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Filed under: laptops hacks OCAU member [Bismar] was in the market for an e-book reader, but all of his commercial options were too expensive. He decided to build one himself, and what he came up with is the Tabeee MK1, an e-book reader made from a 7" Eee PC, a touchscreen, and a custom case.
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All of these options are just for in house serving, but none of them are true backup solutions since your data still goes away when your house burns down. That's a fairly thorough rundown of hacker friendly backup options, but we want to know what you use.
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Their results were quite definitive: not only are they not as energy efficient, SSDs actually use more power than conventional hard drives. Most SSDs on the other hand, only have two states: on and off.
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Building a portable air conditioner is cheap easy, and we daresay refreshing. You'll need the following materials: a condenser, heater core, or radiator, a styrofoam cooler, a submersible water pump, a few case fans, some adapters to power the works, and a few other materials.
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The contest doesn't require any actual primordial soup, just a concept of a synthetic lifeform you think would be useful or interesting. The first category asks contestants to use the BioBricks registry of standard biological parts to design a lifeform that could be created in a lab.
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