Monday, February 12, 2007

"Let’s see some ID, please" - The end of anonymity on the Internet?


Already over 20 million PCs worldwide are equipped with a tiny security chip called the Trusted Platform Module, although it is as yet rarely activated. But once merchants and other online services begin to use it, the TPM will do something never before seen on the Internet: provide virtually fool-proof verification that you are who you say you are...Yeah until it is Hacked....More Here

Aroma USB takes some stink out of that spot
















At last, a(nother) USB-powered method to disguise
that embarrassing cubicle odor.

Don't deny it, we know you've got the cube funk too.
Read Here

Five Value Laptops for Under $1000 Bucks

Value laptops don’t always
have to mean you end up with
a hunk of junk and a blinking
cursor staring back at you.

Great notebook computers exist
out there for under $1,000.
Read Here

Astronomy Picture of the Day

















More Info Here

AMD states "Quad-core Opteron faster at virtualization."




















Virtualization, a hot subject today as companies try
to make servers more efficient, lets a single server
run multiple operating systems.

But virtualization software called a hypervisor, which
oversees theoperating system access to the hardware,
poses performance problems compared to operating
systems running on their own...More Here

Skydiving miracle: Man falls two miles












skydiver Michael Holmes had a split
second to consider his demise when
his parachute and a reserve failed high
above New Zealand in December
Story Here

New Help Center for Ubuntu
















We’ve been working on a better way to present
help to users for the next version of Ubuntu.
The result has now been uploaded to Feisty
More Here

How Browsers, OS, and Search Engines Currently Stack Up










Marketshare Hitslink is a very cool website that shows
the current market share of browsers, OS’s, and search
engines. It has a month by month tabulation of their data
and they also put it all into nice charts and graphs.

Here are the stats as of January 2007…...Here