Arsen Ivanov

Whether or not Anthropogenic Global Warming actually exists, I hope it will not be decided by a scientifically-ignorant ex-lawyer Al Gore whether the “scientific consensus” is reached or not. [h/t: JunkScience.com]

Gotta see it to believe it! [h/t: NewScientistTech]

Wow, check this out … [h/t NewScientistTech]

[via LifeHacker.com]

“Presentation consultant Alexei Kapterev put together a must-see slideshow on creating great presentations. Hit the next button above to flip through it and see how to stop killing your audience with boring PowerPoint presentations (no audio, the slides speak for themselves).”

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Here is a great article on *nix Shell detailing 25 top most useful commands for Linux/UNIX beginners.

Enjoy!

Just wanted to take a minute in a week full of tests to say thanks to veterans.

The saying goes: if you can read this, thank a teacher,  if you can read this in English, thank a vet. I became a huge patriot of this country (USA) after coming here. It is an imperfect country, like any other, but, paraphrasing Churchill, it is the least imperfect among all. Having lived in USSR and then ex-USSR for 15 years, I am enormously grateful and respectful of the people who volunteer to protect and perpetuate this country and this great cultural tradition known as United States of America by serving in the military.

THANK YOU VETERANS! WE ARE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU DO!

A new pretty nice util I learned today: lshw [LiSt HardWare]. Here is the synopsis from “info” command:

“lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware
configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration,
firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache
configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or IA-64 systems and
on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work).

It currently supports DMI (x86 and IA-64 only), OpenFirmware device
tree (PowerPC only), PCI/AGP, CPUID (x86), IDE/ATA/ATAPI, PCMCIA (only
tested on x86), SCSI and USB.”

Students hack state grade system, change their grades.

Beamformer chip.

The beamformer chip, I think, is a great advancement. I was recently thinking about how stupid really modern wireless communications are - all participants emit waves in all directions, wasting power, while it makes more sense (from interference point of view as well) to use directional beams. Let us see how this goes!

Nice! h/t: InstaPundit
Source - Popular Mechanics:

“The Protector, which comes mounted with a 7.62mm machine gun, wasn’t originally intended for anti-piracy operations. But according to BAE Systems spokesperson Stephanie Moncada, the robot could easily fill that role. “Down the line, it could potentially be modified for commercial use as well,” she says. Instead of being deployed by a warship to intercept and possibly fire on an incoming vessel, a non-lethal variant of the Protector could be used to simply investigate a potential threat.”

Check it out, exciting video: h/t Hot Air