So after about 6 years on the same cheap keyboard (that sucker lasted!) I think its time to compliment my new i7 920 build with a new one. I chose the ABS M-1 Mechanical Keyboard. My faithful Razer Diamondback has begun to shit the bed as well, so I’ll be replacing it with the classic Logitech MX518.

ABS M1 Heavy Duty Professional Gaming Mechanical Keyboard -

$69.99

• Highly durable professional gaming keyboard
• Extremely responsive and accurate for hours of comfortable gaming
• Gaming-grade lifetime: 20 million clicks
• Allows users to perform the most detailed and advanced key combinations to date
• Gold plated USB connector to ensure low latency
• High quality braided cable
• Dimension: 17.32″ x 5.43″ x 1.52″ (LxWxH)
• Weight: 3.53 lbs.
• Total Travel: 0.4±0.038 mm
• Key pitch: 19.05mm
• Key stroke: 4mm±0.5mm
• Operating Force:
• A:Linear Feel:2.0±0.7 oz.
• B:Tactile Feel:2.0±0.7 oz.
• Life Cycle:
• A:Linear Feel:5.0 x 10^6 Times
• B:Tactile Feel:2.0 x 10^6 Times

Logitech MX518 8 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB -

$39.99

• 1800-dpi MX Optical Engine: Experience ultra-high resolution and pixel-precise tracking.
• Adjustable Sensitivity: Shift from pixel-precise targeting to high-G maneuvers, without pausing the action.
• 8-Button Design: Don’t skip a beat. Your favorite controller functions map directly to your MX 518.
• Forward/Back Buttons: Accelerate your gaming intelligence.
• Super-slick Feet: Glide effortlessly across almost any surface.
• Right-Handed Comfort Grip: Fits your hand naturally, reduces fatigue.
• Superior Grasp: Enjoy long-lasting comfort—even during the longest gaming sessions.
• Mfr Part#: 931352-0403

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The Sea Organ of Zadar, Croatia

This incredible piece of architecture is built along the coast line of the 3,000-year-old city Zadar, Croatia. The Sea Organ of Zadar attracts thousands of tourists and locals each year with its soothing and “meditative” lullaby. The organ was created as an architectural object to remedy the never-ending concrete wall which was the product of post-WWII reconstruction.

A set of thirty-five pipes run through two-hundred and thirty feet of white marble steps. The marble steps dissolve into the sea. Underneath, the pipes open to receive the oscillating energy of the sea waves. The resulting compression and decompression of air powers the sound of the pipe organ. A row of holes in the top row of steps allow the organ to breathe, while holes on top of the structure speak the sound from the resonating chambers. The organ’s harmonic pipes create a song which is “unpredictable but tuned.”

The organ was opened in April, 2005 and received the European Prize for Urban Public Space in 2006.

Listen to the Sea Organ of Zadar:

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Original: http://oddstrument.com/2008/09/14/wave-hello-to-the-secret-power-of-sea-organs/

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The Sea Organ of Zadar, Croatia

This incredible piece of architecture is built along the coast line of the 3,000-year-old city Zadar, Croatia. The Sea Organ of Zadar attracts thousands of tourists and locals each year with its soothing and “meditative” lullaby. The organ was created as an architectural object to remedy the never-ending concrete wall which was the product of post-WWII reconstruction.

A set of thirty-five pipes run through two-hundred and thirty feet of white marble steps. The marble steps dissolve into the sea. Underneath, the pipes open to receive the oscillating energy of the sea waves. The resulting compression and decompression of air powers the sound of the pipe organ. A row of holes in the top row of steps allow the organ to breathe, while holes on top of the structure speak the sound from the resonating chambers. The organ’s harmonic pipes create a song which is “unpredictable but tuned.”

The organ was opened in April, 2005 and received the European Prize for Urban Public Space in 2006.

Listen to the Sea Organ of Zadar:

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By analysing the signals produced by keystrokes, Swiss researchers have reproduced what a target typed.

The security researchers have developed four attacks that work on a wide variety of computer keyboards.

The results led the researchers to declare keyboards were “not safe to transmit sensitive information”.

The attacks were dreamed up by doctoral students Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory at the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL).

The EPFL students tested 11 different keyboard models that connected to a computer via either a USB or a PS/2 socket. The attacks they developed also worked with keyboards embedded in laptops.

Every keyboard tested was vulnerable to at least one of the four attacks the researchers used. One attack was shown to work over a distance of 20 metres.

In their work the researchers used a radio antenna to “fully or partially recover keystrokes” by spotting the electromagnetic radiation emitted when keys were pressed.

In a web posting they added: “no doubt that our attacks can be significantly improved, since we used relatively unexpensive equipments [sic].”

In videos showing their early work the researchers are seen connecting keyboards to a laptop running on battery power. They avoided using a desktop computer or an LCD display to minimise the chance of picking up signals from other sources.

Details of the attacks are scant but the work is expected to be reported in a peer-reviewed journal soon.

The research builds on earlier work done by University of Cambridge computer scientist Markus Kuhn who looked at ways touse electromagnetic emanations to eavesdrop and steal useful information. 

Source: BBC News

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