Oops, if this is true this may be a killing blow to all of you MicroSoft fanboys out there. According to Computer World a tech-worker on the oilrig crashing windows systems may be part of the problem that eventually let to the spilling of oil. And we’re not talking a little Dr.Watson, an occasional “general exception”… we’re talking about a full-blown BSOD (blue screen of death). Well maybe we learn a little lesson here. Never use a computer system for critical mission computing that can’t even keep itself alive for longer than half an hour… If this doesn’t teach us then maybe this will… one day…
This is Google’s motto “Don’t be evil” however more and more it seems to be applicable to you and not to Google. The latest news is that the Street-view vehicles are also registering WLAN’s and MAC addresses while mapping your neighbourhood. Big issue in Germany (here’s a German article from newspaper ‘Der Spiegel’) where this was discovered.
Now the most appalling and worrying is that Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said internet users shouldn’t worry about privacy unless they have something to hide. Right. “Don’t be evil” also includes to not collect data that could facilitate any evil.
Whahahaha… it had to happen one day. A problem with an anti-virus update marks a false positive and puts the file in quarantine. The OS can’t load the file anymore and… oops… reboots… and…. reboots…. and… reboots… This is actually a great feature. Rebooting windows is like 80% of normal usage and it is now fully automated.
Fixing it can be a bit hard… since the computer is rebooting all the time. McAfee could create a bootable windows CD that restores the missing file from the system but.. hey wait.. no they can’t do that. You can’t distribute a proprietary OS like windows for free… Maybe they can create a Linux boot CD to restore the windows file… Something to contemplate: using Linux to revive a windows machine.
Now take a look at this: Mike Davey built a Turing Machine. And what a beauty it is… What? Don’t know what a Turing machine is? And you don’t know who Alan Turing is? Well no one special: he just happened to kickstart automated computing by formalizing algorithms , computability and programmable machines as we know it today. That’s all. Jeez what’s wrong with you?
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Here are some more videos of different programs the Turing Machine is executing.
Oh nice… on march 30 the first particle collision will be performed with the Large Hadron Collider. According to some it will also be the last collision… since the LHC might destroy the kittensplanetgalaxyuniverse.
So for all twats out there: here’s a countdown to doomsday:
Je krabbelt de huidige datum bovenaan een pagina waarop je wat aantekeningen van een meeting maakt en dan besef je ineens dat vandaag een palindroom dag is. Jaaa vrienden… 1 februari 2010 wordt in de lage landen geschreven als 01-02-2010 en dat is van links naar rechts gelezen hetzelfde als van rechts naar links oftewel: een palindroom.
Je hebt er niets aan… het blijft een rotdag… maar toch…
Oh My Funny Goodness… take a look at this. As a huge PacMan fan I love everything that has the friendly yellow round gobbler on it… but to be honest… this is a “little” over the top. Still… it’s cool…
More pictures can be found at Zu Zu Top. What? You want to play PacMan now? Here you go!
Plak een plakbandje op het glas waarop je met de permanent marker het waterniveau kunt aanstrepen. Doe het glas ongeveer half vol water. Gooi er een paar ijsblokjes bij zodat ze in het water drijven. Zet nu een streepje bij het niveau van de vloeistof in het glas. Laat nu de boel lekker smelten. Als het ijs gesmolten is zet dan opnieuw een streepje bij het vloeistof niveau in het glas. Valt u iets op? Het niveau is gelijk gebleven! Drijvend ijs dat smelt doet het waterpeil niet veranderen. Daar de noordpool één grote ijsklomp is zal het smelten van de noordpool dus geen verandering van het waterpeil tot gevolg hebben. Kortom u wordt keihard voorgelogen.. maar het is voor de goede zaak.
Onder het ijs op de zuidpool zit land. Als de zuidpool smelt heeft dat wel gevolgen voor het waterniveau.
Oh this is nice. My good friend Jos provided me the link below. Microsoft’s attempt at an internet search engine is called Bing. They registered a lot of bing.<tld> domains.. but not all… not all… Here’s Bing Liechtenstein. Thanks Jos for providing this link.
Oh look at this. I saw this picture on digg. During a flight-show two boeings performed this very dangerous stunt. Emil Watson took the marvelous photographs. Great job!
Okay here’s a really funny video. Sure you’ve seen all the raps to order at drive-thru fast-food joints… But these guys do it in a folk song…. and… they get p0wn3d… BIG TIME!!
Oh this is very nice. I just came across this geek hack that plays the Super Mario tune using the stepper motor of a laser cutter. Now they actually use both axis. One for the tune the other for the bass parts. A truly amazing hack found through hackday.com. Even the ruby source code is available through the link.
Now here is a piece of remarkable news: Antarctic ice is growing on some parts and not melting. And I thought the Al Gore “inconvenient truth” ‘awareness’ program was just a load of bullshit. But now that the ice is growing around Antarctica I have to confess that Gore at least created some awareness amongst the ice itself. The Antarctic ice clearly got the message and now stops melting and is even recruiting happy little crystallized friends.
Or could this have anything to do with the all time low in solar activity? Hell no! What am I talking about? That is not true because Al Gore says so. My mistake. Way to go Al Gore! Now do a campaign on the financial crisis… How about “an expensive truth”? The vaporized money will come to its senses and will materialize again. Go for it man! You have my full support for you speak the truth and nothing but your convenient truth.
