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I just wanted to throw in a little more praise. I had to order an LPC sled quickly Friday evening and it was shipped and on its way by the next day. Thanks very much!

MarioMaster wins yet another awesome laser. This thing is amazing. Great video log, too!

Who's the lucky recipient?

18mW? Wow, that's pretty high for a HeNe! Nice pictures.

The hour counts were extremely high so that seems to be a reasonable price that they were sold at. I'm sure the output has seriously degraded, but maybe they'll still work.

I think he means that the beam is really thick, not that the divergence is bad. These are most likely QC rejects. At one point, I wanted to buy one of those portables just to take the host apart and install my own laser (I bet they use cmount hosings, so a 4W IR laser would work pretty nicely...

I've always used mysql_escape_string() because I've never used weird character sets. I see that it's now deprecated, so I suppose I should go ahead and switch all those instances over to mysql_real_escape_string(). SQL injections are a classic case of insecurity by sloppy coding. I would...

Thanks for the info, Mike. I found a manual for the 362 the other day and have been meaning to read through that a bit to determine what adjustments I need to make. I'll definitely check out the section on reducing the overshoot. I forgot to mention that this meter must be government surplus...

Scientech 372 Laser Power Meter @ JWC.blog This is a copy of the post on my blog about the power meter I got from Laser_Ben this weekend. I apologize for any errors during copying. This meter has a thermopile detector (as opposed to the photoelectric sensor on my Liconix 45PM) and can measure...

Thanks very much for the info, Glenn; that was really informative. The reason why I had thought otherwise is because I saw an episode of Nova about creating synthetic diamonds. They had simply said that the man-made diamonds fluoresce but the natural ones didn't. That's interesting to hear...

Food for thought: unless this hacker has absolutely no clue about what he's doing, he probably installed a backdoor. I'd be very leery of purchasing from Wicked right now because there's a good chance that he's able to grab customer information right as people purchase stuff. Wicked absolutely...

I thought that fluorescence was a telltale sign that the diamond was synthetic.

I'm a moderator on the iPodLinux forums.

All that info was probably taken from any one of a number of DNS data gathering sites. I highly doubt he tried an SQL injection, mostly because that kind of data is so easily obtained elsewhere and is not representative of what would be in a SQL database. Databases are used to store things...

Honestly, the pros rarely target sites like these. Usually, they target much more difficult sites because they have no interest in spending 15 minutes attacking a tiny company without heavy security.

Doubtful. Slicehost is a VPS company, meaning if that Wicked employed an administrator that decided to use 5 character passwords on all the user accounts, it would have been easy. The attackers could have gotten in several ways. Based on what I can see, they likely got control of either an...

I started using Linux when I was pretty young (basically the day we got high speed internet) and haven't turned back. Currently, most of my systems run Arch Linux, but I also like Gentoo and Slackware. I've also tested about a dozen other distros, but I don't really like the ones that have...

Wow, this was even better than your first one, which was already amazing. :) Great job!

Wow, you fall exactly in the age/2 + 7 rule. Nice! :) --- I'm 19; college sophomore.

I highly doubt that's 300mW. SKY doesn't even make laser pointers that powerful (their pointers go up to 200mW and their portables go up to like 400).