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Blogger Finally Supports Read More Function

If you have visited my site before, you may have noticed that I have changed things around a bit. I have replaced my highly customised version of the default minima template, which has served me well for a long time, with something which is hopefully more modern, elegant and simple. During the painful process of transferring all the custom code and widgets over I realised that Blogger had finally added a feature which I had to previously hack my template to enable. The feature I am talking about is the read more function.This allows...

Mininova Alternatives

Mininova has deleted all 'copyrighted' torrents from their site. They decided to do this after a failed attempt at filtering out certain torrents. Unfortunately, they had no choice but to carry out this drastic action as they had lost a court case and were ordered to remove all offending materials or face a massive fine of up to 5 million euros. It's not quite all over for Mininova, they are possibly going to make an appeal but I wouldn't get your hopes up if I were you...

Obama Advocates Indefinite Detention Without Trial

I knew it was too good to be true, it looks like Obama will turn something immoral into something that is legal. He plans to detain people, possibly for an indefinite amount of time and without trial, for crimes they might commit in the futu...

Fundies Say the Darndest Things!

While I was browsing around the net looking for something to take my mind off revision I came across a site called fundies say the darndest things. It's a site with collections of quotes from all over the internet from people trying to argue against science. And by 'people' I mean mainly religious people. Although, non-religious people do say stupid things they don't have a collective agenda against science and reason. Some of these comments are funny but a lot are just plain disturbing, the stupidity of some people out there never ceases to amaze...

Windows 7 vs Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04: Boot Time

When I heard Microsoft were giving away Windows 7 free for a year I decided to put it on my EEE PC 1000H and see what it was like. There has been a lot of buzz surrounding it, people were claiming it was much better than Vista. I was very surprised at how fast it run on my netbook, I had tried Vista previously and can remember how slow that was. I also had Ubuntu Jaunty already installed on the system so I decided to time both OS's boot time and see how they fared.I expected Jaunty to be faster since Ubuntu put in a lot of effort to make things...

Pop Idol Kenya

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We are Linux

The Linux foundation has just announced the winner of the "We're Linux" video contest. The video created by Amitay Tweeto, called "What does it mean to be free", was chosen by a panel of judges as the winner.The contest was set up by the Linux foundation to get people to create a one minute video showcasing what Linux meant to them, essentially an "I'm a Pc, I'm a Mac" type thing. Linux doesn't get a lot of advertising or promotion in the public sphere, it's usually through word of mouth that people find out about and try Linux. The aim of this...

Intel Promises 2 Second Boot with Moblin

Moblin is Intel's Fedora based distro specifically engineered for netbooks such as the eeepc range.Currently at the early alpha stage, Moblin is already able to boot within 20 seconds but a 2 second boot seems a bit unrealistic. Intel engineers have managed to do some remarkable things so far, let's just hope they can achieve this.Check out Phoronix.com's test of Moblin against Ubuntu Jaunty.I had a little play around with Moblin on my eeepc 1000h...

The Megapixel Myth

Ars Technica has an interesting article on why bumping up the megapixels on a mobile phones camera is not making any substantial improvements to image quality."Megapixels are the digital camera market's equivalent of horsepower and megahertz—a single metric that consumers and marketers latch on to tenaciously, despite the fact that it hardly describes overall performance. Over the last several years, camera manufacturers have been pumping up the megapixels on each successive camera model, regardless of whether such increases offered any real benefit...

The Bloop: An Unexplained Sound

"The 'bloop' is the name given to an ultra-low frequency underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration several times during the summer of 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown....The sound, traced to somewhere around 50° S 100° W (South American southwest coast), was detected repeatedly by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array, which uses U.S. Navy equipment originally designed to detect Soviet submarines. According to the NOAA , it "rises rapidly in frequency over about one minute...

Fish with Transparent Head

Just when you thought you'd seen everything, out comes pictures of an incredible fish called the barreleye or to give it it's scientific name Macropinna microstoma. As you can see from the pictures below, the barreleye fish has a transparent head and face.The fish was caught on camera off the coast of California by researchers Bruce Robison and Kim Reisenbichler using a remote operated vehicle. Although the fish was known as far back as 1939, only...

Use Your Ipod in Ubuntu

I recently bought an ipod shuffle, mainly because the price was good and because it would be ideal for use while jogging. However, I nearly returned it the same day because I couldn't put music on it from Ubuntu. Whether it would be compatible didn't even enter my mind as I bought it, I just assumed It would work like a mass storage device and I could drag and drop music on to it. But I immediately realised it did not play any of the mp3 files I...

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

A very good video explaining how we got into this mess. It seems as though greed is the biggest reason behind it all. People just wanted to make lots of money as fast as possible, which resulted in more and more risks being taken. Safeguards and regulation to stop things from getting out of control either didn't exist or weren't being enforced by the authorities. So it's not just the banks at fault here, the government needs to take some responsibility too.The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vim...

Christian Bale Goes Crazy on Peter Griffin

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Fitna the Movie

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Blogger: Error

Sometimes I feel like it was an error choosing Blogger in the first place. Then again it's free so I guess I can't complain. It seems to not like having its 'Expand Widgets Template' Box checked because it's giving me a different error every time I try to preview, even when I haven't made any changes to the code. Was working fine yesterday.Blogger is possibly the most buggy software I have ever used, sometimes I think they put in bugs for fun because...

Samsung i8910 with HD Video Recording

Meet the i8910, also known as the ACME is the first phone to be able to record video in HD (1280 x 720 pixels). It can do this with the help from its 8 megapixel camera. Camera phones have been increasingly packing on the mega pixels, specially recently with loads of 8 megapixel camera phones being announced. However, video quality has typically been very poor, but hopefully this phone will start changing all that.As you can see it's a large touchscreen...

David After the Dentist

This kid is awesome.Darth Vader after the dentistRemixChristian Bale takes David to the dent...

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Jaunty Supercharged with EXT4

The people over at Softpedia have tested the latest alpha build of Jaunty and have managed to boot their system in 21.4 seconds. As you may know, the latest build comes with the recently released stable version of EXT4. The same setup with the older EXT3 booted in 24.5 seconds, which is still less than the 26.8 seconds it took to boot up Intrepid. You can check out all the details over at Softpedia. Looks like Jaunty and EXT4 are living up to expectations in terms of speed. This is still early days for Jaunty, hopefully things will be even faster...

THIS IS FEDORA!!!

It turns out that the next version of Fedora has been codenamed Leonidas. Being a big fan of the film 300, I thought this was pretty cool. Fedora 11 is set to be realeased in May. You can find out what features it will have here. Source: Arstechn...

The Secret Saved My Life

One of the funniest book reviews I have read:Please allow me to share with you how "The Secret" changed my life and in a very real and substantive way allowed me to overcome a severe crisis in my personal life. It is well known that the premise of "The Secret" is the science of attracting the things in life that you desire and need and in removing from your life those things that you don't want. Before finding this book, I knew nothing of these principles,...