Friday, December 23, 2005
The French deputies legalize the exchanges of files
The deputies adopted against any waiting Wednesday evening of the amendments legalizing the exchanges of files on Internet via the system "peer to peer" (P2P) at the time of the discussion of the bill on the royalty.
English translation from French
English translation from French
Astronomers Use Laser to Take Clearest Images of the Center of the Milky Way
The center of our Milky Way galaxy, as seen in the infrared using the Keck Laser Guide Star (left panel) and the Keck Natural Guide Star (right). The white cross marks the location of the supermassive black hole.
Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years.
Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing number plate, the plan is to build a huge database of vehicle movements so that the police and security services can analyse any journey a driver has made over several years.
Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing number plate, the plan is to build a huge database of vehicle movements so that the police and security services can analyse any journey a driver has made over several years.
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Mobile Gaming Technology Brings Pacman to Life
Researchers in the Department of Communication Systems (Lancaster University), based in InfoLab21, have been developing a new game which can be played by up to five players on mobile phones.
Friday, December 09, 2005
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Newfound Greek Site is Really Ancient
Archaeologists in northern Greece have uncovered traces of two prehistoric farming settlements dating back as early as 6,000 B.C., the Culture Ministry said Monday.
Quality Open Source for Windows
TheOpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, and image manipulation. We include only the highest quality programs, which have been carefully tested for stability and which we consider appropriate for a wide audience.
EvilLyrics - Lyrics search tool
EvilLyrics is a free lyrics fetching program designed for use with most popular music players (iTunes, Winamp, WMP, etc.).
PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)
PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that permits a heterogeneous collection of Unix and/or Windows computers hooked together by a network to be used as a single large parallel computer. Thus large computational problems can be solved more cost effectively by using the aggregate power and memory of many computers. The software is very portable. The source, which is available free thru netlib, has been compiled on everything from laptops to CRAYs.
Windows Live Safety Center
Windows Live Safety Center is a new, free service designed to help ensure the health of your PC.
Scientists drill world's smallest hole
Researchers at Cardiff University's Manufacturing Engineering Centre have managed to drill holes in steel as small as 22 microns (0.022 mm) in diameter using a electro-discharge machining (EDM) process, and reckon they could be the smallest ever achieved.
U.S. Wants to Peer Into Phone Service Networks
The federal government wants to peer into your computer communications, forcing companies that provide high-speed access or Internet-based telephone service to design -- or redesign -- their networks to accommodate surveillance....
300GB disc set to challenge DVD
A computer disc about the size of a DVD that can hold 60 times more data will go on sale in 2006, according to its American developer InPhase Technologies, a Lucent spin off.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Eye Movement and Direction and How it Can Reveal the Truth or a Lie
Can the direction a person's eyes are looking reveal whether or not they are making a truthful statement? Short answer: sort of. But, it isn't as simple as some recent television shows or movies make it seem. In these shows a detective will deduce a person is being untruthful simply because they looked to the left or right while making a statement....
Can You Spot The Phish Attack?
Knowing the difference between a legitimate e-mail and a scammed phishing e-mail is not always as easy as one would think.
According to data from e-mail security firm MailFrontier, only 4 percent of users can spot a phished e-mail 100 percent of the time. That's a very sobering thought as the holiday season is upon us and Americans flock online for their shopping needs....
Everyone’s eyes are wired differently
The first images ever made of retinas in living people reveal surprising variation from one person to the next. Yet somehow our perceptions don't vary as might be expected....
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You!!!
A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document.
The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known.
Mobile Power Station
Mobile Power System™ (MPS) can help to revolutionize the rapid deployment of clean, green (solar, wind, hydroelectric) and fuel-based power for the military, Homeland Security, disaster relief, self-powered health clinics, and a wide variety of other U.S. and international commercial uses - all without bleeding edge technology.
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Hair-raising surprise for baboon
A new baby at a Devon zoo has been attracting a lot of attention - for all the wrong reasons.
Monday, October 10, 2005
Google ETA? 300 years to index the world's info
It could take 300 years to index all the world's information and make it searchable, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt predicted on Saturday at the Association of National Advertisers annual conference in Phoenix.
Oh Boy!
(ETA: an acronym for Estimated Time of Arrival)
Oh Boy!
(ETA: an acronym for Estimated Time of Arrival)
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
REGRETS [Cambridge]
Regrets: a public conceptual artwork
Six to ten purpose-built mobile computer stations publicly located in and around Cambridge collect anonymously submitted regrets from the public to comprise a sociological database of contemporary remorse. Instant feedback to the individual user based on other contributors' similar concerns is algorithmically generated and calculated to 'share the burden'. Random selections and groupings of the regrets are made public across the city through existing signage and broadcast facilities. By engaging users in revelations of a problematic but constructive nature, we aim to bring specificities of individual lives, in this case personal regrets, into the realm of public debate, shared learning, and community.
