Step by step HowTo to show you how to create a Linux LiveCD with everything you want all by yourself.
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Saturday, December 31, 2005
The Best Programming Tutorials Ever
AJAX, VB, C/C++/C#, RUBY ETC
Tons of articles and tutorials on many different programming languages both from web design to software development on windows and on unix machine!
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Tons of articles and tutorials on many different programming languages both from web design to software development on windows and on unix machine!
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Indiana pushing a gaming law that's failed pretty much everywhere else
Ars has added their commentary to an Indiana state senator's attempt to push legislation that would keep children from buying violent video games. What's hilarious is that this same law has pretty much failed in every other state it's been proposed in. What's even funnier? Indiana already tried to pass similar laws in 2000 and it failed then.
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Slickr (Flickr Screen Saver)
Slickr is an OpenGL flickr screen saver that shows images by: user (favorites, set, tags, contacts), groups, or everyone (tags, recent). It can also display local images. For ideas on groups and tags, go to the flickr explore page at http://flickr.com/explore/
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DS Outsells all hardware in Japan, Gamecube sells 6x Xbox 360 last week
Story shows official sales numbers for all videogame hardware during the week of December 19-25. The Nintendo DS sold nearly 4 times that of the PSP, and everything except for the original Gameboy Advance and original Xbox sold at least three times more than the Xbox 360. Looks like the XBOX 360 is a total flop in Japan -- the crucial market for any vido game maker to do well.
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Everyone hates IE. Even Microsoft
Even Microsofts own Emplyees are getting furious at how "horribly behind the times" Internet Explorer is. This story quotes four MS employees expressing their opinion about Windows' default browser.
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Wired Magazine Best (and Worst) Gadgets of 2005
"Xbox 360, Video iPod, PSP, nano, Treo 650: How do they stack up? See our list (hot), with its five-point rating system (smokin')."
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HOW TO Install Google Earth in Wine!
Yes, It's possible, you too can use Google earth on your Linux box! A well written how to from the Gentoo Wiki. Even if you're not using Gentoo, this can provide some helpful tips
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Friday, December 30, 2005
Coloring Black and White Photos
This is horrendously cool. You draw a bit of color on objects, and it colors them for you.
NEAT.
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NEAT.
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Study finds plastic in 95% of dead birds
THOUSANDS of seabirds are being killed each year after a massive rise in plastics pollution in the North Sea, according to a new report.
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100 things we didn't know this time last year
You can learn alot of stuff in 365 days. Thankfully, the BBC has compiled a list of 100 new things that have been learnt over the past year.
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Preview of the upcoming Firefox 2 browser
Here's a preview of the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 2 browser including the new features/components and the release roadmap.
2006/06/27 is the release date for Firefox 2
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2006/06/27 is the release date for Firefox 2
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Torvalds has BALLS
Check out Linus Torvalds after someone made some really dumb comments on the Linux Kernel Mailing List.
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Open-Source Visual Studio 2005 alternative
SharpDevelop 2.0, Beta 1 is available. It is an open-source alternative to Visual Studio 2005, with the added benefit that it can create executables targeting the 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 .NET Framework, as well as Mono 1.1. C# and Visual Basic.NET are both supported.
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Linux-based PSP killer
Imagine a PSP type system that could do everything a PSP can, but on a Linux-based platform, and costs a lot less too...only $179USD!!!!
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Market share information of Operating System and Broswers
When it comes to market share for
desktop operating systems, Microsoft probably has about 95% and
definitely more than 90% of the OEM share.
But most Linux distributions are
installed (single, dual, and multi boots) on machines originally
purchased with a Microsoft OS. Also, end users change their Windows
machine more often than Mac and Linux users. So, the OEM market share
info may not my be the right guage.
And if you are designing a Web site,
the other problem that could arise is that a particular Website may
have a very different user base.
For instance, a Website dedicated to
Web design recently said that 6% of its users came to their site
using Safari. My interpretation is that the total number of Mac users
(including FireFox and IE) was much higher.
So, about two weeks ago, I put a site
counter on two of my blogs to get an idea the OS and browsers people
use to come to those blogs. One of the blogs is mainly used to post
interesting stories from www.digg.com.
The other is used to post my thoughts, opinion and observations on
economy, technology, finance, philosophy, globalization, etc.
I have regularly monitored the
visitors, their referring URLs, their OS and the browser they use.
About 250 visitors have visited the two
blogs so far – a fairly good sample size, I would say. So far, I
have been pleasantly surprised. Here are some quick numbers: About
61% of the visitors use FireFox, 27% IE, 8.5% Safari and the
remaining Opera and Netscape. In OS: 73% is Windows, 15% Mac and
about 12% for Linux.
Watch NOVA programs online for free !
This is great. The Einstein piece on E=mc^2 isn't online yet, but for now you can watch "Elegant Universe", "Cracking the Code of Life", "Life's Greatest Miracle", "MARS - Dead or Alive?", among many others. . .
