1. Baguette breaks Large Hadron Collider 14 minutes ago permalinkBird beats big bang with bit of baguette – The Age GENEVA : THE $6.5 billion machine designed to recreate the conditions present at the beginning of time had to be switched off after a bird dropped a “bit of baguette” into it, causing it to overheat. As a result, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had to ...
2. Bookmarks for November 6th 2009 1 hour ago permalinkRemus – Transparent High Availability for Xen – Remus provides transparent, comprehensive high availability to ordinary virtual machines running on the Xen virtual machine monitor. It does this by maintaining a completely up-to-date copy of a running VM on a backup server, which automatically activates if the primary server fails 3. OpenSSL is written by monkeys 1 hour ago permalinkFirst lets get out of the way who is complaining. Hi, I am Marco Peereboom and I write open source code for fun. I have been involved in several projects and the google will tell you which ones. I am by no stretch of the imagination a great programmer but I have been around and I have written a couple of things.
4. IPhone Application Translates Babies’ Howls 2 hours ago permalinkHaving trouble understanding your baby’s burbles, screeches and noisy, wheedling screams? There’s an app for that. The Cry Translator listens to a whining child and analyzes the pitch, volume, tone and inflection of his nerve-jangling noise. Ten seconds later, it provides you with one of five “translations”: hungry, sleepy, stressed, ...
5. Kipling Coupons 7 hours ago permalinkThis weekend Kipling has a special Buy One Kipling Handbag, Get One 50% Off Sale (exp 11/8/09) that can be combined with their current coupon: Kipling – $20 Off $100 + Free Shipping using coupon code KIPNOVA (exp 11/15/09) Read more on Kipling Coupons… Walmart Coupons PacSun Coupons Nautica Coupons Lane Bryant Coupons Macy’s ...
6. Is IPhone App Store Pro-Hitler? 11 hours ago permalinkVerizon iPhone release coming in 2010. Fortune mag has a bunch of odd articles about Microsoft. I comment on them. Mein Kampf approved by App store. SSD’s now bricking up. Blamed on firmware. The Sun is in trouble with the EU now. Intuit-online killed. Flash once again under attack. Cell phone inventor does not like the current direction ... 7. Is Windows 7 Not The Success Microsoft Expected? 14 hours ago permalinkMaybe he’s reading too much into Ballmer’s lack of enthusiasm. Maybe’s Steve’s mellowing. Maybe he was bummed out about having to lay off more people . Maybe he was coming down with swine flu. Or maybe “Window 7 has done quite well” isn’t “quite well” enough. Shy and retiring Microsoft CEO ...
8. Eat Your Shoes 13 hours ago permalinkTake a loaf of bread, make a few cuts with a knife, and you have Bread Shoes . (via Foolish Gadgets ) Comments | Posted in Food & Drink 9. FN Five-Seven 13 hours ago permalinkHere's one of the guns used by Hasan yesterday, purchased legally . I'd hate to think he killed an injured all those people with an illegally-purchased weapon. The one shown here has an optional light, for nighttime operations -- which could be very handy. Records indicate Hasan bought the FN 5.7 at store called Guns Galore in Killeen, Texas, ... 10. Droid 14 hours ago permalinkThe newest Droid ad is just ridiculous - stealth bombers dropping droids across the country like bombs? Is that seriously Verizon's message, that the only way middle America will use the Droid is if they bomb us with it? Technorati Tags: android , verizon
11. Periodic Table 14 hours ago permalinkHere's periodic table table . Comments | Posted in General 12. I’m A Banjo Hangout Thread Stopper 14 hours ago permalinkA few days ago, I made a comment in a Banjo Hangout thread that caused the thread to be closed. The topic was Genesis . It started like this: Being a big fan of R. Crumb, both as an artist and as a musician (I love the Cheap Suit Serenaders), I've been really anxious to pick up a copy of his recently published take on the book of Genesis. I got ... 13. Download the November 2009 release of the Identity Developer Training Kit 14 hours ago permalinkThe new version of the Identity Developer Training Kit ported forward the three WIF labs (web site, web services, ASP.NET Membership provider) to the RC, and improved support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. 14. ClaimsDrivenModifierControl has been updated to WIF RC 19 hours ago permalinkFollowing the route of FabrikamShipping, the Claims-Driven Modifier Control is now ready to influence the behavior of your federated sample websites… using WIF RC :-)
15. Coal and agrofuels win the subsidy sweepstakes 5 18 hours ago permalinkYou are not logged in. Thus, you cannot post a comment. If you have an account, log in. If you don't have an account, well, by all means go make one! Meet you back here in five.
16. State of the art C compiler optimization tricks 19 hours ago permalinkA survey about state of the art C compiler optimization tricks , Felix von Leitner, Linux Kongress 2009. The introduction and the conclusion is quite well put: Optimizing == important. But often: Readable code == more important Learn what your compiler does Then let the compiler do it. If you do an optimization, test it on real world data. If it� 17. Podcasting Live 21 hours ago permalinkWe'll be live streaming the podcast a few minutes after noon (eastern US time) - go here to listen. If you don't get the stream (audio only) right off, try refreshing the page. We'll be talking about the build process for the Smalltalk image here at Cincom - how it's worked in the past, and where it's going - now and in the future Update: We are ... 18. Why We Really Don’t Need an “Identity Selector” 21 hours ago permalinkAs of this week’s Internet Identity Workshop, I’m now rather convinced that an “identity selector” is the wrong product and the wrong feature set, regardless of the exact details of a particular vendor’s implementation. Several discussions in several contexts, including how to best make a browser identity-aware, all ... 19. John Hughes Contrasts Erlang and Haskell 22 hours ago permalinkTwist is a next-generation collaborative functional testing platform provides a rich environment for authoring, executing, and maintaining tests. Know more | Download free trial.
20. Upcoming Webcast: 4 Ways to Optimize Your Identity Management with Virtual Directories 23 hours ago permalinkI'll be joined by Alex Petrushko from our partner Identigral to talk about how Oracle Virtual Directory can improve your identity management implementation. Alex will be speaking about how a large telco provider used OVD to reduce time it takes to deploy new applications. |
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