Slashdot | Huge Reservoir Discovered Beneath Asia
Published Wednesday, February 28, 2007 by Stangrunner.
There is proposed legislation going through the US Senate right now that will ban the use of radar detectors in the US. According to the legislation, it’s supposed “to protect the public from drivers who think they can speed with impunity by using radar detection devices.”
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Safari and Webkit Architect David Hyatt responds to macenstein's revelation of Safari speed problems. Without knowing the specific pages used, Hyatt explained what types of things browsers need to do in the background. The most likely suspect? Safari 2 handled JavaScript timeouts precisely; Firefox and Safari 3 don't allow timeouts under 10ms.
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What shortages? I have seen them stacked up in Best Buy and Circuit City.
Sony Expects to Solve PS3 Shortages by May
Sony Expects to Solve PS3 Shortages by May
Poke around the net for a while searching for information on what it’s like to switch to a Mac, and you’ll quickly get a face full of hyperbole, zealots, platform bigots, feature weenies, and naysayers - from both the Windows and Mac camps. But there are precious few places to get an honest word about what it’s like to switch...
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Over the course of four months before the defeat of the Japanese forces in March 1945, Mr Makino cut open the bodies of ten Filipino prisoners, including two teenage girls. He amputated their limbs, and cut up and removed their healthy livers, kidneys, wombs and still beating hearts for no better reason than to improve his knowledge of anatomy.
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Windows Vista has a radically different approach to memory management. Check out the "Physical Memory, Free" column in my Task Manager...
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An Italian teacher has been suspended by her school in Milan after cutting off the tongue of a lively 7-year-old child with a pair of scissors, daily Corriere della Sera reported Tuesday.
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Today I'm rounding up my 13 favorite iTunes AppleScripts, from simple "why isn't this already in iTunes" add-ons like automatically removing dead tracks to more interesting scripts that build playlists and search for your music in Wikipedia.
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Many stores use an illegal practice that goes undetected. When you find a store that does, scheme hundreds off your next big purchase and totally stick it to the man.
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"Letchik Lekha" is a Russian commercial pilot who also happens to be an avid photographer. On his site you can find many rare shots of airplanes, the land below and the sky above...Awesome Photos
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A sophisticated computer hacker had access to servers at wireless giant T-Mobile for at least a year, which he used to monitor US Secret Service email, obtain customers' passwords and Social Security numbers, and download candid photos taken by Sidekick users, including Hollywood celebrities, SecurityFocus has learned.
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Three Reasons Windows Vista Is Sinking Like a Rock
Published Monday, February 26, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Lately it sure seems like a day does not go by where I don’t run across at least one or two news stories about how annoying Microsoft’s Windows Vista is. A recent article on CNN is a prime example of how bad the reception of Vista has been from folks who simply know better.
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Vista should be more secure than XP, but its vulnerability to attack will be a concern for users for some months and years to come.
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A software engineering manager's ideas regarding resumes. "The terrifying reality regarding your resume is that for all the many hours you put into fine-tuning, you've got 30 seconds to make an impression on me. Maybe less."
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Costco Leak: Electronic Returns Limited To 90-Days Starting Today - Consumerist
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Costco Leak: Electronic Returns Limited To 90-Days Starting Today - Consumerist
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Netflix Inc. delivered its 1 billionth DVD over the weekend. To commemorate the occasion, Netflix is awarding a lifetime subscription to the Helotes, Texas, customer who received the 1 billionth DVD shipped from one of the Los Gatos-based company's 42 distribution centers nationwide.
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MSNBC - It’s possible that male goo can lower blood pressure. Another recent study found that women who gave their men oral sex, and swallowed, had a lower risk of preeclampsia, the dangerously high blood pressure that sometimes accompanies pregnancy.
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Order pizza from the commandline with pizza_party script! Yes this is REAL!
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* Can order pizza with only a few keystrokes.
* Can save pizza preferences.
* Can use batch files for ordering many pizzas.
* Has easy to use flags for ordering different toppings.
* Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems.
* Supports most currently popular topings like "mushrooms", and "pepperoni"!
* Unattended
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* Can save pizza preferences.
* Can use batch files for ordering many pizzas.
* Has easy to use flags for ordering different toppings.
* Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems.
