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A weird weather phenomenon made the skies over Eastern Iowa looks like a scene right out of the sci-fi movie “Independence Day”

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Ubuntu, which is an ancient African word meaning “can’t install Debian”.

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The subject of computer power supplies can be a rather funny one. On one hand, it’s the most overlooked component in a PC. Lock ups, artifacts and an inability to overclock can all be attributed to low voltages, “dirty” or “noisy” voltage. Yet we still see people swap out every part except their power supply in an effort to troubleshoot a mysterious problem.

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The Open Web Application Security Project released a helpful document that lists what they think are the top ten security vulnerabilities in web applications.

These vulnerabilities can, of course, exist in PHP applications. Here are some tips on how to avoid them. I’ve included related links and references where relevant.

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Fantastic photorealistic painting done in photoshop with just a mouse. Illustrated step-by-step.

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Ambiguous Warning Shouts
Look out! Watch out! Heads up! What are you supposed to do when someone shouts one of these at you? Most people hunch over slightly and feebly raise their hands close to their head. Another common reaction is to turn directly towards the source of the warning, which, if this is also the source of the impending danger, is about the worst thing you could do. I propose instead a series six of generally accepted warning shouts: Stop! Run! Duck! Jump! Step left! Step right! Doesn’t that seem much more likely to save your life than HEADS UP? Even if you don’t know your left from your right, you still have a 50/50 chance, which I would say is better odds than you get from WATCH OUT!

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Awesome photo.

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FROM THE MOMENT the first airplane crashed into the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, the world has asked one simple and compelling question: How could it happen?

Three and a half years later, not everyone is convinced we know the truth. Go to Google.com, type in the search phrase “World Trade Center conspiracy” and you’ll get links to an estimated 628,000 Web sites. More than 3000 books on 9/11 have been published; many of them reject the official consensus that hijackers associated with Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda flew passenger planes into U.S. landmarks.

To investigate 16 of the most prevalent claims made by conspiracy theorists, POPULAR MECHANICS assembled a team of nine researchers and reporters who, together with PM editors, consulted more than 70 professionals in fields that form the core content of this magazine, including aviation, engineering and the military.

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Unless you want your identity stolen or your personal failings displayed on the Web for all to see, it is vitally important to destroy the data on your old hard drives!

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In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every last person in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he’s doing it again, creating a unique portrait of heartland America

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After few minutes of normal Linux messing around (”Takes forever to boot…. Haven’t got the sound driver working yet….”) he turns the laptop around to reveal a set of vibrating lines in humps and dips across the screen, like a wildly shaking wireframe mountain range. “Here,” he explains, “I’m grabbing FM.”

“All of it?” I ask.

“All of it,” he says. I’m suddenly glad the soundcard isn’t working.

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Links to some more SDR stuff: Flex-Radio, HPSDR (Next-Gen Open Source SDR!)

# “Service Pack 1 must be installed separately from other updates.” OK.
# Yes, I agree to bend over, grease up, and accept the End User