up, and there are even a couple of other fitness game controllers (like the Kilowatt), none of them seem to be quite the ticket for exercise success among most gamers.

Nobody enjoys seeing the red and blue lights telling them to pull over. Getting pulled over for speeding always seems to happen at the worst time. You're running late for one reason or another and the last thing you need is another delay, especially a delay with a fine on top of it. The thing that most speeders don't realize is that there are plenty of ways to limit your risk of getting a ticket while speeding. While we definitely don't advocate poor or dangerous driving, we do realize there are often legitimate reasons you are speeding, and that a lot of speeders are also good drivers who would never intentionally put other people at risk.

There are several ways to avoiding both getting pulled over and getting a ticket once you've already been pulled over (which you can find more about tomorrow @ www.desinc.net). None are fail safe, but all of these tips will decrease your odds of getting a ticket significantly: