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Changing Hosting Services

6/7/2008: We're in the process of changing hosting services, please bear with us.
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New Apt-Get Repository!!!

An apt-get repositiory has been added to make installing software easy for Ubuntu/Debian users.
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Software Projects

The projects section has been redone. It now has detailed information about what stage each project is in, their features, and the tasks involved in completing those features.
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We've moved!!!

If you're looking at this you have probably noticed that we've moved! I finally got around to registering the domain so here we are.
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New Section Added

Added the schematics section. Everything seems to work but the viewer at the bottom of the page for the schematics
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New Section Added - Documentation

The documentation section has been started. All javadocs should be viewable now. Still some parsing errors for links.
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New Section Added - Libraries

The libraries section should be mostly working. May have a few bugs to work out.
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New Design

Design of the new website has begun.
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References

projects:software:car:carpc

This is the core project for the CarPC/Carputer. The goal of this documentation is to record ideas of what to put into the system. References to documentation and possible hardware will also be included for easy access. Most of the designs here are ...
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projects:software:car:carpc:hardware

General Hardware Cases Voom Carpc Case Displays Xenarc Touch Screen Prius Touch Screen? CPUs Via Intel Atom TI OMAP3 (check out the BegalBoards: http://beagleboard.org) Input CF/SD card reader ...
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tutorials:linux:building_ubuntu_source_packages - created

apt-get build-deps [package] apt-get source [package] Make changes to source and compile. “apt-cache show [package] | grep Version You’ll get something like this: Version: someversion.ubuntu1 You can then use a newer version number...
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linux

These tutorials cover a few things I’ve figured out how to do in Linux over time. Some of them cover my hardware configuration and others software, but all of them Linux. TutorialDescription Xorg ConfigurationHow to configure xorg to sup...
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projects:software:car:carpc:sensors

Sensors Core temperature sensor OBD-II sensor GPS Bluetooth Wifi Possible Webcam Fish eye cameras for accident logging radar detection (depends on state laws and what kind of interfaces are available) RF sensor FM tuner for wireless au...
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Slashdot

Turning Soap Film Into a Projector Screen

An anonymous reader writes "3 graduate students from University of Tokyo, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Tsukuba have developed a colloidal display — a clear projector screen that can control its transparency. Normally soap film will allow light to pass through, but the colloidal display does not. It mixes colloid into the solution and uses ultra sonic speakers to vibrate the surface of the soap film to achieve this. They have created several prototypes, such as 3D planar screen, to show how this technology can be useful."

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Programming — Now Starting In Elementary School

the agent man writes "The idea of getting kids interested in programming in spite of their common perception of programming to be 'hard and boring' is an ongoing Slashdot discussion. With support of the National Science Foundation, the Scalable Game Design project has explored how to bring computer science education into the curriculum of middle and high schools for some time. The results are overwhelmingly positive, suggesting that game design is highly motivational across gender and ethnicity lines. The project is also finding new ways of tracking programming skills transferring from game design to STEM simulation building. This NPR story highlights an early and unplanned foray into bringing game-design based computer science education even to elementary schools."

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Assange Stands 'Real Chance' of Election In Australia

Okian Warrior writes "Various new sources are reporting the results of a recent Labor Party poll, indicating that Julian Assange would be elected to the Australian senate, should he choose to run. From the Sun Daily article: 'Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands a real chance of winning an upper house seat in his native Australia if he presses ahead with plans to stand for election, a poll showed Saturday. A survey conducted by the ruling Labor party's internal pollsters UMR Research and published in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper showed 25 percent of those polled would vote for the whistleblowing website chief.'"

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Apple Lifts Ban On the Word "Jailbreak"

Gunkerty Jeb writes "After banning the word 'jailbreak' from its app store and music library, Apple [Friday] reversed course and again permits the term — slang for hacking into a device to download unauthorized content — to appear on iTunes and its App Store. On Thursday bloggers noticed Apple had censored the word, using the Thin Lizzy album 'Jailbreak' as an example. For awhile, the title was listed as 'J******k' in Apple's music library, at least its U.S. version. In other instances, digital content continued to bear the full name Jailbreak."

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Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over 'Blasphemous' Images

Diggester writes with this news from the Times of India: "Pakistani authorities on Friday further widened the crackdown on websites with blasphemous contents by restricting access to popular social networking website Twitter. Pakistani users were unable to log into Twitter after internet service providers blocked access to the site." The block was prompted by Twitter's refusal to take down messages promoting a cartoon contest to which the Pakistani government objects for its depictions of Muhammad. This end-run falls right in line with the pessimistic reaction from Reporters Without Borders to the Pakistani court decision calling Internet censorship unconstitutional.

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