Topic: COMPUTER - on February 25, 2007 at 1:43:00 PM CET
13 Things to do immediately after installing Ubuntu
In this article i describe some of the things to do immediately after installing ubuntu on your machine . Since most of the people reading this would be shifting from Windows to Linux with a system dual booting so i would focus more on making transition easy from Windows to Linux.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 25, 2007 at 1:42:00 PM CET
"Chemical origami" shrinks 2D discs into 3D objects
Physicists in Israel have invented a neat method of making elaborate 3D structures from flat 2D discs. The trick is to pre-treat a gel disc half the size of a beer coaster with a monomer solution "blueprint" that selectively shrinks when heated. The technique, which cleverly demonstrates the link between 2D and 3D geometry, could be used by engineers to create self-assembling prototypes.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 23, 2007 at 11:27:00 AM CET
Jury Orders Microsoft to Pay $1.52B
Microsoft Corp. must pay $1.52 billion in damages to telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA for violating two patents related to digital music, a federal jury ruled Thursday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 23, 2007 at 10:55:00 AM CET
Linq to ASCII Art
Last night I was searching for an audio version of Painters and Hackers by Paul Graham. Pretty soon I had completely forgotten about the book and found myself reading the Wikipedia article about Hackers. Isn't Internet search great?
Of all of the things in the article, the one thing that captured my attention was the ASCII picture of Adrian Lamo. I immediately thought, "How cool is that!?" So instead of popping off my current stack frame and returning to searching for Painters and Hackers, I began thinking about how to create such a picture. I certainly did not want to create it by hand. I didn't even want to pick which characters or colors would be printed to the screen. So accordingly, I began thinking of writing a program to do it for me.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 23, 2007 at 10:52:00 AM CET
Building a Ray-Tracing 3D Renderer from Scratch Over a Weekend
I've always liked the idea of ray-tracing to render 3D images with crazy accuracy. On Saturday night (being a huge nerd) I decided I'd try to write one from scratch for the hell of it.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 23, 2007 at 10:42:00 AM CET
More Creative and Beautiful Wallpapers
Wallpapers can be creative, inspiring, gorgeous and hilarious. Recently we’ve posted an overview of Selected Wallpapers for Desktop and Web Design and Christmas Wallpapers. Now it’s time for something fresh, original and creativie. Let’s take a look at some more creative and beautiful wallpapers for your personal desktop.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 23, 2007 at 10:35:00 AM CET
South African Government Switches to Open Source
Cabinet has approved a policy and strategy to implement Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in government, government communications head Themba Maseko said on Thursday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 21, 2007 at 12:37:00 PM CET
Free Linux E-Book Resource
Just click and download! Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, Networking, Installation, Programming, Hacks.. you name it!
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 19, 2007 at 9:58:00 AM CET
D-Wave demonstrates quantum computer... or a black box in a fridge
D-Wave Systems has presented us with the perfect quantum conundrum. On Tuesday and Thursday, they presented their 16-qubit adiabatic quantum computer to the world. However, details were scarce, leaving us in the superposition of both believing and disbelieving their claims. In this article, we'll give you a play-by-play from D-Wave's Thursday demonstration in Vancover followed by an analysis of their claims with help from superconducting quantum interference devices expert Hans Hilgenkamp from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 16, 2007 at 2:02:00 PM CET
Top 10 Largest Databases in the World
There are currently organizations around the world in the business of amassing collections of things, and their collections number into and above the trillions. In many cases these collections, or databases, consist of items we use every day.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 14, 2007 at 3:35:00 PM CET
Microsoft fixes 20 security holes
Windows users are being urged to install Microsoft's February security update which contains 12 patches for 20 vulnerabilities.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 14, 2007 at 3:32:00 PM CET
3D Artist Workstation
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