Learn how WPA2 can help secure your wireless network, providing encryption and access control, and why it's safer than previous standards.
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The Pee-tree urinal for public spaces. His bright ceramic white colour is a strong signal that can be seen from far away making it accessible when in urgent need. The trunk offers a perfect place for messaging, e.g. "I was here" or "done that" statements. The urine is directly flushed down to the underground sewage canal.
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This video was made to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Apple computer making insanely great products. This is not a dupe, as the old link went offline. I've now increased bandwidth, etc. and it should run smoothly for quite a long time.
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In the year since MIT's Nicholas Negroponte unveiled his prototype, he has found himself wrestling with Microsoft and software politics
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Some people hide their comments and friends lists on myspace, but with this tutorial you can see them anyway.
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This brings my favorite feature with macs to windows. Expose'. TopDesk is a quick and easy way to switch between applications. With a single key press, you can instantly view thumbnails of all open windows, display thumbnails of windows belonging to the current application, or hide all windows to quickly access the desktop.
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This is a great article from CNNMoney that talks about the benefits of ethanol and how it could become a major player in automobiles very soon.
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Check it out! Now you can make your Toolbar as unique as you are. You can add buttons and bookmarks; get instant search suggestions; share web pages with friends; and enjoy the Toolbar's pop-up blocker, web form filler, and spellchecker
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On FEB 3 the Nyxem virus is set to delete Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Acrobat files, Compressed Archives, and Photoshop on infected machines.
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Nice little article on wireless LANs, equipment and protocols for someone with limited knowledge on the subject.
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This article takes apart the cooler-than-thou argument we've all heard about how more than 3.2 megapixels is just stupid, since that's all you need for an 8x10 print.
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Here is a short article on how to setup an antenna so you can watch all the free OTA HD in your area. The article covers where to get the information you need to get started. It also includes pictures of my setup.
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As portable as canvas, but ends up as hard as concrete. Permanent structures could be delivered to disaster areas quickly, saving countless lives. These inflatable buildings last a minimum of 10 years, and can even be delivered sterile if you need a surgical center!
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This is a USB drive that looks like the rubber wristbands that everyone and their brother wears around. Maybe Livestrong will sponsor them and we can still look cool.
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"Suwan Jayasinghe of University College London and colleagues at Kings College London has used a form of ink-jet printing to create "jets" of living cells. The biophysicists say their technique, which does not destroy the cells, could be used to grow biological tissue or even human organs."
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"Basically it is a fancy barrel sealing tee valve. The exhaust valve used is a homemade version..."
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A Japanese magazine has reported that a 17" Intel iMac had it's processor upgraded from the 1.83 Ghz to 2.0 Ghz without issue. The processors apparenty are not soldered on!! Sounds like good news!!
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Ever thrown a Western Digital hard drive into a campfire? Well, PCMag's executive editor Jeremy Kaplan did while on his vacation. Why? He wanted to see if Ontrack could save his barbecued data.
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Exodus WhyReboot is a small (60KB) Windows application that displays a list of pending file operations that will occur after rebooting your computer. This is useful in determining why an installer has notified you that a reboot is needed.
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The ThoughtSafe is an encrypted USB memory stick with its own version of MSN Messenger: it's marketed to young girls who want to keep a private diary and prevent their parents or others from spying on or controlling their IM activity.
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A company sting operation earns a Connecticut man two years in prison for selling secret Windows source code for $20 after it leaked onto the internet.
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Harrison Ford says he's in the best shape of his life and he is prepared and eager to move forward with Indiana Jones 4.
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for those that never understood the "ninja folding technique" someone has created a new way to help single geek men have their clothes tidy
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An interesting scientifically test shows that smarter people actually remember less details. They tend to focus on what's essential. Interesting
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NBC's "Dateline" investigates the perils of social networking websites, and what they find is shocking. When Dateline surfed MySpace, it found scenes of binge drinking, apparent drug use, teens posing in underwear, and other members simulating sex, and in some cases even having it.
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A growing number of statisticians, accountants and mathematicians are convinced that an astonishing mathematical theorem known as Benford's Law is a powerful and relatively simple tool for pointing suspicion at frauds, embezzlers, tax evaders, sloppy accountants and even computer bugs.
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It doesn't look that bad considering its the very first one. I imagine in all of our lifetimes we will see this perfected with minimal scaring.