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Thursday, December 29, 2005
Improve your memory
Pretty basic info, but it's got some good ideas if you (like me) have a horrible memory.
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HOWTO: Be more productive
"With all the time you spend watching TV," he tells me, "you could have written a novel by now." Sadly, that's just not the case....
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Study finds plastic in 95% of dead birds
THOUSANDS of seabirds are being killed each year after a massive rise in plastics pollution in the North Sea, according to a new report.
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5 Best Freeware Games of 2005
Lists the five best freeware games of the year that include a battlefield 2 like shooter, zak mckracken 2 the successor of zak mckracken and other great games.
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Man buys his own stolen camera on eBay.
A German businessman whose camera was stolen was relieved to find the same model for sale on eBay. When it arrived after he bought it however, he discovered it was his OWN, stolen camera!
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Site Helps You Track Your Amazon Purchases For Price Drop Credits
Amazon.com has a price guarantee policy to credit buyers back cash. If the product you purchased within the last 30 days has dropped in price they will credit you back the difference.
This Site will check everyday and send you an email if the price has dropped. In the email will be a link right to the place where you claim your credit.
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This Site will check everyday and send you an email if the price has dropped. In the email will be a link right to the place where you claim your credit.
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Free Online Courses at The HP Learning Center
Free online courses on Microsoft Word, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, wireless security, etc.
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Site Helps You Track Your Amazon Purchases For Price Drop Credits
Amazon.com has a price guarantee policy to credit buyers back cash. If the product you purchased within the last 30 days has dropped in price they will credit you back the difference.
This Site will check everyday and send you an email if the price has dropped. In the email will be a link right to the place where you claim your credit.
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This Site will check everyday and send you an email if the price has dropped. In the email will be a link right to the place where you claim your credit.
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Test Drive Linux For Free!...Over The Internet!
Want to try the latest technologies over the Internet? This allows you to test drive some of the hottest hardware and operating systems available today. All this over the Internet, with no local installation or downloading required.
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How E. coli bacterium generates simplicity from complexity
The usually harmless E. coli bacterium has more than 1,000 genes involved in metabolism. Activation of random combinations of these genes would theoretically be capable of generating a huge variety of internal states; however, researchers report that Escherichia coli doesn't gamble with its metabolism.
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HOWTO: Be more productive
"With all the time you spend watching TV," he tells me, "you could have written a novel by now." Sadly, that's just not the case....
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How the read/write web was lost...
A discussion of what might have caused Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the read/write web to have been forgotten until recently revived via Blog and Wiki technology. Includes some early history of the pre-WWW hypertext systems.
I'm new to Digg. Hopefully, it is ok to post one of my own stories...
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I'm new to Digg. Hopefully, it is ok to post one of my own stories...
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Is the housing bubble is about to pop?
This Boston Globe story talks about sellers chopping asking prices by as much as 20% in a response to a sudden slowdown in the housing market.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Alaska Airlines plane forced to make emergency landing, passenger snaps pic
What do you do when you're told that your plane has to make an emergency landing and the assisted breathing masks drop from above. Well if you're Jeremy Hermanns you bust out your Treo 650 and snap some pictures to forever document the turmoil.
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Financial planning templates from Microsoft
41 well defined financial planning templates which can act as excellent tools for documentiing items such as bonds, loans, car loans, 401k, investments etc.
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Free Excel Sheet to Monitor your Mutual Fund Portfolio
An Excel sheet that monitors your Mutual Fund Investments and automatically pulls NAVs from a site.
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Is Steve Jobs prepping 'The Cupertino Project'
Could Jobs actually be boldly planning to drop the industry-devastating hydrogen bomb of Apple hardware running Microsoft software?
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Amazon's Price Drop Policy
"Did you know that if the price on something you buy drops, within 30 days of your purchase date, Amazon.com will credit you the difference if you ask for it? It�s a not-advertised price drop policy that most people don�t know about and it�s saved me tons of money over the last few years." Hope many of you find this awesome.
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Build your own feed reader on top of Google's Feed API
"You can power an application both online and offline using Google as your backend and focus on building new experiences on top of the data. Advanced functionality is available with a numeric Google ID and some variable tweaks."
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005
China recruiting U.S. IT grads
China's government is funding a recruiting drive for IT grads from U.S. schools to "control on its own Internet revolution.
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How America Can Compete With China and India
In the coming decades, China and India's economic growth will challenge the U.S. in ways that we can barely begin to imagine. But some say the U.S. could beat the gloomy projections.
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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Not many people today know about the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (the true wonders of the world) .. it's not the China Wall .. it's not the Tower of Pisa .. they are as follows.
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43 Windows XP Fixes from FixMyXP.com
Including Faster Icons, Restart Button On Desktop, Remove Messenger, and Get Rid of the Delete Confirmation.
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How to rip a DVD: A Tutorial
All of us have a cool movie we download from torrents, and we try to rip that DVD into our CDS. This small tutorial shows you just how to do this without messing up.
