European based Hush Technologies offers silent fanless PCs.
Silent Computing has come of age. In a world where stress, productivity and noise pollution are hot topics, the introduction of powerful, beautiful and ergonomically satisfying silent computing solutions is being welcomed as the dawn of a new era.
Available in the U.S. from Logic Supply.
I prefer using the network install even for a single computer as opposed to the online updating approach. For “network installation,” SP2 is a mammoth 266MB setup file. Consider waiting a few weeks for the inevitable bug reports, before installing. There will be problems.
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides new proactive security technologies for Windows XP to better defend against viruses, worms, and hackers. In addition to a more robust security infrastructure, SP2 improves the security configuration options of Windows XP and provides better security information to help users faced with security decisions.
Order Windows XP Service Pack 2 on CD.
The sixth day of the week and the number 13 both have foreboding reputations said to date from ancient times; their inevitable conjunction from one to three times a year portends more misfortune than some credulous minds can bear. Folklorists say it’s probably the most widespread superstition in the United States; some people won’t go to work on Friday the 13th; some won’t eat in restaurants; many wouldn’t think of setting a wedding on the date.
Why?
One theory holds that it came about not as the result of a convergence, but a catastrophe, a single historical event that happened nearly 700 years ago. The catastrophe was the decimation of the Knights Templar, the legendary order of “warrior monks” formed during the Christian Crusades to combat Islam.
Renowned as a fighting force for 200 years, by the 1300s the order had grown so pervasive and powerful it was perceived as a political threat by kings and popes alike and brought down by a church-state conspiracy, as recounted by Katharine Kurtz in “Tales of the Knights Templar” (Warner Books: 1995):
“On October 13, 1307, a day so infamous that Friday the 13th would become a synonym for ill fortune, officers of King Philip IV of France carried out mass arrests in a well-coordinated dawn raid that left several thousand Templars � knights, sergeants, priests, and serving brethren � in chains, charged with heresy, blasphemy, various obscenities, and homosexual practices. None of these charges was ever proven, even in France � and the Order was found innocent elsewhere � but in the seven years following the arrests, hundreds of Templars suffered excruciating tortures intended to force ‘confessions,’ and more than a hundred died under torture or were executed by burning at the stake.”
A more likely explanation is that the extra dollop of misfortune attributed to Friday the 13th can be accounted for in terms of an accrual, so to speak, of bad omens: Unlucky Friday + Unlucky 13 = unluckier Friday.
This is the Jargon File, a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor.
brain dump n.
[common] The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. “You’ll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp.” See core dump (sense 4). At Sun, this is also known as `TOI’ (transfer of information).
This is The New Hacker’s Dictionary.
In case you aren’t familiar with it, this is no snoozer dictionary of technical terms, although you’ll certainly find accurate definitions for most techie jargon. It’s the slang and secret language among computer jocks that offers the most fun.
A couple of days ago I took this picture through glass (with a Nikon Coolpix 5700) of a red-tailed hawk displaying outside my office window. I went outside to get closer for a better picture. No success, but after all, the bird had hawk eyes.
Bloggers Suffer Burnout from Wired News…
You’ve only got so many hours in the day, and like most bloggers, I’ve got a full-time day job, and something had to give, Billmon said. In the end, monitoring comments on my blog was becoming a progressively larger part of my blogging time, and I just got to the point where I wasn’t able to keep up with it.
It’s understandable that some bloggers don’t have enough time and resources to constantly maintain their sites. Commenting is not enabled for this blog however, comments for binarywolf can be made by emailing binarywolf at gmail dot com or using the contact form. For now, I am able to “keep up” and I respond to every comment that I receive. Thanks for reading.
Lavasoft announces the launch of Ad-Aware SE…
There is a category of Ad-Aware users that will always demand even more performance. We share their passion, so we created Ad-Aware SE, an innovative new approach � The New Generation.
Lavasoft, with its Ad-Aware technology, is widely known for delivering comprehensive and secure performance. Together with several newly developed techniques and our newly developed scanning technology Ad-Aware SE delivers heretofore unseen performance on both PCs and workstations. Just like in the past, where Lavasoft was one of the first to offer a comprehensive anti Spyware solution, we’re proud to be the first again to offer a new generation, ground-breaking anti Spyware solution.
I installed Ad-Aware SE after uninstalling version 6, which over the last few months, did not work, even after multiple uninstalls and tweaking. SE worked on the first try. Welcome back Ad-Aware!
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