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Comment Have them printed at a real minilab (Score 1) 350

Preferably on a Fujifilm Crystal Archive or Kodak Endura Paper. These are protographic prints, not cheap inkjet or dye sublimation prints. If the minilab is correctly set up and uses good quality chemicals (preferably from Fujifulm, if printing on a Fuji paper, or from Kodak, if printing on Kodak paper), the prints should last a lifetime. Fuji's Crystal Archive is rated for 60 to 70 years.

I used to have my prints done at Black's (Canada), on some Kodak matte photo paper; not Endura, for I didn't have the money, but a reasonable quality paper on a reasonable quality minilab. None of them have shown any signs of fading to the present date.

If you really need the pictures to last 100+ years, take them on Ilford B&W film; if you get a good film camera, it's not harder than taking a digital picture (I have a Pentax MZ-50 SLR , which can work fully manual or all-auto, and I rarely set it to manual). Buy a film scanner (Nikon Coolscan) and scan the film. If you need prints, have them done from the film. Store the film in a cool, dry place, away from any light sources.

Submission + - Voting for the SQL-injection party (alicebobandmallory.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The Swedish elections were held recently (the third Sunday of September to be exact) and it seems that a few people tried to interfere with the election by voting for parties which where in effect named to be SQL injection attacks or similar. Clever stuff! Little Bobby Tables in real life.
Wireless Networking

Submission + - FCC white spaces rules favor tech industry (technologyreview.com)

holy_calamity writes: "The FCC has come to a decision on the rules governing devices that make use of the unlicensed wireless spectrum between TV stations, with commissioner Genchowski trumpeting a new era of "super wi-fi". Most crucially the FCC dropped the requirement that devices sense TV and wireless microphone signals, instead they can geolocate and use an online database to learn which white spaces are available in their area. That makes tech firms happy because it provides a software-centric alternative to developing complex new sensing hardware."

Comment Re:Virtual Box (Score 5, Informative) 261

I ran across almost the same problem this week: needed to have a live USB, but also the ability to run inside a virtualized machine in the case the physical machine wouldn't boot it. I second the parent's opinion: VirtualBox is the way to go. It even has a "portable edition," so you don't have to ask users to install any software, neither you need to ask the lab administrator to install any software.

I seearched a little bit and found this nice gem: http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ (notice: this is not a slashvertizement; I have no links whatsoever with the development group. Just a really satisfied user.) You just have to:

1) install the live CD iso of the distribution of your choice (I have chosen Ubuntu, since I am familiar with it)
2) download Linux Live USB Creator - Full Pack (w/ Virtualbox)
3) run it, point it to the iso file, mark the persistency option (I have setup 2GB for it) and click the "lighning bolt" icon to create your live USB with a portable VirtualBox
4) profit!

You can either boot it as a USB hard drive, or you can run your virtualized OS under Windows clicking the "Virtualize this Key" executable! That's it! No messing with settings in grub, no modprobe, no nothing! Just use an easy GUI.

Toys

Submission + - Microfluidic Chips made with Shrinky Dinks

SoyChemist writes: "When she started her job as a new professor at UC Merced, Michelle Khine was stuck without a clean room or semiconductor fabrication equipment, so she went MacGyver and started making Lab-on-a-Chip devices in her kitchen with Shrinky Dinks, a laser printer, and a toaster oven. She would print a negative image of the channels onto the polystyrene sheets and then make them smaller with heat. The miniaturized pattern served as a perfect mould for forming rounded, narrow channels in PDMS — a clear, synthetic rubber."
Graphics

Submission + - The first image taken with an ultra low field MRI (arxivblog.com)

KentuckyFC writes: "MRI machines are about to get smaller, much smaller. Most of their bulk is taken up by the huge superconducting magnets required to generate fields of about a Tesla. Now a team at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico has built a machine that can produce images using a field of only a few microTesla. So giant superconducting magnets aren't necessary, a development that has the potential to make MRI machines much smaller, perhaps even suitcase sized. Today, the team has posted sections of the first 3D brain image taken with the device (abstract, pdf)."
Space

Submission + - Cosmic 'Bullets' Traced to Galactic Black Holes 1

dork writes: The Pierre Auger Observatory announced that active galactic nuclei are the most likely candidates for the source of the highest-energy cosmic rays that hit Earth. Using the Southern Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, the largest cosmic-ray observatory in the world, spanning over more than 3000 square kilometers, they found that the sources of the highest-energy particles are not distributed uniformly across the sky, linking the origins of these "cosmic bullets" to the locations of nearby galaxies, hosting active nuclei in their centers. These galaxies are thought to be powered by supermassive monster black holes that are devouring large amounts of matter. The exact mechanism of how particles get accelerated to energies 100 million times higher than achievable by the most powerful particle accelerators on Earth is still a mystery. A fraction of recorded events is also available through a public online event display.

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