links for 2006-03-30
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Photos of the moons shadow on the Earth as taken from the ISS.
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links for 2006-03-29
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A great portal with links to lots of useful CSS sites.
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A cool little list with links to lots of different desktop photo repositories.
Ambien Users Look Out
Oh boy. Looks like the widely advertised and popular sleep drug Ambien has a strange side effect that makes people eat while they’re asleep. Unfortunately it also makes them eat in appropriate things, attempt to drive to the fast food place sleeping, and even try to cook and prepare food all while sound asleep. Oddly enough, the manufacturer admits they knew about it.
CBS News: As sleep disorders go, it’s one of the more bizarre, observes CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone.
He says Dr. Mark Mahowald and other sleep researchers have discovered that nocturnal eating may be a side effect of the popular sleep medication, Ambien.
That comes on the heels of reports that some Ambien users may drive while sleeping.
Mahowald, who’s medical director of the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center in Minneapolis, tells Blackstone, “We’ve had people eat very inappropriate things that they would never eat while awake. Some example would be buttered cigarettes, salt sandwiches, raw bacon.”
links for 2006-03-28
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A very nice how to on using Prototype in site design.
Scotland Yard nets Al-Qaeda hacker by accident
In a lucky break for Scotland Yard an arrest made last fall may be Al-Qaeda’s infamous Irhabi 007 hacker.
Washington Post: For almost two years, intelligence services around the world tried to uncover the identity of an Internet hacker who had become a key conduit for al-Qaeda. The savvy, English-speaking, presumably young webmaster taunted his pursuers, calling himself Irhabi — Terrorist — 007. He hacked into American university computers, propagandized for the Iraq insurgents led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and taught other online jihadists how to wield their computers for the cause.Suddenly last fall, Irhabi 007 disappeared from the message boards. The postings ended after Scotland Yard arrested a 22-year-old West Londoner, Younis Tsouli, suspected of participating in an alleged bomb plot. In November, British authorities brought a range of charges against him related to that plot. Only later, according to our sources familiar with the British probe, was Tsouli’s other suspected identity revealed. British investigators eventually confirmed to us that they believe he is Irhabi 007.
How To: Make Windows Update Without Verification
Here’s an interesting little morsel from over at Tech-Recipes.com on How to make WindowsUpdate.com allow you to update without verifying your copy of Windows.
Tech-Recipes: Move on over to the updates site Microsoft Updates, now when the page loads it will give you the options for custom or Express, if you were to make a choice now you would be given an error like Invalid CD Key or something to that effect… but if you want your updates any way then put this in the title bar:
javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’) and press enter
Then make your selection. The process will continue normally, just leaving out the little part about verifying your Key
Beatles take on Apple
After having been bashed last week by Frances and a new law that says all music downloaded from the web must be able to play on any player, Apple is again getting hit hard and this time by the surviving members of The Beatles.
Times.UKThis week the Apple Corps goes to the High Court seeking multimillion-pound damages against Apple Computer, the creators of the iPod, over their hugely successful iTunes Music Store.Apple Corps, owned by the former Beatles and their heirs, still owns the licensing rights to Beatles’ products. It is claiming that the introduction of iTunes broke a $26 million settlement under which Apple Computer agreed to steer clear of the music business, for which the Beatles’ company retains the famous trademark. It is the latest clash in one of Britain’s longest-running corporate legal battles.
links for 2006-03-24
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MacDrive 6 for Windows enables PC users to open, edit, and save files on Mac disks (HFS/HFS+). You can even format Mac disks and burn Mac CDs and DVDs
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Why you should play WoW
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Got a Mac or any other Apple product? This really cool engine decodes the enigmatic Apple serial numbers and reveals the true information about your apple product.
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he XPS 600 Renegade is a limited production PC that includes everything that you may be looking for in a package that starts at $9930. At the core of the PC is a Pentium D 965 Extreme Edition processor that has been overclocked from 3.73 to 4.26 GHz. Othe
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If you have tried trouble shooting your iPod to no avail, chances are your iPod has a hardware problem. The iPod’s built-in Diagnostic Mode is a quick and easy way to determine if you have a “bad” iPod.
MacMini clone runs linux for under $400
Here’s a cool lil’ diddy, a 2.8 pound MacMini like computer from Linspire for under $400 fully loaded.
eHomeUpgradeThe 2.8 pound PC features a front panel backlit power button, a slot loading combo DVD drive, two rear USB ports, one Firewire connector, S-Video/DVI video outputs, 10/100 Ethernet port, speaker/mic jacks, Pentium M 740 processor, a single slot for DDR2 memory, and a choice of a 40 or 80GB hard drive.
YouTube.com Scaring Music and Video Industry
Looks like the popular video sharing portal YouTube.com is scaring the music and film industry who are claiming most of the material being published on the site is bootleg music and concert videos.
eCommerce Times: More than 20,000 new video clips are sent in to YouTube every day and it attracts 15 million plays every 24 hours. Some films have attained cult status, spreading around the Internet faster than computer viruses. Long-forgotten footage has re-emerged as hugely popular entertainment after being posted by users.