Category: Social issues
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Less Watts for your Linux
The Linux kernel is trying to be the best contender in the race against electrical power use. In this context, a web site has been created to support this tendency and to help GNU/Linux users improve their power efficiency: LessWatts.org. It even has some downloadable free applications to help you find the worst power hungry…
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Doomsday photo gallery
A photo gallery only about nuclear explosions: nuclear.fatal.ru from Russia.
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Blu-Ray bad DRM scheme
The very first discs for BluRay+ (BluRay discs with BD+ newest DRM technology) arrived: Rise of the Silver Surfer and The Day After Tomorrow. Unfortunately, these discs are nearly useless because of the DRM scheme used to protect them. For the first time, they use a virtual machine technology that allows to load code at…
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Download free Nero 8 CD/DVD burner
We are told that the newest version of Nero 8, the disc burner software for CD and DVD (I love that silly “Nero: Burning ROM” tag line), is available. It does everything, but aren’t we still left wondering whether it’s not a little too expensive when we could download it for free (but legally)? For…
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Detailed image of Antartica
Thanks to USGS and NASA, we will have one of the most detailed photo of the Antartica continent. Using images from the Landsat 7 satellite, the researchers created the most detailed, high-resolution map of Antarctica. This results in what is now known as the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA). Using several images of the…
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UltraNewb: A beginner’s guide to BitTorrent
“Despite the fact that BitTorrent has been around for a good 6 years now, the lightning fast file sharing protocol hasn’t completely taken off in the mainstream. Since we post a decent amount about BitTorrent around here, we figured it was just time we put out a beginner’s guide to BitTorrent. This is the guide…
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150 short films free to download
The 2007 Portable Film Festival has now closed its doors and the winners are known for each category. It means that you can download each of these little gems of movies.
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100 Open Source downloads
The Open Source movement does not falter. It brought to the world an impressive number of software good things. Datamation decided to offer us the 100 best Open Source downloads.