Feature: The quest for the golden Nintendo game
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One Friday afternoon in 2010, Pat Contri got the Facebook message of every video game collector's dreams. A friend who worked at the local game store started texting him cryptic photographs of something a customer had just traded in.
He stared at the blurry, gray-and-green pictures. What at first looked like a row of shelves, he eventually realized, was a close-up of several exposed DIP switches. Just then, like a Tetris block dropping neatly into place, it clicked. Contri slammed his finger on the "Call" button.
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An insanely well-made video of how our Lexar memory cards are…
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An insanely well-made video of how our Lexar memory cards are made!
FPV servo controlled plane grabs epic vacation footage, puts old family videos to shame (video)
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By the time winter rolls around, Alistair Roberts will probably remember his summer vacation a heckuva lot better than the rest of us. Why? Because he brought an FPV plane to record his mountain biking holiday in the Spanish sun. With a GoPro camera mounted on the servo-powered cradle, Alistair piloted the plane by moving his head and using a remote control -- all while streaming first person video from the cockpit into a pair of goggles. By pairing the high tech toy with another GoPro on his dad's mountain bike, and a stationary camera on the ground, Alistair was able to create a truly amazing vacation video from 1200 - 1500 feet in the air traveling around 20kmph (12mph) -- way cooler than any of the ones our dads recorded back in the day. Check out the video after the break.
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Another time-lapse landscape video from Christoph MalinDo you…
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Another time-lapse landscape video from Christoph Malin
Do you remember the guest post on Time-lapse Landscape Astrophotography from Christoph Malin? He just sent me his latest video. Enjoy:
Another time-lapse landscape video from Christoph Malin Do you…
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Another time-lapse landscape video from Christoph Malin
Do you remember the guest post on Time-lapse Landscape Astrophotography from Christoph Malin? He just sent me his latest video. Enjoy:
What we SHOULD have been taught in our senior year of high school
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I created a better curriculum for high school seniors.
Test Websites In Internet Explorer 9, 8 and 7 Under Linux / Mac OSX
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So why use it? Here are a few reasons (besides the obvious reason: testing websites in multiple Internet Explorer versions under Linux / Mac OSX):
- no Windows license required
- it's legal and free
- you don't have to install Windows in VirtualBox for yourself
- sometimes a website behaves differently in IE9's IE7 or IE8 compatibility mode compared to the actual Internet Explorer 7 or 8.
- a snapshot is automatically taken upon install so you can revert to the original machine state at any time
Disadvantages:
- the biggest disadvantage is the disk space required by these VHDs (as well as a large download size: 2,6 GB for IE7 and 4,1 GB for IE8 and IE9). If you want to run all 3 Internet Explorer versions supported (7, 8, 9), you'll need almost 45 GB of disk space. But you can install just one version: for Internet Explorer 7 you'll need 13 GB, for IE8: 8,4 GB and for IE9: 13 GB.
- the script cannot resume from failed downloads yet
Usage
sudo apt-get install curl unrar2. To download and run the script, use the following command in a terminal:
curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash
curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | IEVMS_VERSIONS="9" bashWhere "9" is the IE version you want (you can also add two versions here, like "7 9").
At this point, the download should start and it will take a while so be patient.
Now you can start testing your website in IE9, IE8 and IE7 under Linux or Mac OSX. Oh, and the password for all the VMs is "Password1".
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