12-5-09 Catch Up Time!

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The New Magic of Bar Code Scanning

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The Smithsonian Project to Do for Species Identification what the Genome project

did for unlocking the Human DNA.


The Project is called the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) and it uses a Bar Code reader

to tag the information gathered  about Animal Life.

"Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth..."

- Edward O. Wilson

         Link: http://www.eol.org/

Pareques acuminatus

A Sample Page of the Info on One Species Page is at:

Link: http://www.fishbase.org/summary/speciessummary.php?id=3583

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12-6-09  Catch Up Time Two!!

Img: Webkit Icon box and compass

IS The Webkit UI from Nokia 

 

Coming to a Tablet?

Many are Hoping it Will...Like reviewers of the Joojoo..

 

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/joojoo-tablet-hands-on-video/

The Webkit Open Source Project Page:

Link: http://webkit.org/

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Out, From Under the Dome 

(Audible Book)

Just finished Stephen King's Book and was pleasantly surprised by the Audible Reader 

Raul Esparza, and the scores of characters Mr. King peppered his lastest book with.

 A Very Good Read.

Wingman, 

Now I'm into the Novel that was the inspiration for ABC 7's 

Flash Forward by Robert J. Sawyer.

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Post 538: MC2 Friday Flash

MC2 Friday Flash

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Acer 17-inch, Intel dual-core laptop falls to $479
 

Link: http://news.cnet.com/nanotech/?keyword=Staples&tag=mncol;tags

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Flo TV Personal Television Hand-on (video)

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/flo-tv-personal-television-hands-on-with-video/

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How to submit Your Flickr images to Getty Images

Link: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/creative/frontdoor/contributors?esource=gbr_thedeck_lostfound

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Apple Store iPod Touch Secrets:

Does Your Droid Speak....er   BarCodes???

Link: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/11/13/the-secrets-of-the-apple-store-ipod-touch/

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Tomorrow, The Incredible Encyclopedia of Life Project 

started by the Smithsonian.

And New Fields for Bar Coding and Science.

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Wingman, Quick-Hitters 

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MC2 Blog: When Less Is More

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When Less Is More, 

at Google

The Take away from Google's New Face Lift coming on Monday: Now you See it, then you won't.

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10408120-265.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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When Less IS LESS.

Between the debate of Raw and JPEG Photos

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10407309-264.html?tag=rtcol;inTheNewsNow

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Have You SEEN What 

The Transparent Universe 

Can Show You?



Well Looky Here, and Read All About It...


Link: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427373.800

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Also From http://www.newscientist.com

Five Ways to Revolutionise Computer Memory

(Brit Spelling, folks) 

You know, we're going to need a "Bigger Boat...".

 


Link: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427370.600-five-ways-to-revolutionise-computer-memory.html

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BIGGEST SIZE PEN DRIVE, 

256GB USB FLASH DRIVE 

LAUNCHED BY KINGSTON

Link: http://topinews.com/blog/2009/09/04/biggest-size-pen-drive-256gb-usb-flash-drive-launched-by-kingston/



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It's a line from "JAWS", remember. 
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Wingman,  See, Lots of Good Stuff

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How Can You Get Where You're Going...

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How Can You Get Where You're Going...

If You Don't Know Where You Are?

From GPS Jottings:

Link: http://www.mapability.com/blogs/gps/2007/09/how-to-geotag-photos.html

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Photos of GPS Gadgets:

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Link: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2284/2233198889_781802c6e0_o.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.gadgets-news.com/category/mobile-gadgets/&usg=__ZzRlprf_-1-K-_1t6rZdTTL0qOg=&h=400&w=400&sz=14&hl=en&start=4&itbs=1&tbnid=dqEJ8z3jZ8UkdM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgps%2Bgadgets%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

Just another  BOZO Link....Fugazi...332 becomes 26.

