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The history of hacking

DanielAndrade — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:43:51 +0000

If you have 50 minutes of your day, you really should watch this Discovery Channel`s Documentary, about the history of hacking, about the Phone Phreaking. Amazing!

10A on a .7 graphite -> ElectronicsLab.org

DanielAndrade — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:09:51 +0000

Hi, me and some friends from university, we just started a new blog called electronicslab.org where we will add some cool things we do over the weekends and holidays, also telling our discoveries and learning’s. Down, you can watch a short but really cool video (at least was cool making it), were we connected a 0.7 graphite to a power source and made 10A go through it!

Don’t forget, add www.electronicslab.org to your rss reader and get ready for some cool stuff

Solving problemas with PhPMyadmin on Ubuntu

DanielAndrade — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:35:57 +0000

You know, everytime you want to install LAMP + phpmyadmin on Ubuntu, you can simply write on terminal:

sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server-5.0 php5 php5-mysql phpmyadmin

Ok, you are ready to go, but the only problem is that you can’t find the phpmyadmin folder when accessing http://localhost/ you can’t even see the folder at /var/www/ . So what you should do is:

sudo ln -sf /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/phpmyadmin

It will link the phpmyadmin folder from /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ to /var/www/phpmyadmin
now try going to http://localhost/phpmyadmin and you are good to go!

Energy efficiency a MUST

DanielAndrade — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:45:37 +0000

Review: Lacie Pocket 500gb External Drive

DanielAndrade — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:42:52 +0000

Some days ago I bough the Lacie Pocket 500gb external hard-drive, and since then I have been very happy with my purchase. The HD is small enough to fit any pocket in my bag (3.19 x 0.71 x 5.08 inches [WxHxD]) and with the weight of 3 pounds, it makes easy to take everywhere. I know that having an external notebook hard-drive isn’t the safest way to store you precious data, but its a great place to store music, videos and photos in which you can take anywhere. At home I have my HTPC (Home theater PC) with a lot of free storage, so what I do is, I have a backup of all my data on the external lacie drive, and another copy of my precious things on my HTPC, this way I hope all my information is safe (I am also thinking on having another copy on the clouds [amazon s3]). Everything is backed up using a simple bash script made by me that will make copies to the external drive and to my media center via FTP.

Lacia Pocket drive comes just with a USB 2.0 cable (no firewire [no problem, new macbooks dont have them anyway]), and uses it to power the HD and to transfer data. That was one of the things I was looking for when buying it, some external drive that you don’t need to go everywhere with a power supply just for the device. If your USB port doesn’t have enough juice to power the hd, you can use another port just to power it. This problem usually happen when you try connecting some device that requires more energy to a USB hub.

As I am planing to use it on Linux/Windows/Macs, I formatted it it as FAT32, even knowing it only accept files smaller then 2^32-1 bytes (what sucks when downloading huge High-Def movies). The drive is a 5400RPM 2.5-inch, so you shouldn’t expect it to be really super fast, but the speed is decent and works for me.

Here you can check some more pictures of this gadget, enjoy.

Arduino Wallpapers

DanielAndrade — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:28:21 +0000

Just having some fun with photoshop, I made a wallpaper for the Arduino lovers out there. If you have any ideas or different color you would like to have it, just leave a comment with the #code you want.

Hope you liked

[1024×768] [1280×1024] [1280×960] [1280×800] [1600×1280]

MAKE presents: The LED

DanielAndrade — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:14:59 +0000

As you might already know, I am big of a LED fan, love all it’s light power and low power needed for that. While viewing the RSS from
HackZine I saw a great short video about the history of LEDs and a little about how to use them. I liked, and decided to share with you, hope you likes as much as I.

In case you would like to learn more about leds, you can visit HowStuffWorks and on Wikipedia.

Some projects I’ve used with leds:

HowTo: Blinking LEDs

HowTo: Make your own Metronome

DIY: Binary Clock with Arduino

Watch out for Twitterank.com

DanielAndrade — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:23:18 +0000

Hey everyone, watch out if you want to try twitterank.com, it seems to be a scam!

Wordpress on the Apple macbook event

DanielAndrade — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:17:48 +0000

While following the coverage of Apple’s macbook event at gizmodo, I found one picture that I think is worth sharing,
they took a shot from people writing stuff about the event… And from few notebook screens I could see there, at least 3 using wordpress. Thumbs up WP!!

BTW, new macbook’s looks amazing, can’t wait to get one of those!!!

Do you know anyone with the last name “FUCK”?

DanielAndrade — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:19:05 +0000

I was traveling to São Bento do Sul last weekend to work on the municipal elections, and found something very funny. There is a FIAT reseller place called FUCK, I believe that it is the owner’s last name (what a great last name to have!). Even if my last name was this, I would never have a business with this amazing name! You can check some pics and video below…

Ah, there is also a company called SETA. The people who made the logo aren’t very criative!