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RapRep -- Self replicating machine

Posted by coldtobi | 22 Feb, 2009, 13:17

A friend pointed me to an interesting (hardware) project: RepRap.

To quote the website:

A universal constructor is a machine that can replicate itself and - in addition - make other industrial products. Such a machine would have a number of interesting characteristics, such as being subject to Darwinian evolution, increasing in number exponentially, and being extremely low-cost.

A rapid prototyper is a machine that can manufacture objects directly (usually, though not necessarily, in plastic) under the control of a computer.

The RepRap project is working towards creating a universal constructor by using rapid prototyping, and then giving the results away free under the GNU General Public Licence to allow other investigators to work on the same idea. We are trying to prove the hypothesis: Rapid prototyping and direct writing technologies are sufficiently versatile to allow them to be used to make a von Neumann Universal Constructor.

All good projects have a slogan, and the best have a slogan that reeks of hubris. RepRap is no exception. Our slogan is:

"Wealth without money..."

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Happy Holidays!

Posted by coldtobi | 24 Dec, 2008, 15:01

I wish you and all your freinds, family, etc...  a wonderful christmas.

Enjoy the holidays!

coldtobi

 

Seamless integration Google Search into Lifetype (Part 2)

Posted by coldtobi | 18 Jul, 2008, 22:34

This is the second part of the "seamless integration of Google Search into lifetype". To help you navigating, here are the links to oher parts: 

• Search into Lifetype (Part 1 -- Introduction)
• Register at google a Custom Search Engine (Part 2)
• Edit the template for the search results (Part 3)
• Edit the .htaccess for an additional ReWriteRule. (Part 4)

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Seamless integration Google Search into Lifetype (Part 1)

Posted by coldtobi | 16 Jul, 2008, 17:43 Some weeks ago, I integrated the Google Search into the blogging platform on this site. At this time I already planned to do a "how to", as this might be also interesting for others. Seamless integration means, that the search results are embedded in the look and feel of the blog: It should use the same templates and also present the search results matching to the design of the blog.

Of course, you don't want to maintain different template system, so best the search engine will use exactly the same template files also used for the rest of the blog.

Overview:

• Seamless integration Google Search into Lifetype (Part 1 -- Introduction)
• Register at google a Custom Search Engine (Part 2)
• Edit the template for the search results (Part 3)
• Edit the .htaccess for an additional ReWriteRule. (Part 4)

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How to check if you have ModRewrite

Posted by coldtobi | 12 Jul, 2008, 18:58

ModRewrite comes handy for SEO and other opportunites, where you want to change URL to something else. Lifetype uses this to assemble all the php parameters and make more search-engine and humanfriendly URLs. Also, you can do the RFI Protection I described earlier.
To find out, whether your webhoster's Apache supports ModRewrite, you have basically two options:

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Still Blogging...

Posted by coldtobi | 12 Jul, 2008, 13:20

Some may be wondering why it is currently quiet here. Well, I am still alive ;-) but currently I justing lack teh time for blogging...

But times will get better soon ;-)

 

Google Search for websites improved

Posted by coldtobi | 4 Jun, 2008, 17:20

When subsribed to AdSense, you also get the opportunity to include a "Google Search" for your website. Frequent reader of my blog will remember, that I already tried this to improve your overall blog reading experience.

Don't get me wrong. The lifetype's own search engine is very well, but Google is specialized on search engines and can offer a lots more: Maybe you already encountered that correction of some misspelled words in the search query come very handy. Also, the algorithm knows about synonyms and will also include them in the search result. Example: (For the German readers): Try to search the obsolete term "Nulleiter", and it will search as well for the (correct) term "Neutralleiter".)

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