Hacker Friendly

I’m sure you’ve seen the Firefox plugin for VideoDownloader (which lets you save movies from Youtube, Google Video, or 40+ other video aggregator sites for offline viewing.)
But what about Safari? Here’s a bookmarklet that will let you save vids with the push of a button. Just drag this link to your bookmark bar:
Get […]

 

Marco forwarded me an interesting implementation of Wake-on-WLAN from India.
When the network is unused, power is completely removed from the routing hardware (a Soekris 4521 running Pebble). It is switched on again when wireless transmissions are detected. This allows for substantial power savings, which is critical in remote installations.
We use off-the-shelf 802.15.4-based sensor […]

 

I’ve been doing a brief (and early) hack night visit lately due to a scheduling conflict. But this week I actually got something done: I helped Joe debug an odd problem with Ubuntu (Dapper) and VMWare. It seems that while Ubuntu correctly detects the virtual hard drive as a SCSI device, the boot […]