In 1796, according to tradition, the metric system began to be used. The date, October 10th (10/10), was chosen because it was symbolic of the base 10 method of measuring with metric. Read about efforts to adopt the metric system in the U.S. at http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html.
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SlipStreaming? What the heck is that? Deciding whether you want to slipstream Windows 7 depends on if you know what slipstreaming is. In this article I’ll tell you about slipstreaming and how to slipstream Windows 7, the Service Pack 1 update, and the most recent
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SOPA (Stop Online Privacy Act), the much maligned anti-piracy bill which caused such an uproar until it was finally defeated, has reared its ugly head again… this time in the form of ransomware. This latest ransomware variant, purporting to be from a “Stop Online Piracy
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In 2009, NASA’s LCROSS and a companion rocket stage impacted the Moon’s Cabeus crater. LCROSS stands for Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite. The dual impact lifted a plume of material, including grains of mostly pure water ice, that traveled nearly ten miles above the
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Greetings, Readers. It’s been a couple of weeks since I last posted an article. Since then, the fourth expansion to Blizzards World of Warcraft has arrived. In Mists of Pandaria, I have leveled one of my characters to the new Level 90 Cap, prepped a
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In 1997, Yahoo! acquired Four11. Four11 was the creator Internet-based communications services such as net-phone software tools and RocketMail, a free Web-based service. Yahoo! Mail is based on RocketMail technology. Learn more at http://investor.yahoo.net/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=173315.
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You may not have heard of Box, I hadn’t until I recently read about this free offer. Box is a cloud storage/sync service, similar in nature to Dropbox. Box is currently offering 25GB storage for free, the normal free quota is 5GB. File sizes are
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In 2002, Palm announced the Zire handheld computer. Priced at just $99, it was considered to be an entry-level Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and featured 2MB RAM, a 16MHz processor and a 160×160 pixel monochrome 1.9-inch LCD screen. Learn more at http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/palm-zire/4505-3126_7-20489893.html. In 1959, U.S.S.R.
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In 1831, mathematician Richard Dedekind was born. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Richard Dedekind “…was one of the greatest mathematicians of the nineteenth-century, as well as one of the most important contributors to number theory and algebra of all time.” Learn more at
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Windows 8 presents a new interface to the user named Metro Modern and the cornerstone of this new interface is the Start Screen. The Start screen is best thought of as an expanded replacement for the Start Menu in Windows 7 and previous versions of
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It’s funny what crops up during the course of conversations. During the past week fellow writer Richard Pedersen and I have been discussing the old Three Stooges… Curly, Larry and Moe… and how much we enjoyed them back in the day. Don’t ask what got
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In 1957, the Space Age began when Russia launched Sputnik I into Earth orbit. Sputnik I was the world’s first artificial satellite. It was about the size of a beach ball and weighed only 183.9 lbs. (83.6 kg.). It took about 98 minutes to orbit
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