Chan: Mastering Segway scooter tricky
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Jackie Chan's acrobatic stunts have made him one of the world's most recognizable movie stars, but the actor revealed that mastering a Segway two-wheeled scooter can be tricky. Chan, preparing to kick off filming for the third installment of the "Rush Hour" action comedy series with co-star Chris Tucker in Paris, wrote in a diary entry on his Web site Sunday that he shipped the scooters to Paris to conveniently get around the film set.
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The other day I was thinking about all the edge-cases within Linux and how there are hundreds of little commands and tricks.  I these know now but only after using UNIX for more than 15 years now (has it been that long!).  I wish I would have known all these tricks when I was just getting started.  This is similar to Danny O'Briens Life Hacks  but since so many of us spend our life tied to our shell these are essentially "Shell Hacks".  NetCat is one example.  Very powerful tool with a simple syntax.  Just run 'nc' and you can connect to a host/port and interact with it manually.  You could even write an HTTP client with bash if you really wanted to.  The zsh  shell looks like it might becom ...
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Why make a useful tool more complicated than it needs to be?
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Design and performance issues hold back this very cool idea.
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Who's on the hook when a navigation system's instructions result in an accident?
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The complicated etiquette of saying "Get lost" online.
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This pilot fish is evaluating and implementing a new firewall, but hes having some trouble getting it configured. Fortunately, one of the vendors sales engineers is glad to help.
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By Connie Skipitares and Leslie Griffy, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 17--People who flock to the Los Gatos Creek Trail jog, cycle, pull dog leashes and push strollers. Now, there's something new in the mix: gliding.   As in high-tech Segways.
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Wired correspondent Eliot Van Buskirk takes a spin inside "Boss," the robot-controlled car created by GM and Carnegie Mellon for the Darpa Urban Challenge.
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What's the best way to provide digital driving directions to the likes of Google and Garmin? May the best map win. By Wilson Rothman from Wired magazine.
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Life & style: If you're looking for a greener mode of transport, it's not always a case of two wheels good, four wheels bad, says Lucy Siegle.
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A step-by-step guide to real-life grand theft auto.
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Trying to avoid vertigo, falls and other hazards of lost equilibrium.
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Japan's newest high-speed prototype leans into turns like a race bike. From Crave, CNet's new gadgets blog.
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Upgrade your machine or risk falling off, company says Segway has asked its customers around the globe to return their "personal transporters" for a essential software update intended to eliminate an unfortunate glitch which, in the words of the manufacturer, "can unexpectedly reverse the direction of the wheels which can cause a rider to fall".â¦
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Driving a race car takes more than good hand-eye coordination and the stomach for G-forces. It also takes a truckload of high-tech gear.
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The Hitachi 2400 Smart Windshield: You think you got clutter on your computer display? Ha! Screech! CRASH!