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Instead of... "Experience working in fast-paced environment"
Try... "Registered 120+ third-shift emergency patients per night"
Instead of... "Excellent written communication skills"
Try... "Wrote jargon-free User Guide for 11,000 users"
more.....
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Try... "Registered 120+ third-shift emergency patients per night"
Instead of... "Excellent written communication skills"
Try... "Wrote jargon-free User Guide for 11,000 users"
more.....
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TuneCore is a just-launched music delivery and distribution service that gets music you created up for sale on iTunes and Rhapsody without asking for your rights or taking any money from the sale or use of your music. Watch out record labels.
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Nice little tutorial on howto covert pictures to data files, burn that image onto CDRs. via make
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After Joel Spolsky's famous rant about how Java isn't hard enough to teach computer science, here's a fresh idea about the best teaching language.
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This person has listed instructions how to dual-boot Windows XP on a Macbook. The instructions have not been tested by the author but he believes his theory will work. Someone with an Intel Mac might want to give it a try.
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Bin Laden suggested Americans read a certain book. The result: it's flying off the "shelves" at Amazon.com.
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I thought I've seen it all, but someone set up an iSight so they could monitor their back yard. Take a look at this installation.
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If you're serious about online privacy, you probably already anonymize your browsing sessions at home, but what about when you sit down at an Internet cafe or public terminal where your decidedly non-anonymous use could be tracked back to you? The solution, of course, is to take your privacy with you, and that's what TorPark is for
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Here is a very informative article which explores the subject of partitioning ones hard disk. It explains why partitioning is necessary and the good design principles to be followed while creating them.
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On October 7, 1959, humanity for the first time saw what the other side of the moon looks like. These photographs are the first of what any human being ever saw of the far side of the moon.
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This tutorial describes how to install and configure OpenSSH so that it will allow chrooted sessions for users. With this setup, you can give your users shell access without having to fear that they can see your whole system. Your users will be jailed in a specific directory which they will not be able to break out of.
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There are some new signs of Google Inc.'s rumored "Big Daddy" infrastructure overhaul, search engine industry sources say.
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How to Take Great Photos of an Electronics Product with a Digital Camera
Published Saturday, January 28, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Whether writing a review for web site or selling a used camera or product at an online auction site such as eBay, your photos should look their very best. It's easier than you think to take pictures that stand out from the crowd, even without a fancy digital camera and professional lighting equipment.
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The IMAGE satellite captured this view of the Aurora Australis (southern lights) on September 11, 2005, four days after a record-setting solar flare sent plasma flying towards the Earth. The ring of light that the solar storm generated over Antarctica glows green in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum.
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NASA has been experimenting with BT for a while, but it's only recently that it's started using it for its massive picture library, "Visible Earth". Previously you needed to be an accredited journalist to get these files - now, thanks to BitTorrent, you can download them for yourself. Finally, a desktop background for your 86400 x 43200 monitor!
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This project is pretty cheap, if you have a mouse to use the other parts can be obtained for less than ten dollars.
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Here's a log of a user building his own Plexiglas computer case. Lots of pictures for this second installment of his three part guide. Check out part one also to see how he started.
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Google AdSense is moving beyond the traditional text and graphical advertising to rich media, including interstitials, expanding ads and floating ads. AdSense began contacting publishers last week to be involved in the rich media limited beta test.
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This kid is unable to feel any pain, so when he's hurting himself he has no idea he's doing so.
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Asahi is giving away beer pouring robots. Oh to live in such a innovative country.
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We all know that the world's magnetic field is weakening, but could it be because we are due for a magnetic field reversal? This would mean that animals might go the wrong way during migration or the fact that compasses might swing 180 degrees and point south. The magnetic shield might even disappear for a century or two.
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This is NOT my blog, but very interesting. It includes things like: Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number 'one followed by a hundred zeros'.
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This is a new way in looking at the news. It will show you a map and all the time zones and current time and news in that happening in that part of the world.
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A step-by-step Photoshop walk-through for turning a regular press image of Jessica Alba into something....er, hotter.
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Microsoft Develops Rootkit Defense; Deadly Worm Spreading Rapidly; The Best Laptops; Yahoo's New Google Killer
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"A security breach occurred in late December, Ameriprise [American Express] said, after a company laptop was stolen from an employee's parked car. The laptop contained a list of reassigned customer accounts that was being stored unencrypted, a violation of Ameriprise's rules."