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Scientistists Discover a Gene That Regulates Lifespan
Genes that control the timing of organ formation during development also control timing of aging and death, and provide evidence of a biological timing mechanism for aging, Yale researchers report in the journal Science.
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Top 50 Inventions - Scientific & Technological
In the past half-century, scientific and technological advances have transformed our world. PM convened a panel of 25 experts to identify innovations that have made the biggest impact, from the hospital to outer space to the kitchen. Here, then, are the breakthroughs of our time.
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First Glimpse of Newborn Star Cluster
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered a remarkable star cluster that gives them the first glimpse of newborn stars acting just as predicted - patterned geometrically and spaced according to density, temperature and gravity.
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Steam uses almost 1000TB of bandwidth!
Steam has almost crossed the 1000TB mark of bandwidth usage on their Steam service using 100 million gigabytes or almost 9 765.625 terabytes! Would anyone like to foot that transfer bill - thats a LOT of downloads!
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Getting the perfect nap
Contains scientific studies on how to be an efficient naper and explains the benefits of how different length of naps will effect your body.
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Become an Independent Programmer in 1068 Days
Gus Mueller's 7.5 tips for making it as an independent developer, in 1068 Days.
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How To Build Your Own Ecosystem
Forget buying one of those glass enclosed ecosystems...Build your own! Here you have the choice of two different ecosystems, a "dry land" ecosystem or a marine aquatic one.
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Monday, December 26, 2005
Getting to know Wordpress
Wordpress is surely becoming a popular software but there are still a number of things which you might not be aware of but need to know if you intend to use the software soon.
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Wired Magazine:' 2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards '
"Cursing CEOs, an iPod-crazy president and denials, denials denials: Wired News sifts through speeches, interviews and court documents to bring you the year's most cringe-worthy tech quotes."
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Nintendo DS hits 5,000,000 in Japan
Japanese sales of Nintendo DS portable game machine reached 5 million units in less than 13 months after its launch in early December 2004, the fastest-ever pace in Japan's video game market, Nintendo said Monday.
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WordProcessors For Linux
Nice little list of word processing applications for Linux, both free and pay.
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Sunday, December 25, 2005
Top 10 little-known science stories of 2005
A compilation of 10 amazing science stories, all quite interesting. Who would have ever thought that we couldd use honey bees to find land mines?
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Programmers' Tools
This site provides a listing of compilers, IDEs, editors, decompilers, debugging tools, books & tutorials for popular programming languages (C, C++, JAVA, Pascal, Basic, ...). Also contains information for Setup tools, EXE compressors anti-cracking protectors and other interesting stuff. A huge site, and seems to be updated quite often.
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Google plans to standardize multimedia IM
IM users may soon finally be able to communicate unimpeded, opening the door for a whole new level of IM innovation.
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Free Computer E-Books
Huge list including CCNA, MSCE, RHCE, FreeBSD, redhat, linux,
microsoft, windows,etc.
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microsoft, windows,etc.
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Free 411 as well as pay phone calls to any listed number.
Use a 411 service to may free payphone calls.
Also, try this like: http://www.free411.com/
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Also, try this like: http://www.free411.com/
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How To Dip Your Fingers in Molten Lead, and Other Useful Tips
David Willey, a physics instructor at the University of Pittsburgh, explains: walking on a bed of broken glass, having a concrete block broken on his torso while he's sandwiched between two beds of nails, dipping his fingers in molten lead, and picking up an orange-hot piece of space shuttle tile
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Learn c# The Easy Way
this has to be the most simplified tutorials ive ever seen when it comes to learning a new language!
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Japan's population starts shrinking
Deaths in Japan are likely to outnumber births by up to 10,000 in 2006! A rapid demographic shift for the worlds 2nd largest economy could drastically change technology and manufacturing concerns.
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Flash Player 8 for Linux *news from macromedia/adobe*
from the site of Tinic Uro : "...Instead of releasing a 8.0 version we will directly move to 8.5 on Linux. This will avoid even more delay after we ship Flash Player 8.5 for Windows and Mac."
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Netflix wins first round in online DVD rental war
The companies switched places in market value over the course of an intense, yearlong price war, with Netflix -- which has no debt -- now worth $1.5 billion, compared with Blockbuster at $684 million and more than $1 billion in debt.
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Saturday, December 24, 2005
Going deep inside Windows Vista's kernel architecture
"...This is a very candid interview. We even ask "do you ever wish the registry had never been developed?" Charles Torre does this "going deep" interview. Out of all the interviews we've done this one is the most interesting because this team has such a deep impact on how reliable, scalable, secure, etc Windows Vista actually will be..."
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How To Download A Google Video...
"Google Video does not provide a link for one to download. The movie is played by Google Video Player, which is Online Flash FLV player. ....The key is to unescape the parameter of the Google Player URL by using a javascript function..."
