Zune Tower Defense
Developing as standard XNA project for the moment. Will most likely be LGPL when I finish...
Right now:
- Interface works
- Mobs spawn, but need pathing and I cant find my steering class I wrote last year...
- Towers need placement code
- Cant test with the Zune HD yet due to some weird error. I'm assuming because I'm developing in a 64bit environment.
SecurityTube just got my bookmark
SecurityTube is a new video site designed around the premise of information security. They host conference lectures from DEFCON and the like, proof of concept vulnerability videos, and other miscellanea. Pretty sweet!
Pwnsauce Programs: Android SMB2 Vulnerability Tester
Want to know if a machine is vulnerable? Just punch in the IP and check! If your not patched you'll lockup and BSoD. *sigh* I wish Sprint had an affordable Android phone...
from http://sinisterware.blogspot.com/2009/09/smb-check.html
802.11n is official!
Its out of draft and an official standard as of today. It was ratified at the semi-annual IEEE held this week in Piscataway, NJ.
Read the press release
Levitation of small animals achieved
From the article:
Scientists working on behalf of NASA built a device to simulate variable levels of gravity. It consists of a superconducting magnet that generates a field powerful enough to levitate the water inside living animals, with a space inside warm enough at room temperature and large enough at 2.6 inches wide (6.6 cm) for tiny creatures to float comfortably in during experiments.
The researchers first levitated a young mouse, just three-week-old and weighing 10 grams. It appeared agitated and disoriented, seemingly trying to hold on to something.
"It actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster, and we think that made it even more disoriented," said researcher Yuanming Liu, a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. They decided to mildly sedate the next mouse they levitated, which seemed content with floating.
More at http://www.livescience.com/animals/090909-mouse-levitation.html
ROFLMAO @ Brett Farve Sears Commercial
Speaking as a Wisconsinite: Brett needs to pick a team or retire, and Packer's, was it really necessary to essentially force Brett out of Green Bay?
Display on a Contact Lens
The IEEE has an article about the current state of embedding displays on contact lenses.
We’ve fabricated prototype lenses with an LED, a small radio chip, and an antenna, and we’ve transmitted energy to the lens wirelessly, lighting the LED. To demonstrate that the lenses can be safe, we encapsulated them in a biocompatible polymer and successfully tested them in trials with live rabbits.
This is looking good so far if they've already started testing prototypes on animals. I wonder how one would go about signing up for human trials?
Sweet DIY electric motorcycle
From the article:
With only a semester to burn on the project, Miceli got straight to designing. He hashed out the details with brainstorming, sketches and CAD models, taking cues from some of his favorite bikes, including the radical KTM RC8. [The bike] carries two dozen 40Ah lithium iron phosphate batteries. Miceli figures the pack has a total output about 3 kilowatt-hours. The juice powers a 6.75-inch AC motor rated at 43 horsepower and 95 foot-pounds of torque. The pack recharges in six hours from a standard 110-volt outlet. Miceli estimates the range at about 60 miles and has hit a top speed of about 70 mph.
AMD preping new multi-monitor technology
AMD is developing a new technology/feature for release. If your a fan of multi-monitor setups your going to love this. Using next-gen GPU's and the DisplayPort specification, a single GPU will drive many displays. Now your thinking that this isn't that impressive, I can do that with my video card now! What is impressive is that it can currently drive up to six displays with resolutions in the 2560x1600 range. AMD is demoing the setup using 6, 30" monitors pushing 2560x1600. Now I just need to buy a bunch of monitors with DisplayPort.
Pics at The Tech Report: Eyefinity pushes over 24 million pixels with one next-gen Radeon.
Host your own bittorrent tracker complements of Google
You can let Google host your very own bittorrent tracker! Atrack is a new project that implements the Google App Engine and Google's complementary hosting. As far as privacy and confideniality, you'll only have to worry about Google releasing the access log file to your entire App Engine account it seems.
“Atrack also aims to respect your privacy: other than what is needed for the most basic tracking, Atrack gathers no information whatsoever. Beyond that no aggregate statistics are kept of anything, and nothing is stored permanently anywhere, not even hashes and ip/ports,”
This has got to be the bane of any association pursuing the take down of hosted bittorrent trackers.
more info at atrack | freshmeat.net