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Okay, the guy called 215 times asking for a refund, he felt he was within his rights. He said he never ordered the service. But to get thrown in jail by Priceline for asking, and then getting fined? That's a little much.
Original link: http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/61998.htm
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Sony is getting rid of the AIBO and QRIO, but here's my tribute of the best robot pals I've ever had...
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We've come a long way since the first storage devices in 1956. Hard drive storage is supposed to double every year, and here are a lot of photos showing how hard drives have changed over the past 50 years.
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New lakes are now the second and third largest subsurface bodies of water in the Antarctic behind Lake Vostok
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This is a short animated tutorial on how to use BitTorrent (in particular the uTorrent client) to send files to your friends instead of using an IM client or email.
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What happen if your Powerbook got stolen? Why not post it onto eBay before the thieves does.
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"In opposition papers served yesterday in Elektra v. Barker in Manhattan federal court, the RIAA has argued that merely making files "available for distribution" is in and of itself a copyright violation." This would mean having copywrited files available to share would be illegal, even if no copying takes place.
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A scorpion lived for 15 months without food or water inside the plaster mold of a dinosaur fossil, breaking free only when a scientist broke open the mold. Don DeBlieux, a paleontologist for the Utah Geological Survey, said he was sawing open the plaster mold when the scorpion wriggled from a crack in a sandstone block.
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Recent attempts at installing Windows XP have left users scratching their heads. Hopefully a $6000 prize will inspire creative thinking
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"The current actions of the RIAA are not in my artists' best interests," said Nettwerk chief executive Terry McBride in a prepared statement.
The company is helping a family being sued by the RIAA, and have even promised to pay their fine if they lose the case.
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The company is helping a family being sued by the RIAA, and have even promised to pay their fine if they lose the case.
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The Alaskan Alpine Club keeps a photo-journal of their gigantic creation...Remember, they just use water and strategically placed pipes!
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"..I became aware of the new developments in the area of home theaters and digital video that would finally allow me to indulge my love of the big screen and science fiction, in particular."
Direct Link to the photo gallery is: http://www.reighn.com/theaterphoto.html
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Direct Link to the photo gallery is: http://www.reighn.com/theaterphoto.html
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Toronto - Two teens accused of racing luxury cars on city streets before crashing into a taxi and killing its immigrant driver may have been influenced by a popular video game, police said today.
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Researchers have found that the shape of the human skull has changed significantly over the past 650 years. Modern people possess less prominent features but higher foreheads than our medieval ancestors.
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Get your Ubuntu box up and working in full throttle as quickly as possible.
Published by Stangrunner.
This little program lets you choose to install Firefox 1.5, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Multimedia Codecs, DVD Playback, Skype, VLC, and many other essential apps.
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Google Date lets you enter a date and then searches using Google for what happened on that date and shows results. (Some weird ishh happend the day I was born.)
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GOT some public speaking to do? Here's a tip to keep stress at bay: have sex beforehand. But make sure it's penetrative sex - the magic vanishes if you pursue other forms of sexual gratification.
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Are you tired of watching reruns of Knight Rider just because you rent too many DVDs each month? If you are a heavy renter at Netflix and want to get around the new release restrictions, you should check out this cool Netflix hack that Shawn Morton came up with.
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2005's shenanigans, skulduggery and just plain stupidity. List includes: Sony BMG (of course), GTA's "adults only" cheat, Chair throwing incident at Microsoft, VOIP's lack of 911 access, and Wal-Mart's "Schindler's Shopping List" campaign.
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Fastr is a game that uses flickr images. It loads ten images that all share a common tag, one by one, and you guess what the tag is. When you guess right, the tag will turn blue. Then you can watch the pictures until the next set begins. The faster you guess, the more points you get. The points are reset every five minutes.
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High resolution wallpapers that are presized for you to standard sizes of 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200, as well as to widescreen size of 1680x1050, resulting in sharp pictures without distortion.
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This is a new client for Windows and Mac called Fireant. Not only will it download audio and video files via BitTorrent, the software allows you to copy video and audio directly to an iPod, PSP, Creative Zen, and other devices.
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Microsoft is planning thier own "iPod killer" digital device that can play games, music, and video.
The Bug in Microsoft's Ear
The Bug in Microsoft's Ear
CNN.com - Grandpa dies on hearing 7 children killed in fiery wreck - Jan 26, 2006
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This guy is really tiny and...well..kinda cute. "Scientists have discovered the smallest known fish on record in the peat swamps of the Indonesian island of Sumatra...