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Designing a WordPress Template: The Basics
Have you ever wanted a website design that was yours? Are you sick of going to blogs and seeing the same design over and over again. Know some HTML? Run WordPress? Then maybe designing your own WordPress template is for you.
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Designing usable blog sidebars
An article on usability and what to put where in your blog sidebar and why. Good for new bloggers looking to improve on their default templates.
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HTML and Flash Templates ALL FOR FREE, Best Free Templates Ever
This site is awsome it has html and flash templates all of them are free and they are as good are even better than templates you buy at sites like templatemonster.com!!!
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Homemade Laser Chess Board Game
A Brazilian student put together a working board game version of the game Laser Chess. In It you position mirrors to direct a laser at your opponents goal. Via Make:Blog.
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The Top Physics Stories for 2005
From new ideas about what the universe looked like after the Big Bang to the first direct observation of an exosolar planet, these are the stories the American Institute of Physics are calling the top stories of 2005. Also features the bizarre discovery of hydrophobic water and the creation of molecules that are able to walk.
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Java is "so nineties" says business week
I've always been strongly opposed to Java. It was a toy language--slow, buggy, and limited--that Sun spent a lot of money to hype. Everyone knew--except the press--that Perl, Python, etc, "really" ran the Internet. Anyway, now the world is realizing what we all knew...
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Sudoku: The Next Tetris?
If you still haven't heard "Sudoku" before, you need to catch up because it's hotter than ever.
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Buy.com Alters Rebate And Refuses To Accept It
On 12/20, the Altec Lansing GT5051 speakers had a $40 rebate bringing down the price to a sizzling $9.99. However, as the news got out, the expiration date on the rebate was mysteriously changed from 12/31 to 12/19, making the rebate useless for many people! And now Buy.com does not accept the rebate or even acknowledge altering it!
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Xbox360 fails to outsell Gamecube in Japan
Gamasutra report 'The Xbox 360�s second week on the charts, though, has been even more disappointing than the first, with the console, showing 8,623 units sold, failing to outsell even the GameCube.
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Friday, December 23, 2005
Build your own Linux distro in minutes
Ever thought of building your own Linux distro, if you have no idea where to start, you should try rBuilder Online. It's a web based distrobution creator, you can select your own packages you want to include. Your Linux will a powerful package manager called Conary... it even makes your customized boot ISO(s), and of course it's free!
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Want your KDE look like OS X?
Many people are interested in getting their linux or BSD desktop interface to look as much like Apple's very successful OS X gui as possible. Now you can do it by yourself.
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HOW TO: Linux For Primers
This How To explains how to install Mandriva Linux 2006 with annotations for each simple step - allowing everybody to play with an installed version of Linux, even if they have never tried it before!
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Safari Compatibility Test
Don't lose potential revenue from your site due to incompatibility with the Safari browser.
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The Double Feature Finder
Want to spend all day at the movie theater? The Double Feature Finder finds back to back movies for you. Of course, you should never sneak into movies.
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Googling Your Brain
This is awesome, Scientists Can Predict A Thought 5 Seconds Before You Think It, "The process can be compared to the way Google works. On average, the time between beginning brain activity associated with the memory and the subjects verbally stating the memory was about 5.4 seconds." ....yet spooky..
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Microsoft employees going ABM
Interesting read on Microsoft losing some of Its elbow room and its former employees going ABM.
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Thursday, December 22, 2005
Savings With Open Source in Schools
Using Open Source software Noxon School District saved $92,675.20. Linux and Open Source software allowed this school district to provide cutting edge technology to students.
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Why did this ZdNet Writer choose to leach from me?
I was looking through my site's logs and noticed that a significant amount of bandwidth was being pulled from a ZDNET site. So I decided to photoshop a picture with the author so that maybe he'll learn to not leach images again.
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First Clear Picture Of The Center Of Our Milky Way Galaxy
"UCLA astronomers and colleagues have taken the first clear picture of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, including the area surrounding the supermassive black hole, using a new laser virtual star at the W.M. Keck observatory in Hawaii."
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Google Hires Inventor of Python
Since Google uses Python extensively in its own projects, perhaps it was only a matter of time...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Texas to get broadband over its power lines
Two Texas companies have announced a plan to offer high-speed Internet service over the power grid.
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Stalin Wanted Half-Man, Half-Ape Super-Warrior
Stalin wanted Planet of the Apes-like troops, insensitive to pain and hardship.
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OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 Update Released
The first update to OpenOffice.org has been released exactly two months after the launch of version 2.0. Version 2.0.1 brings a myriad of bug fixes and feature enhancements to the open source suite.
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A photo tour of the Transparent Factory in Dresden
A photo log of the factory where VW builds the Phaeton in Germany. You would think that this factory is cleaner than a hospital.
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Video Tutorials: Code your own C++ RPG!
Showing everything from start to finish, these video tutorials will show you how to create a text based RPG using C++.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005
2006 Predictions
The new year is less than two weeks away. So:
Search:
Google will lose market share to
almost everyone but mainly A9.com, Alexa, Ask, Clusty, MSN and
Yahoo. I would say that by the end of '06, Google's market share of
pure search (done through Google.com) will be down at least 4%.
