Microsoft says the upgrade for Windows XP and Vista users makes it look as though users will have a tough time installing the new operating system. Most will require the complete wiping of the hard drive and an installation from scratch. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/152480,windows-7-upgrade-path-looks-rocky.aspx
Bushfire inquiry covers up fuel reduction failure
Two Royal Commissions by Judge Stretton into the Victorian bushfire disasters of 1939 and 1944 yielded a was crystal clear result: the bushfire disasters then, as now, were caused by what the Judge called “ridiculously inadequate” prescribed burning of the forests, and he mandated “fire prevention must be the paramount consideration of the forester”. http://cecaust.com.au/main.asp?sub=releases&id=2009_08_25_Bushfire.html
Disabling automatic drive letter assignment
For certain situations, it may be necessary to tell Windows not to automatically mount new storage that become visible to the server. http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/windows/0,39044904,62057146,00.htm
Managing servers and other systems from the iPhone
Server administration can be a 24/7 job, but who wants to be tethered to a laptop all the time? http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/storage/0,39045058,62057245,00.htm
Eyeball Engineering
This is for all of the frustrated engineers out there. There always seems to be a guy who can look at something and tell you that a line or an angle is off. Now you can try your skill at using ’the eye’. This is tougher than it looks. It is not timed so take your time. http://woodgears.ca/eyeball
Trillion Dollar Advertising
Great advertising campaign http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGn9p8p_oek
Eat Your Way Smart: IQ-Boosting Foods are a No-Brainer
Can some foods really make you more intelligent, have smarter kids, improve your memory, help you think more clearly, and perhaps even forestall the onset of those so-called senior moments or worse, dementia? http://www.care2.com/greenliving/eat-your-way-smart-iq-boosting-foods-are-a-no-brainer.html
Pfizer pleads guilty to felony crime in fraudulent marketing of Bextra, pays US$2.3 billion in fines
And they’re still in business? http://www.naturalnews.com/026963_Pfizer_Bextra_health.html
This may be legal but it is the most blatant invasion of privacy by the government that I have ever seen.
Check out this link. Warning! Do not go to the web site mentioned, just watch the video clip to which I have linked below. http://www.resistnet.com/profiles/blogs/do-not-go-to-carsgov
The Drug Barons’ Campaign to Make Us All Crazy
The drug barons’ ongoing campaign to pathologize entirely natural emotional responses to hunger, humiliation, financial insecurity, racism, sexism, overwork and isolation is a mercenary tactic, designed to create markets, maximize profits and minimize dissidence. http://counterpunch.org/tsao08202009.html