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Splashtop Linux interface coming soon to every Asus motherboard
via Download Squad by Brad Linder on May 15, 2008
Filed under: OS Updates, LinuxWant an instant-on PC? Good luck with that. But just because it takes 2 minutes to boot up your desktop doesn't mean that you can't start surfing the web within a few seconds of hitting the power button. Last year Asus began adding the Splashtop embedded Linux operating system to some of its high end motherboards. The OS boots almost instantly, and lets you...
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Quote o' the Day
via The Online Photographer by Michael Johnston on May 05, 2008
“An artist’s duty is to reflect the times.”- —Nina Simone
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Speeding up Photoshop with an External Drive
via The Online Photographer by Michael Johnston on May 12, 2008
By CteinYou're about to read a follow-up to an article that's yet to be published. I'll have an article in the July/August PHOTO Techniques magazine on how to extract the maximum performance from Photoshop. Post-deadline, Other World Computing loaned me a couple of high-performance external drives to test as Photoshop scratch drives. I report on them here. Isn't time-twisting...
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All For Freedom and For Pleasure
via Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection by Thomas Hawk on May 14, 2008
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I Can't Forget
via Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection by Thomas Hawk on May 15, 2008
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Orgasm and brain
via Mind Hacks by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by splashme Who doesn't like sex research. I like this female orgasam 'silent brain' thing. Take a look at the original article, its pretty interesting too.Scientific American Mind tackles the neuroscience of orgasm in a feature article which has just been released online.One of the merits of the article is that it avoids the 'men are simple, women are complex'...
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Canada's Defence Surprisingly Expensive, Edwards Endorses Obama, And Some People Just Don't Like Bins
via Torontoist by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by splashme Lol - thank YOU torontoistTory MP Jason Kenney complained that Romeo Dallaire was overly harsh when Dallaire criticized the federal government's handling of the Omar Khadr case. Kenney is a former general who is credited with using meagre resources to save the lives of over 20,000 people during the Rwandan genocide in the face of massive indifference from the west…no,...
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Merbunity: Merb’s Community Continues To Grow
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on May 13, 2008
Merbunity is a new site dedicated to “news, projects, and tutorials” related to the Merb Web framework (increasingly a common alternative to Rails). It’s very early days, but it’s well designed, and the initial content is good. It feels a little like a Ruby Inside for Merb. Great job! Among the launch content, and of almost immediate interest to Mac-based Merb developers, is Dr. Nic...
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Who Needs an API?
via Err the Blog by PJ on May 14, 2008
GitHub is a pretty fun site to work on, I’m not gonna lie. On more than one occasion, we thought it would be pretty cool to setup a service allowing public projects to receive donations.Sounds like an ItchPledgie being the venerable service it is, I decided one night it couldn’t possibly be that hard to integrate it with GitHub. It’s a pretty standard Rails site with some simple forms to...
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Installing Sphinx on Mac OS Leopard
via Artima Ruby Buzz by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
One of my ongoing projects required using Sphinx search engine. While I'm more comfortable with Lucene based solutions (I'm evaluating SOLR currently), I decided to give Sphinx a try.I have installed Sphinx via MacPorts system and was going to use UltraSphinx Rails plugin. But when I tried to run some test query, it complained, that server...
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