Saturday, April 09, 2011

Three rules for safe driving

1 Be a defensive driver.
2 Look 12 seconds ahead of you to predict any emergency.
3 Drive under the speed limit.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

I miss my webOS

My wife got me a Samsung Galaxy Tab which I think it is great. But I really miss my webOS phone. ....my laptop died this morning so I am relying on my Galaxy Tab. This Galaxy Tab has everything I need. I have no complains but the simplicity of webOS is missing here.

Should I buy the new HP Playbook?

- t

Friday, December 17, 2010

Firefox Addons

My favorite extensions are: showip, server spy, tab mix plus, force-tls, ghostery, flashblock, better privacy, blocksite, dr.web antivirus, lastpass and phzilla.

Friday, December 03, 2010

My Salix screenshot

Salix OS + XFCE

Saturday, November 27, 2010

New Approach to the Big Bang theory

I think that "God" had a big collider particle but of course million of times more powerful than CERN. "God", the Grand Master Architect, I am pretty sure also has a hell of a computer cluster that we can't imagine. Whatever he is running on it, it works to perfection and can predict and simulate any pattern or behavior in the galaxy.

Now, where is the new particle collider? Far from here!

Thoughts about Peppermint Linux

I installed Peppermint Ice on my old Dell Inspiron 600m laptop and I have to admit that is light and fast. Google Chrome works wonderfuly but my only complain is that my plug-ins do not work with Chrome. Gecko-multimedia plugins do not work with Chrome. Maybe VLV could work...I will try this later.

When I was running Slackware, Parole player plugins were working with Firefox and Opera browser. It is not a big deal but is my only concern right now. Also, since I am not familiar with Debian, I need a little bit of time to figure out how the inside works. Slackware is very simple in this aspect...

At this moment I am happy with it. Tons of apps available to install right away. I miss to compile my own software but I guess this is something new...more to come.

-t

Saturday, September 18, 2010

RUF Automobile GmbH - CTR 3

Not a lot of car drivers know about this car. All I have to say is that this
car can destroy the competitors like a twig.

RUF Automobile GmbH - CTR 3

Monday, April 26, 2010

Mounting the pendrive � slackware: the hacker’s linux

for the records...-2501

mounting the pendrive � slackware: the hacker’s linux

mount -rw -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/pendrive

-rw: readable and writable
-t auto: filetype detected automatically
/dev/sda1: seems that this is the type of device for pendrives
/mnt/pendrive: i had to create the “pendrive” folder in the “/mnt” directory

after having done this, open the “/mnt/pendrive” folder to access its contents. After you are finished with it, close all related “/mnt/pendrive” folders and konsoles, and unmount it with the command:

umount /mnt/pendrive

if it gives an error message saying that it is busy, then give the command:

umount -l /mnt/pendrive

-l: “lazy” unmount which means, it will unmount as soon as the device stops being busy

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy - space - 14 April 2010 - New Scientist

Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy - space - 14 April 2010 - New Scientist

There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before.

"We don't know what it is," says co-discoverer Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics near Macclesfield, UK.

The thing appeared in May last year, while Muxlow and his colleagues were monitoring an unrelated stellar explosion in M82 using the MERLIN network of radio telescopes in the UK. A bright spot of radio emission emerged over only a few days, quite rapidly in astronomical terms. Since then it has done very little except baffle astrophysicists.

It certainly does not fit the pattern of radio emissions from supernovae: they usually get brighter over a few weeks and then fade away over months, with the spectrum of the radiation changing all the while. The new source has hardly changed in brightness over the course of a year, and its spectrum is steady.

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Scientists capture 'terrifying' Tolkien-like eclipse (w/ Video)

Scientists capture 'terrifying' Tolkien-like eclipse (w/ Video): "(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have captured a 'terrifying' image of a giant Goliath-like star undergoing a two year eclipse. First discovered by a German astronomer 180 years ago, it is the first close-up image of an eclipse beyond the solar system to be captured on camera by scientists."

Friday, April 02, 2010

Forget about Greece: What about the US, Japan, and the UK? | Forex Blog

Forget about Greece: What about the US, Japan, and the UK? | Forex Blog

+75% of trading in the forex markets involves some combination of the US dollars, Euro, Japanese Yen, British Pound...