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A list of recent thoughts, things I saw or things I spotted on the Net, things that excite me (Uuh, baby!) or upset me, stuff I hate or love or in any other way find worth the trouble of blogging right here for your entertainment or interest and my archive. ;)

	Wednesday, November 30 WiFi is in da house #Posted by Dreams on 22:32 Well, it's finally true: I'm WiFied! :) My old DSL router died a few weeks ago. I wanted to buy a replacement but Holland had done that about 5 minutes before me. Shops were all out, so I ordered a Speedtouch 585 from a webshop. Got it a bit late :(, but worse, it also turned to out to be broke. So I sent it back, got a new one and set it up yesterday. Tonight, I switched on WiFi with WPA security. Now I just need to find a good place to put it, because I was sitting 3m from the damn base station and my connection dropped away every 5 minutes... Grrr You must really use WPA, BTW, WEP encryption can be cracked in under 10 minutes these days. So if you have personal stuff on the network, use WPA. If not, don't bother with security at all! Let it roam!
	Jailkit - chroot jail utilities #Posted by Dreams on 09:20 If you run a Linux server and it has public access, meaning anyone out there can get to it, you better protect it. Although Linux is regarded more than Windows, a properly configured server is always than a default one. :) Linux uses a procedure known as "chroot", where the program runs with special limited priviliges inside a "jail". Should the process be hacked through some yet unknown security flaw, the risk is limited as the proces that was hacked only has access to what you decided. For instance, a web or mail server can't do anything but server web pages or Email. The Jailkit is a set of utilities to make setting this up a lot easier. Best of all, it also works with Fedora 4 and OpenSuSE 10. So it's within reach of home users wanting to set up a more secure home environment as well as use the Linux server for useful services... like collecting all your Email for you, mp3 server, file vault or a bzflag server. ;)
	Tuesday, November 29 What's New With IE, Firefox, Opera #Posted by Dreams on 10:48 The browser war has ended, right. Everyone's using MSIE, as bad as that may be. Or not. You never know what might be possible until you try another browser. But if you don't want to install new versions or mess with bèta versions, read PC Worlds latest Browser Test With IE, Firefox, Opera. IE 7 bèta, Firefox 1.5 èta and Opera 9 Preview 1... take your pick!
	Internet Guide to Freighter Travel #Posted by Dreams on 10:45 How about going to Kenia? Bahamas? Tahiti? New Zeeland...? For free!?! Sure you can! Just check out the Internet Guide to Freighter Travel. You'll find out all there is to know about working and living on a ship that goes where you want to go. Learn about who to approach, where to stay, where not and what life on board is all about. :) Cool! It's still on my wishlist...
	Monday, November 28 Sinterklaas #Posted by Dreams on 08:54 Spent the weekend in Assen, at Mleen's place. Took forever to get there, on friday, but I made it. It was nice. I slept until 2pm, went down, had coffee and called in to the ENIAC reunion in Enschede. There was no way I was gonna make it on time. :( Snow was terrible down there and by the time I'd be there, the reunion would be over. So Machiel gave me off! Yeah! So I relaxed some more and watched some DVDs... Brother Bear, Fantastic Four and some drama with Meg Ryan :Z busy weekend! ;)
	Sunday, November 27 Winterstorms move Europe into dark ages #Posted by Dreams on 21:02 After a major storm moved down over England and into Holland/Germany, it now seems the storm(s) have caused drastic snowfall and strong winds in all of Europe. We had 850km of traffic piled up on Friday evening. Many people got stuck on the highways for hours and couldn't go forward nor backward. Police, Red Cross and Army handed out blankets and water. Many had to spend the night in their cars too. So when people strarted taking the trains after work, an accident caused Utrecht Central, the backbone and pivot of all railroad tracks here in Holland caused chaos on the trains too. Trains were backup leading to Utrecht. All go-arounds also got backup as more and more accidents occured near major train stations and short trips suddenly took hours, literally. I went from Eindhoven to Assen. It normally takes 2,5 hours. This time it took me 10 hours! I left at 5pm (17:00) and arrived at 230am (02:30). UNBELIEVABLE! But Europe had major snow troubles. (Article in Dutch, though).
	Which CPU does what and for how much? #Posted by Dreams on 20:51 Tom's Hardware Guide has updated their Mother of All CPU Charts With Dual Cores! How do theyh compare to each other? Are they worth the money? How many bang for the buck do you get? And what's with these dual-core thingies anyway...? As Slashdot said: grab an extra large coffee mug, fill'r up and read away. There's 60-odd CPUs to compare. Take you pick(s).
