February 2008Monthly Archives

An astonishing look at some of the universe’s most violent events. Well, less astonishing, more like WOW, COOL!!!!!!!!

One of my favourite shows ever. Ever ever. Intelligent, fun, fast paced archeology & history.

A great fan site, very informative and detailed:)

IBM introduced the hard drive (RAMAC) in 1956; it stored 5 MB in an enclosure the size of a refrigerator, and cost $150 thousand. So, today you can get a 1 TB drive for $300 . Per MB, adjusted for inflation, that’s about a billionfold improvement in val

Intel’s upcoming low-cost Diamondville notebook processor will break from Intel’s multicore strategy of the last few years and be primarily a single-core processor. Hmm, not for me, when my hal next upgrades. Quad core, baby, thats what i want!

Sony and Sharp have forged an alliance to help them meet the growing demand for liquid crystal display televisions.

I am ok, I use Linux. Snort, rofl, gloat:)

The Digg Firefox extension allows you to interact with Digg (http://www.digg.com) and see information about the web page you are currently viewing while you use Firefox.

After posting a video of a girl rejecting a guy at an NBA game on national tv, this blogger has been on a kick watching all of these humilating marriage proposals gone wrong. Here are 5 in no particular order.

5yr Linux vet (no windows)decides to assess Vista for four months, and use only Vista. Here is his response, and link to initial story.

David Tennant is to take time off from television, to lead the RSC’s forthcoming production of Hamlet. Your El Reg correspondent sneaked into early rehearsals.nTwo great passions – Doctor Who and Shakespeare. Blissness!

Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX® command line efficiency — and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations.

Preload is an “adaptive readahead daemon” that runs in the background of your system, & observes what programs you use most often, caching them in order to speed up application load time.

Why do objects have mass? To help find out, Europe’s CERN has built the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator yet created by humans.

Linux on the Wii!!!!!!! Wheeee!!!

These designs range from humorous and impractical to jaw-droppingly cool. No, seriously I love room in a box:)

These two mighty galaxies are pulling each other apart. Known as ” The Mice” because they have such long tails, each spiral galaxy has likely already passed through the other. They will probably collide again and again until they coalesce. Wonderous.

KDE 4.1 will be what everyone expected 4.0 to be — a fully functional revolutionary Linux desktop. Look at a revision of this desktop environment & what you get is a visual changelog describing the current progress in terms of look & feel & the features

One of the most significant new features added in (Hardy) alpha 5 is support for Wubi, a new installation mechanism that makes it easier for Ubuntu and Windows to coexist on the same computer.

thinking of iwas mplementing this, but i am too soft…

Hardy Heron Alpha 5 is the 5th alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04, & with this new alpha release comes a host of excellent new features. The final stable version will be released in April 2008. I have been using it since Alpha 2, & i heartily recommend it:)

This car is expected to have 600 HP, weigh just under 1150 kg, come with a Cadillac Northstar sourced V-8 4.6 liter engine, have a top speed of 240 MPH, & be made of WOOD. The Splinter will be able to go from 0-60 is just over 3 seconds & is eco-friendly.

Solar power will be a bright investment prospect as the appetite for green energy grows, even though the global credit crisis is making banks more wary of providing financing.

The following illustrations by artist Andrey Kuznetsov envision Hollywood blockbusters as Russian folk fairy tales. Very very cool!

physicists have performed computer simulations that show how electrons become one thousand times more massive in certain metal compounds when cooled to temperatures near absolute zero – the point where all motion ceases.

The software giant has released a list of programs that may be broken by the SP1 update for Vista. Most of the software hit by the upgrade are security programs that prevent Windows users falling prey to viruses, trojans and booby-trapped webpages

A NEW space telescope is planned to seek out alien life in the universe. The New Worlds Observer will search for planets similar to Earth and spot oceans, continents and even clouds, scientists say.

Chat show in which last week’s interviewee becomes this week’s interviewer. Catherine Tate takes the host’s chair as she talks to David Tennant. Doctor Who ftw!!!

