Knock Some Commands Into Your Laptop
from slashdot:
“For the first time, you can smack your computer and get a meaningful response! An article at IBM Devworks show you how to rap on the laptop case with your knuckles and have commands run on those knocks. Enterprising hackers have developed modules for the Linux kernel to take advantage of laptop integrated accelerometer sensors; with them the possibilities are endless.”
Get the raw knockAge demonstration video.
Stiff asks, great programmers answer
“I asked 10 questions to a bunch of programmers that I consider very interesting people and I respect them for various things they created.” Interesting interview with Linus Torvalds, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Steve Yegge, Peter Norvig, Guido Van Rossum, James Gosling and Tim Bray.
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Go ahead, get a little crazy
Sometimes the smart way to make money is to be a little dumb. That is if dumb means listening to yourself when others might scoff at your idea. Hey you’ll probably go down the tubes, but just maybe you’ll hit big like the folks on this list: Top 10 Dumbest Online Business Ideas That Made It Big Time.
source : http://make-money.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog/
1. Million Dollar Homepage, 2. SantaMail, 3. Doggles, and so on.
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Dual Processor vs Dual Core
It has always been a frequent question “Will I benefit from multiple processors?” With the growing popularity of dual core processors, the topic is more important than ever! Will multiple processors or a dual core processor be beneficial, and what are the differences between them? These are the questions this article will attempt to lay to rest.
A major question for some people getting ready to buy a high-end system is whether they want or need to have two processors available to them. For anyone doing video editing, multi-threaded applications, or a lot of multitasking the answer is a very clear ‘yes’. Then the question becomes whether two separate processors (as in a dual Xeon or Opteron system) is the way to go, or whether a single dual-core CPU (like a Pentium D or Athlon64 X2) will do just as well. Dual CPU vs dual core — which is better?!
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Hardware Abuse
Some of the things people do to computers is downright painful.
Read this funny doc to go through how people mess up with their comp
[...]
- Tech Support: “Sir, your computer has no AGP slots, and this is an AGP video card.”
- Customer: “Yeah, but the card fit perfectly into the little white slot.”
- Tech Support: “Which white slot?”
- Customer: “There’s five of them — little white ones. There’s a spare one.”
- Tech Support: “The PCI slot? Uhh…it shouldn’t…let me check.”
- Tech Support : “Sir, wait a second. Let me see if I just heard you
correctly. Did you just say you were inserting and removing the modem
while the system was up and running?” - Customer: “Well, yeah, I did it both ways.”
- Tech Support: “Sir, I recommend that you do NOT do that. You could seriously
damage your hardware.” - Customer: “Well, that’s what I thought Plug and Play meant!”
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_abuse.shtml
It’s 2025. Where Do Most People Live?
It’s 2025. Where Do Most People Live? from PhysOrg.com
Researchers at the Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR), a part of The Earth Institute, have developed a high-resolution map of projected population change for the year 2025.
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The map indicates that the greatest increases in population density through 2025 are likely to occur in areas of developing countries that are already quite densely populated. In addition, the number of people living within 60 miles of a coastline is expected to increase by 35 percent over 1995 population levels, exposing 2.75 billion people worldwide to the effects of sea level rise and other coastal threats posed by Global warming
Digital Dirt: How to Clean Up Your On-line Profile
According to a 2005 survey of 102 executive recruiters, an executive job-search and networking organization, 75% of recruiters use search engines to uncover information about candidates, and 26% of recruiters have eliminated candidates because of information found on-line. Search engines aren’t going away, so here are some tips to help you.
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Choose (and remember) great passwords
Great tips on how to choose password from lifehacker
A secure, memorable password is easy for you to remember, and hard for others to guess.
Everywhere you turn you’ve got to come up with a password to register for something or another. Whether it’s the dozens of web sites that require you log in to use them, or your ATM card PIN, or your wireless network login, how do you decide on a new password? More importantly, how do you remember it?
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Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware Interesting
The American Scientist: An endangered species?
Politicians are freaking out about competition from China and India, especially when the drastic drop in American scientists and engineers being produced by the nation’s universities is considered. But is the situation quite as bleak as everyone seems to think? Re-analyzed data paints a much prettier picture…
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Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?
Semantic Web + Wikipedia’s Ontoworld = Ultimate Answer Machine
Here is an intereseting article
The Semantic Web (or Web 3.0) promises to “organize the world’s information” in a dramatically more logical way than Google can ever achieve with their current engine design. This is specially true from the point of view of machine comprehension as opposed to human comprehension.The Semantic Web requires the use of a declarative ontological language like OWL to produce domain-specific ontologies that machines can use to reason about information and make new conclusions, not simply match keywords.
However, the Semantic Web, which is still in a development phase where researchers are trying to define the best and most usable design models, would require the participation of thousands of knowledgeable people over time to produce those domain-specific ontologies necessary for its functioning.
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