	Sony brings LocationFree Television In Tokyo #Posted by Dreams on 20:29 This is cool! In Toyko, you can watch LocationFree TV! Add the Sony LF-PK1 to your laptop or a PSP and watch streaming TV anywhere there's net access! That's the way of the future, with WiFi available in many public places.
	Friday, November 25 Long summer, brief fall, winter's started #Posted by Dreams on 14:47 Well, we all knew it couldn't last. Mid november temps of 20 degrees are nice but not normal, to say the least. So while the rest of the Earth seemed to be blasted by Mother Nature, we appeared to be Mother's Favorites and enjoyed splendid weather... until now! Mom's always right, so she blasted us with 110 km/hr winds, rain from every possible direction mixed with hail, snow and sand. Holy cow! Going to the train at 6 in the morning is bad enough. I really didn't have to be blown backwards and sideways!!! LOL Wasn't so funny this morning, though. Dutch news site nu.nl has a little picture book of photos from around Holland of the storm... A high of 1 degree is expected this weekend. Check Dutch doppler radar.
	Monday, November 21 Latin Sayings #Posted by Dreams on 15:37 In need for profound wisedom? Check these Latin sayings to sound inmensly intellectual, all of a sudden. ;) The translations are in Dutch, so fairly useless for greater commonwealth of this world. LOL :D
	Gaming can deadly... seriously #Posted by Dreams on 13:28 In the latest saga over online gaming addiction in China, the parents of a 13-year-old Tianjin boy are suing the makers of World of Warcraft, blaming the game for the death of their son, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua. Read more on RedHerring.
	Alienware m7700 laptop - all you'll ever need #Posted by Dreams on 09:06 Alienware, case modders galore, have made the kill-them-all laptop! The Alienware m7700. It's got a dual-core AMD 64 X2, 17" wide-screen LCD, nVidia Quadro FX video card and supports 2 hard disks with RAID, if you choose to do so! W00t! And all that for only $2000! That's €1500! It's a steal so cheap... ;) Gimme gimme gimme!
	Saturday, November 19 The Anatomy of LVM #Posted by Dreams on 22:49 Well... I seem to have my Tower of Power setup now... pffew! It's very exciting. I'm a little hesitant still, dunno for sure it works as advertized as I - we - haven't used it extensively yet. But I now have my server setup as file server with NFS and SAMBA (for Windows file sharing). I have 4 hard disks: one old Quantum 8 GB ATA33 disk used as boot and root drive (for Debian). Then I have 3 identical Hitachi 250GB ATA100 disks for storage. I divided my boot drive into: - 512 MB swap /dev/hda1 - 2048 MB reiserfs /dev/hda2 as /home - 6000 MB reiserfs /dev/hda3 as / Should my hard disk crash and wipe data, it'll be the partition table and/or the swap file. Both of these, I can recover easily. I've formatted the 3 big drives as LVM2. In Linux you set them to type `0x8e`, then it won't ask you anymore questions. :) I then installed Webmin, as I want to remotely admin the server and not have use ssh nor the command line. Once I had Webmin installed and configured (this took me a few hours and attempts), I went into the LVM menu. I created one big Volume Group (VG) which would span all my hard drives. It's like a container for as many drives as you have, of any type: IDE, SATA or SCSI. I have three IDE drives. Inside this Volume Group, called '`system`', I created three Logical Volumes (LVs) next. These LVs are similar to what are normally your partitions. Each LV was then formatted using a suitable file system (ReiserFS and ext3 in my case). See the LVM HOWTO for an explaination of terms used and actual commands. This way, I created an LV called "images" with a size of 250GB and striping across all three disks. This will give me performance (but no fault-tolerance). I also created a LV "data" 8GB big without striping. Last, I created a big LV "music" for our mp3 collection. Here is a screenshot. Once I get WiFi enabled and an HTPC near my TV, I can stream music over the WiFi network to the stereo. Or play DivX/MPEG2 movies from this server. Whatever... it's flexible. So far it's nothing major. No biggy. I could have used the three hard disks exclusively for their purpose. But the big beauty of using LVM, the pay-back you get for taking so much time in the beginning, is when you run out of space on a Logical Volume aka "partition". Suppose I start downloading movies all the time and the LV "music" fills up... I can simply add some extra space to it, extend the volume. Or I can add a whole new drive; add it to my 'system' Volume Group (the container) and add extra room to the "music partition" that has filled up. Best of all, I can do this live, online and on-the-fly! No rebooting, no moving data around, no hassle! That's the beauty of Linux at its best! Just now, if you look closely at the screenshot above, you'll see I made a typo! :) I created a data "partition" of 8192 KB instead of MB. I should have used 8192000 KB. D'oh! Panic? Nope! Just unmount the "partition". Resize the LV. Remount. Et voilá!
