Telegraph Science:
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) says it expects to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by this weekend after more than a year of repairs. The 27 km (17 mi) particle accelerator was launched last year (Read More)
MAKE Magazine:
Those of you who know me will know I'm slightly biased toward chemistry, the discipline in which I'm trained, so it's hard for me to resist the natural temptation to focus on gifts that I might like for myself. So, if you as (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
Former Microsoft evangelist Don Dodge, who was laid off two weeks ago, had the satisfaction of announcing on the eve of Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference — one of Microsoft’s most important annual events — that he (Read More)
Joyent Wiki:
Webmin is the web-based configuration tool provided by default with Accelerators. It runs as its own process, and includes its own web server.After customizing your Accelerator, you may find that you eventually need to upgrad (Read More)
Joyent Wiki:
What is my Accelerator name?Your Accelerator name is the default name associated with your Accelerator when delivered. It looks like: z12345AA, z12345AB, or fjsliyaa, fjsliyab. You can find your Accelerator name by using th (Read More)
MAKE Magazine:
Here's an interesting take on a coil gun, by Russian YouTube user fuckertrezv. Not content to simply make a high-power electromagnetic device, he designed his to be portable and run on batteries. Once charged, he claims it (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, has run into a few snags recently--including a major coolant leak, an arrest, and numerous delays. Now we can add a bird and a piece of bread to the l (Read More)
Joyent Wiki:
Welcome * Introduction to Accelerators * A Tour of Your Accelerator; or, What's where, and why? * Getting Started with a Joyent Accelerator * Useful Shell Commands * Account logins and important URLs * Change passwords (Read More)
Joyent Wiki:
Joyent Accelerators come by default with MySQL listening on localhost (127.0.0.1). To be able to talk across the internal network, mysql must be listening on the internal IP. Then you can configure your application on anoth (Read More)
Submitted by morgan
from Google Reader:
Hi everyone! I know I said we wouldn’t have an update this week, but we ended up being able to carve out some time to dedicate to adding a few of those long-requested-but-not-so-high-priority features that have been sitting i (Read More)
dive into mark:
On February 25, 1993, Marc Andreessen wrote:I’d like to propose a new, optional HTML tag:IMGRequired argument is SRC="url". This names a bitmap or pixmap file for the browser to attempt to pull over the network and interpret (Read More)
The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond:
At 11.45am on September 19th 2008, things went awesomely wrong at the LHC. Faulty soldering in a small section of cable carrying power to the machine's huge magnets caused sparks to arc across its wiring and send temperatures (Read More)
Joyent Wiki:
This was inspired from this forum postPre-Flight * What email address(es) you wish to send the notices? * What your resource limits are for your accelerator? * Disk space monitoring for / is built in as well as /home, do y (Read More)
Submitted by eemorningwood
from Google Reader:
In Catch-22, Airman Dunbar spends all his free time with people he doesn’t like. That makes time go by slower so he can enjoy life longer.
Physicists have their own way of slowing time. Moving clocks tick slower than on (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com:
With web search we all wish that we hit the bull’s-eye each and every time. That Google’s, I’m feeling lucky function works for us more than it fails. But that’s the bottom line with web search…a seemingly endless activity of (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader:
Asking your Web site visitors to wait is like asking them to leave. Everyone knows a fast Web site is better than a slow Web site.Right?Not always.The following are eight popular excuses I’ve heard in my time of helping peo (Read More)
Submitted by robdiana
from Google Reader:
There is nothing inherently new about demanding faster dissemination of content and news. The hubbub about the real-time web is a continuation of the same trend that made us command the radio airwaves, lay millions of miles o (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com:
For a lot of us Google Chrome is still not hot enough. The reason? It’s still not extendable enough like Firefox. Ever since it came out, users have cried out for ways to tweak the browser to make it the Jack of all trades.Th (Read More)