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An interesting summary of the first "Hacker world war" which took place in 2001. It appears Ebaum vs ytmnd.com was *not* the first online cyber-jihad, as we can see. Links to a lot of archived defacements and some good background info, too.
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CNN.com - Tattooed on arm and memory: Friends killed in Iraq - Jan 25, 2006
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Texas Music: "A few words for Joel Stein"
"Our customers told us they hate mail-in rebate programs. As a result, we're working to find new solutions to give our customers a better shopping experience, while remaining competitive on pricing."
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I registered deusto.com in 1997. Now, eight years later, Planeta Agostini, one of the biggest publishing groups in Spain and owner of Ediciones Deusto, sends me letters demanding me to transfer them the domain, because they registered the trademark "deusto" in 2002 .
Now they have presented a complaint to the WIPO and the domain is suspended.
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Now they have presented a complaint to the WIPO and the domain is suspended.
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Nice article about Bash and SSH, how you can run commands on a remote computer and use the output on your own and vice verse.
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A next-generation test version of the open source Samba file sharing software has been made available, with features emulating Microsoft's Active Directory ID management software.
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Gun can shoot 240,000 bullets per minute and can actually shoot down enemy mortar fire.
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This can't be good. Arizonia is running a trial for using Speed Cameras on the highway. These devices are far from perfert as they have been going in the UK for a while with tickets ranging from 87mph for a tractor to 700+mph for a Toyota Land Cruiser. Anyway, watch out!
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Ted Landau's User Friendly View - Before You Buy an Intel Mac || The Mac Observer
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Handbrake is an open-source application which rips and encodes any DVD's (even encrypted) to any format you want. Stable versions available for Mac OS X, an alpha is out for Windows, and Linux compiles can be made.
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At the Shmoocon 2006 security conference about two weeks ago, ab3nd gave a speech discussing the methods to which magnetic cards can be maliciously crafted. Apparently he has joined SploitCast to approach the subject again.
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"This site contains registry fixes, scripts, Troubleshooting Guides and freeware utilities to resolve problems in Windows XP".
Not just the same ol' n00b stuff. I found this list to actually be useful enough to bookmark. In case it gets diggslammed, it's mirrored at http://www.winhelponline.com/xp.html
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Not just the same ol' n00b stuff. I found this list to actually be useful enough to bookmark. In case it gets diggslammed, it's mirrored at http://www.winhelponline.com/xp.html
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It looks like there will be less eye candy at the E3Expo show in Los Angeles. What are all those "models" to do??
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A massive collection of logos including who created them, when, the typeface of the name, etc... Check it out!
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Here you have a list with the 30 latest FREE Music Making software.
Free VST's, Plugins, Instruments, Filters, Effects, Trackers, Sequencers & more.
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Free VST's, Plugins, Instruments, Filters, Effects, Trackers, Sequencers & more.
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15,000 hits from Digg in 24hrs and all he makes is $9 from adsense. Good analysis of who visits from Digg (screen res, browser, OS)- some surprising results and he reckons Steve Jobs and Bill Gates visited his site- all this by looking at his logs and Google Analytics
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This article is in favour of Google's resistance to supply the government with personal search data, but it's also realistic: we can't trust the government, and they'll probably win. So his call to Google is: stop recording our IP addresses!
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More than three quarters of web surfers don't realize that Google records and stores information that may identify them, according to a new opinion poll.
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A music video about the rise and fall of E.T. for the Atari 2600. These guys actually go to the landfill where they were buried and digg up like 200 of the cartridges.
Wintergreen "When I Wake Up" Director: Keith Schofield
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Wintergreen "When I Wake Up" Director: Keith Schofield
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Apple is expanding it's iTunes U program, allowing for colleges and universities to post more educational content on the iTunes music store.
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For rocket designer Tim Pickens, a rocket on two wheels is the next best thing to a spaceship.
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The Best Buy Xbox 360 inventory search link posted awhile ago does work. I just picked up one today. Here is the link.
Many people are concerned about the number of organizations asking for their Social Security Numbers. They worry about invasions of privacy and the oppressive feeling of being treated as just a number....
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Yahoo! has given up on the quest for search dominance. Yahoo! Inc., one of the first Internet search companies, has capitulated to Google Inc. in the battle for market dominance.
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Pretty neat applet. Lets you see the interaction of multiple wave sources at different frequencies.
