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May 13, 2008

Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope

by @ 8:57 am. Filed under Misc

http://worldwidetelescope.org

Too bad it only works on windows now, but I’m sure somebody’s trying it with Wine.

May 8, 2008

Rebirth of Venus

by @ 5:24 pm. Filed under Misc

Saw this on threadless, liked and ordered it. Like it even more irl.

May 7, 2008

Janice vs New York

by @ 2:31 am. Filed under Misc

Obvious in retrospect.

May 5, 2008

Ctrl and Alt quit working on Linux w/ VMWare

by @ 10:26 am. Filed under Misc

Seems like a bug that showed up in the last couple kernel releases. Temp fix is to run: “setxkbmap”.

May 3, 2008

Ubuntu Linux Disk Encryption Benchmarks

by @ 11:19 am. Filed under Security, Technology

Introduced in Ubuntu 7.10 was install-time encryption support where using the alternate installer one can fully encrypt their disk in an LVM using dm-crypt. Unfortunately, the Ubiquity installer in Ubuntu 8.04 continues to lack LVM and encryption support, but using Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 6 we have looked at the performance cost of this encrypted configuration on Ubuntu Linux. Rather than looking directly at the disk read/write overhead caused by the encryption process, we have provided some benchmarks to see how the real-world performance is impacted in both gaming and other desktop tasks.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_hdd_encrypt&num=1

May 2, 2008

OSSEC

by @ 2:54 pm. Filed under Misc, Security, Technology

OSSEC is a scalable, multi-platform, open source Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS). It has a powerful correlation and analysis engine, integrating log analysis, file integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, centralized policy enforcement, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.

http://www.ossec.net/main/

Underseas ‘Wind Farms’ could become power source

by @ 2:30 pm. Filed under Technology

This is pretty brilliant.

An Australia company is testing what could be the undersea equivalent of a wind farm. Their devices would capture wave energy and convert it to electricity.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080501-wave-video-ap.html

May 1, 2008

Technology transformation, opiate necessity, cognitive surplus

by @ 1:46 pm. Filed under Technology

Another thing that everybody except for me probably saw last week.

Non-embedded big version here.

The Things that Carried Him

by @ 1:25 am. Filed under America

“It breaks your heart when you drive through and you see people and they’re crying for you,” Vicki said later. She was especially struck by the nameless mechanic in his coveralls, black with oil. He had crawled out from under a car, out of the pit, and he stood in front of the garage, perfectly straight, perfectly still, saluting the hearse, and lines formed under his eyes in the oil on his face.

http://www.esquire.com/features/things-that-carried-him

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