Officials representing 17 leading industrial countries, responsible for largest emissions of greenhouses gases in the atmosphere, gathered in London. British PM Gordon Brown stated that no future agreements would be able to correct the situation if the industrial countries fail to regulate their harmful atmospheric emissions. Mr. Brown added that there were only 50 days [...]
In Ubuntu/Kubuntu 9.04 I like to have Ctrl-Alt-Backspace enabled to restart X server, which I found a quicker way to log off and log on since I use to hop around from Kubuntu to Ubuntu and back. And I want it too in my Ubuntu 9.10. Fortunately in Ubuntu 9.10 the method is easier, way [...]
Apple unleashed several hardware updates today in their iMac, MacBook, and Mac mini lines, but the most interesting news comes with the release of their new Magic Mouse, a wireless multi-touch mouse. Straight from Apple: The same Multi-Touch technology first introduced on the revolutionary iPhone comes to the mouse. It’s called Magic Mouse, and it’s [...]
We’re not sure why John Gruber and Dan Lyons are having some sort of megalomaniacal Apple super-pundit standoff, but we’ll sit here and take the spoils: Gruber’s just one-upped Lyons’s earlier vague tease of new Apple gear tomorrow with a pretty specific list of things he’s apparently heard we’ll see, including new iMacs and plastic [...]
Looks like Canon isn’t skipping the number “four” after all. While initially unveiling what looked to be a half-complete website with two teaser videos, the company now gone official with the EOS-1D Mark IV. So what’s new to the table? For starter’s there’s a 16.1 megapixel APS-H CMOS sensor, ISO range of100 to 12,800 native, [...]
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scientists on Monday successfully test fired the surface-to-surface short range ballistic missile ‘Prithvi-II’ from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) here. Prithvi-II, a highly sophisticated single stage liquid propelled missile, is equipped with inertial navigation system. The missile, which is about nine metres in length and one metre in width [...]
