Digital Traces

The New York Times has a very interesting article about the digital traces we leave and a completely new generation of Big Brother approachi [...]

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The Hitchhiker's Online Game

I accidentally just found out about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy online game by Douglas Adams. And it's full of his witty and hilarious dialogues. (If you have a hard start, try turning on the light... and register on h2g2 to save your game [...]

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Is the World Ready for a Cyberwar?

After reading a lot in the media about the so called cyber war, I wonder: How well prepared are the nations? In the media it seems as if Russia and China had active cyber warriors sitting and waiting to get into action or if not already attacking. But [...]

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How To Make Buttermilk Substitute Recipe

How To Make Buttermilk Substitute RecipeSo, you need to learn to make a buttermilk substitute in a pinch for a recipe? This buttermilk substitute will get you back to cooking so you don't have to go running to the grocery. Simply grab one cup of milk [...]

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Vorsicht vor Ginkgo in Lebensmitteltees /// Gesundheit Tipps

Vorsicht vor Ginkgo in Lebensmittelnvon Sylvia SchneiderTeemischungen mit Ginkgo-Blättern erfreuen sich zunehmender Beliebtheit. Sie werden in Supermärkten und Drogerien immer häufiger angeboten. Diese Lebensmittel-Tees [...]

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Concept ships by razer

Ridiculous post by a Russian artist by the nickname razer on conceptart.org. Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving!RAZER conceptships weekly header #37 November 28th - December 12th, 2008 (two weeks)Keywords: professional digital [...]

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Concept ship art by Roboronan

Ronan's portfolio. His post on conceptships.org.Keywords: Professional concept artist Ronan LE FUR paris france proficient in modeling texturing shading rendering compositing des [...]

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The Infallible Ticket Machine - When Machines Do Make Mistakes

The LinuxJournal posted a great article about good and bad consequences of technology.I have had similar thoughts. What people may forget is the problems you may get into with machines and that they do make mistakes. But let me tell you what happened [...]

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Easily Receiving Big Files via Droopy Webserver

There's a nice little python script named droopy available which let's you receive big files quite comfortably over a simple web browser uplo [...]

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CODEX AILIIMENTARIUS

The Healing Path :: CODEX AILIMENTARIUS- 2009 NEW WORLD ORDER/ BILL C-51: Dr. Rima Laibow, MD, in a passionate speech at the 2005 conference of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals (NANP)calls the new Codex standards “food regulations [...]

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Concept ships by Brett Bean

More concept artwork from Brett at 2dbean.com.Keywords: concept spaceship art design by brett bean concept artist at slipgate ironworks space time studios zipper interactive sony computer entertainment of america digiPen [...]

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List Open Files of a Process

lsof -p `pifof process`provides an exhaustive list including libraries.ls -l /proc/`pidof process`/fdprovides a list of only the "plain" fil [...]

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What!? A Saturday post?

Yep,I've found this interview (through technorati) with Lou Anders on the deadoftheday blogspot.Check out paragraph number 9.It reads: How/where do you meet/hire most of the illustrators you work with?It varies. I hate to [...]

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Intro to Linux Virtual Memory

LinuxPlanet has a really good article explaining how the Virtual Memory System works in Linux. I think it's nicely done and considering the subject it's a pretty easy re [...]

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Introduction to SSH

LinuxPlanet has a nice short intro to ssh. I have her on one point, though: The example ssh terry@host2 ls ~ is just badly quoted/escaped. There's no need to use /home/terry if you correctly escape the tilde by putting it all in quotes: ssh terry@host2 [...]

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Sed One-Liners

Catonmat has a nice overview of sed one-line [...]

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Fred Gambino on concept ships

Fred Gambino!Fred Gambino conceptships weekly header #36 November 21st - November 28th, 2008Keywords: Fred gambino professional entertainment video movie film concept artist concept ship spaceship art cosmonauts astronauts [...]

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How To Use Newspaper for Mulch

How To Use Newspaper for MulchReduce. Reuse. Recycle. That's what many of us try to do to make a light footprint on mother earth. If you buy and read a newspaper, whether daily or even just once weekly, you can reuse them in your garden as a mulch to [...]

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Concept ships by Ryan Demita

Ryan's blogspot.Keywords: born in akron ohio technical industrial designer concept artist ryan demita studied at the university of cincinnati industrial design and fine a [...]

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Some early attempts at flight

These first two contraptions need the word "fail" on them somewhere:)The Wrights did it right. Building kites, wind tunnels, inventing propellers and taking into account maneuverability & control. It's hard to believe [...]

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Animated concept ship model from Naked sky entertainment

Naked sky entertainment.Keywords: 3D animated flash loop concept ship model from by naked sky entertainment independent game development studio based in Los Angeles 2007 Game Developers Choice Awards New Studio Nomi [...]

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Brain Training

The Linux Journal has a nice summary of open source brain training gam [...]

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Blue submarine concept ship model from Taehoon Oh

Taehoon's portfolio.Keywords: blue submarine concept spaceship underwater vessel model texturing lighting by taehoon oh original concept design by feng zhu modeling motif from richard buff's kraken submar [...]

