“With Windows 7 released and currently making its way to shelves in time for the holiday season, we’ve taken this opportunity to upgrade our copy of the official Windows System Recovery Discs for compatibility with Windows 7.”
Read more and get the torrents from here: http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/windows-7-system-repair-discs/
When running apt-get/synaptic/etc… you get an error something like below:
“W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com stable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages)”
Goto ‘/etc/apt/sources.list.d‘ and delete the duplicate entry from there or from ‘/etc/apt/sources.list‘.
Third party entries often go into this folder and are read as if in sources.list
The Federal Bureau of Investigations does not like the fact that its Wikipedia entry has a high-resolution image of its seal, but Wikipedia says there’s nothing illegal about posting it online.
The FBI apparently has no big international crime rings or investigations to conduct, because it now has free time to send a letter to Wikipedia that reads, “The FBI has not authorized use of the FBI seal on Wikipedia. The inclusion of a high quality graphic of the FBI seal on Wikipedia is particularly problematic.”
Although likely 39.99999 Gigabits more than she actually needs, Sigbritt Löthberg now has a 40 Gbps internet connection. She’s never owned a computer until now but she did give birth to some famous Swedish internet guy.
How fast is the connection? She can download a full high definition DVD in two seconds. That would take many, many, many seconds (minutes or hours, even) over your typical broadband connection. And get this – her house is over 1200 miles away from the connection’s original source.
According to the technology’s creators, the distance is theoretically unlimited. The data is pumped over fiberoptic lines using a “new modulation technique” and apparently wasn’t all that expensive to deploy.
If it can truly go an unlimited distance from the source without experiencing any loss of transmission speed, might we one day get our internet access from Sweden? I’d sure as hell go for it.
First beautiful women, then Ikea, and now this? Sweden, you’re spoiling us!
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Install needed packages ‘apt-get install fakeroot binutils nspluginwrapper ia32-libs‘
Download and run this script ‘http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/ia32-libs-workaround-499043-squeeze.sh‘
When the script is finished, install with ‘dpkg -i ia32-libs-workaround-499043_0.0.1+squeeze1_amd64.deb‘
Then install this package ‘http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-nonfree_10.1.53.64.1_amd64.deb‘
This info and more is located at http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer#DebianTesting.27Squeeze.27amd64
This has to be done with either a stock or custom kernel.
Before building the official nVidia driver on Debian you will have to blacklist the ‘nouveau‘ module.
You can find how to blacklist kernel modules from loading on this site also.
After the ‘nouveau‘ module has been unloaded (from reboot) you can build the nVidia module without errors.
Disable automatic loading of kernel driver modules in etch.
Create a file ‘/etc/modprobe.d/<modulename>.conf‘ with the line ‘blacklist <modulename>‘
Then update system with, ‘depmod -ae‘ and ‘update-initramfs -u‘
Reboot and the modules will not be loaded.
As root navigate to ‘/etc/modprobe.d/aliases‘
Change the line ‘alias net-pf-10 ipv6‘ to ‘alias net-pf-10 off‘
Now on the next reboot ipv6 will be disabled and not autoloaded on boot.
As root edit ‘/etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc‘
and change ‘AllowRootLogin = false‘
to ‘AllowRootLogin = true‘
Over the past few decades, portion sizes of everything from muffins to sandwiches have grown considerably. Unfortunately, America’s waistbands have reacted accordingly. In the 1970s, around 47 percent of Americans were overweight or obese; now 66 percent of us are. In addition, the number of just obese people has doubled, from 15 percent of our population to 30 percent.
While increased sizes haven’t been the sole contributor to our obesity epidemic, large quantities of cheap food have distorted our perceptions of what a typical meal is supposed to look like. These portion comparisons, adapted from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Portion Distortion Quiz, give a visual representation of what sizes used to be compared to what they are today.
Two Slices of Pizza
Twenty years ago
500 calories
Today
850 calories
Those extra 350 calories, if eaten a two times a month, would put on two extra pounds a year, or forty pounds in the next two decades.
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OK is without doubt the best-known and widest-travelled Americanism, used and recognised even by people who hardly know another word of English. Running in parallel with its popularity have been many attempts to explain where it came from — amateur etymologists have been obsessed with OK and theories have bred unchecked for the past 150 years.
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BATH, Maine – The Navy’s need for speed is being answered by a pair of warships that have reached freeway speeds during testing at sea.
Independence, a 418-foot warship built in Alabama, boasts a top speed in excess of 45 knots, or about 52 mph, and sustained 44 knots for four hours during builder trials that wrapped up this month off the Gulf Coast. The 378-foot Freedom, a ship built in Wisconsin by a competing defense contractor, has put up similar numbers.
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NASA scientists have discovered a mysterious ribbon around our solar system —- a stripe made of hydrogen —- that defies all current expectations about what the edge of the solar system might look like.
Richard Fisher, the director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, tells NPR’s Guy Raz that this discovery is a big moment for the scientific community. “We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns.”
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Australia’s Westfield ultramarathon had a surprise entrant in 1983: a 61-year-old potato farmer named Cliff Young. He arrived wearing overalls and gumboots and took a place among a field of 150 elite 20-somethings for the 543-mile run from Sydney to Melbourne.
Young ran with a peculiar shuffling gait that soon left him far behind the leaders, but as the race wore on he gained ground rapidly. His strategy was simple: He didn’t sleep. He had routinely rounded up sheep on his family’s 2,000-acre ranch in Victoria, where he often ran two or three days without rest, and this preternatural endurance carried him easily into first place in the Westfield race, beating the record time by nearly two days.
At the finish Young said he’d been unaware there was a $10,000 prize; he gave it away to five other runners and returned quietly to his ranch. Asked what advice he’d give to other elderly runners, he said, “No matter what you do, you have to keep moving. If you don’t wear out, you rust out.”
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The Judging Criteria
Vanilla ice cream sandwiches come in various shapes and sizes (rectangular or saucerlike, short or long), with two major components that should not be ignored: the exterior cookie and the ice cream itself. The texture of the chocolate cookie should be moist yet slightly dense. It should not be dry or flaky. The ice cream should be creamy and sweet, never icy or tart. The ice cream–to-cookie ratio is also important: One element should never overwhelm the other.
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LEDGE POOL
At 10 floors up, this hanging pool in Texas gives swimmers a dazzling view. The pool has an overhang of 8 feet directly above Dallas main street.
TALLAHASSEE – The cost of smoking cigarettes goes up Wednesday – and so does the cost of replacing that used schoolbook your kid left out in the rain.
Those and 159 other new laws take effect Wednesday, the start of the state’s fiscal year 2009-2010. Here’s a peek at some of the changes made by the Legislature and Gov. Charlie Crist that go into force on July 1:
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http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel
Natalie Tyler Tran is a video blogger on YouTube from Sydney, Australia, using the nickname communitychannel. She is a 2nd generation Vietnamese Australian. As of June 22, 2009, she has 163 videos available on her channel (not counting videos that may have been deleted) and is 1st most subscribed of all-time in Australia, 16th most subscribed of all-time on YouTube and the 7th most subscribed Director. She is also the number 1 most subscribed for the categories of Director and Partners for Australia of all time and the 52nd most watched person on Youtube. In addition, she was the first runner up in the Miss Youtube contest created by Michael Buckley of What The Buck. Her first video was created on September 25, 2006. Tran vlogs about her daily-life situations as a university student.
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