O'Reilly's New Magazine for DIY Tech Projects 207
sargon writes "O'Reilly will begin publishing a new magazine, 'Make,' in early 2005 which is aimed at the do-it-yourself crowd. To quote the home page: 'Make brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. Make is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.' The first issue will focus on kite aerial photography." Any suggestions for what they should cover?
Also in the first magazine (Score:5, Funny)
Make (Score:5, Funny)
No rule to make target 'o'reilly'. Stop.
Fuck. Not for me, I guess.
Archives (Score:5, Funny)
In related news (Score:5, Funny)
SCNR
Some suggestions... (Score:5, Funny)
If that proves too difficult, I'll settle for a flying car.
Old issue reprints will include (Score:0, Funny)
"Roll Your Own Wheel"
"Print This With Your Own Printing Press"
"The Shocking Truth About Electricity"
Re:X10 ads (Score:3, Funny)
In other news, internet ad agencies that are fed up with popup blockers in the newest generation of web browsers are adopting technology originating from children's popout books in their new campaign for traditional magazine advertising.
Re:Some suggestions... (Score:4, Funny)
Ob. Beavis and Butt-head quote (Score:3, Funny)
Butt-head: "Uhh...Beavis is a do-it-yourselfer."
Tech Books for IT pros no longer profitable? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:(full text of article incase of /.'ing) (Score:5, Funny)
Please. (Score:2, Funny)
# make Make
maybe they should run:
# apt-get install Make
and it will be here now instead of 2005!
Make is so passe! (Score:2, Funny)
Obvious suggestion for issue #2 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This is a tough format. (Score:4, Funny)
Are you the guy I saw on Flight 2451 bringing his laptop into the shitter?
Re:Please. (Score:3, Funny)
I think of apt-get being for prepackaged and (nearly) complete builds.
If you're in the DIY mode, you're more likely to be using Make. Once you have a (semi) complete product then you'd be making it available to the apt-get crowd.
Huh... (Score:4, Funny)
Funny, that's not what the good people over at the RIAA/MPAA have been telling me...
Re:Some suggestions... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Make (Score:3, Funny)
No rule to make target 'o'reilly'. Stop.
Lucky you: I just got a greater-than sign that wouldn't go away, no matter how many times I hit 'enter. . I had to enter the command again, then I got this:
What should they cover? (Score:1, Funny)
Good techniques to photograph HOT BABES, of course!
Wired House, Wired Car (Score:4, Funny)
how to make my computer trick my thermostat into thinking it's a full-fledged climate control system,
how to make an uber-scary AI haunted house at halloween,
how to make a creepy surveillance systems that automatically close the storm shutters and say nasty things to intruders...
I'm envisioning Martha Stuart meets Kevin Mitnick
MacGyver (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In related news (Score:5, Funny)
Please do an article on toilets!! (Score:4, Funny)
So I've been working on "improving" the toilet with various weights and countermeasures so that the water will submerge the low flush system but not overfill the tank.
If you look at how a toilet is designed, you'll see it's actually quite brilliant. Most designs use the water itself as a counterweight to keep the valve open -- quite ingenious actually. But this only works if the tank is exerting the right pressure, otherwise as soon as you lift the handle, the valve closes.
And for those of us with four or five death logs sticking six inches past the rim it's either hack the toilet or use the plunger as a club -- "Die! Die! Die! Why! Won't! You! Go! Down!"
Anyway, that's what I'D like to see. Umm... because of my girlfriend. (*cough*)
Re:Wired House, Wired Car (Score:3, Funny)
Why? Are you expecting Kevin to violate parole and get sent back inside?