	New cool project at work #Posted by Dreams on 17:53 Well, looks like I have that job I told you about. On Monday we'll talk final details. RealOpen IT is hiring me off to work on XHTML content for embedded Linux with a browser running in everyday household audio/video electronic appliances. It could be very cool. Hope all goes well. Big downside is that I'll work in Eindhoven and have 4 hours of travelling everyday. :'( So I'll make 60 hour weeks until January 20th. :( I'm negotiating extra leave days or salary. Because it's insane to do for a longer period of time... And I'll need the rest once the project is over. /me keeps fingers crossed
	Roku PhotoBridge HDTV, WiFi, MythTV and freedom from wires #Posted by Dreams on 17:33 Just ICQed with Jelte and he told me about the Roku PhotoBridge... It's basically a digital media viewer or player. No harddisk, just a card reader, WiFi, Ethernet and decoders. So zero (!) dB noise! It can play MPEG2/MPEG4/mp3 files over the network. Or make a slideshow of your digital storage cards, like SD or Compact Flash. Best of all, it outputs HDTV standard. So it'll really utilize your widescreen LCD/plasma TV instead of sampling those 6 Mpx photos down to what's displayed on TV. ;) But wait! There's more! It gets more interesting... Now add your server into the picture. That's where you store all your mp3, photos and ripped/copied movies. You could add a TV card to the server, feed it your local coax TV cable and watch TV on the PC (your server). You could then add MythTV to your server to get free EPG (Electronic Programming Guide) info off the Net, record your favorite shows from cable to your HD and play or stream them to the Roku in the livingroom which will display it on your TV! The MythTV backend can run on your server, a light frontend on the Roku and you can control MythTV from the comfort of your couch! But wait! There's more! Add SlimRoku to the Roku (freeware 3rd party application). This will get you a visual, graphical frontend to all the digital media that's stored somewhere in your network! So then you can search, play and watch any digital media file on your stereo or TV and never leave your couch! W00T! Is that cool or what!?! :D B) That's what Jelte is doing... and what I'm adding to my wishlist once I get my Tower of Power setup running LVM and software RAID. ;)
	Friday, November 18 DokuWiki #Posted by Dreams on 11:34 Sometimes you have the need to write some form of documentation or manual for a project or product you're working on, but you don't really know what to write or who'll write it or what. However, during the course of the project you'd like to capture pieces of documentation, ideas, nice-to-know information, plans, bug, work-arounds and so on. You can use any wordprocessor to do this, of course. But what about sharing the document with co-workers? Simultaneously? Are they all in the same office? Same floor? Same building? City? Not very likely, right? For that problem, Wiki's were invented. A Wiki is basically a program that runs from your web server, like an extension or a web appliation, and it allows everyone who registers to add/edit/delete any object from the Wiki. Don't worry, there's a CVS system that allows you to roll back everything you had, in case someone messes it up or deletes things in an angry mood. Wikipedia is the prime example of what's possible. DokuWiki is a Wiki specifically geared towards writing documentation with multiple people across the world or an organisation. Best of all, it requires no database. Everything is kept in text files, making it extremely easy to setup and keeps all content very accessible in case you want to grab the content later on and write a real document or manual. You already have most of the information, all you need to do is organize it.
