Electronics hacking lab in a cigar box

Raphael Abrams just posted a peek inside his portable hacking lab to the NYC Resistor blog :I like to hack on the go. So I made a charming little mini lab out of a cigar box and some electronic parts. It's got a breadboard, a built-in Arduino, a couple of places to put loose parts and a control panel on one side. The control panel is the best part with LEDs, potentiometers, a switch and a button all mounted on the side of the box. I love it so!

MonkeyWorld does not work very well (Linux)

jME Plugin for Eclipseのレポジトリ一覧

Record by phone with Gabcast.com

Gabcast.com is a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content. Most people will use a touch-tone telephone to make their recordings but we also provide worldwide access to the service through VoIP. Once you have made a recording and have published it, a newsfeed is immediately and automatically updated to alert subscribers to your channel.

Making Windows XP play a little better with solid state drives

I tried getting Windows XP running on my 20GB EEE PC 900, but out of the box, it's pretty sluggish. The problem may be that Windows XP is not being optimized for solid state drives (SSDs). Posting on the OCZ (maker of SATA SSD drives) forums, Tony has written up a HOWTO on making Windows XP play quite a bit better with SSD drives:Cheaper SSD drives like our Core V1 and Core V2 series have limitations with random writes filling up the write buffer on the drive and causing the SATA controller to pause while this is flushed. The reason for this is Nand MLC drives at present have to erase before they write...hence you get added latency. So every bit written to the drive has to be preceded by a bit erased, the drive can not write over the top of pre written data.What we are trying to do here is limit how much XP writes to cache/database. many apps within XP do this, apps you add also do this (such as outlook)The tweaks you will see listed may help with this, SSD's do not take well to lots of tiny random writes.

Samba as a PDC for Vista

Disable NTLMv2 on Vista