Sophie Aldred talks to Den of Geek about Ace, Doctor Who, John Nathan Turner and hairy armpits…
My favourite assistant doctor pairing (which surprises many, given my name), is Ace and the 7th Doctor, Sophie Aldred and Sylvester McCoy.

One of the most hugely popular companions to the fifth Doctor.

Big Finish Productions produces full cast audio dramas on CD and for Download, on Doctor Who, Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog, Dark Shadows, Sapphire & Steel, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Stargate and now the Phantom of the Opera.

Most physicists believe that there must be a Higgs field that pervades all space; the Higgs particle would be the carrier of the field and would interact with other particles, sort of the way a Jedi knight in Star Wars is the carrier of the “force.”

i love these guys:)

Here’s 10 things every adult really ought to know, but a lot of people are apparently just too f*cking stupid to figure out:

What is 5-A-Day? We, that means everybody, will do 5 bugs a day – every day. With only five bugs that everybody looks at every day, we will cover a lot of ground.

It took just a couple of hours using data available on the internet for University of Sydney scientists to discover that the Milky Way is twice as wide as previously thought.

In a major file-sharing legal case in the United States, a renowned P2P expert has offered his critique of the expert offered by the RIAA. The testimony will be a devastating blow to the music industry as he labels RIAA report as “borderline incompetent

how to seamlessly run your favorite Linux applications directly in Windows with a free software called andLinux.

Stanford legal theorist Lawrence Lessig has announced that he is seriously considering a run for Congress in response to a fast-growing netroots campaign pushing him to seek the House seat

Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have released a rather remarkable Hubble image of a ring of dust around star Fomalhaut, described by New Scientist as resembling “the Great Eye of Sauron”.

I think the drugs needed to make sens eof this would blow my mind too much.

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters,” decide to put some of MacGyver’s more creative escapes to the test, in the show’s landmark 100th episode. WANT!!!!

“Dilbert,” the newspaper comic that routinely ridicules self-important office managers, is taking aim this week at an Iowa company that fired an employee for posting a “Dilbert” strip in the office. Drunken lemurs. Lol.

HD DVD has been pronounced dead on Tuesday, February 19, 2008, even before the press conference has started, according to our Ichiroo, from Gizmodo Japan. Toshiba’s press release is out in the wild. The Format War is over. Full release after the jump.

According to man-about-town, Robert X. Cringely, Samsung is readying not one, but two separate Android-based phones, one of which is due in September, with another model following around Christmas. Ahh, rumour, foul miscreant!!!

Google engineer Dan Kegel posted a message to the Wine mailing list last week describing some of the improvements Wine that Google has sponsored in the past year, substantially improving the Linux compatibility of several popular commercial software apps.

Satirical 1960s TV show The Frost Report will return as a one-off special featuring Michael Palin and John Cleese, the BBC has confirmed. ohmigod. ohmigod. ohmigod!!

owerPoint’s old push-down transition has done its 15 years of service, and it’s time for it to retire. Do the sleepy faces in your meetings agree? OpenOffice.org Impress 2.4 has the answer in the form of ten 3D OpenGL-rendered transitions:)))

Windows Start Menu : present a number of better Start Menu alternatives.

Hmm, this is something i really didnt know, and its really clever!

f we can hack Wiis and iPods and old Segas, make garage door openers into mobile phones and cause elevators to run backwards — then could we also hack the surface of the earth? Could we hack geology?

This is MAGNIFICENT:)

Stunning – moonlight on the horizon, a starry sky & the northern Milky Way provide the background for this dramatic view of the World at Night. The imposing structure in the foreground houses the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), on Mount Graham, Arizona.

People will post just about anything on social networking sites. And the information can be used against them. More from Captain Obvious later!!!!

How to make a happy timelady:) U.S. physicists have made a clock so accurate it will neither gain nor lose even a second in more than 200 million years.

Whether you are using a social networking site or gaming online, basic tech etiquette, or netiquette, is vital – and very subjective!!!! Also, rarely used sufficiently or appropriately;)

Coca Cola (the real one) is not only great to drink, it also has many uses around the home. This list of uses was tested on ordinary, original Coca Cola, not the diet kind, or any of the variations there are available. And we drink this crap?? Hell, yes:)