	Thursday, November 17 Photos from Armin Only! #Posted by Dreams on 23:39 Finally! I had forgotten about them, almost... so now I have my photos from Armin Only! online! There are not really good. There was too much smoke for the flash and slow sync be any good. I upped the ISO to 400, but sadly the IXUS 55 has quite a bit of noise. :( Oh well... On a small scale they still manage to look nicely and I had a blast. So the photos bring back a good feeling! :)
	BZFlag #Posted by Dreams on 23:30 This may sound really silly to you, but after playing hardcore FPS games again last weekend, I'm just aching for a computer game again. A bit of good old, clean fun with people and some shooting, laughing and sneaking up on them. LOL So I challenged my colleagues to a couple of games of BZFlag. And I have to admit: it's damn easy and soo much fun! And addictive!!! You get the hang of it in less than 5 seconds. But you can also get technical with it (physics, flags with special abilities, etc.) So I'll keep you posted on progress. I just noticed that we're using an old version and today we tweaked the config file a bit more... Keep you posted!
	uClinux #Posted by Dreams on 23:23 I may soon do a very cool project for a consumer electronics manufacturer. Internet content on household appliances. I'd be involved in XHTML/CSS stuff for browsers running on uClinux... so I'm reading up on my embedded books... The boxes will use a Sigma 8620 chip for media codecs, FYI. /me grabs a copy, a bags of chips, coke and settles in a comfy chair
	Wednesday, November 16 Microsoft Software to Require 64-bits #Posted by Dreams on 09:43 New software from Microsoft may soon require that you have a 64 bit processor aka CPU. No, that does not include a Pentium 4! Let alone anything before that. In other words, everyone on the planet needs to upgrade and buy new CPUs... at least, because a new CPU almost always means a new motherboard, which means new memory and a new chipset. 64 bits CPUs are the Intel Xeon and Itanium or AMD Athlon64 and X2 chips. The good news is that the move is mainly geared towards the server side. So Joe Smoo will not be affected, yet. However, all computer departments out there will have to switch. MS Exchange 12 will be among the first to require a 64 bit platform. It is scheduled to appear early 2007... ka-tching
	All My Movies & AnyDVD #Posted by Dreams on 09:14 For people who download a lot of movies of the Net, it's getting more and more difficult to keep track of all of them. Luckily someone had the same problem and made All My Movies to solve the problem. All My Movies scans your storage for all the movies it can find (avi, mpeg, mov, divx, vcd, dvd, etc.), it checks for information about the movie like unique codes or comments, runs over to imdb.com to fetch movie information and so on, and packs the whole thing into its database. So it's basically like CDDB and ID3 tags for mp3 files but for movies... B) And for those of you who watch lots of DVDs with different region codes and protection schemes and so on... you may want to check out AnyDVD. It sits in the background while you play a DVD, but it decrypts any protection the DVD may have as well as present it as a region free DVD. So you don't have to worry about any settings whatsoever. neat huh?!
	Tuesday, November 15 Sony rootkit DRM: how many infected titles? #Posted by Dreams on 12:05 If you're wondering how many Sony CD contains the potential DRM-inspired spyware aka rootkit aka security leak... the Register reports at least 47 titles that can potentially open up your PC to the world... microsoft's anti-spyware kit even detects it now. Hehehe, a marketing bobo will surely pay for this!
	Monday, November 14 Digital Photography Review: Canon EOS 5D Review #Posted by Dreams on 10:23 Digital Photography Review has posted an in-depth review of the Canon EOS 5D. :drool:
	Sunday, November 13 Jazz at Scallywags #Posted by Dreams on 17:58 Still recuperating from Armin, Petra and I went into town to get some new shirts for Petra. Afterwards, we decided to stop by Scallywags the Restaurant and see Richard again. He was just back from Beirut and we tought w'd check up with him. When we came in, it was as if we hadn't been away at all. The place is great, the atmosphere cozy and warm (when the heater works peoperly ;-) and the people always friendly. Best of all, it was a jazz night! We always fall with our noses in the butter. :-) So we cancelled other plans and ideas, nested deep in the comfy high chairs, poured ourselves another wine (membership has it's perks!) and waited what the night would bring. The Braber Trio was outstanding! Excellent smooth jazz, great musicians! The music was so good that you only noticed when they were not playing. :) Cool! At 11pm we hauled outselves home, bushed, beat and tired. But man, what a nice weekend we've had! :D
	Armin Only #Posted by Dreams on 12:04 :yawn: We went to Armin Only yesterday and enjoyed an 8 hour show by Armin van Buuren. He's #2 DJ of the world and it shows! What a show! Holy Moly! We had a super blast of a time. Great place (Ahoy) , great people. Thanks to my friends Martin and Edgar, Astrid and Petra who made it a night to remember. Can't wait for the DVD!!!
