332-foot truck jump
This video shows the Hot Wheels sponsored, world-record-setting truck jump by Tanner Foust on May 29, 2011 at the Indy 500.
And an interview with the driver:
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Epic iPad 2, Garage Band session
How to set up AFP filesharing on Ubuntu
This how-to is a mashup of two different tutorials that I found on the web, but neither was up-to-date or did everything that I wanted. But thanks for to Kremalicious and damontimm for getting me started.
After struggling with using Samba for filesharing on our mac-only network (the final straw was file permissions that just wouldn’t work for everyone), I finally gave up and decided to try using AFP instead. I’d looked at it before, but it didn’t look easy to set up or production ready, but things have changed and I didn’t find it hard at all and it’s now working far better than Samba ever did.
There are two components to natural looking AFP:
(Zeroconf is the unbranded name for Bonjour, and is necessary to advertise your AFP volume over the network) In the case of Ubuntu these are provided by Netatalk and Avahi respectively, and as neither come by default on Ubuntu we have to install and configure both (but it’s not as hard as it sounds).
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Survey: One in Three Workers Wants to Quit Job
(NEW YORK) -- As the unemployment rate, currently at 8.8 percent, has started to decrease, employers should be cautious that workers don't jump ship for new opportunities.
Over one third of employees, 36 percent, hope to leave their job in the next 12 months, according to a survey by the insurance company MetLife.
The study also showed that 47 employees reported feeling "very strong loyalty" to their employers, down from 59 percent in 2008, when the downturn began.
But employers may not be aware of their employees' decreasing loyalty. Of the employers surveyed, 51 percent said their employees have very strong loyalty to them. Half of employers said the same when the survey was conducted in 2008.
MetLife conducted the interviews during the fourth quarter of 2010, the ninth year it has done such a survey. The company interviewed 1,508 employers and 1,412 full time employees at companies with a minimum of two employees.
These quadcopters will take over the world
The University of Pennsylvania has been working on these quadcopters that work all too well together. This video came shortly after the quadcopters were taught to build structures quickly and very efficiently. Scary stuff.
How AT&T Recognizes Unauthorized Tethering from Jailbroken iPhones
In case you didn’t know, AT&T has started cracking down on unauthorized tethering, specifically for jailbroken iPhones on a grandfathered unlimited data plan.
If you’ve gotten AT&T’s “text of death” relating to your tethering usage, you’re probably utilizing free tethering through jailbreak apps like MyWi. Understandably, AT&T doesn’t want its users to have a free broadband connection through tethering hacks, and the carrier has started moving users over to its DataPro plan for $45 a month.
So, how is AT&T targeting unauthorized tethering on its network?
Read more: iphonedownloadblog.com
iPhone silent-mode scheduling
I've been wanting Apple to integrate something like this for so long. It's the one thing I miss about Blackberry (4 years ago).
Tornado in Alabama
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Ars Technica's guide to virtualization
Ars Technica has a really good write up on the virtualization technology and even goes into how to plan and implement the technology into your existing environment. I believe most people can learn something from it.
Is your iPhone tracking you?
Yes... yes it is... And it's storing all that information in an unencrytped file that can now be accessed using Pete Warden's free app, iPhoneTracker. Here's where I've been over the last 10 months.