* Supports most currently popular topings like "mushrooms", and "pepperoni"!
* Unattended
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Mac News: Entertainment: Jobs: Cult of Personality, Gates: Lack of Personality
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If you're facing a problem you can't get your head around, you might be told to sleep on it. Now scientists have shown that the advice is more than just an old wives' tale.
Apparently sleep strengthens the memory and helps the brain extract themes and rules from the masses of information we soak up during the day.
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Apparently sleep strengthens the memory and helps the brain extract themes and rules from the masses of information we soak up during the day.
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These are pictures from the new Helios gas station in Los Angeles. It's supposed to be better and more environmentally friendly gas, but in the end... it's still gas. However, this is totally the craziest looking gas station.
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A Mac program called Display Eater that has been set up by its developer to respond to the use of pirated CD keys by 'erasing something' -- apparently this is, in some instances, the home directory of the infringing Mac
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Walmart: No Comment After SuperCenter Snake Bites Seven Shoppers - Consumerist
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Mr. Jobs' Thoughts on Music Not So Sincere || The iPod Observer - Now Playing
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Porn pop-up teacher gets new attorney, PC World outs juror
Published Friday, February 23, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Julie Amero, substitute teacher and convicted porn-pop up purveyor, has finally gotten a tiny break in her favor. Connecticut criminal defense lawyer William Dow has stepped in and offered help to Julie Amero, pro-bono.... Good analisys of the recent updates in the case
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Gizmodo has declared March the month to boycott the RIAA. Read the story and see how you can help. "We want to get the word out to as many people as humanly possible that we can all send a message by refusing to buy any album put out by an RIAA label."
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Massive Pound-And-A-Half Rats Infest KFC/Taco Bell In The West Village - Consumerist
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MacScoop claims to have the inside dirt on next month's rumored Apple announcements, saying we're in for a full barrage of hardware releases, including a black 24-inch iMac and 8-core Mac Pros (no word on whether they'll be sporting new designs).
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Guy Fed UP! with bad support - takes matters into own hands...
Published Thursday, February 22, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Made fake support requests to a bunch of shared hosting sites and put them on a stop watch so everyone would know just how bad (and how good) these hosts really are.
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Britney Spears wasn’t at home Wednesday night watching Lost like the rest of us. Noooo, Ms. Spears spent it desperately trying to get into Kevin Federline’s residence. After spending 45 minutes outside of his home, and trying to damage an SUV with an umbrella, Momma Spears finally came to her rescue.
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The guys over at speedtest.net have really out done themselves this time. Checkout the new interface and the global comparison features.
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The most realistic looking 3d rendered image of a human.
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How Sysco came to monopolize most of what you eat. - By Ulrich Boser - Slate Magazine
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Winky the Cat was a stuffed animal turn-signal sold through catalogs. I wanted Winky for my car, to keep me safe with his soft fluffiness and his acrylon-like fur. Sadly, a victim of teenage peer pressure, I couldn't bring myself to buy Winky. Now, 25 years later, I realize that all is not lost. Yeah, I can't buy Winky, but I can make my own!
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Five origami that work with dollar bills that you can leave as a tip the next time you dine out
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Expedia Threatens to Discontinue Account For Redeeming Voucher - Consumerist
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They went to the effort of photodocumenting the whole process - from one shiny machine to another. Apparently it took 3400 hours of work to get this car into the next version of Gran Turismo HD - give them a digg for effort!
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Of course McDonald's corporate is denying it, but the franchisees are saying that the recent overhauls to McDonald's kitchens are a prelude to one thing: All-day breakfast.
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IKEA Will Start Charging for Plastic Bags in US
Published Tuesday, February 20, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Starting March 15, all IKEA stores in the US will charge a nickel per plastic bag in an effort to get people to haul their Swedish Fish and affordable housewares out of the store in reusable bags and cut down on plastic bag waste. IKEA projects that they'll cut plastic bag use by at least 50%, from 70 million bags a year down to 35 million bags.
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In the wide world of dating, there are many options. Do you go for the flashy guy with the smooth smile, or the dude in the corner typing away on his laptop? The following are reasons why I think my fellow females should pay more attention to the quiet geeks and nerds, and less attention to the flashy boys.