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/yjs5n79

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GPS Gadget on a Keychain:

Link: http://www.tech-styling.com/category/gps-gadgets/

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In the making: GPS for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Link: http://iphone-gps.blogspot.com/

This will be added to my Fav Links on the Right...

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 Wingman, Finding his way on the Digital Terrain...

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Geotagging:PlaceMat tagging old photos

Geotagging:PlaceMat  

tagging old photos....

Wingman's New Itch

Adding New Geotagging markers to Old Photos

A Project Begins...


(  Tools for the Attempt:  )

Link: http://code.google.com/p/pexif/

Google Code Projects:

Link: http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:geotag

googleearth-autohotkey:

Link: http://code.google.com/p/googleearth-autohotkey/

iphone-exif:

Link: http://code.google.com/p/iphone-exif/

gmapper - 

Easily create Googe Maps 

for use on your web page.

Link: http://code.google.com/p/gmapper/ 

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A new Programming Idea popped into my Head last night 

and a programmers "itch"  into being.  

The recent interest of Apple into iPhone Mapping projects also re-triggered 

my interest in Open Source Tools like Python and software centric geotagging.

We'll see where this thing goes.

The Wingman.

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Monday Blog: ITEMS in my email InBox.

2009: The Year the Cloud was Seeded 

(from PCWorld)

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/183323/2009_the_year_the_cloud_was_seeded.html?tk=rss_news

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Tweet Cloud @beatonna

Link: http://tweetcloud.icodeforlove.com/beatonna/139443

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Evidence of new Apple's iPhone model. (from AppleInsider)

Link:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/29/evidence_of_new_apples_iphone_model_maps_application_uncovered.html

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Trial 3D TV Service to Begin This Year

(from The Korea Times)

Link: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/11/123_56164.html

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Most of these come from my Twitterific account on my iPod Touch sent by email.

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Monday Sidenotes:


From the AP.

Collider, at Geneva, Breaks record set by Chicago Lab,

by sending beams of the particles at 1.18

Trillion electron volts around the 

massive machine on Monday.

"Three hours later both LHC beams were successfully 

accelerated to 1.18 TeV," shortly after midnight,

the organization said."

The electron volt is an extremely small measure used in particle physics. One TeV is about the energy of the motion of a flying mosquito, but it becomes signficant in the submicroscopic collisions of the collider.

Link: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/11/123_56164.html

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Jerry Pournelle was on TWiT this weekend.  Not my favorite SF writer but he was a 

mainstay on BYTE Magazine in the early days of computers on his column called 

Chaos Manor.

Lucifer's Hammer is now on Audible, according to Leo.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Lucifers-Hammer-Jerry-Pournelle/dp/0345421396

But since I'm reading Stephen King for my current SF fiction, I should talk.

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Wingman, posting.

 Two NBA players fined by league for Tweeting during a game they were playing...

B&N Nook eBook reader is being delayed to next week.


New Zealand launches First Rocket.

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Post 533: Top 10 Cross-Platform APPS

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Top 10 Cross-Platform APPS

From LifeHacker

Link: http://lifehacker.com/5414288/top-10-apps-you-can-use-just-about-anywhere

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Grab That HandBrake Update 0.9.4

Also From LifeHacker

(I just installed this Baby yesterday.  Now I have to check and see if

it's the Latest Version mentioned above...)


Link: http://lifehacker.com/5412874/handbrake-updates-to-094-with-over-1000-changes-64+bit-support?skyline=true&s=x

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61 Free Apps LiifeHacker

is


Most Thankfull 4

Ditto from Lifehacker 

(No wonder they visit Leo at TWiT so much...)

Link: http://lifehacker.com/5412886/61-free-apps-were-most-thankful-for?skyline=true&s=x

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Wingman, I guess that makes Me a LifeHacker Too

....Yeah!!!

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Post 532: A Two-Headed Linux Desktop called Kohjinsha DZ

What's better than a 

10.1 TFT display laptop 

that comes preloaded with Linux?

