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Hack Attack: Turn your $60 router into a $600 router. Ruby on Rails. How to set up a safe and secure Web server. Fifteen years ago, you weren't a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage.

How to set up a safe and secure Web server

Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy—the most famous is the now-defunct GeoCities, but there were many others (remember Angelfire and Tripod?). These were the days before the "social" Web, before MySpace and Facebook. Instant messaging was in its infancy and creating an online presence required no small familiarity with HTML (though automated Web design programs did exist). Things are certainly different now, but there's still a tremendous amount of value in controlling an actual honest-to-God website rather than relying solely on the social Web to provide your online presence.

The flexibility of being able to set up and run anything at all, be it a wiki or a blog with a tipjar or a photo hosting site, is awesome. The hardware You'll need some hardware, and fortunately, a personal Web server doesn't require a lot of juice. Top 10 Warranty-Voiding Hacks. @neverbeenback: As was said down below in the comments, many warranties state that you can't change the OS to something 'not approved' which is generally a few versions of windows.

Top 10 Warranty-Voiding Hacks

Wether or not the company *actually* voids your warranty is up to them. edit: hackintoshing is vaguely illegal as well, so I can't see Dell being psyched to help fix your hackmac @freedomweasel: You miss the point, you would be expected to return the laptop to windows before return as using the restore discs is always the first thing to do to remove the chance of software problems, if they easily diagnose a problem then they often tell you to remove your HDD before return , so again YOUR WARRANTY IS NOT EFFECTED.

Python Course, Other Programming Video Tutorials, Nick Parlante. Ruby Programming Tutorials. Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Python. Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition — Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition. Welcome to the 3rd Edition of Learn Python the Hard Way.

Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition — Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition

You can visit the companion site to the book at where you can purchase digital downloads and paper versions of the book. The free HTML version of the book is available at Table Of Contents Common Student Questions How long does this course take? You should take as long as it takes to get through it, but focus on doing work every day. What kind of computer do I need? You can do it on most any computer. Video Purchase The Videos For $29.59 For just $29.59 you can get access to all the videos for Learn Python The Hard Way, plus a PDF of the book and no more popups all in this one location.

All 52 videos, 1 per exercise, almost 2G of video. Open a Padlock with an Aluminum Can. DIY Mosquito Killing Device a.k.a. The Handheld Flamethrower. Meant for slaying mosquitoes, but equally capable of maiming an enemy or two, the DIY mosquito killing device is made using various doodads you can undoubtedly find laying around your home.

DIY Mosquito Killing Device a.k.a. The Handheld Flamethrower

Needed to create your very own mosquito killing device is a bottle of hair spray and an old bicycle handlebar with brakes included. Anything that combines the ability to burn someone’s face off with unbeatable portability is OK in my book. Self-defense meets anti-itching. And I fricken’ hate itching. Link [via] l633905370133666920.jpg (JPEG Image, 1872 × 1224 pixels) University lectures computer science. Whether your goal is to earn a promotion, graduate at the top of your class, or just accelerate your life, lectures can help get you there.

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Python_cheatsheet.png (PNG Image, 773 × 938 pixels) - Scaled (58%) Android Game Development Tutorials. Some months ago we received an email from a fellow Java developer, Tamas Jano, asking to be part of our JCG partners program.

Android Game Development Tutorials

To our surprise he maintains a blog named “Against The Grain” debating about game development for the Android platform. I have been reading all of his articles since then and I must admit that his writings have been an inspiration and a motivation for me and my colleagues here at Java Code Geeks so as to start developing our first game for the Android platform. With this post I would like to present Tamas‘s work to our community hoping that you will be inspired and motivated just like we did! Gotoandlearn.com - Free video tutorials on interactive development.