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There's lots to like in the newest version of Windows. Vista's look is stunning, the OS should be more secure, and finding things is often easier. But Windows wouldn't be Windows without those aspects, big and small, that just drive you nuts with frustration. Here's our list of Vista features that just make us wonder, "What were they thinking?"
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Everyone loves the iPod. Not everyone loves iTunes. It's not that iTunes is a bad application, but it does limit what you can do with your iPod. This week I'll show you how to free yourself from the one computer, one music library shackles of iTunes using alternative software for managing the iPod.
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Apple's sales team is gearing up to convince customers to go "beyond Vista.
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Apple is planning a two-pronged approach to marketing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, trumpeting the new operating system's features and also putting down Microsoft Windows Vista
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If your like myself and have a macbook core Duo and was psyched when you heard you could upgrade your WiFi speed to 802.11n then came to find out you can only do that for the core 2 duo. Heres a cool tutorial on how to install an airport card that will run 802.11n. Looks pretty easy i think ill try it out.
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If you've been wondering how your Honda or Acura just seems to cover ground an awful lot quicker than your previous ride without even getting you a speeding ticket, listen up. Apparently, around six million Honda / Acura owners have been wheeling around in vehicles that are clicking off miles quite a bit faster than they're actually being driven.
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Bussell was working full time as a "Mac genius" at the Apple Store in Newport Beach, sharing a $1,600-per-month apartment in Aliso Viejo. He had racked up more than $10,000 in credit card debt and was struggling to pay for school and save money for a three-month road trip. So on July 29, 2005, he started living in his truck.
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It takes years maybe decades to master the commands available to you at the Linux shell prompt. Here are 10 that you will have never heard of or used.
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A messy menu bar is one of the most obvious signs of a disorganised and cluttered desktop. Here are some ways to clean up your menu bar.
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We partially know what Leopard will offer. Jobs told us when he unveiled Leopard at WWDC 2006 that there were things he couldn’t show that remain top secret. Whether that was true or just shrewd salesmanship remains to be seen, but my hunch is that we’re going to learn more about Leopard, and the hype will start very soon. Here's what to expect.
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Incredible picture of sunrise over Teton Mountains
Published Saturday, February 17, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Britney Spears takes a razor to her own scalp, shaving her head until she is entirely bald.
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"Between my server and my Windows Media Center home theater PC, I have at least two PCs on all the time at home. Have you ever wondered how much it's costing you to leave a computer on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?"
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One of my first priorities after getting Ubuntu running was to make it sexy. Damn sexy. OS X spoiled me; I need eye candy. Unlike the limited skinning options with Windows (Windows Blinds or hacking uxtheme.dll), you can actually replace the desktop environment, the window manager, file manager and a number of other applications with Linux.
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A video showing how to safely drop an egg from 4 stories or more without breaking.
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It’s 8AM. Your iHome iPod alarm clock gently rouses you from sleep with a thumping rendition of Wham’s Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. As you groove your way out of bed, you grab your iPod from the alarm clock and slip it into your iPod-ready boxer shorts or panties, heading for the bathroom.
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Lina’s parents initially thought their daughter had a large abdominal tumor
… but Lina was eventually transferred to a hospital in Lima, where she delivered a six-pound baby boy
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… but Lina was eventually transferred to a hospital in Lima, where she delivered a six-pound baby boy
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In today's episode of "More Weird Crap from Japan" we find our heroes encountered with a very strange machine. This vending machine is staffed by a real human who gives the desired product to the consumer, rather than having a series of mechanics do the job. If only it was a real human vending machine that actually gave out, uh, humans. ..
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Kohler C3 Series Toilet Seats Offer Hands-Free Butt-Washing, American Style
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Who says the Japanese make all the fancy potties? Kohler has jumped into wash-yer-butt bidet derby with its C3 series toilet seats, using a special "hydra-cleansing wand" to give you a hands-free alternative to toilet paper.
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One common but especially bizarre behavior of hypothermia victims is known as "paradoxical undressing", where they remove their warm clothing even as they are freezing to death. Finally there is an answer why...
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Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Hong Kong seem to have found an amazing liquid that can stop bleeding anywhere in the body within 15 seconds!!!
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I'll try to sum up a funny story that happened a few years ago: I got a vasectomy.