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More About Being a Good Citizen in an Open Source World

After looking into the source of Android, Metthew Garrett tells us about his disappointment with the underlying code. And with his example of iPhone vs. Android a heated debate was of course not far:Who is the worse open source citizen, Google, Apple [...]

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NVIDIA Brings Fast GPU Video Acceleration to Linux

It's been a while. I've sat here on my chair for a long time and thought to myself: Hey, if you want to do it, video acceleration would be really easy to integrate into Linux software: It's mostly open source and the changed would be pretty specific [...]

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Customized Linux Message Notification, I Wish I Had

After writing an alias that shows me what's currently going on in my system (tail -f /var/log/..., ~/.xsession-errors, ...) I've wondered:A. Why the information is not all going through syslog (almost is, but not e.g. the users errors).B. And more importantly: [...]

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Junk Food Pizza Challenge Tossed Up By London Nutritionist Foods For Life - EWORLDWIRE

Junk Food Pizza Challenge Tossed Up By London Nutritionist Foods For Life - EWORLDWIREPizza Hut have announced it is changing its name to Pasta Hut. Nutrient-stripped white carbohydrates are the last thing we need. Research suggests we eat too much saturated [...]

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How to Scroll Back in Screen

Ctrl + a + [ + j/kOr Ctrl + a then Esc and then use the cursor keys. Esc to leave the mode aga [...]

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Stevia, die natürliche Süße ohne Kalorien.

Stevia, die natürliche Süße ohne Kalorien.Stevia, Stevia rabaudiana, ist eine aus dem Hochland Paraguays stammende Staude, die schon seit hunderten von Jahren von den Indianern Südamerikas als natürlicher Süßstoff verwendet wird. Und nicht nur das. Stevia [...]

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A tribute to NASA's space shuttle program on concept ships

The best ship(s) EVER!Endeavour is scheduled for lift off today (Friday 14th, 2008) at 7:55 p.m. Eastern time from launch pad 39A to deliver equipment to the International Space Station that will enable larger crews to reside [...]

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Concept ship art by Daniel Iulian Vijoi

Daniel's CG portfolio.Keywords: digital concept spaceship grand space opera entry art from daniel iulian vijoi a.k.a. techart lead texture artist AMC studio bucharest roma [...]

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How To Fix a Garden Hose Pinhole Leak

How To Fix a Garden Hose Pinhole LeakEver have a garden hose spring a leak at the peak of your garden season? Well now you can fix that pinhole leak in your garden hose with two, yes just two, pieces of material that most folks have stashed away in either [...]

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Richard Dumont concept ships

See more of Richard's work.Keywords: concept hovering vehicles in futuristic city street digital concept art by richard dumont a.k.a. kraull montreal canada artificial mind and movement concept art [...]

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Google Finds the Flu

Google just released a tool to track the spread of flus by statistical analysis of their search data. And it seems to work, t [...]

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Concept ships from Alexandre Bonvalot

Alexandre's website and portfolio.Keywords: digital concept spaceship artwork from by alexandre bonvalot grand space opera entry image contest for cg society challe [...]

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Moon Zero Two (1969)

Promo poster for Moon Zero Two. Has anyone seen this? I'll probably notice it on cable one of these days, now that I've posted it. Pretty nice illustration though.Keywords: moon zero two promotional poster illustrated image [...]

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Is Animal Testing Valid?

Hypocrisy on animal tests - Scotsman.comScotsman - Published Date: 07 November 2008 Dr Simon Festing (Letters, 5 November) accuses David Martin, MEP, of regurgitating misleading propaganda, while doing precisely that himself.Dr Festing claims that experiments [...]

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Prepare JPG Files for Fax

This script prepares your scanned Jpgs for using them e.g. with the sipgate fax. Or you can simply join them together in a small (black&white) pdf. Of course you can change it.#!/bin/bash# (c) 2008 linux-tipps.blogspot.com# published under GPL v. [...]

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"Begging the Software Gods"

"Begging the Software Gods" is an interesting read about what choices we make in Software and what they mean. A nice work of open source politics. I think I would not understate to say he is preaching open source ethics.But I have one point to make: [...]

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TV International?

I still wonder why TV is not really international yet. We have endless countries with interesting TV channels. Especially US channels would probably get a lot of international viewers, as many people speak English and they often show things earlier than [...]

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How To Remove Pine Tree Sap from Clothes

How To Remove Pine Tree Sap from ClothesIf you've ever been unfortunate enough to get pine tree sap on your clothes then you know how hard it is to remove. That is until you know the secret to removing pine tree sap from clothes. Shhh... Don't tell anyone [...]

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Setting up NX

A tutorial how to set up the IMHO best remote desktop connection: [...]

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WPA Encryption Cracked

If you haven't already read about it, it seems to be true: The Wifi encryption protocoll WPA has been compromised. The method will probably published pretty soon.That means many people will need a new router and a new setup for it. And for a long time [...]

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Lego concept ships by Dasnewton

Check out these nice Lego builds from Rob Morrisseau.Rob Morrisseau conceptships weekly header #34 November 7th - November 14th, 2008Keywords: lego concept spaceships builds by dasnewton on flickr rob Morrisseau lego bricks [...]

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