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The “Hello World” Program, in 366 Programming Languages!

Sunday, May 4, 2008

“Hello World” is the traditional first program you write when learning a new language, first appearing in K&R’s “The C Programming Language” book in 1978. Since then it has been implemented in almost every programming language on the planet. This collection has it in 366 coding languages (even LOLCode!) and 58 human ones! Is your [...]

Earth 2050: Population Unknowable?

Sunday, March 16, 2008

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How many people will inhabit the planet before population growth finally levels off? read more

Fark.com gets Dugg, threatening collapse of space-time

Saturday, March 8, 2008

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Some enterprising young lad submitted Fark.com to Digg — eight days ago. Fark predates Digg by several years. It has elements of social news like Digg, but it’s more in the spirit of the Daily Show than Digg’s Slashdot-inspired tech obsessions. Here comes the internet implosion! read more | digg story

A lot of new Compiz Fusion plugins and updates

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

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To name a few: better KDE 4 integration, several magnification options (magnifying glass, anyone?), a “showmouse” plugin, a Rubik’s cube, a maze and extensive Wiimote integration. Lots of screenshots and videos available at the link below. read more | digg story

Linux ready to go green

Saturday, February 2, 2008

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The infrastructure and tools required to make Linux a green operating system are now in place, according to Linus Torvalds, who was in Melbourne this week attending Australia’s largest Linux conference. read more | digg story

Fedora Project Hires New Leader

Sunday, January 13, 2008

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The Fedora Project has hired a new leader from the community. Having not worked at Red Hat hiring Paul Frields shows, once again, how committed Red Hat is to fostering community and Open Source. read more | digg story

Who Speaks for Earth?

Saturday, December 15, 2007

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Russian scientist Alexander Zaitsev believes extraterrestrial intelligence exists, and that we as a species have a moral obligation to announce our presence to our sentient neighbors in the Milky Way — to let them know they are not alone. If everyone in the galaxy only listens, he reasons, the search for intelligence is doomed to [...]

Super Geek Modified Gaggia Espresso Machine

Sunday, December 2, 2007

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Nash Lincoln Modified a Gaggia Expresso Machine adding an LCD with buttons and programming an OS for the machine. It can keep the coffee a specific temperature and can even store different brew temperatures for your various favorite beans. read more | digg story

Solid State Drives replacing HDD laptops in 2009

Saturday, December 1, 2007

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Very interesting article discussing the benefits of the new 64GB solid state drives, and just how soon HDD’s will be a thing of the past in laptops (just like MP3 players). read more | digg story

A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff

Thursday, November 29, 2007

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The web can help you learn how to do just about anything you can imagine. Read/WriteWeb compiled a list of some of the best tutorial sites out there, most of them including video or other rich media instruction. read more | digg story

Ubuntu Hardy Theme Mockup

Sunday, November 18, 2007

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Screenshot of the first Mockup of the new Ubuntu Hardy orange-black-Theme! read more | digg story Technorati Tags: ubuntu, mockup, hardy heron, 8.04, linux

Google offers API for Outlook migration to Gmail

Saturday, November 17, 2007

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Google took a giant step on Friday to make it easier for companies to migrate any e-mail system over to Google Apps Gmail by offering an E-mail Migration API targeted at corporate developers and e-mail administrators. Find the API details here: http://code.google.com/apis/apps/email_migration/developers_guide_protocol.htm read more | digg story