I met a girl soon afterwards. She was nice and attractive but with a selfish streak that raised a big red flag. She was 32 at the time and I could practically HEAR her biological clock ticking. Regardless, she was a good lay, easy on the eyes, and reasonably good lay......Link: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/274495936.html
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I met a girl soon afterwards. She was nice and attractive but with a selfish streak that raised a big red flag. She was 32 at the time and I could practically HEAR her biological clock ticking. Regardless, she was a good lay, easy on the eyes, and reasonably good lay......Link: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/274495936.html
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"This new machine is said to be smaller, and 'significantly faster' than the current offerings. Unlike today's Mac pros, the cooling system will direct hot air through vents at the top of the machine, much like Apple's Cube of yesteryear." and as for the displays "Some reports have expected the new displays to come in sizes up to 50-inches."
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An unsecured wireless network is an open invitation to hackers to walk right in to your computer and steal your personal information, upload malware onto your computer, and otherwise terrorize you. Thankfully, securing your wireless connection is extraordinarily simple to do.
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Mexican man finds forty dinosaur prints in desert
Published Wednesday, February 14, 2007 by Stangrunner.
A Mexican man has discovered dozens of dinosaur footprints dating back up to 110 million years along the banks of a dried river, scientists said on Tuesday.
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"Well then, let's not bother with the RMA and the shipping labels and all of that. Just bring it on in to Nintendo," she said.
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When you press slash (or the apostrophe key), you'll see a little Quick Find field in the lower-left corner of the screen--not unlike what you get from pressing Ctrl-F (but without any of the Find controls). Start typing and you'll see instant results. Wait a moment and Quick Find disappears on its own.
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When the lobsters come out of the Avure machine after a minute or two, the result is arresting. Every piece of meat can easily be extracted from the shell, raw and fully intact, including the leg muscles. After shucking, here is what the lobster looks like:
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Windows Vista includes an array of "features" that you don't want. These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure. They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will cause technical support problems. They may even require you to upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software.
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In support of Jobs' open letter, the top guns at Yahoo! Music and SanDisk are urging record labels to "ditch DRM." The head of Yahoo! Music also slammed Microsoft's DRM because "it doesn't work half the time."
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Water Main Breaking, Overnight Street Parking = Funny Pics
Published Monday, February 12, 2007 by Stangrunner.
So, on Friday night, a water main up the street burst, flooding the street. My poor purple honda was out there all night, and this was the result:
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Without restrictions on entire catalogs, "Sales would explode," says David Pakman, CEO of eMusic, the No. 2 online music retailer behind Apple's iTunes. "DRM has been holding the market back." His company is the only legitimate digital music service selling unrestricted songs, in the MP3...
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Described as "Part car geek, part Malibu glam girl," GM Design Manager Vicki Vlachakis' work has definitely been turning heads. House & Garden magazine recently named her one of America's top 50 tastemakers, but we must ask... is she to your taste? More importantly, is she more tasty than the car she helped design -- the Pontiac Solstice?
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Crazy fireplaces are all the rage these days, apparently. I have to admit that the Cyclone has captured my imagination. Basically, it's a set of columns that you stick in your house that fill up with tall, dancing flames. It's like catching lightning in a bottle, but instead of lightning it's fire, and instead of a bottle it's a big glass columns.
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A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry.
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The louder they complain, the better it will be for Apple and Jobs. Why? Because at this point if the music labels dropped iTunes there would be outcry and backlash of massive proportion with the winning message being, screw them then.
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I really can't explain this one except to recommend imagining a VW Bus as a perfect sphere. Just check out the pic, it's amazing.
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Fantastic photos of the Blizzard of 2007. Here in the Midwest we shut down for a 12" snow. People in NY have all gotten 10 times that with 4 more feet coming. These do a good job capturing the snow.
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The Titan USB flash drive is constructed from a graphite/aluminum composite metal matrix that has "traditionally been used by NASA and other space agencies". This matrix is then covered in titanium to avoid corrosion. The result is a waterproof, anti-shock, and anti-static drive that can withstand 2,000lbs of pressure.
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a network-attached storage server with FreeNAS. FreeNAS is based on the FreeBSD operating system and supports CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, local user authentication, and software RAID (0, 1, 5). It comes with a powerful web interface and uses very little space on the hard drive - about 32MB.
