Most Expensive LEGAL Pets To Own

Monkeys, Lions and Chimpanzees are animals we often see in the wild and these exotic animals can be purchased legally within the United States. Living in an acceptable jurisdiction and acquiring the correct permit could turn your home into a modern day zoo. These animals, however do come with a heavy price tag and that is not including the upkeep.

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Linux Directory Structure

The directory structure of Linux/other Unix-like systems is very intimidating for the new user, especially if he/she is migrating from Windows. In Windows, almost all programs install their files (all files) in the directory named: `Program Files.’ Such is not the case in Linux. The directory system categorises all installed files.

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World’s Biggest Building Coming to Moscow: Crystal Island

Moscow’s rapidly growing skyline will soon feature an eye-popping new addition: Crystal Island, which will be the world’s biggest building when completed. Sir Norman Foster’s mountainous 27 million square feet spiraling “city within a building” will cost $4 billion and it is scheduled to be built within next 5 years.

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Largest Diamond Found in Space

10 Billion Trillion Trillion Carats!

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'Test tube universe' hints at unifying theory

A "universe in a test tube" that could be used to assess theories of everything has been created by physicists. Inside the tube an isotope of helium (called helium three) forms a "superfluid", an ordered liquid where all the atoms are in the same state according to the theory that rules the subatomic domain, called quantum theory.

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Top Five Open-Source Stories Of 2007

Here's a quick rundown of what to me were the top five open-source events of the year -- not an exhaustive list, of course, but the things that best reflected how important and widely-entrenched open-source software (especially Linux) has become.

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'One Laptop Per Child' Program is a hit in Peruvian Village

Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago.

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Switching to Linux: The GNOME desktop environment

There is a controversy in the Linux world: GNOME or KDE? There's a lot of emotion on both sides of the argument. We believe that what matters is what works best for you. That's why we're spending this week and next discussing the virtues and pitfalls of GNOME and KDE.

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Single brain cell's power shown

here could be enough computing ability in just one brain cell to allow humans and animals to feel, a study suggests.

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First African satellite launched

In a landmark launch that will supposedly "contribute to bridging the digital divide within Africa and between Africa and the rest of the world," the continent's first satellite successfully made it into orbit aboard a French-made rocket last night.

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Island nation to get its electricity from a laser in space

A demonstration is planned using a 260-foot-diameter "rectifying antenna," or rectenna, to take in 1 megawatt of power transmitted earthward by a satellite orbiting 300 miles above Earth.

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Britain Could Get 60% of its Power from Nuclear Waste?!

A plan by the nuclear industry to build a £1bn fuel processing plant at Sellafield is being backed by the government's chief scientist. The plant would turn the UK's 60,000 tonnes of high-level nuclear waste into reactor fuel that will provide 60 per cent of this country's electricity until 2060, it is claimed.

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Beautiful Photo of the Winter Solstice

Although technically the winter solstice only lasts a moment, this photo shows the entire 24 hour period that occurs either during the shortest day or longest night of the year.

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Why Amarok ‘Roks’

Amarok is the ultimate music management software, and for a casual music buff like me, it’s the best you can get out there. What separates amaroK from the other popular players in the market are its features which are targeted to make music management and playback easy, and a pleasing experience. Here, I’ve highlighted some of the key features.

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How Would Extraterrestrial Astronomers Study Earth?

As astronomers become more adept at hunting for, and finding, exoplanets orbiting stars beyond the Solar System, an international team of astronomers has figured out just what alien eyes might see using the increasingly sophisticated technologies being developed on Earth.

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