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Three grade schools in the Freehold Borough School District now have iris scanning security.
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A restaurant is being sued in federal court by a group representing songwriters for playing tunes written by Van Morrison, Dwight Yoakam and others without a license.
B-M-I says damages could reach 750 dollars per song.
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B-M-I says damages could reach 750 dollars per song.
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As one DLP owner already found out the hard way, any Dynamic Mode settings could force the 100 watt lamps to output at 120 watts, which reduce the bulb life by as much as 2,000 hours!
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Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - 14% of Internet Uses iTunes
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Cool gadget that uses tracks your sleep cycle and help you wake up feeling refreshed. It's better than SleepTracker 'cause it won't be muffled if you put your hands under your pillow.
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This on-line color vision test consists of four cards from the popular color vision test "Color Vision Testing Made Easy". Try and find a circle, star, and/or a square on the Demonstration Card, Card # 1, and Card #2. Try and find a dog, boat, balloon or car on Card # 3.
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According to Nature, "Studies suggest humour signals big brain and good partner-potential."
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"The MPAA admitted Monday that it had duplicated "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" without the filmmaker's permission " Whoops!
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MusicStacker allows you to create DRM-free copies of your plagued online music store purchased audio. The copy you create can then be used without restriction.
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Thanks to Hitachi for this great page that features six wav files of the most common, heart-stopping .. my drive is about to die sounds.
This is when you start chanting .. "please, one more boot .. please let me read that one file, one more time."
real sic
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This is when you start chanting .. "please, one more boot .. please let me read that one file, one more time."
real sic
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This organization focuses on Malicious Activity Awareness and Response, specifically in regards to criminal activity on computers such as Phishing, Fraud, and Malicious Software (malware) with the intent of information theft. They have a blog, and there is rumor of a mailing list where people can post information about phishing and malware cases.
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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus - First Lab Tests: iMac with Intel Core Duo processor
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Heather's "Marketing at Microsoft" Blog : More on my Alaska Airlines Situation
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More of a ridiculous story. Lady, please get over it. You are not that HOT.
Heather's "Marketing at Microsoft" Blog : More on my Alaska Airlines Situation
Heather's "Marketing at Microsoft" Blog : More on my Alaska Airlines Situation
PC Magazine has the review. uTorrent and Azureus tie it each taking away 4.5/5 stars.
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What's the highest point in your state? Find out new for every state using Google Maps.
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A nice look at what you should buy if you have to get a system now and can't wait for Vista. Decent advice as well as depth to some of the features we've been promised
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Google news is out of beta !
We're taking Google News out of beta! When we launched the English-language edition in September 2002,....A bit more than three years later, we offer 22 regional editions in 10 languages, and have a better sense of how people use Google News
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We're taking Google News out of beta! When we launched the English-language edition in September 2002,....A bit more than three years later, we offer 22 regional editions in 10 languages, and have a better sense of how people use Google News
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It appears the version of the 'Such Great Heights' video that Apple released on iTunes has been censored. All signs of the name "Skyworks" have been blurred out, while they are visible in previous versions of the video. Several screenshots are available. Could there be anything else that can still be added to this Apple vs. Postal Service saga?
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From the developer's own blog: New Bookmarks and History, Tabbed Browsing Enhancements, Improved Basic Content Type Handling, Web Search, Visual Uplift, Inline Spell Check and more! Check out the post for more detail...
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The Carpenter's Level is a Dashboard widget that responds to your (so equipped) iBook or Powerbook's built-in motion detector. Tilt your laptop to the left or right and watch the bubble move. Freakin' cool.
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HIV, the virus which leads to AIDS and which affects 40 million people across the world, has been seen in detail for the first time by Oxford scientists and their colleagues in Heidelberg and Munich.
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Awesome list of alternative uses of RSS and feeds beyond headlines and blogs and such.
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Google execs Brin, Page, & Shmidt have once again agreed to be paid annual salaries of $1 each in 2006, counting instead on stock options and grants of the company's volatile stock for their pay.
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Nokia is testing the possibilities of running web server technology on mobile phones. This could change the way we think about the web.
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This article has researched all the facts about warranties in the U.S. and why you may not need to buy one. A must read for any person considering buying an extended warranty. The article is targeted mainly at those Microsoft Xbox 360 owners that have broken hardware and those that are living in fear about their own consoles breaking.
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Color video running at 30 frames per second, with audio, on an original 4.77MHz 8088 IBM PC Model 5150 with 640K RAM, CGA video, 10MB drive, and Sound Blaster Pro.
