http://www.teamhackaday.com The Official Site of the Unofficial Hack-a-Day Folding@Home Team Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:17:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In an attempt to ensure that all of his digits survive the 4th of July, forum member morehpperliter has devised a simple but elegant replacement to the time-honored tradition of "light the fuse and run like hell!"  Using an Arduino and a bit of code know-how, you too can keep ... http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/07/03/4th-of-july-special-set-off-fireworks-using-an-arduino/ Forum member Cerberus posted a tutorial on how to rig up an always-on USB charging port for your PC using a spare USB port, a resistor, and a few pieces of wire. It requires a small bit of soldering know-how, but anyone who has used an iron at least one time ... http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/06/23/always-on-usb-charging-port-for-your-pc/ I am happy to announce the first public release of my MailBin application, which works in conjunction with Gmail and Newsbin to enable individuals to remotely queue up Usenet downloads by emailing themselves .nzb files. The concept is simple, utilizing the ability to send oneself a message at Gmail.com with characters ... http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/06/20/newsbin-nzbs-gmail-mailbin/ I like having the ability to remotely access my PC at home while I am away in case I want to grab an important file I have left there, or if I need to finish something I didn’t quite get around to.  For ages I simply set port forwarding on ... http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/04/23/securing-windows-remote-desktop-with-copssh/ I can see that we are getting a little influx of traffic from my Lifehacker comments and such, so I wanted to give visitors an idea of what Team Hack-a-Day is about, and encourage them to stop by our forum and chat room as well. Our main focus is participating in ... http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/02/15/a-quick-hello-to-our-new-visitors/ I saw a recent article on Lifehacker about cleanly shutting down and restarting explorer.exe in Windows Vista. I gave it a try in XP just for the sake of it, and not surprisingly, it did not work. I did however find a way to do it in Windows XP that ... http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/02/15/shutting-down-and-restarting-explorerexe-in-windows-xp/ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of a working Promise RAID controller, it was the age of a failed Promise RAID controller... My motherboard has two on board Sata RAID controllers - one Promise FastTrack 378 controller and one Intel ICH5 ... http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/02/11/a-tale-of-two-raid-controllers/ The forum upgrade went smoothly, and everything looks like it was carried over properly. There are a few things that are missing such as  "Quick Reply" and the advertisements, among a few others.  I will be bringing those components back up to speed shortly, so bear with us. The only issue that ... http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/02/07/forum-is-back/ The forums might seem like they are down, but that is not the case.  We are doing some housekeeping and upgrading our forum to the newest version of phpBB.  Expect some down time as we migrate posts and such, as well as after the upgrade.  Hopefully our old theme will ... http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/02/07/forums-down-say-it-isnt-so/ Forum member DrNathan posted a quick write-up on how to use Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 Beta 2, Beta 3, and Beta 4 side-by-side without causing any profile conflicts or corruption. It only takes minutes and is a nice way to give the new iteration of Firefox a spin ... http://www.teamhackaday.com/2007/12/27/running-firefox-2-and-firefox-3-beta-2-side-by-side/