Archive for May 23rd, 2008
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I’m Back from Holiday
Here are a few pics from hols:cool:
Gone fishing
Local Beach
View from hotel
A few of the catches
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Looking for a good deal on a laptop..Vista,14",~$400?
Hello,
I’m looking to buy my first laptop. Does anyone know any really good deals going on at any online stores right now? The only specs I know I want are:
-Any version of Vista
-At least 14", but the bigger the better
-Nothing wrong with it
It can be used/OEM. It probably has to be, because I’d like to [...] -
Charles Babbage’s 5-Ton Calculator Comes to Life
Nathan Myhrvold, the former CTO of Microsoft, has added an extremely cool looking 19th-century mechanical calculator to his collection. Charles Babbage was the designer of the 5-ton machine but it was too complex to build in 1849. It does work and it gives you an idea of how advanced and intricate machines would have become [...]
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Device Mimics a Spider’s Spinneret
The BBC reports that scientists have created a device that spins silk like spiders. The device mimics a spider’s spinneret.
A device that partially mimics the process by which spiders produce fine, yet super-strong, silks has been built.
It could help produce a new generation of tough, lightweight materials for use in medical equipment, for example.
A simple [...]
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS)
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server based that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I will also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting [...]
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Upgrade Your Desktop From Fedora 8 To Fedora 9 With PreUpgrade
This document describes how to upgrade your desktop from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 via PreUpgrade. PreUpgrade provides a frontend that allows the user to easily download all packages that are needed for the distribution upgrade, and then perform the distribution upgrade.
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CID EK Voetbal 2008.xls
Deze download hoort bij het artikel Volg het Ek Voetbal in Excel, nummer 12, jaargang 2008, op pagina’s 44 t/m 46 van het blad. (Klik met uw rechtermuistoets en kies voor Doel opslaan als… Kies als locatie uw bureaublad.)
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MB Ruler
Wie kent hem niet uit zijn middelbare-schooltijd: de geodriehoek? Behalve handig bij het maken van wiskundesommen is zo’n ding onmisbaar voor wie graag met kaarten en satellietfoto’s speelt. Zo’n plastic meetapparaatje tegen uw monitor houden is echter niet goed voor het scherm en werkt ook niet lekker. MB Ruler is een zeer handige virtuele geodriehoek. [...]