Make that a Dual Screen 10.1 TFT Display.

Best of all it's on sale now for ¥95,800 (about $1,110) with a Linux pre-load -- add

another ¥5,000 (about $58) for 32-bit Windows 7 Home Premium. For that you get a

1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo with RS780MN chipset and ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics,

802.11b/g/n WiFi, 3x USB, a 3-in-1 card reader, 1.3 megapixel webcam, 1GB

memory (expandable to 4GB), and 160GB 5,4000 hard disk with claimed 4.5-hours

"max" of battery power (1.1V, 5200mAh) -- likely far less in real-world usage. Ships

worldwide ($60ish for US or €50ish for European delivery) in 3 weeks if you order

today.

Sited at GeekStuff4U
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Link: http://www.geekstuff4u.com/kohjinsha-dual-screen-dz-series.html

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Dual Multi-touch Screen FaceOff 

from Dell and HP

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Dell and HP, HP and Dell. The United States' two biggest computer hardware

manufacturers, and two of the world's top three, have tended to match each other

step for step, so it's no surprise that Dell's recently released SX2210T was quickly

followed by a Compaq L2105tm from its closest rival. Measuring 21.5 inches each,

with 1920 x 1080 resolution, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, and optical multitouch technology

under their chunky bezels, these two models represent the biggest mainstream push

for touchscreen computing yet. Functionally identical to standard monitors, they offer

the added benefit of letting you input your heart's urges and desires using swipes,

gestures and flicks, and we've plucked one of each panel to see how this all plays

out for ourselves. Join us after the break, won't you?

 

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/26/dell-sx2210t-vs-hp-l2105tm-optical- multitouch-head-to-head-rev/

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And Last, but Not Least a HUD for your Jalopy, coming Real Soon Now...

Sited on Tech-On!

Link: http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20091127/178080/

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Wingman Talking...




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Smart Phones:

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Smart Phones: The New Kids 

on the the Block

 

HTC HD2 reviewed:

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/25/htc-hd2-review/

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Motorola Droid, Nokia N900, and Liquid 

in the new class of 

high-end smartphone

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Motorola DROID reviewed:

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/motorola-droid-review/

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Acer Liquid handled, evaluated:

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/acer-liquid-handled-evaluated-not-too-shabby/

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Nokia N900 extensive Preview:

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/01/nokia-n900-undergoes-extensive-preview-n97-found-sobbing-in-a-c/

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Wingman Following The Little Guys Too!

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Geeky How-To:

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How-To-Geek shows us How-To Make Firefox TABS PoP!

Link: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5764/make-your-tabs-stand-out-better-in-firefox/

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As you can see, my problem with Blogger Format Icons 

has been Fixed...

My Bad.

(I hate that Phrase)
 

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Running Over Blu Ray Players

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Running Over Blu Ray Players: 

 

The Top 3
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LG BD370: http://reviews.cnet.com/dvd-players/lg-bd370/4505-6473_7-33485559.html

Panasonic DMP-BD60K: http://reviews.cnet.com/dvd-players/panasonic-dmp-bd60k/4505-6473_7-33490457.html?tag=mncol;txt

Samsung BD-P1600: http://reviews.cnet.com/dvd-players/samsung-bd-p1600/4505-6473_7-33561693.html?tag=mncol;txt




Happy Thanksgiving from Wingman...

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Welcome to the World of Smart Phones

Welcome to the World of Smart Phones


iPhone & Android Now Total 

75% of US Smartphone Web Traffic

Link: http://m.digg.com/tech_news/iPhone_Android_Now_Total_75_of_US_Smartphone_Web_Traffic

The Study says 55% of the Smart Phones is Apple's iPhone and the Other 20% is the New

Android (DROID) models.  Palm Pre and the Blackberry Smart Phones both lost ground to the New Droid Upstart and it's Clever Advertising against the iPhone 3G coverage with Maps.

