Archive for June, 2005

Homebrew Soda Fountains

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

An excellent howto on creating your own home soda fountain. No more will you be held captive by the tyrrany of Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Instead you can, with a little wheeling and dealing plus elbow grease, dispense your own cold refreshing sugar water to all your friends.
In the old days, you would mix […]

The Fleet Type Submarine Online

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

The San Francisco Maritime National Park Association has a wonderful collection of submarine technical manuals posted for your enjoyment.

Kancho, Fact or Fiction?

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

This kancho thing has been popping up everywhere, and I’m curious just how real it is.

Trying out Ubuntu

Monday, June 27th, 2005

For the first time in years I have installed a ‘desktop linux’ distribution and I must say the results are quite shocking. I have been so used to running with Debian Stable that I really was in for a shock when I switched to Ubuntu.

USB Lock

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

I bought one of those proximity USB Wireless Security Locks and so last week I tried my hand at writing USB software using libusb.