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a network-attached storage server with FreeNAS. FreeNAS is based on the FreeBSD operating system and supports CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, local user authentication, and software RAID (0, 1, 5). It comes with a powerful web interface and uses very little space on the hard drive - about 32MB.
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WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing WiFi profiles. It enables you to scan for available networks and create profiles for your preferred networks. At boot time, running WiFi Radar will automatically scan for an available preferred network and connect to it.
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Boston's first Apple flagship store is coming soon to the Back Bay - a smooth, clear jewel box of a building - and it promises to be the Hub's most exciting piece of retail architecture in years. Its arrival shows that Boston wants contemporary design to blend in with the historic. But there may be a flaw - not in Apple's vision, but in the city's.
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This guy shows you have you can break the combination of any Masterlock pad-lock. He uses math to bring down the possible number of combinations from 64,000 to 100.
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How to install Vista in OS X using Parallels - a complete walkthrough
Published Sunday, February 11, 2007 by Stangrunner.
If your parents ask you to install Vista on their Mac, just send them here instead. This tutorial will take you every single step of the way through installing Windows Vista using Parallels for OS X.
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A few years ago, I gave a camera and some film to a homeless kid I had befriended. After giving him a brief lesson in the use of a manual camera, I asked him to shoot all the film, then mail it back to me. Here are the more interesting ones.
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As time with your laptop advances however, the battery on your system may begin to lose its charging capabilities. What was once four hours of life, turns into three and a half, then to two and a half, and so on and so on. Throughout your system life, the greater portion of the time you will never use your laptop until the battery is empty.
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How much more crazier can it get? the science behind it is really simple, and it would be able to sit in an open room without harming anyone as it only releases water vapor.
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This was mentioned weeks ago and I've been constantly waiting for it to appear in my account. Well today it has. I believe this feature is finally launched!
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The E-Book, Turntable Notebook, $336,557 Laptop, Steampunk Laptop, Duke Nukem Notebook, XBox 360 and Wii Laptop
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It seems more and more people are getting the "drastically cut back your bandwidth" call, and even being banned for 12 months. Some people have no other Internet options. They refuse to tell you what the bandwidth limit really is. Is Comcast abusing their customers?
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What happens when you order 500 MacBook Pro Laptops? --They show up on a truck, in 15 pallets!.
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We have heard of U.S. soldiers taking a bullet for a fellow soldier, but now a new friend took a bullet for a U.S. soldier in Iraq.
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Over at iPodwizard we have discovered how to add a background to your iPod using the Apple Firmware.
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A single boat seemingly floats in midair in the beautiful crystal clear beaches in the Republic of Maldives in the Indian Ocean.
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Michael Dell offered up some harsh advice a decade ago on how to fix struggling Apple Computer, words that now provide an ironic sting for the newly minted CEO of his own slumping company. ``What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders,'' he said at a technology conference in the fall of 1997.
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Instead, today we'll set up a nightly automated Gmail backup using the command line program fetchmail, which will go out, grab your newest messages, save 'em to your hard drive and exit, all while you sleep soundly in the knowledge that you've got an offline copy of your important email.
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Ding song DRM is dying. Reports are surfacing that EMI is in negotiations with some of the leading music stores to offer a substantial portion of its music catalog without DRM, with an announcement due as early as today.
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"It was determined that the laptop, battery, or cord malfunctioned around 15 minutes after I left for work, and quickly spread through the living room, the nearby dining room, and then up a stairwell into the bedrooms. Virtually the entire house suffered extensive fire, smoke, or water damage." Dell customer service has not responded to his queries
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Here is a website that uses videos from YouTube and puts them in an easy to use interface. Plus when you click on a video, it is automatically enlarged. Its pretty cool. And no, I'm not part of the advertising team for the site. It just makes viewing internet videos on the Wii much easier.
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8-year-old finds math error at science exhibit, went unnoticed for 4 years!
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Part of the new exhibit on candy has been removed from Discovery Place. And you can thank Parker Garrison. When the 8-year-old math whiz at Charlotte Christian visited the "Jelly Belly Presents Candy Unwrapped" display, he accepted the challenge: Use equations to calculate how many jelly beans were in a pyramid and other containers.