Not everyone is aware that the Mac's OS X and the iPhone OS is based on a Linux cousin called BSD.  That's why Linux Open Source Software can be ported tro both fairly easily.

That means the iPhone is running a disguised BSD (Linux Like OS), the Droid Smartphones are running Google's Android OS (A very Open Source Linux OS)

and the newly announced Esle is also running on a Linux Distro (Distribution, of which there are over 100 well known from Fedora to Ubuntu to Knoppix and even BSD's).

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Distrowatch.com Logo states:
Put the fun back into computing, (in Red) Use Linux, BSD.

Linux Distros: http://distrowatch.com/

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Distrowatch Page Grab:

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Linux Media
2000+ versions Linux & BSD

Ubuntu 9.10    $1.75
Fedora 12    $4.95
openSUSE 11.2    $4.95
Debian 5.0.3 DVD    $19.95
Linux Mint 7    $1.75
Mandriva 2010    $4.95
KNOPPIX 6.2    $4.95

USB Flash Drives
Ubuntu 9.10 4GB    $21.95
Easy Peasy 1.5 4GB    $21.95
Eeebuntu 3.0.1 4GB    $21.95

Free worldwide shipping on DVD orders
10% discount for returning customers

Click here to visit LinuxCD.org now: http://www.linuxcd.org/?ref=distrowatch

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The Brits Else: A Game Changer?

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/emblazes-first-else-unveiled-in-london-promises-to-be-a-game-c/

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Sorry about the Formatting but Blogger is Not Helping Any with it's missing Editing Icons which are MIA...

Wingman.

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Taking Care of The BAD Stuff, again!

Taking Care of The BAD Stuff, again!

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Security Now 223: The Trouble With SSL

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Get The MP3 PodCast Here:

Link: http://www.twit.tv/sn


Link to Shownotes: http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/Security_Now_223

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Steve (Steve Gibson: Security Now!) Warns Us About:

07:23 - 13:54

* Their is a problem with the embedded open type fonts, EOT fonts in Windows
* It's a font-parsing bug which allows remote code execution that is also a kernel bug
* So its a buffer overflow in the Kernel
* It is expected this exploit will no be detected by many anti virus products as it can come in

encrypted
* You can fall victim to this exploit just by loading a malicious webpage

13:55 - 15:32

* The exploit that is being used against jailbroken iPhones is now stealing data from the users

phones
* If you have a jailbroken iPhone you need to change the SSH password

15:33 - 18:17

* There's a recently acknowledged by Microsoft zero-day problem with Windows 7 and Server

2008 Release 2.
* This is another problem with Server Message Blocks, the SMB protocol.
* Microsoft is suggesting people block ports 139 and 445

18:18 - 20:54

* Another reason Steve does not like port knocking is:
o It is susceptible to a Denial of Service attack where a person sends random packets to

your IP address and causes the port knocking sequence to never be completed

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Hack-in-the-Box and Anit-Virus Suites:

Link: http://www.hackinthebox.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=33994

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Roku is Coming, to a Set-Top Box Near You

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Roku is Coming, to a Set-Top Box Near You

with Goodies

Flickr Facebook, Pandora and

more Vid Channels

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-10402856-260.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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More Things Going Wireless...Like:




Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/21/atlonas-hdair-wireless-usb-to-vga-hdmi-adapter-gains-audio-u/


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Gartner Predicts Money Transfer App to be the

#1 App in 2012

Check Out the Rest of the List...

Link: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1230413

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Wingman.

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Sometimes A Picture is Worth a 1000 Words.

Windows Hack for the Apple's

Magic Touch Mouse

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/21/windows-drivers-for-apples-magic-mouse-conjured-from-the-ether/

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Gizmodo's Black Friday's "LIST".





