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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Scientists develop fastest computer
Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.
The technology breakthrough was accomplished by engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM Corp. on a computer to be used primarily on nuclear weapons work, including simulating nuclear explosions.
The computer, named Roadrunner, is twice as fast as IBM's Blue Gene system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which itself is three times faster than any of the world's other supercomputers, according to IBM.
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Monday, June 09, 2008
After 67 years at the bottom of the sea, the watch is still working
The last time Teddy Bacon saw his expensive gold watch it was sinking down into the harbour in Gibraltar. That was in 1941, and the watch had slipped off his wrist when Lieutenant Bacon threw a line to shore from his ship, HMS Repulse. After two divers failed to find his lost treasure, the young officer gave up on ever seeing it again.
But 67 years later, it turned up on his doormat - still ticking.
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Malaysian Artistes For Unity
filmmakers, dancers, singers, producers, musicians, actors, entrepreneurs, designers, footballers, activists, celebrities, students and a florist getting together to make an anti-racism national unity song and music video. nobody would be paid. yet they were enthused. not because they were high on speed. only because they love Malaysia. @ http://www.malaysianartistesforunity.info/
There are currently 20 files available for free download.
Why did dinosaurs become extinct?
I bet your science teacher didn’t know about this!
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
Does Cleveland Police Logo Contain Image Of Pig?
A recent newspaper article did some editing, taking away bordering and edging on an image of the logo -- and the result was the image of a pig, reported NewsChannel5's Tracy Carloss.
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World's first Zero-Watt monitor
Computer monitors in standby mode will soon save far more energy. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has developed the world’s first monitor that requires no electricity at all in idle mode. The innovation is based on a new switch in the monitor that shuts it down entirely when the computer signal is absent and turns it on again when the signal reappears.
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Saturday, June 07, 2008
World’s most beautiful girls live in Stockholm, Sweden
Traveler’s Digest, a magazine for travelers, has made a list of countries and cities where world’s most beautiful women live.
Sweden with its capital, Stockholm, is the most attractive place to go for male tourists, the authors of the research believe. The abundance of beautiful women in the city gives you an impression as if you have found yourself in a reality show about top models.
In addition, Swedish women are very friendly and well-educated. They speak English with the British accent, so many might take them for British ladies. It is worthy of note that Sweden, as well as other Scandinavian countries, are one of the safest countries in the world for tourists.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
1 in 5 children online gets eaten by bears
Now I understand why my mum prohibited me from chatting with 'them'
No, I Will Not Fix Your Personal Computer
The real reason your company’s computer guy doesn’t want to work on your personal PC. A lot of us computer guys just don’t work on personal PC’s. "But why not?" you ask. A computer is a computer right? If it’s broke you can certainly fix it and maybe make a little money on the side. It shouldn’t take you long, you’re an expert.
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Monday, June 02, 2008
Hacker changes Phoenix Mars Lander Web site
A spokeswoman for the Phoenix Mars Lander mission says a hacker took over the mission's public Web site (http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/) during the night and changed its lead news story.
Spokeswoman Sara Hammond says a mission update posted Friday was replaced with a hacker's signature and a link redirecting visitors to an overseas Web site.
Hammond says the site hosted by the University of Arizona has been taken off line while computer experts work to correct the problem.
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utube vs youtube
How does it feel to have the same name as a company that's wildly popular with millions of people? Ask Ralph Girkins of UTube. That's UTube, as in Universal Tube—the heavy equipment refurbishing company outside of Toledo, Ohio. Not the Internet rage YouTube—the Web site millions of people log into every day to watch and post home videos.
Before YouTube, Girkins says, there were about 1,000 real customers visiting utube.com each month. Today, he says, there are about 150,000 people a day typing "u tube" the wrong way, and winding up on his site. Can you imagine their ads revenue potential?
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The money rains down
The 100million rupiah, or nearly RM35,000, up for grabs amounts to a fortune in Indonesia. Those who managed to snatch a few notes took home more than they could earn in a month.
The money was dropped by author Tung Desem Waringin as a stunt to promote his book on business motivation. With the cash bundled in bills of 1,000 and 5,000 rupiah (RM0.35 and RM1.70), he set off in the light aircraft to fly over a football stadium in Serang, 40 miles from the capital Jakarta.
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The World's Hardest-Working Countries
If you thought you worked long hours, consider 39-year-old Lee from South Korea. A civil servant at the ministry of agriculture and fisheries, Lee gets up at 5:30 a.m. every day, gets dressed and makes a two-hour commute into Seoul to start work at 8:30 a.m. After sitting at a computer for most of the day, Lee typically gets out the door at 9 p.m., or even later.
By the time he gets home, it's just a matter of jumping in the shower and collapsing into bed, before starting the whole routine all over again, about four hours later. This happens six days a week, and throughout almost all of the year, as Lee gets just three days of vacation.
