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A slide show about openness in social networking, business communications and cloud computing. It is an appeal for more openness, which I justify by exploration of a variety of online services, and by drawing attention of the adverse consequences of a lack of openness. The References slide #25 links to a more detailed discu (Read More)
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According to this article in http://www.young-germany.de, the University Of Freiburg offers podcasts for download by students and others. As one example of the variety of material available, the album Historische Reden (Philosophie) includes a 1957 speech by German philisopher Martin Heidegger. The podcasts are at http://ww (Read More)
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A derivative and an integral have an inverse relationship. If some function f(x) has an integral g(x), then the derivative of g(x) will be f(x). ... This blog post is my response to Jenberson's question "Derivative vs Integration" in the Friendster.com discussion group "Applied Mathematics with Computing". (Read More)
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An unofficial online forum for discussing science, science education, philosophy of science, science in the news, and applications of science, mathematics and statistics. This Friendster group does not represent any organisation. (Read More)
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An unofficial online forum for discussing: mathematics and popular or obscure stories about mathematics, fact or fiction. This Friendster group does not represent any organisation. (Read More)
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Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 "Lenny" was released on 14 Feb 2009, as announced at http://distrowatch.com/ The Debian distribution at http://www.debian.org/ was the basis for Ubuntu Linux. It is reviewed at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/16/debian_lenny_review/ Debian supports over 25113 packages, but you can install i (Read More)
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A review of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 "Lenny", which was released on 14 Feb 2009. The Debian distribution at http://www.debian.org/ was the basis for Ubuntu Linux. Debian supports over 25113 packages, but you can install it from a single DVD, and select what you need from the Internet, to build a customised server, devel (Read More)
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Imprisoned Burmese comedian Maung Thura, known as Zargana, is sentenced to 35 years in jail. His activities included delivering aid to storm victims, and making people laugh. All of his videos and poems have been banned. (Read More)
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Reporters Without Borders said today it was deeply shocked at the death in a Tehran prison of blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi and called for the immediate opening of an investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy. This was reported at http://www.rsf.org on 18 March 2009. He told Reporters Without Borders, “I am a cultura (Read More)
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A Bangkok court has harshly sentenced Suwicha Thakhor to ten years in jail for items that he posted on the Internet. He was convicted under the controversial Thai law, Lese-majeste (insulting the monarchy). This blog post is based on links to the Telegraph (UK) newspaper, Reporters Without Borders, and other online articles. (Read More)
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International PEN is alarmed by reports that imprisoned writers Nguyen Hoang Hai and Pham Thanh Nghien (f) are at risk of ill-treatment, in poor health, and denied full access to family visits. This blog post is based on links to International PEN, Free Them Now, and other online articles and photographs. (Read More)
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En base al proyecto “Mapping the Old City of Ahmedabad through Cartograph” se ha podido reconstruir la historia de la ciudad de Ahmedabad, en la India:“Tal vez muchos de los hispanohablantes no tengan muchas referencias sobre la ciudad de Ahmedabad, sin embrago es la séptima en tamaño de las ciudades de la India y eso ya es (Read More)
: Using http://translate.google.com/ gives this machine translation: Based on the project "Mapping the Old City of Ahmedabad through Cartographer" has been able to reconstruct the history of the city of Ahmedabad in India: "Maybe a lot of Spanish speakers are not many references about the city of Ahmedabad, however is the seventh largest city in India and that is saying a lot. Although information is available about their existence since the eleventh century, its official foundation dates from 1411 and the main purpose of this effort was to establish a political and administrative center for the Sultanate of Gujarat. Since then its history followed a complicated route to the present day, with the first losing autonomy of Mughal Abkar and then by work and grace of the British. This rich and winding story is told through their mapping-map map-in the following video, prepared by Vijayimpossible. In reality, the video tells two stories, one by the side of the city of Ahmedabad, in the context of the evolution and transformation of India in the last 6 centuries and also the development of mapping modes, techniques, instruments and forms of representation, devoting his last minutes on the current geographic information systems. The project is called "Mapping the Old City of Ahmedabad through Cartography" and although I can not clear who is the author, the fact is that the video shown is more than suggestive. Continue reading
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Imprisoned Journalist Zaw Thet Htwe is facing 15 years in prison, on charges arising out of his aiding of storm victims and reporting on their plight. A blog post with links to news about human rights issues in Myanmar (Burma). (Read More)