Dennis Ritchie is dead. Long live UNIX and C!
Sad news and no fanfare for the passing of this s/w giant =( Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70
Category: Tech
Virgin Media Business study
A Virgin Media Business study found that 70 percent of smartphone owners would rather give up alcohol than be without their phone. Are you a smartphone owner and which would you choose?
Meteor mobile broadband.
hooked my laptop up to my phone with a usb cable. so i now have internet at home, wahey! here are my stats from speedtest.net, bathe in their glory ;-) Hot shit no? My emails are blazing down in mere minutes!
Actual picture of electron orbitals in a molecule!
Here is what the molecule looks like in theory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentacene Here are the real imaged/measured(!!!) views of the molecules electron orbitals: news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/molecules-imaged-most-intimately.html Be amazed! Those weird looking orbital lobey things you may have seen in chemistry class actually exist like that in real life AND we can look at them. We can now look directly…
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Firefox v4
Upgraded to Firefox v4 there last night. Seems to want to crash all over the shop. It’s also using a whopping 400+ MBs of ram. I’d recommend any Firefox users delay their upgrade until next incremental release, at least (version 4.1?). Other than that, the GUI interface now resembles Google Chrome. There is also built-in…
Droplets colliding
Some cool lookin shit.