In terms of stocks, I think Yahoo
or Amazon are likely to outperform Google by a wide margin.
After nearly an 18-month lull,
I'll finally have some more ADR recommendations on
www.adrinvestor.com
Google's stock price will be below
its 2005 peak.
Alexa will change (almost
completely) the dynamics of search.
MSN Live could be a total flop
Technology
Novell could start gaining some
traction in sales of Linux as well as stock price; is likely to
outperform Red Hat.
Sun Microsystems is likely to do
well – in terms of stabilizing Unix sales, increasing storage
sales and sales of Niagara.
FireFox market share gain will
stabilize around 15-18% globally from around 10% in December 05.
Windows Vista will be the biggest
disaster in Microsoft's OS history. The operating system is too
taxing on the hardware and hence machines bundled with Vista will be
as expensive, if not more, than Mac X. My guess is that PC prices
could be at least $100 more because of more memory and processing
requirements.
Apple's Mac X will continue
gaining market share and could easily top 5% of global shipment –
partly because the machines will be very competitively priced
compared with HP and Dell.
Linux will gain market share as
well, this time at the expense of Vista. The price difference
between a Vista PC and a PC installed with Linux will be at least
$200. So, on desktops, the gains will come from more low end sales.
HP will increase its share of PCs.
Acer will continue marching into
Europe, Asia and even the U.S. at the expense of Dell.
Lenovo should do slightly better
than the industry.
Dell would do slightly worse than
the industry.
Misc
GM is likely to get closer to
bankruptcy.
Hyundai and Toyota will continue
to be the most exciting car companies.
Ford may announce some senior
level management change – they will continue to flounder in the
U.S. and Europe.
Finance and Economics
Returns
on S – between 2% and 8%.
Emerging markets will outperform
the U.S. and Europe.
Japan will outperform the U.S. –
returning close to 20% returns
Chinese stocks will do very well
Emerging Market bonds five year
streak should come to an end and will do poorly
Publishing
Blogs will continue to gain
popularity. Technorati, which currently searches 23 million blogs
will have more than 35 million.
Blogs will start consolidating
i.e. there will be blogs that will have mass following.
Newspapers will continue to lose
circulation; they will focus more on their Website to prevent
readers switching to blogs – they will succeed in terms of higher
Web viewer ship but fail in generating revenues.
The ultimate Google operator command list
This list of Google search commands will allow you to narrow your search down a bit. Did you know that you could view only stocks with the "stock:" command? That's just one of many Google operator commands.
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Monday, December 19, 2005
The differences between Red Hat and Novell
I've been meaning to write about this for some time, but couldn't. Firstly, because I couldn't touch on the subject while I was still employed by Novell. Secondly, because i didn't want to create problems for Novell while it was going through its road bumps a few weeks back.
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Learning JavaScript Basics
This detailed article covers the basics for a beginner to learn JavaScript. Also, simple code samples along the way as you learn.
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Lots of PHP tutorials, beginner to advanced
A nice collection of various PHP tutorials, covering the basics, and some advanced stuff
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Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
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Firefox is streets ahead of IE on European computers
A study by technology company AdTech says that the popularity of the open-source browser has grown by 40 percent over the last six months. This is cool because they study usage, and not just what people are using. Those who use the net a lot Use FIREFOX. Maybe now website designers will ditch IE only extensions.
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Sunday, December 18, 2005
Electricity generated by mixing sea and river water
Dutch and Norwegian scientists have invented devices that generate electricity by mixing sea and river water.
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Saturday, December 17, 2005
French government's DRM plan effectively "bans" open-source software
Apparently the french government wants reign in DRM rights in such a way that it effectively undermines the fundamental principles of open-source software.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
New antidepressant drug increases 'brain's own cannabis'
"Researchers have discovered a new drug that raises the level of endocannabinoids the 'brain's own cannabis'providing anti-depressant effects.The new research could represent a safer alternative to cannabis for the treatment of pain and depression..."
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New antidepressant drug increases 'brain's own cannabis'
"Researchers have discovered a new drug that raises the level of endocannabinoids the 'brain's own cannabis'providing anti-depressant effects.The new research could represent a safer alternative to cannabis for the treatment of pain and depression..."
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Swiss government switches 3,000 systems to Linux
Novell Inc. Tuesday announced an agreement with the government of Switzerland to replace the software in 3,000 of its servers with the company's SUSE Linux operating system.
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Wikipedia vs. Encyclopaedia Britannica: Almost a tie.
The scientific magazine "Nature" has compared 42 articles in both the encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Experts in their field were given the task to check for factual errors. To the surprise of nature, both encyclopedias were containing similar amounts of errors.
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Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005
Who else is tired of the hoards of "me too" web2 applications out there. This article lists 10 great sites that chose to innovate. Seriously enough of the social bookmarking, startpage, to-do list nonsense.
