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Noryungi writes:
The interestingly named "Topless Robot" has a real trip down memory lane: how the computer graphics of the original Star Wars movie were made. The article points to thisYouTube video of a short documentary made by Larry Cuba, the original artist, explains how he did it. In 1977. Computer graphics and Star Wars: what could be better?
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Noryungi writes:
It's official: Google is announcing the Google Chrome OS. Fast, secure, targeted at x86 and ARM CPUs and "netbook"-class computers, the Chrome OS will simply be the Chrome browser running on a Linux kernel. It will be designed to get a user on the Internet in a few seconds and will be open-sourced later this year.
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Noryungi writes:
Wired has posted a wiki entry on how to install Mac OS X on an Asus eeePC. I am still picking my jaw off the floor. I have to try that on my little machine, just for the geek factor!
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Noryungi writes:
Theo DeRaadt, the founder of OpenBSD, has made public an email sent to OLPC and Red Hat. In this email, he strongly condemns the willingness of both Red Hat and OLPC, who signed an NDA with Marvell in order to user this company's WiFi chips in the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project. Choice quote: "It is clear that your choices are not about opening up Marvell, but simply commercially expedient and hurtful to our common cause [open source]."
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Noryungi writes:
Yes, after more than a year, Slackware finally went to version 11! Slackware, the oldest Linux distribution still in operation -- after more than 13 years -- is still one of the best and most stable version of Linux out there. Go order it!!
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Noryungi writes:
It seems the alien invasion of the Earth has just started! Giant insects have been spotted roaming the German countryside!! Let the "I, for one, welcome our new giant insectoid overlords!" joke contest begin!
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Noryungi writes:
Well, it's been 5 years since 9/11, and it seems no one, in the US Government, is tasked with finding Bin Laden.
Choice quote:
Today, however, no one person is in charge of the overall hunt for bin Laden with the authority to direct covert CIA operations to collect intelligence and to dispatch JSOC units. Some counterterrorism officials find this absurd. "There's nobody in the United States government whose job it is to find Osama bin Laden!" one frustrated counterterrorism official shouted. "Nobody!"
Remember: this is five years after 9/11. The incompetence of the current United States administration never ceases to amaze me.