“This model of European Murphy Bed is in the popular computer bed format. […] Operation is from gas assisted pistons often referred to as intuitive in nature. In reality the gas piston dampens the natural action of weight transfer from bed to desk to bed.”
FlyingBeds.com via Juha
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The Computer Bed
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Linux versus Mac OS X on Intel Dual Core
“Linux is found to be much faster than Apple’s OS X for statistical computing. For example, in one benchmark Linux is more than twice as fast. The results on this page were conducted on a MacBookpro with a 2.16Ghz Intel Core Duo chip and 2GB of RAM.”
J. Sekhon via Juha
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Chipbench
untergrund.net via Just Sopivasti
I was a little disappointed that typing ‘dir’ in the Shell didn’t reveal anything. But the nostalgia effect is awesome nonetheless.
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500 lb Potato Battery
“I built a potato battery out of 500 pounds of potatoes. It powered a small sound system. […]
Each potato generates about 0.5 volts and 0.2 milliamperes. I connected groups of potatoes together in series to increase voltage and then connected these groups together in parallel to increase amperage. The entire 500 lb battery generated around 5 volts and 4 milliamperes.”
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Hopeisen Omenan käyttäjät käräyttivät PowerBook-varkaan
“Espoolaisen Kari Päivärinnan kannettava varastettiin autosta keskellä kirkasta päivää Oulun keskustassa kolmisen viikkoa sitten. Päivärinnan kaveri kertoi tapahtuneesta Hopeisessa Omenassa ja viikkoa myöhemmin tuntomerkkejä [vastaava] kohde löydettiin Huuto.netistä. Koneen sarjanumero paljasti[, että kyseessä oli varastettu laite], joten asiasta ilmoitettiin [poliisille]. Koska virkavalta ei reagoinut asiaan toivotulla tavalla, Homppulaiset päätivät hoitaa asian itse.”
Omenatarha via Juha
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Digital cameras individually traceable
“A new forensic technique means many digital photographs can now be traced to the individual cameras that took them. The method works by analysing imperfections in the cameras’ light sensors. […]
The technique can even trace digital images that have been compressed or cropped: “We tried all the stuff that people normally do with digital images, and found it was resistant,” [Jessica Fridrich at Binghamton University] told New Scientist.
But she admits that extensive testing will be needed to determine precisely how accurate the process is, and what the chances of an error are.”
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Fix Firefox unresponsive script warnings
“Ever since I upgraded to Firefox 1.5, I’ve been getting some unresponsive script warnings on sites that employ heavy Javascript like Gmail or Bloglines. Curious about it, I dug around and managed to find out how to fix the problem.”
The solution is tweaking the value of dom.max_script_run_time in your Firefox config; David sets it to 20 (from the default of 8).
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A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab
“I’m going to write a little bit more about what I do to help MacBU ship great software and provide some color around what’s it’s like to work on Mac software at Microsoft. Often when we have press events or special visits from our MVPs I’ll give them a tour of the Mac Lab and explain what we do. They’ve always found it very interesting and so I thought I’d share a virtual tour of our Mac Lab.”
D. Weiss via Juha
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Torvalds creates patch for cross-platform virus
“The reason that the [Windows/Linux cross-platform virus] is not propagating itself in the latest kernel versions is due to a bug in how GCC handles specific registers in a particular system call. [Linus Torvalds] has coded a patch for the kernel to allow the virus to work on even the latest Linux kernel.”
NewsForge via Juha
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Microscott vs. Microsoft
“A computer workshop company on Sherbrooke St. in NDG is called Microscott and has a logo that uses the same font as Microsoft.”
Came by this googling for what I saw on Webpark.
