Summer roadtrip season is here, but you don’t have to leave your desktop, or its contents, at home or work while you travel: it's all about remote access tools, from monthly fee to VNC!
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Building your own VMware ESXi Server in under an hour with parts you may have lying under your bed. Extreme sports cameras and mounts and mounts can be expensive. Why not build your own for about 5 bucks. And light video editing that’s both easy and free? Avidemux may be the answer.
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UPS Hack! Take the tiny battery out of your Uninteruptible Power Supply and replace it with a car battery: you get to run your UPS for a lot longer, and potentially melt your face!
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Want access to your files stored at home? How about hosting a home web server? Static IPs are expensive, if you can even get one. We set up Dynamic DNS instead!
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From hacker spaces to profitable businesses, tinkering is experiencing a renaissance. WSJ’s Andy Jordan and Justin Lahart explore some of the "stuff" people are making with new devices that encourage hacking and creativity.
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WSJ’s Andy Jordan heads to the "Maker Faire" in Silicon Valley, California to see how tinkerers are remaking the notion of manufacturing. (Originally published 05/12/08)
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