Filed under: cons , news Long before we started reporting on [ Dan Kaminsky ]’s DNS chicanery , he contributed a guest post about one of our favorite sources of new technology: SIGGRAPH . The stars have aligned again and we’re happy to bring you his analysis of this year’s convention. [photo: Phong Nguyen ]
So, last week, I had the pleasure of being stabbed, scanned, physically simulated, and synthetically defocused. Clearly, I must have been at SIGGRAPH 2008, the world’s biggest computer graphics conference. While it usually conflicts with Black Hat, this year I actually got to stop by, though a bit of a cold kept me from enjoying as much of it as I’d have liked. Still, I did get to walk the exhibition floor, and the papers (and videos) are all online , so I do get to write this (blissfully DNS and security unrelated) report. SIGGRAPH brings in tech demos from around the world every year, and this year was no exception. Vari...
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CCFL backlight replaced with white LEDsFrom: hackaday.com
Post Date: 2006-05-23 08:00:00
[Jeroen Domburg], one of our favorite hackers, has posted
how to replace a cold cathode based backlight with
white LEDs . He had recently purchased an HP Jornada 680 on eBay and the backlight was looking very pinkish. The
Jornada has a QWERTY keyboard, CF slot, PCMCIA slot and can run Linux .
Sounds like a pretty decent mini-terminal (now that we posted it you won’t be able to find one cheap though). In the
space where the backlight was he was able to place 14 whi...
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