No tricks, this is for real! This kind of speed is only achievable using text mode (!) and 8088 assembler.
Programmer: Jim Leonard
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No tricks, this is for real! This kind of speed is only achievable using text mode (!) and 8088 assembler.
Programmer: Jim Leonard
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New Internet Worm With Destructive Payload Growing
Published Monday, January 23, 2006 by Stangrunner.
The Nyxem.E worm is programmed to activate on the 3rd of each month, and replace the content of user's files with a text string "DATA Error [47 0F 94 93 F4 K5]". Among these files are: DOC, XLS, MDB, MDE, PPT, PPS, ZIP, RAR, PDF, PSD and DMP.
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This 27 second Video from a few months back has Steve Wozniak explaining that the price of the Apple 1 had no Demonic meanings or Price Analysis Results; but he felt that it was easier to type the same number "6" numeral...
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Because transient analysis is complex and not widely understood by computer users, a number of myths have grown up around the subject of surge protection over the years.
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Here's a good article on how to install and configure Hamachi to run as a service that automatically connects on Windows 2000, XP, and 2003. It lays out all the necessary steps in one place.
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Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, will spend $120 million a year on an advertising campaign to fight its image as "a huge American company."
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Little known Apple Support Page with instructions on how to Accurately determine your paticular model's iPod Battery Life. The Step-by-step instructions may actually get your Batteries More juiced it than it is now
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CNNMoney reports on the Best Time to Buy Air Tickets, Televisions, Houses, Cars, Video Games, and Toys...
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This is pretty damn cool. New screenshot for MotoGP 2006, in full qicktime VR. I want more!
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"Britons waste the equivalent of around two power stations worth of electricity each year by leaving TV sets and other gadgets on standby." There's no doubt the U.S. is worse off...is this the beginning of the end of standby buttons?
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Toshiba has designed a mobile phone using the world's smallest disk drive, according to Japanese sources. The 2.1cm drive, also made by Toshiba, is so small that six would fit on a business card and claims to hold 2,000 songs.
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"Britons waste the equivalent of around two power stations worth of electricity each year by leaving TV sets and other gadgets on standby." There's no doubt the U.S. is worse off...is this the beginning of the end of standby buttons?
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In case you missed it... here it is -- the interview and story in its entirety... you won't even have to Bittorrent it!
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In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS, a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns. This has the advantage that you can easily use web-based frontends to administrate your DNS records.
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"Scott Banks, a University of Florida engineer has designed a robot to take X-ray video of sufferers of orthopaedic injuries as they walk, climb stairs, or pursue other normal activities."
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Robot pets affect humans much like real ones. Decreasing stress, easing depression, and increasing activity. They especially are great for nursing homes and the elderly.
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Heather's "Marketing at Microsoft" Blog : If Someone at Alaska Airlines Likes Your "Butt", They Might Just Let You Know
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Amongst all the fossils ever found in the world, there might be nothing more bizarre than this specimen.
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Ars Technica has released an article regarding something the EFF has dug up on the DRM front. Apparently the **AA's are looking to freeze the consumer electronics industry where it stands by replacing "Fair Use" with a policy called "customary historic use"...Double Plus Ungood if you ask me...
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This amazing video shows a 1958 explosion from underwater nuclear test. The cloud engulfs a US Navy drone target ship / Eneweta. You have to see this to believe.
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This is a cool little extension which lets you view thumbnails of all the open tabs with the click of a button. This feature was promoted as being a new feature in IE7, and you can use it in firefox right now.
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Just get an Xbox 360, and have an old Xbox lying around collecting dust? Why not install linux and have it front-end for your MythTV box. You can hide your Myth box and use that old xbox to stream videos directly from it! Step-by-step guide with awesome directions and screenshots of every process.
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Ever wonder how they can actually pack billions of transistors into a CPU? Watch this video... it's fascinating and involves crazy things like 'epitaxial deposition' and 'bunny suits'!
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why pay if you could get it for free from apple. this lists all the free tunes from apple all you need to do is download them when they are free.
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Let's get it straight: Google isn't trying to protect child pornographers. News sites are casting a negative light against Google by mistakenly referring to "child porn" when the issue is actually about "children looking at pornography " i.e. webmasters not ensuring their sites are sufficiently blocking minors from viewing harmful content."
