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Original Post: Using a Radiosonde as a real time, low cost GPS based tracking device

Thanks to Hack A Day and those that left comments, many useful ideas / suggestions were received along with some offers of support and a promising looking solution.

Here follows a roundup of the more informative comments:
Wizdom points out that if you [...]

A Radiosonde is a small package of electronics used in weather balloons by Meteorologist’s to measure pressure, altitude, wind speed, and humidity. They are mass produced, rarely recovered after use, and fairly low cost devices (~£20 on eBay / Bullnet (non GPS model).
After being launched the Radiosonde works by continuously transmitting back readings to [...]

I have been hearing bits and pieces about RFID technology for a while, but it now seems that it has evolved to a point where kits are available to the amateur electronics hobbyist at an affordable price.
Most recently Kn1ghtl0rd, and Lowtek Mystik, did a T.W.A.T Radio episode on RFID, and Make Magazine Volume 6 had [...]

Episode 1 of HackTV:Underground was featured on an episode of a show on G4TechTV Canada called “TORRENT“.  “Torrent” is a show that uses clips from different internet video shows similar to HackTV and usually revolve around a theme. We were on episode 6 on May 18, 2006 and the general theme was “toys” [...]

I have recently been seeing quite a few attacks for old PHP based vulnerabilities showing up in my logs:

Mambo "GLOBALS['mosConfig_absolute_path']" File Inclusion
PHP-Nuke "phpbb_root_path" Arbitrary File Inclusion
WebCalendar "includedir" Arbitrary File Inclusion Vulnerability

I therefore decided to look at them closer, and coded up a php script that mimics falling for the attack, and downloads a copy of [...]

Someone recently asked me about adding search capabilities to a small, simple static html based site.
There are a number of options available. The most obvious of which is perhaps just to just link to Google with the “site:” option, slightly messy but it works. There is however a better way, which is to [...]

So, in case you haven’t been listening to BRR, I attended Linuxworld Boston 2006 this week. All in all, I’d say it was pretty good. I was slightly disappointed with it over last year’s show. But there was some very spiffy and fun things.
First, I arrived tuesday morning to scout out the floor and see [...]

Some of the more notable April fools I came across yesterday:

The Binrev forums got several new themes all in various shades of pink and purple: “digi-pink”, “Girlz-Rool”, “Country Bumpkin”.

The Binrev Members page changed to show ACH members.

2600 changed its homepage to look like Google.

Slashdot made some pink themes design changes to widen its appeal to [...]

The Cisco 7960 is a fairly popular VoIP phone especially among Asterisk users, primarily since it can be re-flashed with a SIP image. It has also featured appearances on TV shows such as FOX’s ‘24’, NBC’s ‘The West Wing’, and CBS’s ‘The Agency’. Among other things it supports call forwarding, call conferencing, and [...]

I was recently considering upgrading an Intel based PC, however as is the way with technology things change fast and I decided it would be easier just to build a new machine. Here is what I found:

AGP is out, PCI Express x16 is in.
Serial ATA replaces the old Parallel ATA IDE interfaces however there [...]