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If you're really serious about using the Wii to get into shape, you need to do a bit more than just play Wii Bowling for a half hour every day. You need to want it, and you need to be willing to really feel the burn.
These Wii Weights wrap around your wrists to make those backhand swings really count.
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These Wii Weights wrap around your wrists to make those backhand swings really count.
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CompUSA has pulled the current Mac Pros off the shelves because they have gone to discontinued status; even the demo models have been pulled. Expect an announcement next Tuesday. Very reliable, happens everytime a revision is due (ie MacBook Pro).
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Mini-Microsoft: Where's Ray? Where's the Vista Campaign?
Published Thursday, February 08, 2007 by Stangrunner.
The PC vs Mac ads return - now from the PC’s perspective! » Our Picks - News, articles and reviews
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The idea of waking up early and starting the day at or before the sunrise is the desire of many people. Many highly successful people attribute their success, at least in part, to rising early. Early-risers have more productive mornings, get more done, and report less stress on average than “late-risers.” However, for the unaccustomed, the task of
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Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs challenged major record labels to strip copying restrictions from music sold online, but the RIAA fired back Wednesday, suggesting the company should open up its anti-piracy technology to rivals instead.
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If astronauts have had space sex, it would have been very difficult. First off, there isn't much privacy up there. A regular shuttle is about as big as a 737, and the two main areas—the crew cabin and middeck—are each the size of a small office. The bathroom is little more than a seat with a curtain, and there aren't any closed rooms..
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I had to ask, with a bit of a snicker: “So, did you finally get to buy the computer you’ve always dreamed of having, now that there’s Intel inside?”
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Montgomery Country, MD has fined Comcast $12,281.84 for not meeting the standards set by their franchise agreement. The agreement stated that Comcast would provide a level of customer service that they did not meet, and were fined accordingly. Specifically, they failed to answer the phone quickly enough.
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Slashdot | Microsoft Slugs Mac Users With Vista Tax
Published Wednesday, February 07, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Delta won't refund Charles' money after his camera was stolen from his luggage by a baggage checker, even after he tracked the camera down on eBay and got the thief fired, arrested, and prosecuted.
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In its running legal battle against unauthorized downloaders, five recording companies have sued an Augusta man in federal court claiming he illegally pirated and shared copyrighted music. Hinds faces a minimum civil penalty of $750 per song ... or $3,750 total. Is it even worth it (legal costs-wise) to go to court to fight this?
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates talked with Newsweek magazine's Steven Levy about the new version of Windows and shared his views on the "I'm a Mac" television commercials. In excerpts from the interview Gates goes on the offensive and claims that the security in Vista is better that the security in the Mac
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An interesting column written by Steve Jobs to shout out his thoughts on music. Does he talk about DRM? Yes.
"The rub comes from the music Apple sells on its online iTunes Store. Since Apple does not own or control any music itself, it must license the rights to distribute music from others."
Read the whole story it is interesting!
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"The rub comes from the music Apple sells on its online iTunes Store. Since Apple does not own or control any music itself, it must license the rights to distribute music from others."
Read the whole story it is interesting!
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Guide is split into 3 sections - Beginners, Intermediate and Expert. Updated summary of 3 popular guides that each made it onto the Digg homepage.
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Check out the latest Mac TV commercial making fun of all the nagging security "features" in Vista. PC has a secret service guard next to him asking to allow or cancel all questions by the Mac.
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Preview of Beryl 0.2.0, which makes OSX and Vista look old and antiquated.
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Article covers the new features found in Beryl 0.2.0, particularly improvements made to the rotating 3d desktop, Application Switcher, and the new live Window Preview function, and explains how these settings can be modified within the Beryl Settings Manager. There are plenty of screenshots to give a reader a visual sense of what Beryl does.
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Today's picture shows a fascinating panoramic beach view of fireworks, a comet, and lightning.
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Random fire tornadoes, walls melting in brilliant colors, people desperately drinking black rain drops, a boy who crawled home to his mother because the soles of his feet were the only part burnt, the rapid appearance of maggots in wounds – it sounds like some twisted acid trip; much more chaotic then it appears from a distance.
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A list of 13 (*nix) command line tricks I've found to be very useful in web development that a surprising number of web developers don't know about.
