We know some of you are getting sick of POV projects, but this one was just so cool, we couldn’t resist. [UncleBone] thought POVs were pretty cool, and wondered if he could use one on his ceiling fan. It would have been a breeze just to toss something like the RGBike POV on there and call it finished, but he designed his own. Opting to blow away the norm of using a single row of LEDs, he chose to do 5 different rows of LEDs, one for each blade. The whole thing is controlled by an Arduino, with a…
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Ceiling fan POV
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Microsoft has released an advisory related to an Office Web Components ActiveX vulnerability.
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. When using Internet Explorer, code execution is remote and may not require any user intervention.
This vulnerability exists in the ActiveX control used by IE to display Excel spreadsheets. Microsoft mentions that they are aware of active exploits against this vulnerability and at the moment there is no patch, just a a workaround. Workaround refers to a setting or configuration change that does not correct the underlying vulnerability but would help block known attack vectors before you apply the update. Microsoft advisory…
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Apple Adjustable Keyboard USB hack
When [Tom] got tired of the large size of his Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 keyboard, he decided to hack a recently acquired Apple Adjustable Keyboard for use with Windows. After removing the ancient ADB based control board from the Apple keyboard, he was able to map the keys and transplant the Microsoft keyboard’s USB control board into the Apple keyboard. After soldering the control board into the keyboard with old IDE cables, all that was left was to add some diodes to prevent ghost key presses, and the keyboard hack was complete. [Tom] offers a spreadsheet of the results…
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Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final
Ubuntu is a community developed linux based operating system that is perfect for laptops desktops and servers It contains all the applications you need a web browser presentation document and spreadsheet software instant messaging and much more Ubuntu is free software Whether you use it at home at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you 39 ll ever need from word processing and email applications to web server software and programming tools Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge You do not pay any licensing fees You can download use and share Ubuntu with your…
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Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) RC
Ubuntu is a community developed linux based operating system that is perfect for laptops desktops and servers It contains all the applications you need a web browser presentation document and spreadsheet software instant messaging and much more Ubuntu is free software Whether you use it at home at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you 39 ll ever need from word processing and email applications to web server software and programming tools Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge You do not pay any licensing fees You can download use and share Ubuntu with your…
