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Last login: 6 hours agoIdleCycle: idleCycle is a 26 year old single guy from Switzerland.; Likes 4,744 pages, 130 videos, 343 photos • 453 fans • Received 62 reviews; Member since Sep 24, 2005

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Feature: Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux: Apr 27, 12:54pm 12 reviews computers, virtualization
http://lifehacker.com/367714/run-windows-apps-seamlessly-inside-linux; VirtualBox makes Windows virtualization pretty straight forward. It even supports booting from a real partition (see section 9.9 in the manual) something which was a major pain with VMware.

Linux.com :: Bacula: backups that dont suck: Apr 27, 7:11am 1 review computers
http://www.linux.com/feature/132562; In technical terms, Bacula is a network Client/Server based backup program. It is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. Due to its modular design, Bacula is scalable from small single computer systems to systems consisting of hundreds of computers located over a large network. The coolest thing - despite the enormous flexibility - is that Bacula clients also run natively on Windows computers.

Bread Kills!: Apr 26, 5:16am 121 reviews
http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/breadkills.html; Logical fallacy 101: Correlation does not imply causation.

Matasano Chargen & This New Vulnerability: Dowd's Inhuman Flash Exploit: Apr 18, 5:02am 3 reviews computers, internet, network-security, security
http://www.matasano.com/log/1032/this-new-vulnerability-dowds-inhuman-flash-e...; Walkthrough of a potentially devastating vulnerability in the Flash runtime. Looks like the developers at Adobe have been a bit too sloppy, but fortunately it seems easy to fix.

Hack Attack: Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800: Apr 18, 3:58am 2 reviews computers
http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/build-a-hackintosh-mac-for-under-8...; If the high price tag for Apple hardware has kept you from buying a Mac but you're willing to roll up your sleeves and get adventurous, you can build your own "Hackintosh" - a PC that runs a patched version of OS X Leopard.

I like the idea, even though it's technically illegal to run OS X on anything other than a Mac.

Apr 5, 9:50am

Universe Today & Star Formation Extinguished by Quasars: Apr 5, 9:31am 1 review astronomy
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/04/04/star-formation-extinguished-by-quasars/; Note that the milky way - our galaxy has about a 3.7 million solar mass black hole. It has globular clusters in the halo that appear to be about 10 billion years old and should have had this active galactic nuclei quasar period. Yet, we see the sun as about 5 billion years old and we see plenty of galactic gas and dust and we obviously see ongoing star formation, from some in the first phases to the existence of very high massive stars that have lifetimes far shorter than the time since the dinosaurs went extinct.

All of this local evidence refutes the basic notions of the article unless one adds the notion that the stars are reseeding the galaxy and forcing the return of star formation. You'll note the sun is not a first generation star nor probably even a second or third generation one. The material the sun formed from was ejected by earlier stars.

Gecko Tech | Popular Science: Apr 5, 8:48am 1 review science
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/gecko-tech; Originally, it was thought that a gecko's ability to cling to walls was due to a secretion of some sort of adhesive on the pads of their feet. But when scrutinized with modern high-power microscopes, the surface of a gecko's foot revealed hundreds of thousands of tiny hair-like projections, called setae, which can be as small as one tenth the diameter of a strand of human hair and are themselves covered in even smaller projections, called spatulae, which are sometimes so tiny as to be smaller than the wavelength of visible light. Each time one of these setae comes into contact with a surface, the tiny hairs form a temporary atomic bond called a van der Waals force. This molecular bonding is relatively weak, but when multiplied over thousands upon thousands of setae, it becomes quite potent - strong enough that if every single setae was bonded to a surface, a typical adult gecko could support nearly 300 pounds of weight.

MAGIC Rays May Reveal New Laws of the Universe | The Daily Galaxy: News from Pla…: Apr 4, 8:52am 3 reviews astronomy, cosmology
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/03/magic-rays-may.html; I blame errors in the measurements or miscalculations.

Adobe Releases AIR For Linux, Sees Better Linux Apps on Horizon | Compiler from …: Apr 4, 4:47am 1 review computers, internet
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/03/adobe-releases.html; A fairly uncritical article on Wired.com

AIR is a platform which enables programmers to build web applications that also run on the desktop. AIR apps do everything web apps do -- they seamlessly connect to web services, the navigation feels like a web browser, animation can be powered by either Flash or JavaScript.

While the web is a great place to play with designs and explore new user interfaces, desktop applications are much more static. And I think they should be. Users prefer layouts they know and can navigate intuitively. Think about what it would be like if each program had a completely different look and feel.

Also, the most innovative ideas in application design and user experience aren't happening on Linux. They are happening on Mac OS X, Windows and on the web.

I disagree. The author of this article clearly didn't use either Gnome or KDE in a long time. Both of these provide a complete desktop experience on Linux. That is, if you want such a thing. If not, you have the freedom to chose from an entire spectrum of different window managers using a plethora of window toolkits and libraries.

And BTW, Mac OS X is UNIX too.

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