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Inside a Classic: The TRS-80 Model 100
www.pcworld.com/article/id,146496/article.html, posted 2008 by peter in hardware toread vintage
Instant-on, with a comfortable keyboard and 20 hours of battery life: Little wonder this Radio Shack model is one of the most popular portables of all time. We offer a look at the guts of this featherweight champion.
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In-flight surveillance could foil terrorists in the sky
technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14013-inflight-surveillance-could-foil-terrorists-in-the-sky.html, posted 2008 by peter in eu privacy security terrorism toread travel
The European Union's Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment (SAFEE) project uses a camera in every passenger's seat, with six wide-angle cameras to survey the aisles. Software then analyses the footage to detect developing terrorist activ
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Diplomatic battle begins over Arctic
www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/05/27/eaarctic127.xml, posted 2008 by peter in environment politics russia toread usa
Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States are squabbling over much of the Arctic seabed and Denmark has called them together for talks in its self-governing province to avert a free-for-all for the region's resources.
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Word/Logic Bank to Help Build 'Thinking' Machines
www.scienceblog.com/cms/wordlogic-bank-help-build-%E2%80%98thinking%E2%80%99-machines-16567.html, posted 2008 by peter in ai nlp science toread
Information scientists announced an agreement last month on a “concept bank” programmers could use to build thinking machines that reason about complex problems at the frontiers of knowledge—from advanced manufacturing to biomedicine.
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Robots go where scientists fear to tread
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/giot-rgw052708.php, posted 2008 by peter in environment robotics science toread
To help scientists collect the more detailed data they need without risking scientists’ safety, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, working with Pennsylvania State University, have created specially designed robots called SnoMotes to tra
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Phat Linux
phatlinux.com/, posted 2008 by peter in free linux software toread virtualization windows
Phat Linux will install like a regular Windows application, but run as any other Linux installation would.
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Ulteo Virtual Desktop: your Linux applications on Windows
www.ulteo.com/home/en/virtualdesktop?autolang=en, posted 2008 by peter in free linux software toread virtualization windows
With Ulteo Virtual Desktop, you just have to run the application you need to use from the Ulteo panel and its window will show up like any other Windows application.
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Running Mac OS X on standard PCs
reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/os/0,1000001098,39415279,00.htm, posted 2008 by peter in hack hardware howto mac toread
But there is another way: for some time, various different images of Mac OS X have been available on the internet that have been modified to circumvent its tight coupling to Apple's hardware.
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Spacetime and Spin
einstein.stanford.edu/SPACETIME/spacetime4.html, posted 2008 by peter in physics science space toread
Spin in the microscopic world is subtler, and obeys rules that are at once familiar (e.g. conservation of angular momentum) and bizarrely counter-intuitive (e.g. quantization and half-integer spin for fermions).
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Anatomy of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-selinux/?ca=dgr-btw01SELinux, posted 2008 by peter in linux security toread
This article explores the ideas behind SELinux and how it's implemented.
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