When they're in use, hard drives vibrate, and that means they can get noisy—unless they have the right shock absorbers. In an oldie-but-goodie article, the folks at the Silent PC Review rigged up a hard drive bay with thick elastic bands they picked up at the local crafts store. The resulting setup suspends the drives in space with the elastic, which absorbs vibrations and gives the drives plenty of breathing room. Writer Mike Chin says: As a simple test, when I touch the drive while it was running, I can feel a fair amount of vibration. But when I touch touch the case right next to the hard drive—or any part of the case, there is NO vibration from the drive. None at all.When I showed one of my suspended drive systems to my favorite local dealer, it was the complete absence of vibration in the case tha read more »
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Moleskine enthusiast Richard Bryan details how he replaced his wallet with his treasured Moleskine by sewing together an elastic book cover capable of holding his credit cards, cash, and business cards. The end result is certainly bigger than your average wallet, but if you carry your notebook with you wherever you go, why not take the route to convergence? Bryan's photostream provides a lot of great photos and details for pulling off the Moleskine wallet. Moleskine Wallet Hack [Flickr via MAKE]
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For three pennies an hour, hackers
can rent Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)’s servers to wage cyber attacks such as
the one that crippled Sony Corp. (6758)’s PlayStation Network and led
to the second-largest online data breach in U.S. history.A hacker used Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud, or EC2,
service to attack Sony’s online entertainment systems last month,
a person with knowledge of the matter said May 13. The intruder,
who used a bogus name to set up an account that’s now disabled,
didn’t hack into Amazon’s servers, the person said.
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