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3D Printer Fund

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There has been a lot of buzz about 3D printers over the last year.  Prices are coming down and resolution has been increasing.  Klaiviel, our resident lockpicking guru, is attempting to start a business around it.  We feel that DC414 as a whole needs their hands on this technology.  We’re starting a 3D printer fund starting now.

There are many options to go with but we want to get the ball rolling while research is happening in parallel.  Price range we’re looking at is between $500 and $1,000 for quality printers.

This won’t happen without help from people like you.   Once purchases / assembled / hacked, our goal is to make the printer accept jobs from online. We’d queue up jobs and have a webcam feed to view progress when printing remotely.   Notifications would be sent out to the author upon start, completion, and possibly other metrics we can get out of the printer.

  • Donate $25+ gets you free stickers
  • Donate $50+ gets you a free shirt
  • Donate $100+ gets you free prints for 6 months
  • Donate $150+ gets you free prints and priority for 6 months

Any size donation gets you on the thank you list.

As of now we have $233 in the fund.  Make your donation now (look to the right) and lets get this ball rolling.

bucketwork.org build health event.

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For 28 hours, from April 14-15, experts from the health care field will collaborate with hackers to solve relevant health care problems. Local health care experts will present contemporary health care challenges. Additionally, participants may present a health care challenge or solution. Participants will self-assemble around the problem or proposed solution they find most interesting and creatively problem solve, creating a working proof of concept to present to the judges. Solutions need not be software; they can be other instruments of social change.

Food, internet, and plenty of rest and work areas will be provided along with fabulous prizes!

Please visit BuildHealth.org for more info and to register.

 

make sure u register if ur coming 🙂 u will need a ticket to get in.

Microsoft Virtualization Event in Brookfield

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Just got an email from Microsoft saying they have a virtualization event in brookefield.

Figured since I was going I’d share in case anyone else wants to join me.  Should be worth while.

Starts: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:00 AM
Ends: Thursday, December 08, 2011 5:00 PM
Time zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)

“Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield

375 S Moorland Rd
Brookfield Wisconsin 53005
United States

 

Register by Phone: 1-877-MSEVENT 9AM-7PM EST M-F
Meal: Yes
Presenter(s):  Brian Lewis and Matt Hester.
Language(s):  English.
Product(s):  Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Azure, Windows Server and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Audience(s):  IT Generalist.”or register here

dc414 Halloween party

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Here are some pictures from the dc414 Halloween party. Me and dw5304 messed with an arduino project I have been working on and Klaiviel gave us a little preview of some sweet safe locks hes bringing to the next meeting then later him and I had a little nerf war!!! My ass was thoroughly kicked, lol. Many thanxs to Ulic and his wife for hosting the party! We had a blast!

phpMyAdmin upgrade script.

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I got sick of upgrading phpMyAdmin at work every time a new version came out so i made this little script to do it for me. All you have to do is pass the .gz download url to it.

Here is the code:

#!/bin/bash
upgrade() {
    wget $1 -O phpmyadminupgrade.tar.gz
    FILE="phpmyadminupgrade.tar.gz"
    tar zxvf $FILE
    FOLDER=`echo $FILE | awk -F".tar" '{print $1}'`
    cp /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php ~/phpMyAdmin*
    rm -rf /usr/share/phpmyadmin/*
    cp -R ~/phpMyAdmin*/* /usr/share/phpmyadmin/
    chmod -R 777 /usr/share/phpmyadmin/
    chmod 644 /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
    rm -rf ~/phpMyAdmin*
    rm ~/$FILE
    echo "Done!!"
    exit 1
}

usage() {
    echo "Use this script to update phpmyadmin"
    echo "to run:"
    echo "./upgradephpmyadmin.sh url"
    exit 1
}

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    usage;
else
    upgrade $1
fi

Past that into “upgradephpmyadmin.sh”
chmod a+x it and run it as root like so:

user@user:~$ sudo ./upgrademyphpadmin.sh url

NOTE: This bash script assumes phpMyAdmin’s html files, including config.inc.php live in /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ and that you are running this script in your home directory.