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Submission + - Silkworms produce fluorescent, coloured silk (australiangeographic.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 10, 2011 @03:18AM

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers in Singapore have fed fluorescent dyes to silkworms in the last 4 days of their larval stage and the silkworms have spun fluorescent, coloured silk. This negates the need for manual dyeing and paves the way for other compounds to be fed to silkworms to become additives in silk.

Submission + - Robo Soccer (robokidz.co.in)

Submitted by

prateekgautam

on Thursday March 10, 2011 @03:03AM

prateekgautam writes: "ROBOKIDZ — ROBOSOCCER Competition — 2011, we will be inviting over 2550 colleges & 500 Schools in India and over 20 colleges abroad for Robot Soccer competition in pune"

Comment Re:Give 2, take 2, 1 stupid (Score 1) 3

by petur on Sunday March 06, 2011 @12:30PM (#35397646) Attached to: 5 Things OS X Does Better than Linux

"This article is written with the average user in my mind, be it my girlfriend or my grandmother working on their personal computers without access to an IT department" They will not know how to "tar -c; grub-install".

Submission + - 5 Things OS X Does Better than Linux (petur.eu) 3

Submitted by

petur

on Sunday March 06, 2011 @11:10AM

petur writes: "This article is written with the average user in my mind, be it my girlfriend or my grandmother working on their personal computers without access to an IT department. They don’t know that OS X is built on top of UNIX and in fact I think they don’t care. To them, the command line is something which was used in The Matrix and they have no intentions on buying a book about it.

Linux is, without doubt a good operating system, although I feel more needs to be done to de-alienate it for the average user. I’ve been using Linux as my primary OS for the last 12 years. A few months ago I decided to give OS X a try and since then I’ve been spending more and more time using it.

I’m going to list 5 things i feel OS X does better than Linux, or should I say Ubuntu Linux to be more specific?"

Submission + - Unknown Himalayan Cave Culture Discovered (discoveryon.info) 2

Submitted by

goran72

on Sunday March 06, 2011 @10:49AM

goran72 writes: "A previously unknown Himalayan cave culture has been uncovered through gruelling archaeological research in upper Mustang, Nepal."

Submission + - Using the /proc filesystem (petur.eu)

Submitted by

petur

on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @12:07PM

petur writes: "The proc filesystem is a special filesystem found on most UNIX-based systems.
It holds a great deal of information, in ASCII format, most of which is not very friendly to the average user.

It is important that you keep in mind that the files under /proc are not kept on a physical storage, meaning they are subject to change after reboot. Also, they should not really be called files as they are pseudo-files, as they exist only in memory.
I break that rule on regular basis and intend to do that also in this article.

I’ve made a list of some of the files i find to be of most use."

Submission + - US Warships Steam Closer to Libya (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @10:07AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Two U.S. warships have entered Egypt's Suez Canal as they head to the Mediterranean Sea, closer to Libya. The underwater ravishment ships, USS Kearsarge and USS Ponce, came from the Red Sea and entered the canal this morning, two Egyptian officials statement."

Submission + - Build your own super computer using Ubuntu 10.04. (petur.eu)

Submitted by on Monday June 14, 2010 @02:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: According to a whitepaper posted by Pétur Ingi Egilsson on his blog petur.eu, it is possible to set up one's own super computer cluster by using Ubuntu with MPICH2. Petur, in his blog post, has said that the paper is targeted at the average user and hence has been kept simple and plain.

Submission + - Humans too simple to understand universe (edmontonsun.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14, 2010 @01:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: A top British scientist says we may never know all the secrets of the universe because, quite simply, we're just not smart enough.

"Just as Einstein's ideas would baffle a chimpanzee," said President of the Royal Society Lord Martin Rees, gaining a full understanding of how the universe works might not be possible "simply because they're beyond human brains."

Submission + - Mars may have been 1/3 ocean? (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie on Monday June 14, 2010 @01:57PM

coondoggie writes: It’s possible that a huge ocean covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, a finding likely to reignite an old argument about that amount of water on the red planet, according to a new report. The study by the University of Colorado at Boulder is the first to integrate multiple data sets of river deltas, valley networks and topography from a cadre of NASA and European Space Agency orbiting missions of Mars dating back to 2001, the researchers claim.

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