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The Hydrogen Gold Rush Is On
In 2003, President Bush announced that the federal government would invest $1.2 billion into hydrogen over the next five years. All that money has spawned a gold rush of inventors, all seeking the mother lode of cheap hydrogen.
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The Coolest Why-Didn't-I-Think-Of-That website around
If you have been surfing Digg frequently, you have probably stumbled upon stories about great products mentioned on this website. This amazing site reviews the newest inventions to make your life easier. It's great for people who have an extra dollar or twenty to spend. (Unfortunatly, I'm not that person)
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Freezing Light
"Scientists have slowed down and even stopped the fastest substance in the universe: light. As this ScienCentral News video reports, the research may lead to faster, more powerful computers."
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Japan: 360 price slash not a desperate measure
Looks like people in the U.S. made a mistake of buying XBox 360. Had they waited???
Rajiv
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005
The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts
Over the last few hundred years, many perplexing artifacts have been unearthed that do not fit the currently excepted theories of geology and the history of man. Put your tin foil hats on, we are so not alone.
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Students suspended after looking at teachers pornographic screensaver
The year seven students were suspended from attending the The St Francis of Assisi Humpty Doo school after typing in a password that brought up a screen saver of a naked woman in a pornographic pose.
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AMD Wins the Dual-Core Duel
AMD has been validated as the victor in its dual-core duel challenge issued in August. Thanks to the true dual-core technology from AMD available today, the Dual-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor leads in key published industry-standard benchmarks as well as holding a significant lead in overall performance-per-watt versus its competitor's products.
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Strange new object found at edge of Solar System
A large object has been found beyond Pluto travelling in an orbit tilted by 47 degrees to most other bodies in the solar system. Astronomers are at a loss to explain why the object's orbit is so off-kilter while being almost circular.
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Torvalds says to "Use KDE"
Linus Torvalds is seriously losing it. I no longer use Gnome or KDE but they both have their benefits. Torvalds is a kernal hacker not a UI guy. Maybe he should just zip it. .com .org. shhh I said zip it. ziipp iiit. ziiiippp.
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14-Day Plan Improves Memory
It sounds like an infomercial from late-night TV: Follow this four-step plan and improve your memory in just 14 days!
But researchers have indeed found a way to improve memory function in older people. After a two-week study that involved brainteasers, exercise and diet changes, study participants' memories worked more efficiently.
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But researchers have indeed found a way to improve memory function in older people. After a two-week study that involved brainteasers, exercise and diet changes, study participants' memories worked more efficiently.
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ONLY 39% of 360s Sold in Japan thats 50% less then the original XBox
M$, which started selling the Xbox 360 on Dec. 10, sold 62,135 of the 159,000 consoles it shipped, according to Tokyo-based Enterbrain. That compares with about 123,000 units sold in the first three days for the first Xbox, which debuted on Feb. 22, 2002
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Your own Google or Yahoo
In a move with potentially far-reaching implications for the search market, Alexa Internet is opening up its huge web crawler to any programmer who wants paid access to its rich internet data.
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Gmail Manager 0.4 - Firefox extension for checking multiple Gmail accounts!
Gmail Manager 0.4 extension for Firefox 1.0 to 1.5. Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets. Works for both @gmail.com and @googlemail.com email addresses.
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Decent Firefox Tweak Guide
This isn't just another 'speed-up' Firefox tutorial. This covers the tweaking of many aspects of the greatest browser in the world.
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Make Data Backup your New Year Resolution with Free Backup Software
Have over 2 computers? That's enough hardware for a data backup solution! What's more, its FREE!
Most people don't bother to backup! They believe they need to invest in storage/hardware in order to backup their precious data. With Vembu StoreGrid's Free Edition, computers in a network can backup to each other in 'trusted peer to peer' mode.
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Most people don't bother to backup! They believe they need to invest in storage/hardware in order to backup their precious data. With Vembu StoreGrid's Free Edition, computers in a network can backup to each other in 'trusted peer to peer' mode.
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Monday, December 12, 2005
Linux Shortcuts and Commands:
This is a practical selection of the commands and shortcuts we use most often. Handy linux commands source. Good stuff, many of these a lot of people already know but it is a great memory tool.
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How-To Resize Your Windows Partition To Make Room For Linux
This is an easy step by step guide on how to resize your Windows partition using Knoppix to make room for a new Linux partition.
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Awesome Password Utilities
I ran some of these password recovery tools and was in awe as to how many were there to see ! Wide range of password recovery tools and there all good.
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Photoshop Experts Reveal Their Secrets in Tutorial Archive
Professional (book cover artists) come together to show you how to "paint" in PhotoShop in a series of tutorials.
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Tylenol is the leading cause of liver failure
Acetaminophen/paracetamol (AKA Tylenol) is the leading cause of acute liver failure. The number of cases doubled between 1998 and 2003�which I find interesting, because over the last several years, regular strength (325mg) Tylenol has been gradually disappearing in favor of the extra-strength (500mg) varieties.