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I had 4 computers doing folding (what is folding? - www.grid.org) on my ex's balcony in her highrise apt, and she supposedly got into some problems with her current BF and threw all of them off the building, and here are the photos to show what's left of it.... after 50lbs going through a 200ft fall. (submitted to wrong topic earlier)
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To create the shot, my friend Harley and I removed the glass enclosure of a standard household lightbulb (while leaving the innards intact) and powered it up in a pitch black room. The result was an immediate burn-out, which we were all to ready to photograph.
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Apple Inc. and The Beatles’ company Apple Corps Ltd. said Monday that they are pleased to announce the parties have entered into a new agreement concerning the use of the name “Apple.” and apple logos.
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The amendment permits DNA collecting from anyone under criminal arrest by federal authorities, and also from illegal immigrants detained by federal agents.
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Minority Report: The 10 worst things about Apple - Applications - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
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Bonus points to Alex for wearing a Diggnation shirt! (Ignore the other one I submitted- I didn't pay attention to it going to a page requiring a sign in. I'm lame and hang my head in shame for that.)
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Chicago high rise buildings Lit up with Da Bears and other Chicago team spirit! This is an amazing album with lots of great shots.
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Kevin Rose builds a G4 Mac on The Screen Savers. That's how it was before OSX86.
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My friend and his roommate churned these out, paying much attention to the subtle details of all of the characters - and it shows! Check it ouuuuuuuuuuut.
(note: These are MUCH better than the previous post http://www.lifeintheoffice.com/2006/11/28/the-office-miis-
contest/)
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(note: These are MUCH better than the previous post http://www.lifeintheoffice.com/2006/11/28/the-office-miis-
contest/)
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Think tank offers scientists $10,000 to criticize UN study confirming global warming and placing blame on humans.
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So, you go digging through your couch and you find somewhere around $200 in loose change and you REALLY don't want to count all of that yourself. Fortunately, god invented CoinStar to do that for you. Unfortunately, CoinStar charges you somewhere around 9% for its services. This is why you want to learn how to hack a CoinStar.
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Wii Sports and Wii Channels Music finally findable!
Published Saturday, February 03, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Someone finally found all the Wii Sports Theme Songs and Wii Channels stuff and made them available. I've been looking forever... the Wii Sports theme song makes the most awesome ringtone on my RAZR ;)
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Yesterday a strange phenomena happened in Omsk region Russia.
Pretty vast territory of Omsk region was covered with a snow that had an unusual color. It was orange.
Now we have a few photos, mainly screenshots from Russian TV channels.
There is still no one exact explanation about the origin of orange color of this snow.
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Pretty vast territory of Omsk region was covered with a snow that had an unusual color. It was orange.
Now we have a few photos, mainly screenshots from Russian TV channels.
There is still no one exact explanation about the origin of orange color of this snow.
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In fact, after only 8 seconds, the unsuspecting little rascal was undergoing the machine equivalent of being turned into a "Pod person from the planet Mars!" First, it was hit by Sasser, one of the fastest spreading worms on the Internet. Then it started downloading strange programs from mysterious internet addresses.
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Taco Bell president offers Kevin Federline a job... behind the counter
Published Friday, February 02, 2007 by Stangrunner.
"So here's our offer to you: Come work for us, just for a one hour shift. We'll get you a uniform, a custom name tag and show you what a great place Taco Bell is to work. We'll even reward customers who visit that restaurant with an order of our new Carne Asada Steak Grilled Taquitos for free"
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Over the years I've used PuTTY, I've installed it on a huge number of computers but I've always had one complaint; There isn't a configuration file I can backup or move to a new machine. But moving PuTTy settings between computers is an easy task once you know what's involved.
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Enter your weight, duration and intensity of exercise, the temperature, and altitude into the HydraCoach Intelligent Water Bottle's hydration calculator, and it'll measure how much water you're drinking and recommends precisely the amount of H2O you need.
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Office 2007, the most annoying computer upgrade since Windows 95. - By Paul Boutin - Slate Magazine
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Courtney Love does the math, or Why you needn't shed any tears for the RIAA
Published Thursday, February 01, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Per Courtney "I want to start with a story about rock bands and record companies, and do some recording-contract math..."
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