Jet has just tipped me on the new USB Ultrasonic Mosquito Repller from Uxsight.com. I like this concept because now I can repel mosquitoes where ever I take my netbook.
No need to wear harmful chemicals and toxic sprays when you’ve got this mosquito beater! USB port powered gadget transmits a sonic repelling frequency and can provide clean living or office environment to its user.
Price: $5.69 at Uxsight.com
My Greg over at GetUSB.info has a great tutorial on how to create a Vista bootable USB stick with nt60 boot sector.
Honestly, I am not a fan of Vista but if you need this, it will be very useful for installing/fixing your Vista.
Before we begin the USB tutorial on nt60 boot sector you’ll need to review the check list of items needed before you start. Chances are, if you find yourself searching for this tutorial, you already have everything needed to make a USB bootable with nt60 boot sector.
Remember I wrote a short blog post on the newspaper laptop sleeve couple weeks ago? Well user shesparticular has pointed out her step-by-step instructions on how to make this newspaper laptop sleeve using transfer paper, iron, and some sewing. Brilliant!
I make T-shirts myself too and the only thing I would need to learn is “how to sew”. Well, I will get to that eventually
For those of you who need to “resume” SCP file transfers that have been interrupted, there’s an easy way to resume them using rsync command.
Use this:
alias scpresume="rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh"For Ubuntu or Debian add sudo:
alias scpresume="sudo rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh"This is great since you won’t have to restart your file transfers if you happened to be transferring files around 100GB.
Perks include understanding the same user@host:path syntax as scp as well as being able to resume a broken scp download (Note:
I have a nice little Linux Ubuntu box I setup here in my apartment with a KVM switch but most of the time, I use command lines to SSH into my linux box.
When I am away from from home and I want to access my linux box, I can access it (SSH into it) using DDNS (dynamic DNS). This is great since I have my own backup server plus I can test out my web servers on my linux box before going live.
Anyways, if you are looking for easy solution on how to setup DDNS on your Ubuntu machine, ddclient is probably the easiest. You can
Okay, I admit it, I am not an Apple fan boy, I am a linux fan boy, let’s forget about bad PR just for a minute here as I don’t really like getting mad anyways.
The BIG NEWS this week is that there’s a way to build a Perabyte (or 1,000,000 gigabytes) Cloud Server for under $120,000.
BackBlaze, a company that provides unlimited online backups for just $5/month, has just released their company’s secret. They can build this “
I admit it, I’ve been a Palm Pre whore ever since I got the Pre couple weeks ago. For me, having Sprint’s EDVO fast connection and a linux-based smartphone is like heaven. Trust me, it’s faster, better, and more reliable than proprietary iPhone. Yes, I support the open source community Linux.
So, if you ever get a Palm Pre, what’s the Top 5 Palm Pre hacks you need to do to your Pre?
Hack your Palm Pre to act as a WiFi Router. ̵LOL, I got these 2 questions from one of my Laptop Blog readers:
“What is HDMI”
“What is DHCP?”
Well, since I am a nice guy, I figured I’d helping in my simple language but here’s my definition of them for all of you readers who don’t know:
“What is HDMI”HDMI is the adaptor that lets you connect your laptop/computer to an HD LCD TV digitally, about 100 times better quality than something like SVIDEO. Plus, you can also transfer audio through the same cable so you don’t need 3 cables like back in the
Wow, take a look at this video of these 5 “professional” burglars who stole 23 MacBook Pros in just 31 seconds! That is impressive regardless of what they did. These thieves must have done speed lap training beforehand.
Now, I am not saying you should ever steal anything but if you are going to be a burglar, you gotta be as fast as these guys and be smart. (I feel like I am watching a mini-version of ocean’s eleven…)
I’ve seen so many dumb criminals on COPS, it’s a relief that the media finally lets some truth through, that there are a
It looks like Jesse Vincent has hacked an Amazon Kindle 2 to run a custom version of Ubuntu Linux! Well, the Kindle 2 does run on ARM, there’s a lot of linux software out there that’s running on ARM including the Palm Pre but this is pretty amazing indeed.
I could not find any further details on how to accomplish this but I can say one thing, if you can make use of Kindle 2’s EDVO connection, you might just have hacked a “free” per-say, linux computer that uses very litt