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Nasa Solar System Simulator
View the solar system from different views (other planets, spacecrafts etc.)
Saturday, October 01, 2005
Tongue-eating bug found in fish
A gross creature which gobbles up a fish's tongue and then replaces it with its own body has been found in Britain for the first time.
Amazing facts
-. Coca-Cola was originally green.
-. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
-. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
-. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
-. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
-. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
-. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
-. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
-. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
-. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
-. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
-. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
-. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
-. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
-. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
-. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
-. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
-. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laserprinters all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
-. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
-. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
-. A snail can sleep for three years.
-. All polar bears are left handed.
-. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
-. Butterflies taste with their feet.
-. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
-. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
-. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
-. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
-. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
-. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
-. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
-. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
-. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
-. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
-. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
-. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
-. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
-. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
-. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
-. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
-. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
-. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
-. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
-. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
-. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
-. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
-. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
-. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
-. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
-. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
-. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
-. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
-. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laserprinters all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
-. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
-. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
-. A snail can sleep for three years.
-. All polar bears are left handed.
-. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
-. Butterflies taste with their feet.
-. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
-. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
-. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
-. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
-. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
-. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
-. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
-. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
-. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
-. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
-. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
-. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
Lost island home of Odysseus found after 3,000 years
FOR almost 3,000 years, its location has been a mystery, but classical scholars around the world are now convinced that a British businessman and amateur archaeologist with a passion for Homer has found the island of Ithaca, home of the Greek hero Odysseus and the site of his palace.
Listen your mp3's using your monitor!
Tampest for Elisza is a Program that uses your computer monitor to send out AM radio signals. You can then hear computer generated music in your radio.
Woman tattoos Web address on forehead!
For $10,000, Kari Smith has gone ahead and had her forehead tattooed with the Web address of a gambling site.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
The Hundred Greatest Theorems
Paul and Jack Abad presented their list of "The Hundred Greatest Theorems." Their ranking is based on the following criteria: "the place the theorem holds in the literature, the quality of the proof, and the unexpectedness of the result.
Trovando - 3300 search engines
trovando.it is a search tool that saves your time and makes your Web searches easy.
With trovando you only need enter keywords once, to access and compare results from
250+ search engines across 10 categories (Web, Images, Reference, Tag, News, Price, Blogs, AudioVideo, Torrent, URL), by simply clicking on the engine’s name.
No more retyping of URLs and keywords into different search engines.
With trovando you only need enter keywords once, to access and compare results from
250+ search engines across 10 categories (Web, Images, Reference, Tag, News, Price, Blogs, AudioVideo, Torrent, URL), by simply clicking on the engine’s name.
No more retyping of URLs and keywords into different search engines.
play Etymologic!
In this etymology game you'll be presented with 10 randomly selected etymology (word origin) or word definition puzzles to solve; in each case the word or phrase is highlighted in bold, and a number of possible answers will be presented. You need to choose the correct answer to score a point for that question. Beware! The false answers will often also seem quite plausible, and some of the true answers are hard to believe, but we have documentation!
Oh, and in case you're wondering, the word etymology comes from the Greek word 'etymos', which means real, or true, and the -ology ending indicates that it's the study of, or science of. Put them together and you get the study or science of the real or true. Impressive, eh?
Oh, and in case you're wondering, the word etymology comes from the Greek word 'etymos', which means real, or true, and the -ology ending indicates that it's the study of, or science of. Put them together and you get the study or science of the real or true. Impressive, eh?
Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans
HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned.
US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees.
Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eaten by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human consumption.
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US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees.
Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eaten by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human consumption.
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Thursday, September 15, 2005
Browser Security Test
Can someone hack into your computer via your browser? How vulnerable you are? Can websites install spyware through your browser?
Scanit's Browser Security Test automatically checks your browser for various security problems. When the test is finished you get a complete report explaining the discovered vulnerabilities, their impact and how to eliminate them.
Very Useful! and Safe...
Google Blog Search
Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves. Whether you're looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
THE FIRST EVER HELLENIC AIR SHOW IS ON ITS WAY
Hellenic Air Force is organising an international Air Show, named “Archangel” 2005 at Tanagra Air Base (114 Combat Wing). The event has been scheduled to start on Friday September 16 and end on Sunday September 18, when an impressive air display will take place.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Stellarium
Stellarium is free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX.
With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Stellarium is also used in planetariums.
Tool: RockXP recover XP activation code
RockXP allows you to retrieve and change your XP product key that you used when you installed Windows XP. This can come very handy if you need to reinstall but have misplaced or lost the CD cover with the serial sticker. In addition, the program also lets you save the product activation to a file, enables you to recover usernames and passwords contained in the Windows Secure Storage, recover your Microsoft Windows Products keys and have password generator
RockXP 3.0 allows you :
. To retrieve and change your XP Key
. To retrieve all Microsoft Products keys
. To save your XP activation file
. To retrieve your lost XP system passwords
. To retrieve your lost RAS (Remote Access Settings) passwords
. And to generate new passwords
Freeware!