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Now you can explore the physics of galaxy collisions in this interactive astronomy lab. It's amazing to see a simple applet reproduce what we see in space.
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Despite illegal music downloading on the internet being at an all time high, the RIAA/IFPA have experienced an all time high in profits, tripling where they were 2 years ago!
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Four-year-old Alesha Johnson chucked the bottle into the local Morecambe Bay on the northwest English coast in July. It contained a picture of herself and a brief message with her address."My name is Alesha. If you get this message, please write back," it read
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Copyscape is dedicated to defending your rights online, helping you fight against online plagiarism and content theft. Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you.
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All right kiddeos...here's how to crack your momma's router and for all you sys. admins....block these & you're golden.
Included are links to 95 free proxies, 6 language translators, a brilliant pseudo-server / re-router, a router outbound packet filter lesson, and a few other good tips...
enjoy
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Included are links to 95 free proxies, 6 language translators, a brilliant pseudo-server / re-router, a router outbound packet filter lesson, and a few other good tips...
enjoy
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A team from Germany and Switzerland have made the first detailed examinations of a jumping spider's 'foot' and have discovered that a molecular force sticks the spider to almost anything. The force is so strong that these spiders could carry over 170 times their own body weight while standing on the ceiling.
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Apparently, Ticketmaster has stolen an image from someone on Flickr and used it on their own site. This link has the details.
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This cool paper Serenity model includes the two removable shuttles and moving engines!!!!
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Interesting explanation of the some of the controversy surrounding plasma screen televisions.
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Lifehacker has a great article on how to use firefox without ever touching your mouse. Great for speeding up browsing
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New critical flaw in the 5G iPod -- destroys earbuds!
Published Sunday, January 22, 2006 by Stangrunner.
When my right earbud started making an annoying crackling sound I thought it was just the earbuds fault. But recently on iLounge it appears that a bunch of other iPod users have also had the problem, and with third party headphones as well! So, if you're using an expensive pair of earbuds with your 5G -- watch out!
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BlueSfear has announced that it graphics worm is the longest page on the internet. So far its 56.25 ft and growing.
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'Top 100' lists on highest income, least crime, newest houses, most females, shortest commute, best educated residents, and many more.
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"The experiment was to see whether I could teach these students binary arithmetic (arithmetic using only two numbers, 0 and 1) only by asking them questions." Very good read.
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A video which shows Battlefield vehicles racing in Mario Kart style. Hilarious!
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At elementary schools, kindergartens, and preschools all across Japan, kids are losing themselves making hikaru dorodango, or balls of mud that shine. I might try this at our Mud Volleyball Tournament this summer.
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This design, by Brooklyn company Brave Space, is intended for "Life-size play", and the blocks really do have the exact proportions of the original Tetris pieces. The storage units are sold piece by piece, so you can buy as many as you want and arrange them however you want.
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Pull the camera out of a retired U2 spy plane put it on a pushcart and voila a 4 gigapixel camera!! Image resolution is absolutely amazing!!! From full panorama picture right down to treads of a tire in the distance!!!
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They plan to sell a revolutionary hybrid two-seater car that they say can get up to 330 miles per gallon, and will sell for under $20,000.
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Hollywood now wants their old business model frozen into a law to prevent any technology newer than their "historical" distribution method from being created. This would have prevented iPods and Tivos from ever being considered. Yet another corp. shill acting like a senator
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Tiny Microsoft tool automatically photoshops group pictures
Published Saturday, January 21, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Microsoft has a nice free tool from their research group available, that automatically makes group pictures from single pictures. Looks amazing.
Screenshots here: http://research.microsoft.com/projects/GroupShot/GroupShotHelp.htm
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Screenshots here: http://research.microsoft.com/projects/GroupShot/GroupShotHelp.htm
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...according to a 1989 Compute! Magazine article: scan the custom newspaper that spills from your fax; capture segments of a show you like and put them in a video report for school for $1,000; ISDN will simultaneously transmit voice, video, and computer data. You'll talk to your TV set, and it'll customize itself...
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This page plots the number of results obtained from google for words of the form a{n}h{m}. For example aaahh would be represented by 3,2 and is found on the grid at 3 down and 2 across. The plot goes all the way up to a{60}h{60}. There are some interesting patterns and oddities.
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Students are finding out the hard way that online privacy is much like the Chicago Bears' defense: just when you need it most, it completely disappears.
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Some funny Linux cartoons/shorts produced by IBM. 'evolution' is a personal favorite.