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Sunday, June 01, 2008
ET, is That You at the Window?
The video footage of what appears to be an extraterrestrial being peeping through the window on an American citizen living in Denver was released recently during a news conference organized by the residents of Denver in an effort to convince people that UFO sightings need to be treated much more seriously.
The video which was allegedly shot in 2003 by a man called Stan Romanek from Colorado, who claims that he had more than 100 alien contacts, including alien abductions. The grainy video shows someone or something approaching the windows of Romanek's house, apparently to get a better view of the interior.
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Play Scrabulous online for free
Scrabulous is the coolest word game enjoyed by millions of users! Besides regular Scrabulous, you can also play Scrabulous over emails, get an adrenaline rush with Scrabulous Blitz, or just practice with the computer.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
US second biggest ISP got hacked
The comcast.net front page was replaced by a greeting from hackers on Wednesday night (28 May). The defacement was removed around two hours later. The defacement was claimed by hackers calling themselves KRYOGENIKS Defiant and EBK.
As a result of the attack Comcast subscribers were unable to access their email or other services through the portal for more than two hours. Comcast is the second biggest ISP in the US and a major provider of cable TV services.
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One of Earth's last uncontacted tribes
One of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border. There are more than 100 uncontacted tribes worldwide, most of them in Brazil and Peru.
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Microscopic ramen bowl believed to be world's smallest
Japanese scientists say they have used cutting-edge technology to create a noodle bowl so small it can be seen only through a microscope.
Mechanical engineering professor Masayuki Nakao said Thursday he and his students at the University of Tokyo used a carbon-based material to produce a noodle bowl with a diameter one-25,000th of an inch.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Internet breaks for workers can boost productivity
Banning workers from using the internet for personal use could actually be hitting productivity because staff need a break to help reduce stress, according to a new report.
A study of 1,700 employees by computer games firm PopCap Games showed that people felt refreshed if they had an "ebreak" during the working day.
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Drinking water can be harmful to smallest babies
Babies younger than six months old should never be given water to drink, physicians at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore remind parents. Consuming too much water can put babies at risk of a potentially life-threatening condition known as water intoxication.
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World Record for the most software downloaded
Firefox wants to set a world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours and will occur on Firefox 3 launch day.
All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy.
They don't have a definitive date for Firefox 3 yet, but it should be in June.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
apt-get wife
apt-get is Debian's main tool for installing and removing software. Bugzilla is a "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System" that allow individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively.
We Are The World impersonated by Japanese
Japanese pop show recreates the We Are the World recording session. Sit Back, Relax, & Enjoy the Show!
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Friday, May 23, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
How To Eavesdrop on Bluetooth Conversations
A demo on how to attack and capture audio on a Bluetooth headset using a handheld Nokia.
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TV vs High-Definition TV
You've been watching television all of your life, and all of a sudden, along comes HDTV. HDTV doesn't need to be an incomprehensible morass of technical terms, jargon, and marketing hype, because at heart, it's pretty darn simple: HDTV is a better picture.
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America's Hottest College Girl 2008
Meet Alison
19 / freshman / Secondary Education / English
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Virtual Fitting Room
In Japan, Avielan Company has developed software for a virtual fitting room called Awaseba that lets you create an online mannequin of yourself. To use it, you upload a photograph of yourself in a specific pose - face forward, standing straight, with your arms at your sides a little out from your body. You then have a virtual you to click and drag clothes onto.
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Man dies in spitting contest plunge
A SWISS man died when he fell from a hotel balcony during a spitting match with a friend, a Swiss newspaper has reported. The daily Blick said the 29-year-old man took a run-up from inside the room so he could spit further, but lost his balance and plummeted 6.4m to the street below.
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Free Theft Recovery Software for your PC
LocatePC is free software, and runs unobtrusively on your computer, with no icons, popups or saved emails. If your computer is stolen then the thief will not even know that LocatePC is running, and as soon as they connect to the internet a secret email is sent to you containing the details that you need to track your hardware. It only works if the thief is stupid enough to boot your computer while being connected to an internet connection.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Sandboxie
When you run a program on your computer, data flows from the hard disk to the program via read operations. The data is then processed and displayed, and finally flows back from the progam to the hard disk via write operations.
For example, if you run the Freecell program to play a game, it starts by reading the previously recorded statistics, displaying and altering them as you play the game, and finally writing them back to disk for future reference.
Sandboxie changes the rules such that write operations do not make it back to your hard disk.
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Are you being spied on?
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Passwords Are Like Underwear
So how often do you change your 'underwear'?
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Monday, May 12, 2008
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Connie Talbot at 超級星光大道
Remember this little girl from Britain's Got Talent? She's been invited to perform at Taiwan this time. She's only 7 year old.
Song 1 - Over The Rainbow
Song 2 - I will always love you
Turn your Windows Mobile phone into an iPhone
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Method 1: Easy Way
Method 2: Hard Way
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