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| Posted: 15 Feb 2010 02:43 AM PST  10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. Frisbee inventor Walter Frederick Morrison dies aged 90 The man who invented the Frisbee, one of the world's most popular toys, has died at his home in Utah aged 90.More @ BBC.co.uk 2. Toshiba Develops 1TB SSD That Fits On A Postage Stamp SSDs are still overpriced for most average consumers, but the companies responsible for making them are constantly searching for ways to make them larger (in terms of capacity), smaller (in terms of form factor) and cheaper (in terms of real dollars). More @ HotHardware 3. Anger Leads to Apology From Google About Buzz Google moved quickly over the weekend to try to contain mounting criticism of Buzz, its social network, apologizing to users for features that were widely seen as endangering privacy and announcing product changes to address those concerns. More @ NYTimes 4. Veteran robot features eight legs and BeagleBoard 5. Open Source: Fuel for the Smartphone Explosion Open source and mobile development seem to be a match made in heaven. No matter what development methodologies an organization prefers, open source is the key to making speedy progress. Yet the collaborative nature of open source, which is what makes it so attractive, can also pose challenges. More @ LinuxInsider 6. Astronauts hit brick wall with new space station room Astronauts ran into trouble Saturday while setting up the International Space Station's newest room, Tranquility: A critical insulating cover does not fit. More @ USAToday 7. New Super Mario Bros. Wii vs. Modern Warfare 2: the winner? Back in November, Nintendo of America's President Reggie Fils-Aime was feeling his oats, and bragged that Nintendo could outsell Modern Warfare 2 with New Super Mario Bros. Wii. The one caveat? It had to be sales on a single system. More @ ArsTechnica 8. UK police nab teen with $30,500 drone 9. Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.10 Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more. More @ HowtoForge 10. 11 Facts About the End of the Great War I have a special fascination with World War One, a fascination that intensified when my father told me that his dad served in the Marines in 1917-1918. (My other grandfather and my wife's grandfathers served in World War II, but my dad's dad was in the first war.) My grandpa had trained as a sniper, but was never sent to France and was discharged after the armistice. More @ Listverse  |
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