Amazing Landings and Takeoffs!
Jun.06, 2006 in
Aviation & Flight, Video
From the infamous Princess Juliana Airport, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles.
Check out the A-340 spooling up and the two guys hanging on for dear life at the fence!
Entries for June, 2006
Parking Perfection 3
Jun.06, 2006 in
Games
The third in the classic Parking Perfection series - The Exam! Can you pass all five tests perfectly??
The Ultimate Summer Gadget Guide
Jun.06, 2006 in
Technology
Summertime, and the living is easy — or at least it should be. Unfortunately, between packing bags and keeping up with busy kids' schedules, sometimes it feels anything but.
That's where we come in. We've compiled 17 hot products in four separate categories that will aid and assist you in countless ways this summer. Some of these devices will save you time. Others will make your downtime more pleasurable. And some of these gadgets serve no other reason than to make you happy.
What are we talking about?
- A watch that helps your golf swing
- A robot that mops your floors
- A DLP projector for showing movies outdoors at billboard-sized proportions
- A waterproof camera for those crazy underwater snapshotsAnd a whole lot more.
Six Things You Didn’t Know About Linux: A Beginners’ Guide
Love it, hate it, heard lots about it, but still don't have enough of a handle to form a firm opinion? Then we must be talking about Linux, the open-source operating system that's alluring because it's heavy duty and it's free. Simultaneously, it's intimidating to newbies because it's typically more difficult to install and configure than Windows.However, now is an opportune time to get past those concerns. Interest in Linux is expected to spike throughout the year, thanks to Microsoft's delay of its consumer version of Windows Vista. The hang-up could cast a pall on the year-end PC sales season. Perhaps that's one reason the mainstream media is discovering this "revolution" in software that's nearly 15 years old.
So if you've ever planned on giving the open-source operating system a whirl, but, like the Georgia bride-to-be, got cold feet at the last minute, we've ferreted out six useful facts that'll ease your path when you decide to take the plunge.
1) How many versions of Linux are there?
Lots. At least 350, according to the list maintained by the enthusiast site DistroWatch.com. The site skews toward smaller distributions, with current flavor of the month Ubuntu listed as the most popular among the site's readers. Ubuntu has gained traction recently, garnering an endorsement from Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz.
Ubuntu also appears to be gaining legitimacy via heavy grass-roots support. User-spawned Web resources include a blog devoted to the distro, a quick-start guide for dummies and a more advanced (how to install anything!) manual. (However, as What PC? points out, despite its funky name, Ubuntu is not noticeably simpler to get going than any other implementation of the OS.)
Ubuntu has a great back story: Its development was funded by South African Internet entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth as an outgrowth of his efforts to offer improved educational opportunities to his nation's young people.
Another distribution much in demand is SUSE, available for free under the OpenSUSE.org program sponsored by Novell or in a for-pay version that comes with end-user support from Novell.
Your Money or Your Site
Jun.06, 2006 in
Internet
Last August, Tew launched the Million Dollar Homepage (www.milliondollarhomepage.com). The plan was to cram thousands of tiny banner ads onto a single page by selling a million pixels for $1 each, with a 100-pixel minimum (that’s about the size of a sesame seed). In return, Tew committed to keep the ads up for five years. He sold the first 400 pixels to a beat-boxing friend who wanted to plug his Web site. He unloaded another chunk on his brother, who used it to promote his go-cart business.
