Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Monday, November 22, 2010

LBK Post 047 Dealing with the Graphene Band Gap


And No, It has Nothing to Do with the Delay in Getting the Beatles on iTunes.



Check Out:  Damaging Graphene to 
Create a Band Gap

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Graphene offers a lot of interesting potential 
applications for nanoelectronics," Florian Banhart tells

PhysOrg.com, "but there is no band gap. This is a well-known problem. Without the band gap, switching as needed in electronic devices is difficult."









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Sunday, November 21, 2010

LBK Post 046 A Bouquet of Letters For Algernon and the CIA Kryptos in the Times







Maybe It's Not The Rubicon Code Hidden in The NYT Crosswords, But You Can Work UP to That.



That Link IS at the Very Bottom




 This One Sits in Front of the CIA



And It Still Hasn't Been Cracked





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AMC/Rubicon NYT Crossword Link: 
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Just a little Sunday Times Fun
From Wingman.


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Thursday, November 18, 2010

LBK Post 045 How to Choose a Partition Scheme for Your Linux PC

From http://www.howtogeek.com



How to Choose a Partition Scheme for Your Linux PC

 Image by dmyhung



Afraid of the dreaded “p” word?  You’re not alone.  Partitions can get complicated, so here’s an explanation of what they are, how they’re used, and a simple template to use for your own Linux installation.






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LBK Post 044 Even A Little Light At Night Could Be Depressing





Light At Night Could Be Depressing


Exposure to even dim light at night is enough to cause physical changes in the brains of hamsters that may be associated with depression, a new study shows.

Researchers found that female Siberian hamsters exposed to dim light every night for eight weeks showed significant changes in a part of the brain called the hippocampus.

This is the first time researchers have found that light at night, by itself, may be linked to changes in the hippocampus.









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Sunday, November 14, 2010

LBK Post 042 Open Kinect Says: Whose Your Linux Daddy Microsoft?




Kinect Hacker Hector Shows Redmond Who's Daddy




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CBS News Sunday Morning and
http://www.npr.org Reminds Us
That Trudeau's 'Doonesbury' Turns 40.




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Thursday, November 11, 2010

LBK Post 041 From My Virtualized Peppermint Fortress, I Can See Laughlin...

The Fedora Project announced 
the Fedora 14 Final Release, 
adding Amazon EC2 support


 Fedora also features faster boot-times and JPEG downloads, the MeeGo for Netbooks UI stack, improved debugging, and a new "Spice" virtualization desktop framework, says the project.


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What Is EC2?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.





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Monday, November 8, 2010

LBK Post 040 Ubuntu Going For Some Unity




Ubuntu To Abandon X11

For Unity Desktop

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On a post on his blog, Ubuntu founder 
Mark Shuttleworth has said that, in the medium term, 
the Ubuntu project plans to switch to a new graphics system. 

In about a year's time, Wayland, a lean, OpenGL-based graphics 
and window system, is to replace the X Server and the X Window system. 

According to Shuttleworth, X11 isn't set up to deliver the 
user experience the project intends to create 
by switching to the Unity desktop.


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Wayland was started by Red Hat developer Kristian Høgsberg in 2008.

Project development is now coordinated by Freedesktop.org. 


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A while back, Ubuntu dropped The Gimp
from it's installed programs.
 It seems Things are-a-changing at 
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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Saturday, November 6, 2010

LBK Post 038 Did Linksys Media Extenders "just" Lose the Number to Phone Home?








Linksys Media Extenders Suddenly Stop Working, 
Did Cisco Pull the Plug?

Thanks to a lot of investigations by members it's been determined that the boxes are trying to dial home to an address that no longer exists. 

Naturally this is causing wild speculation about DRM checks 
and the boxes being remotely disabled, 
but for now there are some manual work-arounds.

Hmm...









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