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Engadget just released a survey for the Gadget of the Year 2008 , Vote for your preferred Gadget there. Link is h3r3 http://www.engadget.com/engadget-awards-2008

To save percious 20MB on the internal Flash of your Nokia N810, Nokia N800(Maemo Operating System) for installation applications and even more, I copied certain files and directories to my External 8GB Memory Card. The folders that you can move and don't break the boot of your Nokia N800, N810 (Maemo Based) platform are listed 1) /backups 2) /mail 3) /opt 4) cache/apt 5)/usr/share/skype 6) /usr/games 7) /opt 8) /home/user/MyDocs 9) Please notice that there are alot of hidden files/folders in your home directory , if you move them that will break the GUI You can delete un-needed language files on /usr/share/locale Files that if you MOVE WILL BREAK YOUR BOOT are /usr/share /usr/themes You may ask why moving certain folders/files on Maemo platform will break your boot, because simply it does not mount the external flash on the boot sequence VERY IMPORTANT NOTE : you need to format you memory card as ext2 fileystem to be able to preserve file permissions as the default file system of t...

Recently biggest Solid State Storage that I know about is released, size of 450GB complete Solid Stage Hard drive for industrial use and Disk IO intensive Applications. With such piece of hardware you can insure the fastest ever disk access for your application it is the New RamSan from Texas Memories and model is RamSan20 , link is h3r3 Specifications : 450GB Flash storage 120,000 IOPS 700 MB/s random sustained external throughput ECC and RAID Embedded CPU controller. A Video to make you feel the difference is below , but please consider all te differences between this and the industrial one.

Document Freedom Day is on 25 March and call for Participants from Software Freedom Day. Quoted" Software Freedom International, the worldwide organizer of the annual Software Freedom Day, encourages all SFD teams to support the Document Freedom Day 2009 (DFD 2009) celebration ( http://documentfreedom.org/ ) on 25 March 2009. DFD 2009 aims to raise awareness on the importance of accessible document formats and open standards in everyone's day to day activities. Open standards are agreed document definitions which are available to the public to review and use. They cannot depend on formats or protocols that are not open standards themselves. The definitions of these open standards are free from legal and technical restrictions that limit their use, and can be easily implemented in multiple environments - so they can be used on PCs, iPods, Playstations and whatever computing environments we'll be using in 50 years time. Open standards protect governments, businesses and the ...

Google just announced via Google Blog, that it will make advertisement more interesting in the sense of , it will follow your behvior not only the content that you are browsing. Quoted from Google Blog" This kind of tailored advertising does raise questions about user choice and privacy — questions the whole online ad industry has a responsibility to answer. Many companies already provide interest-based advertising and they address these issues in different ways. For our part, we're launching interest-based advertising with three important features that demonstrate our commitment to transparency and user choice. Transparency - We already clearly label most of the ads provided by Google on the AdSense partner network and on YouTube. You can click on the labels to get more information about how we serve ads, and the information we use to show you ads. This year we will expand the range of ad formats and publishers that display labels that provide a way to learn more and make cho...

I flew over Kenya Airlines for a five hours flight from Cairo/Egypt to Nairobi/Kenya. The flight was good, it was intime, the crew is very helpful and friedly.  I would give Kenya Airlines 5/5 for my expereince with it from Cairo to Nairobi, and I will rate it on my way back from Nairobi to Kenya. the reason for posting this post that I have found lots of negative feedbacks on Kenya Airlines on the internet but all of them are three years old, So I wanted to update every1 and share my experience

Free Linux Tutorial released by TuxRadar in a low resolution PDF file that can be downloaded freely from this URL http://www.tuxradar.com/ linuxstarterpack Download Link is h3r3 Announcement as per TuxRadar quoted" ew to the wonderful world of Linux? Looking for an easy way to get started? Download our complete 130-page guide and get to grips with the OS in hours rather than weeks or months. We show you how to install Linux onto your PC, navigate around the desktop, master the most popular Linux programs and fix any problems that may arise. We put the Linux Starter Pack on sale one year ago, and in our quest to support the community we're giving it away as a free download. Please go ahead and tell everyone about this offer -- all we ask is that you link to this page rather than directly to the zip below. Click here to download now! After reading the guide, head over to Linux Format for more information on the world's finest Linux magazine. Each month we include all ...