	Saturday, November 12 I love XS4ALL ADSL #Posted by Dreams on 17:47 Just a casual login on my DSL modem/router... and what do I see...? `Line Status Enabled Bandwidth Up/Down (Kbit/sec) 512 / 3072 Uptime 7d 02:42` My XS4ALL subscription has been upgraded and my DSL speed has doubled! :shock: :bounce: :party: /me jumps around the house, happy like a little kid that just got a toy
	Goodbye Debian, Helllooo Ubuntu #Posted by Dreams on 17:41 Being the impatient and after talking to my good old friend Herokiller last night during an after hours hardcore gaming night (Call of Duty2), I decided to give Ubuntu 5.10 a spin. It's Debian-based but more completely configured out-of-the-box and even his diehard Linux colleagues have been won over by the soft brown tones of this outstanding Linux disto. And I must say: wow! It's a joy to work with, a breeze to enhance and expand because it's still Debian (and has apt-get) and comes without the normal post-installation woes that pure Debian has: edit sources.list, apt-get updates, extra packages, reboot, tweak, configure, etc. Ubuntu rocks! Highly recommended if you want to switch over from Windows!
	Friday, November 11 When you don't use web standards #Posted by Dreams on 13:52 Disney UK has redesigned their website. However, instead of taking advantage of new technology and web standards, they have gone back into the dark ages and site (running on IIS) has many problems. And they're using a CMS, for crying out loud (WebSiteStory). So bad is the result, that WaSP have written an open angry letter to encourage them to do something about it.
	First Trojan using Sony DRM spotted #Posted by Dreams on 13:14 You may or may not have heard about the security hole Sony's DRM software install in your PC. If not, please read this next article! the Register reports that the First Trojan using Sony DRM was spotted. "Sony-BMG's rootkit DRM technology masks files whose filenames start with "$sys$". A newly-discovered variant of of the Breplibot Trojan takes advantage of this to drop the file "$sys$drv.exe" in the Windows system directory."
	New robot has 20,000 brain cells #Posted by Dreams on 13:06 "Researchers at the Neurosciences Institute (NSI) in La Jolla, California have developed 'Darwin VII' a trashcan-shaped robot that has just 20,000 brain cells. The infant crawls across a floor strewn with blocks, grabbing and tasting as it goes, its malleable mind impressionable and hungry to learn. It is already adapting, discovering that the striped blocks are yummy and the spotted ones taste bad, the report said. Its exploration is driven by instincts: an interest in bright objects, a predilection for tasting things, and an innate notion of what tastes good." Coool! Man I think I'll persue a PhD in A.I. after all...! This stuff is REALLY getting interesting. B)
	LinuxWorld 2005 over #Posted by Dreams on 12:11 Pfff, LinuxWorld 2005 in the Netherlands is over. Why is it that no matter how well you prepare yourself, conventions like this always seem to completely drain you of energy? All went well and the second day was much better than the first. We got lots of press and exposure and some nice leads. So in the end it was all worth it. We had the world's first fault-tolerant hardware server from Stratus running RedHat. It ran an old 2.4 kernel, sadly, but it ran all unmodified software I threw at it! We won a prize for most pre-signups for our whole company! Cool! B) I'll get a demo system to play with around January 2006. Excellent! And I showed SugarCRM off to many astonished people. I saw a great thin client solution from Sun (surprise, surprise!): SunRay, and I was very impressed. You may sacrifice some flexibility but you gain a zero-maintenance desktop in the process! B) I have my pictures online.
	Wednesday, November 9 LinuxWorld 2005 #Posted by Dreams on 06:55 I'll be out of the office for two days, to be at the LinuxWorld 2005 in Utrecht.
	Monday, November 7 I Like You! #Posted by Dreams on 10:25 Having a bad day...? Autumn Blues got you down? Nothing going right...? (Shut up, James (Taylor)!) Go to this page: I Like You and you'll feel better. :hug:
	Printing your own OLED display #Posted by Dreams on 09:04 Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) has succeeded in printing (compared to printing a page using your own inkjet printer) an OLED display with 1280x768 pixels (widescreen). This is cool for two reasons. One, printing a display is significantly cheaper than previous techinques, so the screen will cost less. Two, an OLED screen is capable of working without backlit so it'll use far less energy than normal LCD or TFT screens.
