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Back from vacations!
LHC ATLAS detector
Yesterday, 10 September 2008, after almost two decades of preparation and development, the first beam in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was successfully steered around 27 kilometers, in the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.
“We can now look forward to a new era of understanding about the origins and evolution of the universe.”
LHC project leader Lyn Evans
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More info at:
nuigroup.com
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Apparently there is a DX10 version available for windows XP (which I did not know).
DX10 was supposed to work only with Vista but it seems that Cody Brocious, the Alky Project leader, has released a version of DX10 do XP.
However, this is not an official release from Microsoft and results are not guaranteed, and neither the stability of your computer.
Event though, if you wish to know more about this project or if you want to give it a try, you can visit the Alky Project web site.
Take care!
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Have you ever wondered where and why the term ‘BUG’, used to indicate a failure in a computer program, was born?
“A software bug (or just “bug”) is an error, flaw, mistake, “undocumented feature”, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from behaving as intended”
Thomas Edison and Grace Hopper are two names that stand out when talking about the etymology of the term ‘Bug’.
Thomas often recurred to the term in his letters to express ‘little faults and difficulties’.
“The invention of the term is often erroneously attributed to Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer.”
According to Hopper, the cause of the malfunction was an insect.
“Hopper was not actually the one who found the insect, as she readily acknowledged. The operators who did find it (including William “Bill” Burke, later of the Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dahlgren Va.), were familiar with the engineering term and, amused, kept the insect with the notation ‘First actual case of bug being found.’ “
“Bug”
Source: wikipedia.org
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More at: johnnylee.net
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earthmine is indexing reality.
We’re creating an entirely new datamine about our earth that is open, connected, flexible, immersive and scalable. A spatially accurate, truly 3D inventory of our world. It just may be the link that’s been missing between information and places.
Well…I don’t know but it seems kind of ambitious this project, I mean…the entire world???
If they can truly make it, then I’m looking forward this, and I think they’ll win…let’s say…a lot of money.
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Check out this review by CNET about Microsoft Surface. Pretty amazing!
Check out Microsoft Surface website if you wish to know more…
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If you still didn’t know…it’s true. On June 30, microsoft plans to quit on XP and no more copies of this product will be sold.
The big company is betting on Vista but apparently, users and clients are not very satisfied with this decision. There’s even a ‘SAVE XP’ petition already with 21,572 signatures.
Most people say “Vista sucks”: companies say that Vista is not reliable and developers think not even Vista SP1 will beat XP. In a recent poll of more than 250 of XP clients, PatchLink noted that only 2 percent said they are already running Vista. The others will stick to XP or just move themselves to Linux/MacOS.
It looks like Vista has too many bugs, vulnerabilities, and malware that just don’t get fixed. Even the updates can lead your PC to blue screens.
In my case, I can say I tried Vista but in a few weeks I had enough of it. Currently I’m on XP/Fedora.
If you think it’s worth to sign the petition then take a go: SAVE XP PETITION
Take care.
