Bungee jumping is already the scariest thing in the world, so how does one make it EVEN SCARIER? By going the homemade, DIY-route. These guys just tied a few knots, used a few carabiners and then just jumped off a freaking bridge. That's it. Watch it, you'll be stunned at how flimsy the entire set up looks. More »
The Lockheed U-2 was designed to keep tabs on the Soviet Union over half a century ago. The RQ-4 Global Hawk drone was designed to replace this 50s antique. But how strange you are, fate! The U-2's replacing its successor. More »
Wait, I thought evolution was an interminably slow process requiring millions of years to make any noticeable difference? Apparently not if you're yeast. A research team has just announce that it's figured out how to evolve a single-celled organism into a multicellular animal just like a freakin' Pokemon. More »
Ubuntu 11.10 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
Ubuntu 11.10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB
protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a
standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup,
every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol
and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.
Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentagon-backed physicists have figured out how to mask entire events by distorting light. More »
