Saturday, June 21, 2008

America's Most Expensive Homes [Photos]

Hillandale, Stamford, Conn. The 20,000-square-foot residence has eight bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. It's so big that the property straddles the New York-Connecticut border. The grounds also include four guest and staff residences and two barns, all connected by five miles of private roads.

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View the first photos from Mars Phoenix Lander LIVE!

Will Phoenix rise from the ashes and find signs of life on Mars?!

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The Extravagant Designs of Luigi Colani (PICS)

Aerodynamic Planes, Trains and Automobiles all from a never-never land of the most far-reaching imagination of the modern designers. To describe these concepts simply as streamlined is a huge understatement. They are wild, exciting, totally unexpected forms - a tribute to a Golden Age of futurism.

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In Pictures: Great Bond Gadgets

Get Up Close with some of the great gadgets used in the 007 movies.

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The World's Most Impressive Subways

Subways are as much a part of big-city living as high-rises and gridlock, and they get about as much love. For many people, subways are crowded, noisy places only marginally better than being stuck in traffic -- and most of them are.

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Gorgeous Images of the Sky, From 200+ Miles Above it [PICS]

The Space Shuttle Discovery successfully launched last week, becoming the 154th manned US space mission. One of the best features of the space program has always been astronaut photography, and I will take this opportunity to share some of the best photographs of Earth's skies, taken from above - way above

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12 Creative Table Designs

Nice collection of creative tables.

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10 Highest Waterfalls on Earth [pics

If you’re like me, as a kid, you probably enjoyed throwing heavy objects off super-high buildings, just to see how long it took and what they looked like when they smashed. As a responsible adult, I now get my pleasure in gazing at water falling from extremely high cliffs and splashing into the rocks. It’s quite spectacular. We wanted to find out .

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The 9 Largest Science Projects in The World

A great list of the 9 largest science projects in the world ... either running, under construction, or on the drawing board. Who else has never heard of the Space Elevator or the "Svalbard "Doomsday" Seed Vault?

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Why Oil Prices Skyrocketed - Gas To Get More Expensive?

With the cost of crude oil surging to record highs, a heated battle of blame is in full swing. Meanwhile, predictions that we've reached a peak in oil production or will very soon — dismissed only a few years ago as being alarmist and without merit — are receiving more serious consideration. How high will gas go now?

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Forbes: Why Firefox Matters

But don't be fooled. Firefox has become one of the most important pieces of software around today as consumers shift from using their PCs to run applications living on their hard drives to a communications device able to connect with applications living on distant servers. The new browser has plenty of these soon-to-be-ubiquitous features...

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And the fastest browser is...

Which is the world's fastest browser? According to Zimbra, Safari runs fastest, though it didn't beat out Firefox by much. Both Safari and Firefox were roughly twice as fast as Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7. Of course, Zimbra was testing for how these browsers perform with the Zimbra Web application. Your mileage may vary with other applications.

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Firefox 3 exceeds a million downloads

The download counter here at Mozilla headquarters shows that Firefox 3 has passed a million downloads. Ars reports live from the official release party.

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Power User's Guide to Firefox 3

You already know about Firefox 3's marquee new features, but now it's time to dig deep and unearth the shortcuts, tweaks, and even Easter eggs that Mozilla marketing doesn't mention. In honor of today's official release of Firefox 3, let's dive in past it's most talked-about feature-set into its lesser-known power uses, tricks, and customizations.

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6 free security tools you shouldn't live without

I won't keep you in suspense. I'll go ahead and name them right here, at the top of my post -- the six free security tools that all IT folks should know about and use: MetaSploit, Splunk, Google (don't laugh -- it's true!), KeePass, Helix and Netwox. Now read on to learn why.

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nVidia turning it's GPU's into "PhysX Physics Processors"

You may not know somebody that bought a PhysX card, but if you're a PC gamer with a relatively recent NVIDIA card, you've already got one. Or, at least, you will soon.A proportion of the 3D card's power can be given over to running physics, giving those fancy PhysX-style interactions without actually having a specific card for it.

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4 ATI GPUs = 25,000 Pentium Pro CPUs

Ok, now this one is highly theoretical. But it is simple stunning how much performance is stuck within graphics cards these days. AMD says its new ATI GPUs have a number crunching capability of almost 5 TFlops - which is the equivalent delivered by about 25,000 Pentium Pro CPUs back in 1996. Amazing.

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10 Awesome Steampunk Designs and Mods [PICS]

What started as a literary genre has since evolved into an art form with incredible real-life inventions, modifications and redesigns. The following is an introduction to the art of Steampunk, with everything from awesomely altered retrofuturistic guitars to a Steampunked iPod.

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IBM supercomputer is world's fastest & most energy efficient

Good news for green tech: The fastest supercomputer in the world is also one of the most energy efficient. In the twice-yearly list of the fastest computers on the planet, IBM has 5 of the top 10 most powerful computers, including the No. 1 spot.

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The Greatest Invention in Computer Science

"What do you think the single greatest invention in computer science is? Besides the computer itself, I mean. Seriously, before reading any further, pause here for a moment and consider the question."

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Database Normalization and Table Structures

Normalisation and relationships explained in clear terms.

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Microsoft shows off Multitouch Windows 7

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got on stage at D6 with Walt and Kara to talk... Microsoft, of course. While the company is still being rather coy about Windows 7 -- some have blamed loose lips early on in Vista development for saddling the OS with too high of expectations and making things difficult for developers

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Announcing openSUSE 11.0 GM

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 which includes more than 200 new features specific to openSUSE, a redesigned installer that makes openSUSE even easier to install, faster package management thanks to major updates in the ZYpp stack, and KDE 4, GNOME 2.22, Compiz Fusion, and much more.

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Java is finally Free and Open! GPL Compatible.

Recently Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java under the terms of the GPL. The task (6.5 million lines of code) is complete! This week the IcedTea Project reached an important milestone - The latest OpenJDK binary included in Fedora 9 (x86 and x86_64) passes the rigorous Java Test Compatibility Kit (TCK). What about Red Hat?

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Wine 1.0 Released

The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available.This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of developmentand beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along thatlong road!

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Banshee 1.0 Final Released!

After more than eight months of hard work, including major improvements and new features (and a new website!), Banshee 1.0 is here! Play your music and videos. Stay entertained and up to date with podcasts and video podcasts. Discover new music with Last.fm radio. Sync your devices. We think you'll love it!

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Announcing GNOME Do 0.5: “The Fighting 0.5″

It has been 41 days since we released GNOME Do 0.4.2, and today I’m honored to present GNOME Do 0.5: “The Fighting 0.5″. Here are the main improvements and new features, accompanied by plenty of sexy screenshots: new preferences window with plugin manager, and many new plugins, including WindowManager, Gcal, Gmail, RSS, Skype, and more.

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What's Slowing Down Your System, and How to Solve With Linux

Computer users expect their systems to work well at all times, but unfortunately this isn’t always the case. If your system becomes slow, there certainly is something you can do about it. This article will help you understand what’s happening on the system, whether it’s the computer in front of you or a system you’re accessing remotely.

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How to order pizza from Domino's by using the command line

Only in *NIX could you order pizzas from Domino's Pizza with any topping, any size, any crust using only the command line!

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