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Want to build your own Large Hadron Collider? Posted: 2 weeks ago by bernardblack
Have a large back yard? Have access to some massive amounts of power? Want to become an evil overlord and rule the planet? One way to start is by building your own LHC
You can obtain for free, a full technical report. 1600 pages - 115 MB of info. Please remember who got you the info.
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What's The Next Hot Invention? Posted: 8 months ago by dollyllama
How about a revolutionary computer screen? Cars powered by hydrogen? Books we can read electronically? Better football helmets? More efficient buildings?
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My SysAd Blog Posted: 1 year ago by webwiz
This blog covers UNIX system administration tips for installations, programming, scripting, configuration, SQL, maintenance, troubleshooting, and command line syntax. What exactly is UNIX? It is an operating system. UNIX stands for UNiplexed Information and Computing System--originally spelled UNICS. It supports such tasks as running hardware, device drivers, peripherals and third party applications. It's a multi-user, multi-tasking, multi-processing, and multi-threading environment.
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IT Guy Vs Dumb Employees Posted: 2 months ago by neo3979
IT Support guy resents having to break off his Halo game and do his job. The caller doesn't help his mood any. (NSFW language)
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Internet.org paves the way for new domain names Posted: 2 months ago by Moe
Now there will be able to be sites like www.Visit.Paris or www.drink.coke or even www.meditateabout.佛 <-- Buddha written in Chinese.
But don't think you can go out and grab .coke or .!!! or .sex to score some quick cash. It will cost at least $100,000 and you will need to prove a business plan and show technical hardware to support the new domain.
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The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed. At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders. That is the theory. Or, rather, was the theory.
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Spore Creatures That Look Like Stuff! Posted: 2 months ago by theshirtpocket
Very technical title, I know. These are all Spore creatures that look like various characters (and inanimate objects) from pop culture, from Star Wars to Futurama. Kinda cool and scary stuff.
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One-Way Trip to Mars Posted: 6 months ago by dollyllama
"Return to Earth from the Martian surface is a daunting technical problem for which current technology offers no obvious solution," he wrote in 2006. "Realistically, there aren’t any schemes based on futuristic technology that are likely to be perfected within the next 20 years. When we eliminate the need to launch off Mars, we remove the mission’s most daunting obstacle."
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German police excuse angry computer user for outburst Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A German man who startled his neighbours when he hurled his computer out of the window in the middle of the night, was let off for disturbing the peace by police who sympathised with his technical frustrations.
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Flying saucer spotted over Portsmouth (or is it a trick of the light) Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
A photographer who stopped on a whim to take some pictures at night might have chanced upon a real UFO. Cynics will dismiss the orange-tinged image showing what appears to be a flying saucer as some kind of technical wizardry to trick of the light. But experts are already saying it could really show a UFO in flight above the UK.
Edit: The Daily Mail have pulled the original article so I've changed it for the forum posting they took the story from. Scroll down past the video - that's not what it is.
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Employment Resources, Employment Opportunities, Career And Job Search - Employment Crossing Posted: 1 year ago by seogenius
The Largest Employment And Job Search Board Provides Various Employment Resources And Opportunities For Legal, Sales, Marketing, Advertising, Banking, HR, Consulting, Operations, Engineering, Entertainment, MBA, Manufacturing, Retail, Television, Technical Or Tech, Tourism And PR Or Public Relation Jobs.
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Dog stranded on cliff rescued at Point Defiance Park Posted: 8 months ago by bevissimo
..."When I got to the bottom, looking up, I realized what kind of position [the dog] was in and I was scared to death," said Tollefson.
The Tacoma Fire Technical Rescue team arrived and firefighter Dan Elgin rapelled down to rescue Chug. He put him in a harness and brought him down the steep cliff.
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The Most Perfect Technical Glitch. Posted: 10 months ago by muppet
"She doesn't really sound like that."
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Spring Drive – Seiko's Marketing and Technical Milestone Posted: 1 year ago by maxriter
The Seiko Spring Drive watch highlighted the third stage of the quartz revolution, the so-called mechatronic 'quiet revolution'.
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Fairlight CMI, the great synth of the eighties Posted: 9 months ago by countach
A Fairlight CMI sampling machine would cost you around $30K in the early eighties.
Today, its technical specifications are surpassed by the most cheap internal onboard soundcards, but not its unique sound character, of course.
Nearly most of 80's not-rock hits used it.
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Physicists Successfully Store and Retrieve Nothing Posted: 6 months ago by tigertony
No, this is not a headline from 'The Onion'.
"I'm very impressed," says one physicist upon hearing of the feat. "It's a real technical achievement."
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60 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
The techniques shown are advanced and require more than just technical knowledge of Photoshop, they actually require talent and knowledge of design, layout, balance, color theory, subtlety, etc.
The following tutorials will specify if if they are for Photoshop 7, CS, CS2 or CS3,
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Obsolete skills Posted: 7 months ago by extc68
Robert Scoble had an interesting post on his blog a few days ago on obsolete technical skills — 'things we used to know that no longer are very useful to us.'
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Big Brother’s Technical Difficulties Posted: 7 months ago by willster09
The agency that runs the surveillance system said the rate was so slow because of poor wireless connections between the cameras and the servers (they are being upgraded) and a shortage of server space to store videos shot at normal frame rates. A tapped-out budget for routine maintenance seemed likely to add to the problems.
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1.7 billion year old "fossil reactor" discovered in Gabon, Africa Posted: 4 weeks ago by meggysue
Who knew that Mother Nature began processing uranium long before man did?
In the 1970's, French physicist Francis Perrin discovered that the uranium mined at the Oklo mine appeared to have already undergone fission. And there's something else amiss: the atomic weight of Oklo mine's samarium, its "nuclear signature," doesn't match the rest of the world's.
This Wikipedia article goes into more technical detail of the phenomena.
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