10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:
1. The eco machine that can magic water out of thin air
Water, Water, everywhere; nor any drop to drink. The plight of the Ancient Mariner is about to be alleviated thanks to a firm of eco-inventors from Canada who claim to have found the solution to the world's worsening water shortages by drawing the liquid of life from an unlimited and untapped source - the air.
More @ Guardian.co.uk
2. Sorting 1PB with MapReduce
We are excited to announce we were able to sort 1TB (stored on the Google File System as 10 billion 100-byte records in uncompressed text files) on 1,000 computers in 68 seconds. By comparison, the previous 1TB sorting record is 209 seconds on 910 computers.
More @ Googleblog
3. SimplyMEPIS: The best desktop Linux you haven't tried
Nowadays, everyone uses Ubuntu, most people have used Fedora, and many folks have tried openSUSE. SimplyMEPIS ... not so many. That's a shame, because this relatively obscure Debian-based desktop distribution from Morgantown, WV, is an outstanding desktop operating system. With SimplyMEPIS 8 at beta 5 and closing in on release, I tested the distribution and found it to be a keeper.
More @ Linux.com
Water, Water, everywhere; nor any drop to drink. The plight of the Ancient Mariner is about to be alleviated thanks to a firm of eco-inventors from Canada who claim to have found the solution to the world's worsening water shortages by drawing the liquid of life from an unlimited and untapped source - the air.
More @ Guardian.co.uk
2. Sorting 1PB with MapReduce
We are excited to announce we were able to sort 1TB (stored on the Google File System as 10 billion 100-byte records in uncompressed text files) on 1,000 computers in 68 seconds. By comparison, the previous 1TB sorting record is 209 seconds on 910 computers.
More @ Googleblog
3. SimplyMEPIS: The best desktop Linux you haven't tried
Nowadays, everyone uses Ubuntu, most people have used Fedora, and many folks have tried openSUSE. SimplyMEPIS ... not so many. That's a shame, because this relatively obscure Debian-based desktop distribution from Morgantown, WV, is an outstanding desktop operating system. With SimplyMEPIS 8 at beta 5 and closing in on release, I tested the distribution and found it to be a keeper.
More @ Linux.com
4. Tennis ball fetcher
5. Making Time for the MIT’s (Most Important Things)
Have you ever finished a day, looked around, and realized you did not do some of the most important things on your mind? You kept on meaning to get to it, but there just was not enough time!
More @ Lifehacker
6. Nintendo Promises Intense, Innovative Games in '09
Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway, speaking with MTV Multiplayer's Stephen Totilo, has promised 2009 will see Wii games that will make the most intense of gamers "stand up and pay attention."
More @ PCWorld.com
7. We Are Typists First, Programmers Second
When you're a fast, efficient typist, you spend less time between thinking that thought and expressing it in code. Which means, if you're me at least, that you might actually get some of your ideas committed to screen before you completely lose your train of thought.
More @ CodingHorror
Have you ever finished a day, looked around, and realized you did not do some of the most important things on your mind? You kept on meaning to get to it, but there just was not enough time!
More @ Lifehacker
6. Nintendo Promises Intense, Innovative Games in '09
Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway, speaking with MTV Multiplayer's Stephen Totilo, has promised 2009 will see Wii games that will make the most intense of gamers "stand up and pay attention."
More @ PCWorld.com
7. We Are Typists First, Programmers Second
When you're a fast, efficient typist, you spend less time between thinking that thought and expressing it in code. Which means, if you're me at least, that you might actually get some of your ideas committed to screen before you completely lose your train of thought.
More @ CodingHorror
8. UT Austin creates world's highest resolution tiled display: Stallion
9. Defending the flame of Linux freedom
Increasingly we're seeing big business jump on the Linux bandwagon, as companies wake up to the money that can be made out of a community of developers working for free.
More @ TechRadar
10. Living Simply: The Ultimate Guide to Conquering Your Clutter
For many years, I was a packrat, clinging to possessions like a safety blanket, like trophies, like you might cling to the past. My life was filled with clutter, from my closets to my living room to my countertops to my desk at work.
More @ ZenHabits
Increasingly we're seeing big business jump on the Linux bandwagon, as companies wake up to the money that can be made out of a community of developers working for free.
More @ TechRadar
10. Living Simply: The Ultimate Guide to Conquering Your Clutter
For many years, I was a packrat, clinging to possessions like a safety blanket, like trophies, like you might cling to the past. My life was filled with clutter, from my closets to my living room to my countertops to my desk at work.
More @ ZenHabits
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