Tool: Total Commander
Total Commander is a file manager for Windows, a program like Windows Explorer to copy, move or delete files. However, Total Commander can do much more than Explorer, e.g. pack and unpack files, access ftp servers, compare files by content, etc!
. Two file windows side by side
. Multiple language support
. Enhanced search function
. Compare files / synchronize directories
. Quick View panel with bitmap display
. ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE etc.
. Built-in FTP client with FXP (server to server) and HTTP proxy support
. Parallel port link, multi-rename tool
. Tabbed interface, regular expressions, history+favorites buttons
. Thumbnails view, custom columns, enhanced search
. Two file windows side by side
. Multiple language support
. Enhanced search function
. Compare files / synchronize directories
. Quick View panel with bitmap display
. ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE etc.
. Built-in FTP client with FXP (server to server) and HTTP proxy support
. Parallel port link, multi-rename tool
. Tabbed interface, regular expressions, history+favorites buttons
. Thumbnails view, custom columns, enhanced search
Tool: KeePass Password Safe
What is KeePass?
Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage's ftp password, online passwords (like CodeProject member account), etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem... A serious problem. The thief would have access to your e-mail account, homepage, etc. Unimaginable.
KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).
Tool: Opendirectories
The world wide web is chaulk full of web servers which are loaded with a variety of content. Everything from movies, music to images. Many of these sites are not meant for the general public, however Google.com indexes all pages it can access with its web-crawling bots. Using this query generator you can find a lot of these open directories and find all kinds of files just sitting there waiting to be downloaded!
An alarm clock that runs away
When Clocky's alarm clock goes off and the snooze button is pressed, it rolls off the bedside table and onto the floor until it finds a suitable spot to hide and rest. When the alarm sounds again, the sleeper must get out of bed and search for the clock.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Fun: Talk with a machine
MRMIND challenges you to prove to him that you are human. Can you claim that your "human" attributes will forever be exclusively human?
Games: Free Games
Full Games, free download!
America's Army: Special Forces
Battlecruiser 3000 A.D.
Grand Theft Auto & Grand Theft Auto 2
Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe
The Marathon Trilogy
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Starsiege: Tribes
Wild Metal Country
The Zork Trilogy
More Free, legal games for download
America's Army: Special Forces
Battlecruiser 3000 A.D.
Grand Theft Auto & Grand Theft Auto 2
Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe
The Marathon Trilogy
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Starsiege: Tribes
Wild Metal Country
The Zork Trilogy
More Free, legal games for download
Tool: NetSetMan
Are you tired of changing your network configuration every day on your notebook or computer?
The same procedure every day?
On the go : changing..., at home: changing..., at the Internet café: changing...,
visiting a friend: changing...
Then NetSetMan is your solution. It will do the work for you.
Free!
The same procedure every day?
On the go : changing..., at home: changing..., at the Internet café: changing...,
visiting a friend: changing...
Then NetSetMan is your solution. It will do the work for you.
Free!
Tool: Win XP from CD
Run Windows XP from CD.
...burn your first CD within a few minutes and enjoy the comfort of a full XP environment for your recovery needs! Free!
...burn your first CD within a few minutes and enjoy the comfort of a full XP environment for your recovery needs! Free!
Tool: Disk Bench
How fast are my disks really. In a real life situation.
Not in a benchmarking program that will display figures that I will never be able to meet.... Free!
Not in a benchmarking program that will display figures that I will never be able to meet.... Free!
Tool: RefreshForce
This (free) program is a UNIVERSAL and PERMANENT fix for the Windows 2000/XP refresh rate problem (whereas games run at lower refresh rates than possible, thus causing headaches, eye strain etc.). It works with ANY monitor (including the Plug & Play ones), and ANY graphics card!
Tech: Reset Windows Password
Forgot the Windows (NT/2000/XP) Administrator Password, and ready to reinstall...
Wait and try these( free) tools first:
1. Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your NT system.
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker.
3. EBCD – Emergency Boot CD
EBCD is a bootable CD, intended for system recovery in the case of software or hardware faults.
4. AUSTRUMI
Wait and try these( free) tools first:
1. Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your NT system.
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker.
3. EBCD – Emergency Boot CD
EBCD is a bootable CD, intended for system recovery in the case of software or hardware faults.
4. AUSTRUMI
Tech: Win XP SP2 Slipstreaming
This scenario explains how to create an integrated installation of Windows XP and the corresponding service pack in a shared distribution folder on a network. This integration is called "Slipstreaming".
Friday, September 09, 2005
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