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14,000 Year Old Hard Drive Disk?
Found were 716 stone ‘disks’ described as “obviously fashioned by the hand of an intelligent creature.” Etched in its face was a very fine groove spiraling out from the center; closer inspection revealed the ’spiral’ to be an almost microscopic, continuous line of what appeared to be writing. Placed on a turntable the disk emitted a strange ‘hum’.
0 comments Friday 06 Oct 2006 | mastmallu | tech muse, huh?, out of this world
Man Recites Pi to 100,000 Places
A Japanese mental health counselor recited pi to
100,000 decimal places from memory on Wednesday, setting what he claims
to be a new world record.
Akira Haraguchi, 60, needed more than
16 hours to recite the number to 100,000 decimal places, breaking his
personal best of 83,431 digits set in 1995, his office said Wednesday.
He made the attempt at a public hall in Kisarazu, just east of Tokyo.
0 comments Thursday 05 Oct 2006 | mastmallu | tech muse, huh?, people
and so… u need to be careful
0 comments Tuesday 03 Oct 2006 | mastmallu | tech muse, video, humour
Solar Flares Could Seriously Disrupt GPS Receivers
A minor solar flare in September 2005 produced a noticeable degradation
of all GPS signals on the day side of the Earth. When scaled up to the
larger solar flares expected in 2011-12, Cornell researchers expect
massive outages of all GPS receivers on the day side of the Earth.
0 comments Thursday 28 Sep 2006 | mastmallu | tech muse, huh?, places, out of this world
Intel announces plans to launch 4-core microprocessor in late 2006
Intel Corp. plans to begin shipping microprocessors that have four computing engines on a single chip - products that analysts say will help it win back market share from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
a gaming demo on an intel quad core
0 comments Wednesday 27 Sep 2006 | mastmallu | tech muse, corporate flow
Tested: T-Mobile GSM phones CAN unlock your car.
I was skeptical, to say the least, about this rumor, and was about to dismiss it as one more Internet hoax. But I thought I better try it out first. Well, low and behold, it works. I tried it with a Motorola v330 GSM cell phone, and it reliably opens (and relocks) the car.
0 comments Wednesday 27 Sep 2006 | mastmallu | tech muse, huh?, corporate flow
Antimatter discovery could launch new era of physics
The discovery that a bizarre particle travels between the real world of matter and the spooky realm of antimatter 3 trillion times a second may open the door to a new era of physics, Fermilab researchers announced Monday.
0 comments Tuesday 26 Sep 2006 | mastmallu | tech muse
Bin your charger - these AA batteries have in-built USB port!
Leave that bulky desktop battery charger at home - flip the lid on these clever AA batteries and charge over USB using the in-built, standard USB port! A must-have for digital cameras and other devices still using AA cells.
0 comments Thursday 21 Sep 2006 | mastmallu | pictures, tech muse, random crap, huh?
the mystery behind my laptop screen resolution…
my laptop has had a screen resolution of 1280×768. i always wondered “why?”
hmmm, today i found an explanation or it… 
it’s in this picture
looks like the designer wanted to accomodate both XGA and HDTV resolutions in the same screen without having to resize the video … hmmm kool isn’t it 
picture source : wikipedia
0 comments Wednesday 20 Sep 2006 | mastmallu | pictures, tech muse, random crap
HOW-TO: Dreamweaver AND Flash 8 Running on Ubuntu Dapper!
Awesome and easy-to-follow guide to install Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash 8, or even Macromedia Studio 8 in Ubuntu Linux. Includes useful links and side notes to successfully install this awesome piece of software under the best operating system available nowadays… Ubuntu of course 
0 comments Tuesday 05 Sep 2006 | mastmallu | tech muse
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