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Link includes an Empire campaign and mod making tools (allowing you to unlock tons of content included in the demo but not
used). Turns out the entire game is described mostly by xml files, making it extremly easy to change the demo campaign,
units, planets, and almost everything else in the game.
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used). Turns out the entire game is described mostly by xml files, making it extremly easy to change the demo campaign,
units, planets, and almost everything else in the game.
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I have one of these slankets (blanket with sleeves) and it is the best for playing video games. Your whole body stays warm and you can still reach for your drink. No more controller under the covers.
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Hydropolis is the world's first luxury underwater hotel. It is currently under construction in Dubai. It costs £300 million, has 220 suites and covers 260 hectares, about the size of London's Hyde Park.
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Who knows how long this guy spent mapping oldschool classics. He's done entire game maps of such classics as Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past, Super Mario World, Doom II, etc.
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Ferrofluid (magnetic fluid) sculptures by two Japanese artists that move like something out of a science fiction movie. You have to watch the video!
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Some dwellings are little more than caves with a door on the front. Others have elaborate fronts, hiding the cave quarters behind. Now the empty caves are coming back to life with large computer servers and blinking lights, tucked away in cave rooms once occupied by people and animals.
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An official MythTV wiki has been created to form a central knowledgebase on all things Myth.
P.S.
Good news for the open source PVR based community. It looks like mythtv 0.19 will be released in the next few weeks:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/175714
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Good news for the open source PVR based community. It looks like mythtv 0.19 will be released in the next few weeks:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/175714
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In the war against music file swapping, there have been countless casualties. Even with the clamp down on file sharing, new technologies have emerged to make the fight against financial loss impossible to win.
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You don't have to be the Department of Justice to see what people are searching for! Dogpile gives real-time search terms to anyone.
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Amateurs are building balloons capable of reaching near space altitude, and then take photographs that look like they were shot from orbit.
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Last year, parliament nearly fell victim to a sophisticated hacking fraud. Experts are convinced that such attacks have the support of Chinese authorities
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Bad news: ABC has rejected the 10th submission for a commercial during this year's Super Bowl. The Good news: Go Daddy believes that ABC does want to find middle ground for a commercial that is acceptable to ABC, the NFL and Go Daddy. Best news: there is a link to the commercial so you can see for yourself what all the hoopla is about.
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Hollywood wins again. Want to record 1080i HD signals? Well, screw you! Hollywood has negotiated a deal whereby hardware manufacturers are required to down-convert the analog output in next gen players. "analog signal must be "down-converted" from the full 1920x1080 lines of resolution the players are capable of outputting to 960x540 lines"
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A serious vulnerability has been found in the popular KDE open-source software bundle. The flaw, deemed "critical" by the research outfit the French Security Incident Response Team, could allow a remote attacker to gain control over vulnerable systems.
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It seems that ZoneAlarm Security Suite has been phoning home, even when told not to. InfoWorld Editor James Borck discovered ZA 6.0 was surreptitiously sending encrypted data back to four different servers, despite disabling all of the suite's communications options.
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No, this is not something from 50 years ago, this is a new computer (CPU) built out of 12 volt relays. There is even a video of it working (which made me realize how much I miss old computers' blinking lights)!
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An insight column on the IT certification World. Does been certified help you land a job? Are you better off taking time to get certified, than neglect that entry IT field job? A good read, if you are planning on getting so certs under your belt.
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Here is a picture (Flickr) of this guys home setup. He has multiple 30'' displays, a mac mini dedicated to his music, this guy is without a doubt hardcore mac.
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NASA says that space is filling up with trash, and it needs to be cleaned up. Rockets, satellites, and blown-off hatches litter the area circling Earth.
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Sun's software chief says that Google is running its own operating system to run its grids. Apparently there's debate within the company about whether to continue using it, but that surely won't stop speculation about whether Google has loftier goals in mind.
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A pretty cool video of this experimental operating system in action. Not yet ready for any kind of mass use, but some pretty cool concepts for now.
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I had been blind 25 years. I had a heart attack, woke up, and could see. I said to my husband: 'You've got older'
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If you registered a Gmail account in some of the first waves of invitations, a small bug may have let more than one person create variants of email addresses (john.doe vs. johndoe) that the system considers to be the same, thus you both get each other's mail - as has happened to the author.
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Hi, saw some lo-res one poseted, but who wants that here are some hi-res ones!!!
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