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Entries for November, 2010

Wicked Little Buds Earphones Review

Lately, I have been reviewing some really, really expensive earphones and will continue to do so. I do it mainly because I want to educate people about how much more enjoyment can be had from their music with an investment in quality earphones or headphones. That said, there is a huge market for less expensive [...]

Kernel Tracing With LTTng On Ubuntu Maverick

francis-giraldeau writes “Linux Tracing Toolkit (LTTng) provides high-performance kernel tracing for Linux. This is the killer app for system level debugging and performance tuning. It’s now easier than ever to install, with packages released for Ubuntu Maverick. The short introduction to kernel tracing shows how to interpret a simple kernel trace and relate it to [...]

The Great Cyberheist

theodp writes “In this week’s cover story, the NY Times Magazine delves into the mind of Albert Gonzalez, the hacker who is currently doing time (the longest sentence ever handed down for computer crime in the US) for masterminding attacks on the nation’s leading retailers, reportedly costing TJ Maxx, Heartland, and other victimized companies more [...]

80% of Daily YouTube Videos Now In WebM

An anonymous reader writes “OSNews has an update on the WebM project from a presentation given by Google’s John Luther and Matt Frost at the Streaming Media West conference. OSNews writes, ‘Earlier this year, Google finally did what many of us hoped it would do: release the VP8 codec as open source. It became part [...]

UK Twitter Users Declare ‘I’m Spartacus’

An anonymous reader writes “Tweeters have joined forces to support Paul Chambers, the man convicted and fined for a Twitter message threatening to blow up an airport. A so-called ‘I’m Spartacus’ campaign encouraging users to ‘re-tweet’ his words has also become a huge hit. The hashtag #IAmSpartacus is currently the number one trending topic on [...]

Deal of the Day – Dell XPS 14 14” Core i7 Laptop with 2GB GeForce GT 425M And a Sony H55 Camera for $1099

The LogicBUY Black Friday Deal for today is a great price on a Dell 14” XPS 14 Core i7-740QM 1.73GHz laptop and a free gift – a Sony camera.  The laptop is equipped with 4GB DDR3 memory, 500GB hard drive, and 8X DVD+/-RW, 720pWLED LCD, and more. The Core i7 with 2GB NVIDIA GeForce 425M [...]

Fight Begins To Secure Turing Papers For Bletchley Park Museum

Blacklaw writes “Auction house Christie’s is planning to sell offprints of Alan Turing’s early work for an estimated £500,000 — and the fight has begun to raise the money so UK codebreaking museum and charity Bletchley Park can house the documents in the building where Turing performed his war-winning work and birthed the concept of [...]

Saturn’s Moons in Pictures

According to NASA, “dozens of icy moons orbiting Saturn vary drastically in shape, size, surface age and origin; to date, 53 moons have been officially named.” Above, we have Titan and Tethys. Videos after the break. Click here for more pictures. [via NASA] Original post by TecheBlog Staff

Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank

forand writes “Using screen shots of a customer’s Facebook profile, owners of a West Bank internet cafe helped Palestinian intelligence forces capture a man accused of heresy.” According to sources quoted in the story, residents of both Gaza and the West Bank face ongoing scrutiny of their online activities; in Gaza, “Internet cafe owners are [...]

Paper Airplane Touches Edge of Space, Glides Back

itwbennett writes “Brits Steve Daniels, John Oates and Lester Haines just became the envy of geeks the world over. The trio ‘built a one-wing glider from paper, lofted it to the edge of space at 90,000 feet with a helium balloon, and posted sound and video recordings from the plane as it glided safely back [...]