Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Linux Tips: take control of your bash_history
Here are some tricks on how you can optimize with some simple configurations settings, the usage your bash history
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FOUND: Google Notebook Login Page
Microsoft and Sony want you to buy the competitor ? WTH
Apparently Microsoft wants you to buy the 360 of course but they also want you to buy Nintendo's Wii. Now Sony also says to buy the PS3 but also buy the Wii. Is this Nintendo laughing all the way to the bank?
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It's all about me: Why e-mails are so easily misunderstood
"To avoid miscommunication, e-mailers need to look at what they write from the recipient's perspective...One strategy: Read it aloud in the opposite way you intend, whether serious or sarcastic. If it makes sense either way, revise. Or, don't rely so heavily on e-mail. Because e-mails can be ambiguous..."
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Windows Live Mail NOW SUPPORTS FIREFOX!
Windows Live Mail now works with Firefox when using the new Windows Live Mail viewing mode, rather than the Classic viewing mode.
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NASA Spacecraft Crashes into Satellite
A robotic NASA spacecraft designed to rendezvous with an orbiting satellite instead crashed into its target, according to a summary of the investigation released Monday.
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A Web Address for a Phone Number? Do .Tel
A leading Internet authority has approved a new set of Web addresses to serve, in effect, as Internet telephone numbers.At a recent meeting, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the group tapped London-based Telnic to administer the addresses.
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Nokia bans the word 'phone'
We are forbidden to call them phones," said the vice president of multimedia strategy and business development (of Nokia, the world's largest 'phone' maker). Instead, they're "multimedia computers."
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Internet-Connected Appliances Could Lower Energy Bills
Pilot test in Washington and Oregon lets dryers and water heaters check electricity prices and decide if its worth waiting until off-peak times.
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AMD unveils new line of energy-efficiency chips
Current AMD desktop chips can consume a maximum 89 watts or more; the energy-efficient desktop chips will consume a maximum 35 to 65 watts.
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Magnetic tape prototype holds 6.67 billion bits of data per square inch
Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center and Fuji Photo have devised a prototype storage system utilizing a dual-side magnetic tape that can hold 6.67 billion bits of data per square inch. That's 15 times greater than most popular types of magnetic tape on the market today.
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