1. Baguette breaks Large Hadron Collider  permalink

Baguette breaks Large Hadron Collider
Honeyman / Dvorak Uncensored

Bird 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 ...

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Www.theage.com.au
Baguette breaks Large Hadron Collider Bird beats big bang with bit of baguette   —  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.

James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits
Weirdest Failure Yet   —  You have to admit, this isn't the kind of failure of the Large Hadron Collider anyone planned for: The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the ...

2. Bookmarks for November 6th 2009  permalink

Blog.superpat.com

Remus – 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  permalink

Www.peereboom.us

First 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.

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4. IPhone Application Translates Babies’ Howls  permalink

IPhone Application Translates Babies’ Howls
Www.wired.com

Having 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, ...

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5. Kipling Coupons  permalink

Kipling Coupons
Coupons / Chris Pirillo

This 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 ...

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Coupons / Chris Pirillo
Kipling Coupons Walmart Coupons   —  Walmart.com is now offering pre-orders of the Top Ten Upcoming DVDs for only $9.99 each + Free Shipping . Titles include Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince , Angels and Demons , Terminator Salvation , Star Trek , Night at The Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian , Four Christmases and more. Read more on Walmart Coupons… Kipling Coupons ...

6. Is IPhone App Store Pro-Hitler?  permalink

Is IPhone App Store Pro-Hitler?
John C Dvorak / Dvorak Uncensored

Verizon 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?  permalink

Is Windows 7 Not The Success Microsoft Expected?
Uncle Dave / Dvorak Uncensored

Maybe 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 ...

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Faganm.com
On being laid off from Microsoft   —  So I got laid off from Microsoft on Wednesday. I wasn’t really bothered about the job, as I wasn’t happy with it already and had been looking to find something else for quite a while. The unfortunate part is that it affects my immigration status and so I can’t stay that long right now in the US, where many of my friends are. But ...

8. Eat Your Shoes  permalink

Eat Your Shoes
Walkenbach / The J-Walk Blog

Take 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  permalink

FN Five-Seven
Walkenbach / The J-Walk Blog

Here'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  permalink

James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits

The 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

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Nanocr.eu
Droid Syncing your Droid with iTunes   —  The Verizon Droid is launching today. The latest versions of doubleTwist for Windows and Mac OS X include support for the Droid. Sync your iTunes playlists to the Droid using doubleTwist!

11. Periodic Table  permalink

Periodic Table
Walkenbach / The J-Walk Blog

Here's periodic table table . Comments | Posted in General

12. I’m A Banjo Hangout Thread Stopper  permalink

I’m A Banjo Hangout Thread Stopper
Walkenbach / The J-Walk Blog

A 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  permalink

Download the November 2009 release of the Identity Developer Training Kit
Blogs.msdn.com

The 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  permalink

ClaimsDrivenModifierControl has been updated to WIF RC
Blogs.msdn.com

Following the route of FabrikamShipping, the Claims-Driven Modifier Control is now ready to influence the behavior of your federated sample websites… using WIF RC :-)

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Blogs.msdn.com
ClaimsDrivenModifierControl has been updated to WIF RC FabrikamShipping has been updated to WIF RC   —  That’s right, the big sample you know and (hopefully?;-)) love has been updated for taking advantage of WIF RC.

Blogs.msdn.com
ClaimsDrivenModifierControl has been updated to WIF RC The Id Element Special: up close & personal with WIF RC   —  The Federated Identity team finally unwrapped the RC version of Windows Identity Foundation: as you have come to expect, the Id Element did some fact gathering for you. Enjoy!

15. Coal and agrofuels win the subsidy sweepstakes 5  permalink

Coal and agrofuels win the subsidy sweepstakes 5
Www.grist.org

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16. State of the art C compiler optimization tricks  permalink

State of the art C compiler optimization tricks
Lambda the Ultimate

A 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  permalink

James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits

We'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”  permalink

Why We Really Don’t Need an “Identity Selector”
Netmesh.info

As 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  permalink

John Hughes Contrasts Erlang and Haskell
Www.infoq.com

Twist is a next-generation collaborative functional testing platform provides a rich environment for authoring, executing, and maintaining tests. Know more | Download free trial.

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20. Upcoming Webcast: 4 Ways to Optimize Your Identity Management with Virtual Directories  permalink

Blogs.oracle.com

I'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.