Topic: COMPUTER - on November 16, 2007 at 5:38:00 PM CET
Man buys Eee PC, erases Linux, installs Mac OS X Leopard
An enterprising Eee PC user has managed to install Apple's Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, onto his tiny laptop - though he quickly saw the error of his ways and replaced the OS with the previous version, Tiger.
Blogger Dan, posting on Uneasy Silence, notes that anyone attempting the maneouvre needs not only an external DVD drive but also a number of patches to reconfigure the Apple OS to operate on a processor lacking Intel's SSE 3 multimedia extensions.
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Topic: Bdays - on November 16, 2007 at 5:30:00 PM CET
Nov. 16, 1904 - Vacuum Tube Heralds Birth of Modern Electronics
1904: British engineer John Ambrose Fleming invents and patents the thermionic valve, the first vacuum tube. With this advance, the age of modern wireless electronics is born.
Although the Supreme Court eventually invalidated Fleming's U.S. patent -- ruling that the technology he used for his invention was already known -- he remains the acknowledged inventor of the vacuum tube, a diode (having two electrodes) that would have far-reaching applications. The tube was standard equipment in radio receivers, radar sets, early television sets and other forms of electronic communication for at least half a century, until it was replaced by solid-state electronics in the mid-20th century.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 16, 2007 at 12:47:00 PM CET
A ton of cannabis resin seized on an Orihuela beach
A 19 year old Moroccan man from Villena is under arrest after a local police operation in Orihuela Costa on Tuesday which seized more than a ton of cannabis resin on the Punta Prima beach.
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Topic: CARS - on November 16, 2007 at 12:40:00 PM CET
German cars 'least green in EU'
Most cars sold in Europe are becoming more fuel-efficient, but German carmakers are going backwards according to a study by a green pressure group.
Transport and Environment (T&E) says an average new German car produced more CO2 per kilometre in 2006 than in 2005.
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Topic: NATURE - on November 16, 2007 at 12:30:00 PM CET
This bear's bit in the woods
The enraged Asiatic black bear charged villager Makhan Khan.
Makhan fell into a hole and the beast pounced on him, inflicting terrible wounds with its vicious claws.
Amazingly the victim survived the attack after other hunters moved in to frighten the bear away.
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Topic: WEB - on November 16, 2007 at 12:17:00 PM CET
Hunt for Russia's web criminals
A curious game of cat and mouse is being played out on the internet, as high-tech hunters close in on a group of cybercriminals known as the Russian Business Network, or RBN. The chase started a week ago when the RBN - a Russian ISP alleged to be behind much of today's web crime - slipped its internet moorings in the Baltic coastal city of St Petersburg and made for servers in China.
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Topic: WEB - on November 16, 2007 at 12:14:00 PM CET
Tor embassy 'hacker' raided by Swedish Feds
A security researcher who revealed how the email accounts of embassies were exposed through the misuse of the Tor anonymiser network has been taken in for questioning by Swedish intelligence agencies.
Dan Egerstad used Tor to obtain the login credentials of about 1,000 email addresses, including at least 100 accounts belonging to foreign embassies, as well as those of large corporations and human rights organisations. Egerstad posted the login details of embassies belonging to Iran, India, Japan, and Russia, among others, in late August. The information, posted on derangedsecurity.com, has since been taken offline. Egerstad disclosed details of how he pulled off the hack in September.
theregister.co.uk smh.com.au Patrick Gray's interviews with Dan Egerstad and Sam Stover can be heard in his podcast from
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 16, 2007 at 12:08:00 PM CET
NAT Audio Magna amplifier - 160W of pure power for $55,000
To blast this power, Magma makes use of three different tubes, the 6N1P-EV, the 6N30P-DR, and the Eimac 450TH. The powerful amplifier utilizes an unusual direct-heated NOS amp design that runs into a DC-coupled all-tube circuit.
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 16, 2007 at 12:05:00 PM CET
'Beethoven with a bass guitar? Fine!'
The journey of Cleo Laine and John Dankworth began in the late 1940s, in a gloomy postwar Britain of bombsites and ration books. It's a world away from the elegant lounge of their Victorian rectory in Buckinghamshire, where they've lived since 1969, and where I now sit waiting. Clocks chime in distant rooms. A grand piano looms over a TV. There are lots of pictures: family snaps, dark oil paintings, portraits of Laine, and shots of the musical giants the couple have worked with, from Dizzy Gillespie to Sarah Vaughan, from Frank Sinatra to Ray Charles.
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 16, 2007 at 11:50:00 AM CET
B3ta served DMCA notice for Photoshop Prince challenge
Lawyers acting on behalf of Prince have sent out a flurry of US copyright infringement notifications to individual members of a popular UK website which encourages its community to create satirical images of well-known stars.
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 16, 2007 at 11:48:00 AM CET
Winehouse booed as tour kicks off
Amy Winehouse was booed by fans as she delivered a shambolic set on the first night of her UK tour in Birmingham.
The singer also dedicated a song to her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who is being held on remand pending charges including GBH.
During the show, the 24-year-old told the crowd: "To them people booing, wait 'til my husband gets out of incarceration. And I mean that."
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