	Sunday, November 6 Manly weekend #Posted by Dreams on 23:30 It was a manly weekend. First, we got up early to finish the last chores around the house with the help of Petra's parents. I hated it, absolutely no energy, but it had to be done. Then it is good to have some help around who just keep working, despite your whining, and force you to accept defeat and help them in turn. :) On Sunday afternoon, finally, it was time to unpack my goodies from Informatique: an MSI K8T Neo2-F V2 mobo, 512 MB RAM, three (!) 250 GB Hitachi harddisks and mounting brackets, and get busy with my good old Tower of Power and a Debian Sarge netinstall CD. I emptied the big tower except for the 8GB Quantum Fireball SE drive to boot from, put the three 250 GB hard disks in the 5.25" slots, hooked it all up to the mobo and installed Debian over the net. So cool to see it churning along. ;) Then, I paritioned the boot drive with a 512 MB swap partition, a 2 GB /home partition and a 5.9 GB root partition. The three drive were defined as LVM partitions, but not yet further divided. Not yet. The machine boots, it's updated and I've got webmin running to help me configure the rest visually. I know, I'm a whimp, but it's easier to do. The system will function as a backup and net storage device for Petra's photo originals. RAW, TIFF and that sort of thing, as well as music server and data backup for our personal files. Using LVM, I can add, resize or redistribute stuff without the need for the system to go down. If I get extra disks, I can just add them. I may or may not use software RAID, dunno yet. I also plan on using MogileFS, so I may not need it. We'll see...
	Friday, November 4 No ID's at all #Posted by Dreams on 10:47 No ID's at all Another blog of a friend of mine... Welcome AJ! (y)
	OMNIFI - Car mp3 player with WiFi #Posted by Dreams on 09:13 The great thing about mp3 in your car is that it's like an endless CD changer. The bad part is, though, that no matter how much you compress audio, the disc will be full at some point. So a hard disk based player is better, since 40, 60 or 80 GB is much much larger. However, you need to get the device, hook it up to your PC and transfer audio until you have everything. Wouldn't it be nice to update a harddisk-based mp3 car audio player without the need to remove it from your car? You can! With the OMNIFI DMP1! It's a 20 GB harddisk in a casing that you mount anywhere in your car. It has a receiver and a WiFi connection to your home network. Install it in your car, power it up, close your car, go to your PC, find the DMP1's drive and copy the audio. Easy as pie! Piece of cake! (y) And I bet, if you're clever, you can open it up and put in a bigger hard disk. Coz 20 GB is for newbies just starting their CD collection. :)
	10 Mpx CCD for compact cameras #Posted by Dreams on 08:46 Sharp announced a new 10 megapixel CCD sensor for consumer digital cameras. The 7.17 mm by 5.31 mm sensor will deliver images with a resolution of 3766 by 2801 pixels. This may not be so great, though. Current small CCDs design already have a lot of static noise at resolutions higer than 8 Mpx. Cramming that may pixels onto a small surface it asking for problems. So it may just be market pressure.
	Tuesday, November 1 Details on the Nikon D200 leaked #Posted by Dreams on 09:39 Today Nikon introduces a new DSLR: the D200... Heise Online reported very detailed technical specs, yesterday. It offers 10 Mpx resolution, a burst speed of 5 frames per second, 11 auto focus points, USB 2.0, WiFi and GPS support (what for?) a 2.5" screen and an MSRP (Manufactuer Suggested Retail Price) of $1849... Read the detailed hands-on over at DPReview.
	NASA has a plan for asteroid deflection #Posted by Dreams on 09:21 NASA monitors about 6000 objects flying in various orbits arnoud the Earth. Some small, space garbage, some bigger, defunct sattelites. They have just added a 400 m asteroid to the list, expected to fly by the Earth at 10,000 miles or so in 2029. That's in 25 years. Should it miss us the first time around, it may return 7 years later and slam into the Earth after all... Scary huh!?! It's serious, however, deadly serious. If I remember correctly from watching Discovery channel... Should an object larger than 1 m collide with Earth, we'll get a serious winter for about a year or so. Food will be in short supply. If the object is larger than 10 m, Earth weather will be affected for 2-3 years. Is it > 100 m, you can kiss the Earth goodbye! 1 Billion people will die on impact and 2-3 billion more in the years to come until all the dust has settled. Read more on the Register.
	Apple sells a million videos through iTunes #Posted by Dreams on 08:46 Apple said it has sold a million videos through iTunes in 20 days, since it started offering the service to coincide with the release of the video iPod. They began selling about 2,000 music videos and episodes of ABC's "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" for $1.99 (1.12 pounds) on October 12. The Video iPod is a new generation of Apple's iPod digital music player that can play video on its 2.5-inch color screen.