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10 Ten Web Moments
Spark looks at the top 10 "Web moments" since the Internet was born 15 years ago, and asks viewers to vote for the one they think had the most impact in the Web's history.
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The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 - Yes, Digg made it.
It's getting towards the end of the year and I'm feeling the need to take stock of where we've actually come with Web 2.0 in the last 12 months. So much has happened in this space recently and a tidal wave of innovative, high-quality software has been released this year. So much in fact, that it's hard to keep track of it all.
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Alogrithms Dictionary Online
This is a dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypical problems, and related definitions. Algorithms include common functions, such as Ackermann's function.
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See What it Looks Like to travel at Light Speed!
"Impossible in real life, but feasible in a computer simulation: A tour through the city centre of Tübingen illustrates what we should see when moving at such a high speed." -- This is absolutely amazing. A must see.
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Still Trust AOL?
I hope you don't. This is just more proof not to use AOL's new Triton Instant Messenger.
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Complete guide to CGI Programming
Looking to learn CGI Programming? Take a look at this open book at O'Reilly to get excellent tutorials.
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Sunday, December 11, 2005
Complete guide to CGI Programming
Looking to learn CGI Programming? Take a look at this open book at O'Reilly to get excellent tutorials.
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6 months straight in an Internet Cafe
A college dropout in Nanjing has spent the last 6 months in a Internet cafe sleeping, eating and playing World of Warcraft. The woman who delivers food to him no longer wants to get near him because of the smell.
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180 ° - Upcoming Digg Competitor
180 ° news is something Digg should keep their eyes on. It's a web-based RSS reader that pulls thousands of stories from the web daily, which can be marked as important (imp'd). It's cookie based, so no logins are required. Other topics like sports and entertainment are also covered.
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Great Desktop Backgrounda of anything you want
One of the best desktop sites I have found in a long time, and all photos are HUGE.
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Get a close up view of Bill Gate's house using his technology :)
Unless you have a yacht, you won't be able to get a nice look at his house. MSN's new virutal earth zooms in pretty well at his house. Check it out!
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Albert Einstein as a Philosopher of Science...
"Einstein's philosophical education made a profound difference in the way he did physics. But his interest in the philosophy of science went further."
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Ten Blogging Hacks
I saw this on Steve Rubel's blog "Micropersuasion". Some really helpful links for tagging, collab, automatically Post Your Daily del.icio.us Links, moblogging, and a REALLY cool place where you can get your face iconized for $50!!
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Why is the density of cancer more in US than India
Some interesting facts. Many factors determine this trend and if you are ready to have a read, you might want to change that sedentary lifestyle.
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10 most popular Ubuntu sites on the net
Are you a Ubuntu user? Then you should definitely visit these top 10 sites which have a wealth of information on using and troubleshooting in Ubuntu.
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Wikilaw: Your free legal resource
Wikilaw's goal is to build the largest open-content legal resource in the world.
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Saturday, December 10, 2005
Linux gurus join forces to perfect the Linux desktop
"Architects from two dozen desktop-oriented Linux projects converged in Portland, Ore. last weekend to collaborate on perfecting the Linux desktop." --- Good Stuff! Gotta love Open Source!
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Awesome Pics of Nature
Beautiful photos of nature, many of which are National Geographic pictures of the year. Also click on any photo for a huge index of interesting miscellaneous pics.
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Statistics for a Dugg Site
Notice how many savy users use Mozilla vs. IE. These are real statistics such as number of unique visitors, most popular browsers, operating systems, etc from a website that got dugg a few days ago. Interesting research material.
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Microsoft says XBOX 360 more powerful than PS3
Why are they saying this? Besides 256 DDR3 memory, and the hard-drive, which areas is the new XBOX more powerful?
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THE Very Best Freeware Utilities!
This site has been posted before, but it's quite frequently updated, and it's always worth another mention due to it's detailed descriptions & comparisons of the best freeware software available in all categories. One of my personal faves!
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Mouse1.0 - totally addictive Flash game
This will benefit your mouse dexterity! Check it out - better not at work, you'll never be able to stop ;)
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Brazil already won World Cup 2006 says Numerology
According to some numerology studies, Brazil will win the 2006 World Cup... Very Interesting.
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Friday, December 09, 2005
AOL Uses Clusty - The Dark Horse In The Search Engine War
An AOL deal with Microsoft -- with whom Vivisimo is developing a new search service for the U.S. government's Web portal -- could widen Vivisimo's exposure.
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Novell Is Flush With Good News
Novell's flagship SuSE Linux Server product, a distant second to leading Linux-seller Red Hat in recent years, won 53 percent of the delegate vote at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Frankfurt, Germany. Red Hat won 37 percent, while 8 percent went to the lesser-known Mandriva.
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Where did you want to go yesterday?
