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Ubuntu on Macbook

I finaly made it to install Ubuntu 8.10. It runs pretty smoothly and the GNOME environment works fine too. Only problem I might have is the right-click on the touchpad, but that is a minimal problem since i have a normal PC mouse in use. Compiz fusion I dont want to try because, I allready had Fedora Core 10 installed, with KDE 4.1 on my Macbook. As i turned the advanced graphic features, KDE didn't want to startup anymore. But anyway, i have compiz fusion anyway on my Sony Vaio, so it is not th… Continue

Added by Oliver on February 18, 2009 at 2:24pm — No Comments

Behavioral screening - the future of airport security?

I just read the technology section on CNN, and the highlight story is about that israelis are using a technology where the brains of passengers are scanned to detect if someone migh plan a terrorist attack. On the one side i think it might be for security, and to foresee attacks, but on the other hand it makes us humans more to the "Transparent Humans". This is the whole story: Airport Security on CNN Continue

Added by Oliver on December 2, 2008 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Women spend more time with their computer than with their partners?

As the British telegraph reports, women spend 9.3 hours on their computers while men only spend 3.6 hours with their computer. Only one out of five women wish that they could spend more time with their husbands than with the computer. Here is the full story: telegraph.co.uk Continue

Added by Oliver on October 22, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Windows Mobile via Bootcamp on iPhone

The norwegian teenagers are realy crazy. There is one norwegian teenager who made it possible to boot like in Bootcamp on the Mac, between the iPhone software and the Windows Mobile software o.O. Here is the link. myphone2008

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Added by Oliver on October 13, 2008 at 12:04pm — 3 Comments

The Website is down :-D

This is funny :-)

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Added by Oliver on October 11, 2008 at 10:12am — No Comments

The true Lego-Mac

As I wrote some time ago, there exists a Mac Pro made up of 2588 Lego bricks. Now there are more details and a video about this mac. The Lego engineering team needed exactly 14 hours to build this Mac Pro out of Lego bricks. As a template the used Lego Digital Designer 2.0 made Guidline. Here you have the Building process of the Lego-Mac in speeded up timelapse

Bricked Mac - Time-Lapse from… Continue

Added by Oliver on September 26, 2008 at 4:01am — 2 Comments

Mac Pro made up of 2,588 Lego bricks

I thought this might be interresting for the Lego Geeks out there. The link of the Lego Mac Pro is: gizmodo.com I think this is realy impressive, and maybe something that Chris can think of doing :D Continue

Added by Oliver on September 21, 2008 at 3:12pm — 7 Comments

The Computer Song

A nice song for Computer Geeks :D

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Added by Oliver on September 15, 2008 at 3:40am — No Comments

Discovery Channel - The History Of Hacking Documentary

This documentation about hacking is quiet interesting.

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Added by Oliver on September 14, 2008 at 3:35pm — No Comments

new Layout&Features in Geeks!

I must say, I realy like this new Design of Geeks, and the membersearch. I hope that the iPhone feature will also work soon with me :-) Well Done Chris! Continue

Added by Oliver on September 11, 2008 at 4:48pm — 1 Comment