Bad Astronomy Blog has footage captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory space telescope of a solar flare with amazing detail. And its, like, 60,000 miles long.
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15 Hilarious No Parking Signs. I’d love to hide and watch these penalties carried out.
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The Kentucky Derby’s Forgotten Jockeys. In 1875, 13 out of 15 Kentucky Derby jockeys were black, but in 2009, all 20 riders were white.
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Awesome Elderly Dancing Man. That’s Grandpa shakin’ it like a Polaroid picture!
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10 Songs for Science Nerds. You can listen to each in their entirety, whether you are a science nerd or not.
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Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual might keep you busy all weekend. The Toaster with Two Brains has to be the story title of the decade. (via Dark Roasted Blend)
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How to Use Toilet Paper. Oh yes, there’s a lot more involved than what your mother taught you.
Morning Cup of Links: The Toaster with Two Brains
Fix Window corruption with older ATI graphics cards in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
With older ATI graphics cards with 32MB or less of video RAM some corruption of direct rendered windows, for example OSD notifier windows, might appear. This may be worked around by disabling ‘RenderAccel’ in the Xorg configuration.
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Microsoft – Vampires to suck revenue from HTC / Android?
Is Microsoft ready to suck a little royalty from your project? - Patent portfolio on standby!
It is being reported on the net that HTC has signed a patent licensing deal with Microsoft. Ive yet to see exactly what patents Microsoft is claiming that Android (and in this case HTC) are actually infringing, but what it seems to mean is that for every HTC mobile phone sold, Microsoft will get royalties.
Heres what PCW had to say:
Microsoft claims Android violates its intellectual property, although it has yet to specify the patents involved. Redmond has previously made similar noises about Linux, a close relative of Android…..
Great news for Microsoft eh? Let someone else deploy the popular platform and then take your cut from it. Of course Microsoft “innovates” and its that innovation which I will look at a little further:
My nightmare with Windows Mobile
I haven’t mentioned it for a while so I feel justified to do so again. I was an owner of an MDA Mail running (and I use that word loosely) Windows Mobile. It was due to my experiences of Windows Mobile that I had given up the idea of being productive online on a mobile phone. It’s also the first mobile which had its battery cover break through constantly removing the battery (yes my Windows Mobile crashes were so severe, the only way to switch off the phone was to take the battery out) I was not alone in my opinions of Windows Mobile and I think its fair to say when you look at the successes the alternatives to Windows Mobile have had, Microsoft really has some issues with its mobile market.
An HTC Hero to the rescue!
On a recommendation of a friend I tried Android, specifically with the HTC Hero. I was very impressed, not only at how much I could do, but how quickly I could do it.
So now we see a world where Microsoft does not need to deploy a phone or an OS. They can simply wait and then play a patent card in the hope they can cream royalties of the top of someone else’s success (and I think its agreed that HTC/Android combo is a great product)
Theres a great message to innovators out there: Dont create anything too popular or functional as you may find a hungry pair of Microsoft eyes watching you…..
It was summed up nicely for me on the PCW article:
As for Google, once Apple and Microsoft are done extracting royalties, building an Android phone might someday be as expensive as licensing a smartphone OS from Microsoft or Apple.
Happy times ahead? The futures bright, the futures Microsoft? - This really has to stop. Are we now to see Microsoft in the future not creating anything? merely waiting for someone else to produce a popular and loved product and then wheel out their portfolio in order to “skim a little off the top” Are we going to see Microsoft as a company which is merely a tax for other peoples idea’s which Microsoft can threaten with Patent action? but most importantly, why is Microsoft not disclosing full details of which patents are being infringed so developers can work around it? - I think the answer is obvious, but I will end on words by Steve Ballmer:
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches
There is a cancer here in my opinion, but I don’t think its Linux.
Goblin – bytes4free@googlemail.com
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Enable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in Ubuntu/Kubuntu 10.04(Lucid Lynx)
Since Ubuntu 9.04, the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace key combination to force a restart of X is now disabled by default, to eliminate the problem of accidentally triggering the key combination. In addition, the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace option is now configured as an X keymap (XKB) option, replacing the X server “DontZap” option and allowing per-user configuration of this setting.
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Food, Inc. Now Available for Free Online Viewing
Some wonderful news: Academy Award nominee Food, Inc. is now available for free online viewing. While it’s not a vegan advocacy film, Food, Inc. has nevertheless done immense damage to animal agribusiness. Now that it can be watched for free, food advocates have the opportunity to enlarge its audience tenfold.
If there has ever been an item to spread the word about on your Facebook wall or by Twitter, this is it. Link.
Update: It’s only available for free viewing through April 29 or 30th, so hurry!
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Arizona Iced Tea Comes Clean
Too funny: here’s one hazard of faking your brand. Arizona Iced Tea is coming under fire for the state’s new immigration law, so the company is now going out of its way to tell people that it’s based in New York. (Via Atlantic Food.) Link.
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Granola Scales Your CPU for Energy Savings [Downloads]
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Ubuntu 10.04 Hit By Major Bug; ISOs Now Being Re-Spun
Auto download Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with super fast zsync
$ mv ubuntu-10.04-rc-desktop-amd64.iso ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso; i=http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync; while true; do if wget $i; then zsync $i; date; break; else sleep 30; fi; doneNeed to have rc iso pre-downloaded before running command.
by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)
Installing Ubuntu 10.04: Survival guide
Thinking of installing Ubuntu 10.04 this weekend? Here are a few tips to ensure you have a pleasant experience in doing so.![image[6]](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/S9iny_8p5MI/AAAAAAAAHs0/OifIxdvtnug/s1600-h/image%5B6%5D%5B10%5D.png "image[6]")
Before anything make sure that your computer meets the recommended system requirements. For Ubuntu 10.04 this is around a 1Ghz Processor, 256MB ram (512 would be ace, though) and at least 10GB hard drive space.
Download the Ubuntu 10.04 .iso using a torrent – it will likely be quicker and you’ll be helping other people get it quicker too!
- Verify your .iso before burning to disc (see here for that) and run a CD integrity check before approaching installation – this will ensure that installation doesn’t die mid-way through! You’ll find this option on the LiveCD titled ‘Check CD for defects’.
- If possible make sure your computer is connected to the internet via an Ethernet cable – this will help with installing updates
- Make sure to select the correct time zone and region keyboard layout during installation. nothing worse than having your ‘@’ key displaced elsewhere and not knowing why!
- During partitioning pay attention: only use the ‘default’ partition settings if you want to erase your existing OS and files. Otherwise use the guided set-up tool – this will install Ubuntu on the largest chunk of free space.
- if you’re new to Ubuntu then be sure to nab a copy of the awesome ‘Getting started with Ubuntu’ guide (released tomorrow) or the Ubuntu pocket guide which can be downloaded for free@ http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/