Microsoft has revealed that it's working on a "significant" new feature of Windows Vista, the Restart Manager, that will let you update the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine! Hello! We've been able to do this in Linux/Unix-land since, well, the 80s.
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Yahoo acquires del.icio.us
Very smart move by Yahoo. They have made three very smart acquisitions in the last six months or so -- Flickr, Kornfabulaor and this one.
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Massive Black Hole Spotted Without Galaxy
"In a strange reversal, astronomers have detected a massive black hole but can find no traces of the surrounding galaxy that should be feeding it" - I thought they only existed within the center of galaxies ...
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Are Black Holes And Dark Matter The Same Thing?
A new theory has string theorists and general relativists scratching their heads, Chapline sees a future that might just offer an alternate explanation of what happened during the Big Bang, when the universe was created.
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Bottles impossibly filled with impossible objects
Harry Eng, a former minister and elementary school teacher, makes these "impossible bottles" that are filled with objects that have been carefully squeezed through the necks of the bottles and arranged with tweezers and surgical haemostats.(Via boingboing)
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Thursday, December 08, 2005
A travel portal like no other
A FREE and UPDATED Travel guide is what you will get at Wikitravel...so if you are on the move, do have a look at this site for some useful information.
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Answers.Yahoo.com Goes Live
"Just online (in beta) is Yahoo's new social networking/online community/search/question answering service called Yahoo Answers. The service allows any registered Yahoo user to ask just about any question and hopefully get an answer from another member of the question answering community. Access to Yahoo Answers is free."
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Ruby Book Sales Surpass Python
Ruby book sales surpassed Python book sales for the first time. Python is up 20% vs. the same period last year, but Ruby is up 1552%! (Perl is down 3%.) Perl is still the most commonly used of the three languages, at least according to book sales, but Python and now Ruby are narrowing the gap.
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C and C++ programming tutorials
A number of links dealing with C and C++ including coding standards, STL, Source code archives and debugging.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Huge Discovery by Scientists on How Cancer Spreads
Scientists have discovered how cancer spreads from a primary site to other places in the body in a finding that could open doors for new ways of treating and preventing advanced disease.
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Essential house keeping in Ubuntu
Making your Ubuntu distribution support various closed source formats like flash, encrypted DVD support, quicktime, wmv and so on is a necessity to gain a fuller experience. Here is an article which explains how this person accomplished this.
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FirefoxView Lets You Open pages in Firefox from IE
FirefoxView is the opposite of ieview. This Firefox extension lets you open a page or link in Firefox from Internet Explorer. Just right click on a page, or link, in IE and select "View This Page in Firefox." This is great for when you find yourself surfing in IE by accident.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Using Math to Beat the Market
Each new program, Ballard said, is subjected to months of simulated trading before it's used to manage actual money. Ballard won't share how the algorithms work or how much income they've generated over his four-year trading history, except to say they've been profitable.
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20 Games That Nobody Played - But You Should
See the best of what most gamers missed out on over the last 2 decades. Wide range from early Nintendo and Sega to Current-Gen.
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Google: Ten Golden Rules (Newsweek Article)
Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google.
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Coloring Black and White Photos
This is horrendously cool. You draw a bit of color on objects, and it colors them for you.
NEAT.
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NEAT.
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Monday, December 05, 2005
Java Dethrones C++ as King of SourceForge
It's official. Java has taken the top spot away from C++ to become the top language on SourceForge. Mats Henricson points out in his blog that as of yesterday, Java has 16738 projects on SourceForge, compared to the 16731 of C++.
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India's superhighway to the 21st century
After becoming the backoffice outsourcing hub, the Indian government is on a 15-year project to widen and pave close to 40,000 miles of roads and highways. It's the most ambitious infrastructure project since independence.
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McNealy: Why "Sun Is Back"
In this BusinessWeek story, McNealy talks about AMD, Niagra and its new strategy of giving away software.
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NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox
According to Dan Turner "NASA has given up entirely on Internet Explorer. Now every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you how risky it is to run scripts. The official line is that the newest IE vulnerability was the proverbial straw, and now NASA's standard browser is Firefox."
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Sunday, December 04, 2005
Open source to be a part of engineering curriculum in India
Open source will be added to engineering curriculum across the country. A three-year project to include open source subjects such as Python programming and the Linux kernel is being funded by the Department of Information Technology.
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Friday, December 02, 2005
C and C++ programming tutorials
A number of links dealing with C and C++ including coding standards, STL, Source code archives and debugging.
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What can we do with Python?
"The Vaults of Parnassus is a large collection of links to third-party software for Python programming. If you need to do something special with Python, the Vaults is usually the best first place to look for resources." - Learning Python
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Macedonia Deploys 5,000 GNOME in Public Schools
The Republic of Macedonia deployed Linux in 468 schools and 182 computer labs nationwide, with GNOME on an Ubuntu distribution.
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What Newspaper Should Do To Improve Their Circulation
An interesting write up from Slashdot writer and editor on decline in newspaper circulation.
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