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Fedora 8 features proposed

Here is a great article on the proposed features for Fedora 8. With such features, it could be a more polished interface and the latest and greatest linux distro around. Do check it at http://linuxupdate.blogspot.com/2007/07/proposed-fedora-8-features.html

working with Google VS Meetup

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg2z5whw_41cb322p

programmers V/S non-programmers.

A non-programmer thinks there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte. A programmer is convinced that there are 1024 meters in a kilometer. Ramu : I've just become a member of Rotract Club. Somu : public member or private? Ramu : Hey.. My submarine is not sinking into the water!! What could be wrong? Somu : may be u have used float instead of double in the software. THIS ONE IS TOO GOOD!!! PS : Hey Bull, Can you do me a favor? Can you pass on these 500 rupees to Suthi..? Bull : Sure.. Why not? But tell me one thing. Tell me whether its pass by value or pass by reference. Ramu : I am very very sure that the guy who just talked to me is a software engineer... Somu : how do you say that? Ramu : he asked my physical address instead of my home address! Ramu : why people are beating that SW engineer black and blue? Somu : it seems, he asked one of them that whether "vande mataram" is new kind of RAM in the market! Ramu : Hey.. I think that SW engineer is very very naive.. Somu : How...

Google Linux Repositories

http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/index.html

iPhone Live Disassembly

Disassembly of iPhones with pictures http://stream.ifixit.com/

New issue of fullcirclemagazine released

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/

Height of ......

1.What is height of Fashion? Dhoti with a zip 2. What is height of Secrecy? Offering blank visiting cards. 3. What is height of Activelaziness? Asking for a lift to house while on a morning walk. 4. What is height of Laziness? Adopting a child. 5. What is height of Craziness? Getting a blank paper Xeroxed. 6. What is height of Forgetfulness? Seeing the mirror and trying to recollect when you saw him / her last. 7. What is height of Stupidity? A man looking through a keyhole of a glass door. 8. What is height of Honesty? A pregnant woman taking one and a half ticket. 9. What is height of Suicide? A dwarf jumping from the footpath on the road. 10. What is height of De-hydration? A cow giving milk powder

The secret to programming is having smart friends.

This story is about two guys who snuck into Apple to build and ship a graphing calculator. Pacific Tech's Graphing Calculator has a long history. I began the work in 1985 while in school. That became Milo ,and later became part of FrameMaker . Over the last twenty years, many people have contributed to it. Graphing Calculator 1.0, which Apple bundled with the original PowerPC computers, originated under unique circumstances. .......... http://www.pacifict.com/Story/

Dell to Offer Ubuntu 7.04

Dell Inc. (Dell) announced Tuesday that, due to public demand, they will be offering an alternative to Microsoft Windows on a selection of their desktop and laptop computers. Dell will partner with Canonical Ltd. to pre-install the recently released Ubuntu 7.04 distribution of the Linux operating system. http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/01/13147.aspx

Online Flash Game

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Jiggmin/platform-racing Game Description (Game Uploaded on 2007-07-01): Go fast. Win. Game Instructions: Move with the arrow keys or the awsd keys. Use the space bar to use items. If someone is bothering you in the chat, you can click on their name to ignore them.