Posted by gil on May 28, 2009
I finally decided to fire up the forge (see: Building a Forge and Making Knives, Part One), and try hammering a railroad spike into some kind of a knife. The only item I was missing was the air source. Forge blowers on Ebay are fairly expensive, from $150 to $250 average. Considering that I could [...]
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Posted by gil on February 24, 2009
I finally decided to go ahead and build a charcoal forge to make knives out of railroad spikes, motorcycle chains, suspension springs and other junk steel. I have never done this before, but as always, I researched the subject thoroughly before diving in. My goal is to produce crude knives at first, without using any [...]
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Posted by gil on February 18, 2009
Here is how to build the best paper airplane I have ever seen. I used to make them in school thirty years ago.
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Posted by gil on January 15, 2009
Here is how it happens: An acquaintance tells you all about this great business venture that is making him rich and will make you wealthy beyond your wildest dreams. All it takes is a few hours of work here and there and bingo, cash flows. They have a meeting soon at a nearby hotel. The [...]
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Posted by gil on January 3, 2009
Here is how to create a regular DVD from a .avi file with optional subtitles. You will need to make sure you have the following packages installed: mplayerdvdauthormkisofslibxvidcore4You can install them using apt-get:sudo apt-get install mplayer dvdauthor mkisofs libxvidcore4The first (and longest) step is to convert the .avi file to a .mpeg file. This is [...]
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