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Holy smoke Batman! The end of the world is nigh. I do suggest if you live in any of the affected areas you consider wearing a mask and stay indoors as much as possible.
Dan has more letters. Secure HDD erasing, vacuuming your computer, battery cycling and mulitple UPSes
There's a new SATA connector coming to the market. The Serial ATA International Organization has announced the development of a new low-profile SATA connector dubbed mini-SATA.
Conficker is still out there and causing trouble. The brightest minds in technology and government are finding it "almost impossible" to defeat the Conficker worm, which has infected more than 5 million computers and, experts say, could be used to knock down the internet in entire countries. One of the places I work got conficker in their network, nasty little worm.
Bing has made inroads into Google's search share. Its latest figures show Microsoft's share of the search market has grown from 8.9% in July to 9.3% in August. The news saw Microsoft's shares rise while Google's dipped slightly.
Linus Torvalds has called Linux bloated and huge. "I mean, sometimes it's a bit sad that we are definitely not the streamlined, small, hyper-efficient kernel that I envisioned 15 years ago...The kernel is huge and bloated, and our icache footprint is scary. I mean, there is no question about that. And whenever we add a new feature, it only gets worse."
UK anti-piracy plans cost more than the losses by the music industry. If the BPI’s 'losses' figures are to be believed (and we have to go along with the ridiculous premise of 1 download = 1 lost sale in order to do so), saving GBP200m worth of business will end up costing ISPs almost double that amount.
Today's project is ferrofluid. Ferrofluids are made up of tiny magnetic fragments of iron suspended in oil (often kerosene) with a surfactant to prevent clumping (usually oleic acid). The fluid is relatively easy to make at home yet extremely expensive to buy on-line. How does $165 a liter sound? Pretty bad, right? Read on to learn how to make ferrofluids on the cheap.
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