Tuesday, June 01, 2004

Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon Posted by michael on Tuesday June 01, @03:36PM from the would-you-like-fries-with-that? dept. Iphtashu Fitz writes "Damon Toal-Rossi of Iowa City, Iowa had enough of the high price of gasoline, so it didn't take too much for his friend to talk him into switching to biodiesel, an alternative fuel based on soy or vegetable oil. But after a few months of driving 10 miles to a biodiesel fuel station he decided it was time to start brewing his own. It didn't take him long to find a recipe for biodiesel, and with used cooking oil that he gets for free from a nearby restaurant, he figures he's now getting 44 miles per gallon out of his diesel powered VW Golf and only paying 41 cents a gallon. According to the National Biodiesel Board the number of biodiesel stations in the US rose by 50% last year (to a whopping 200). The president of the American Soybean Association claims biodiesel has almost the same amount of energy as petroleum-based diesel, but cleans an engine's fuel injectors and cuts down on the number of required oil changes. Perhaps these are some of the reasons why diesel powered cars are making a comeback in the US." [Slashdot] Some stuff is just too interesting not to pass along... 6:32:18 PM    comment []  trackback []

Intel To Open-Source Next-Gen BIOS Code. Intel Corp. said Tuesday that it plans to release the "foundation" code of its Tiano next-generation BIOS code as part of an open-source license. [eWEEK Technology News] 6:21:54 PM    comment []  trackback []

Coccinella 0.94.11. Coccinella is a Jabber client with a whiteboard. The whiteboard is a shared desktop which supports text, drawings, images, and multimedia in a number of formats, such as MP3 and video. It runs in two main modes, a peer-to-peer configuration and a mode compatible with the Jabber Instant Messaging system. A flexible plugin architecture may be used to support additional formats. It should run on any machine that runs Tcl/Tk. [freshmeat.net] 2:57:40 PM    comment []  trackback []

Linux on the Linksys wrt54g 0.5. wrt54g-linux is a mini-distribution for the Linksys wrt54g 802.11b/g access point and router. It includes basic tools such as sh, syslog, telnetd, httpd (with cgi-bin support), vi, snort, mount, insmod, rmmod, top, grep, find, nfs modules, etc. The installation script runs in about 20 seconds and installs strictly to the RAM disk. If you mess anything up, simply reset the box. After installing the distribution you'll be able to telnet in, add Web pages, change iptable rules, change routing, configure snort, etc. [freshmeat.net] 1:56:28 PM    comment []  trackback []

A medical weblog aggregator from Jacob Reider, MD. [Scripting News] 12:00:09 PM    comment []  trackback []

Ultimate Boot CD 2.31. Ultimate Boot CD allows users to run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. [freshmeat.net] 9:12:19 AM    comment []  trackback []

FCKeditor 2.0 Beta 1. This release does not contain all of the features available in version 1.x for now, but introduced Gecko browser compatibility (Mozilla and Netscape), fast startup, skin support, advanced link support, an advanced file browser, and much more. [freshmeat.net] 9:11:46 AM    comment []  trackback []

Play Donkey Kong, go to jail?. LiveCDs -- distributions that allow you to boot a Linux system without installing software on a PC's hard drive -- are popping up faster than Windows security alerts. Riding on the phenomenal success and popularity of Knoppix, LiveCDs for specialized use are available for everything from MythTV to MAME. No, not Auntie Mame, MAME as in Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, which lets you do important things like play Donkey Kong. Believe it or not, there are several LiveCDs focused on the MAME-niche itch. Here's a look at the arcade/system emulator movement and two LiveCDs designed to put you in touch with your inner Donkey Kong: KnoppixMAME and AdvanceCD. I'm happy with game play under both. I only wish I knew more about the legality of using them. [NewsForge] 9:07:19 AM    comment []  trackback []

DevX: Develop Desktop GUI Apps with PHP-GTKPHP-GTK, the Standalone PHP [Linux Today] I'll bet you didn't even know that you could develop stand-alone desktop apps with PHP!  Well, you can and they do work.  Think about it. 9:05:16 AM    comment []  trackback []

HP adds JBoss, MySQL support. HP reached deals with the companies behind the two open-source efforts, allowing JBoss and MySQL to now be tested and certified for use on HP's ProLiant and Integrity servers via the HP Partner Program. [Computerworld News] 8:56:36 AM    comment []  trackback []