In this article I’ll include three ways to screencast your Linux desktop with the help of recordMyDesktop, XVidCap and Istanbul. These three applications are included in every major distribution.
Her name is Space Shuttle Atlantis–and this photo is the closest most of us will ever get to her. She’s getting ready to go on a trip (NASA STS-125 mission) to upgrade the world’s greatest & bestest telescope with new hardware. That most beloved telescope, with millions and millions of admirers, is Hubble Space Telescope, a NASA Great Observatory.
Think of it as PC drag racing. And for the same reasons drag racing draws spectators, extreme overclocking has steadily grown in popularity through the years. Some manufacturers are even designing parts made specifically for this exclusive crowd. The extreme enthusiast scene is evolving.
Naming is linguistic design, and a good domain name is an important part of the overall design of a website. Name plays a prominent role when people discover, remember, think about, talk about, search for, or navigate to a website. It establishes a theme for the branding of a website before people even visit it for the first time
Keyboards are an essential part of out computers. We use computer keyboards mostly to type. However in recent times we have seen a diversification in the use and design of keyboards. Take a look at some of these unusual but cool computer keyboards that make them easier to use and much more sophisticated.
It would seem that George Orwell might have been more prophetic than we perhaps gave him credit for. Currently, our televisions cannot watch us, but at the rate things are progressing, it is only a matter of time. After all, most PCs now come with web cams and certainly 90% of cell phones.
Creative and unusual stool designs that will spice up any home, bar or office. The most fun you’ll ever have examining stools outside of the Doctor’s office.
Today we look at various clocks, watches and means to tell the time, a fleeting continuum that is otherwise invisible and even irrelevant, especially when considered as a disappearing line between absolute concepts of “past” and “future”.
stoolpigeon writes “Princess Ruruna, of the Kingdom of Kod, has a problem. Her parents, the King and Queen, have left to travel abroad. Ruruna has been left to manage the nations fruit business. Much is at stake, Kod is known as “The Country of Fruit.” Ruruna is not happy though, as she is swamped by paperwork and information overload. A mysterious book, sent by her father, contains Tico the fairy. Tico, and the supernatural book are going to help Princess Ruruna solve her problems with the power of the database. This is the setting for all that takes place in The Manga Guide to Databases. If you are like me and learned things like normalization and set operations from a rather dry text book, you may be quite entertained by the contents of this book. If you would like to teach others about creating and using relational databases and you want it to be fun, this book may be exactly what you need.” Read below for the rest of JR’s review.
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Taking advantage of the uncertainty surrounding Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, IBM has doubled the monetary incentives they are offering to ditch Sun gear. Offering ,000 in software or services for every Sun Sparc processor ditched for an IBM Power server, the program seems to be paying off. IBM has helped 1,640 customers migrate from other manufacturers’ hardware over the last year. “The program applies to Sparc-based Sun hardware, such as the Sparc, UltraSparc, and Sparc 64 servers, and also to Fujitsu systems that run on Sparc chips. A customer that moves off a Sparc-powered system running, say, eight processors would be eligible for up to ,000 worth of rewards.”
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