Link: http://gizmodo.com/5409460/black-friday-deals-the-only-list-you-need?skyline=true&s=i







Looking For TVs, Video Games, Printers and Software???

You NEED to Go To:

Gizmodo Black Friday List continued...

Link: http://gizmodo.com/5409490/black-friday-ultimate-list-+-continued

Example Printer Price Listing:


Office Depot Price for Brother Wireless MFC-490cw All-In-One Printer - $79.99



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It's Looking BLACK, and it's Not Even FRIDAY!

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Gizmodo Tells us:

"Unlike many other Black Friday retailers, Walmart has

some legitimately sweet gadget deals going on—like a

Magnavox NB500 Blu-ray player for $78 and a whole mess

of HDTVs..."

Walmart Black Friday List: http://gizmodo.com/5407643/walmart-black-friday-ad-leaks-with-78-blu+ray-player

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And For Online Shoppers, Here's

NewEgg Black Friday Deals Leak (at Gizmodo too!)

Link: http://gizmodo.com/5409755/newegg-black-friday-deals-leak

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This Week's Best iPhone APPS

Link: http://gizmodo.com/tag/iphoneapps/

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These are the Good GEEK Days, Wingman...

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And Speaking of Geeky Things....

What The Heck Is THIS???

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Sewell USB-to-DVI/VGA/HDMI Delivers Resolutions Up to 2,048x1,152

Old PC, new PC—doesn't matter. This DisplayLink chip-equipped

display adapter from Sewell will take any ol' PC and provide support

for resolutions up to 2,048 x 1,152, all powered via USB. So yeah, if you've been chomping at the bit to get HD quality

resolutions delivered to your monitor via a USB connection, this may

be the adapter for you. Comes in a kind of periwinkle blue hue for $99. [Sewell via Engadget]

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Post 525: Want To Play in A Chrome OS Sandbox?

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gdgt has a link to

a Working Version of Chrome OS to Try Out.

Link: http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/

gdgt has an article called: What is Chrome by Google?

gdgt has a weekly podcast on iTunes

gdgt has a link for Twitter

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Want to play in another Sandbox?

How about the latest Knoppix Live CD distro?

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Knoppix 6.2 featuring LXDE desktop with Compiz 3D extensions
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Link: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6151990246.html?kc=rss

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business exhange news on google page

(kinda like business week version of DIGG)

Link: http://bx.businessweek.com/google/

The original DIGG:

DIGG link: http://digg.com/

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Wingman, all covered in Sand, man!

Reading Stephen King's "Under the Dome" on Audible.

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Post 524: Everybody Needs A Hypervisor, Don't They???

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Everybody Needs A Hypervisor,

Don't They???

Link: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/LiveCD

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Xen Live CD v2.0 Available At The Above Link

Go Get Yours NOW!

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Some features :

The version i386 of the Xen Live CD has a Xen Hypervisor for 64-bits CPUs as an option in GRUB's menu.

You can use without any problem, a 32-bits dom0/domU on top of a 64-bits hypervisor.

* The Xorg open source X Window System. * Basic Gnome Desktop.

* Five tools ready to use for the management of the system, they are: the command `xm' of the Xen, the libvirt, the program virt- manager, the tool xen-tools and program Convirt.

* Two read-only root file systems that are used by four virtual machines, two servers and two work stations. The servers (server01 and server02) make use of the file "ubuntu-8.10-server- i386.squashfs" and the work stations (client01 and client02) make use of the file "ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.squashfs", both located in the CD-ROM of the Xen Live CD.

Requirements to run the Xen Live CD v2.0 Minimal:

* 1 computer with a minimum of 1G of RAM;

* 1 compatible network card (recognized as eth0);

* 1 good video board.

* You actualy can run Xen Live CD on every computer compatible with Debian. To make extra virtual machines:

* 1 optional hard disk or network attached storage, used to host virtual disks of your new virtual machines.

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Wingman, I Think it's a Good Idea...

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