If you are having problems with a new network card showing up on eth2 or eth1, take a look at /etc/iftab. More than likely eth0 (and maybe eth1) are assigned to another MAC address. Change the MAC address to set the interfaces, or comment out the lines and Ubuntu will assign the interfaces in the [...]
Nextbrick: Tom Johnson’s Working Technic Knitting Machine Cool. Tom Johnson has built this Lego knitting machine out of Technic. It may not be the tightest weave we’ve ever seen (that honor goes to our Junior Prom date), but it’s surprisingly functional for using what seems to be a bare minimum of beams.
My father recently started blogging. So far he’s blogged about the kayak he’s building and linked to a few cool books on Amazon. Definitely give it a look if you’re interested in building a kayak. http://tonyolsen.com/
Chapter 2: Electromagnetism This looks like a great experiment for the kids. A simple homemade Van de Graaff generator In the previous two projects, we stole high voltage from a television set to power our high voltage motors. In this project we will build a device that can generate 12,000 volts from an empty soda [...]
neauveau.com Cool tutorial on howto frog a sweater for yarn. Thanks to everyone for the positive feedback! I am so glad that many have found this tutorial helpful. Feel free to distribute copies of this tutorial to your friends. If you plan to use this tutorial to unravel yarn to make a profit for yourself, [...]
All about Linux: A Concise apt-get / dpkg primer for new Debian users Just a reminder to look here later. Debian is one of the earliest Linux distribution around. It caught the public’s fancy because of the ease of installing and uninstalling applications on it. When many other linux distributions were bogged down in dependency [...]