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Barcamp San Diego 6 was on the 16th. Barcamp, if you have never been, is an incredible 2 days where the talks are given by the attendees. Basically you arrive with a topic you would like to talk about and, after morning announcements, you go put your name and topic in a 30-minute time slot for that day. Topics range from Linux to Webkins. I was only able to attend on Saturday but it was a very interesting day.

Fresh from her trip aboard the USS Hampton, blogger Peggy Gartin, @thepegisin, decided to forgo her talk about composting and discuss her experience on the nuclear submarine USS Hampton (SSN 767).

I took this video from my spot in the audience.

Sites that I found interesting for September 25th 2009 through September 27th 2009:

• It’s Official: Water Found on the Moon – New observations from three different spacecraft return what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon. via @Macht_Nichts on Twitter.
• Install Picasa 3.5 In Linux – Want the same kind of facial recognition, name tagging and easy geo-location of Picasa 3.5 for Windows and Mac on your Linux desktop? There’s no official release, but you can fairly easily plug Picasa into your system.
• Microsoft’s Chiller-less Data Center – Microsoft today announced that its huge facility in Dublin, Ireland is running without any chillers. Outside air is drawn into the facility to cool the thousands of servers powering the company’s “Live” suite of online services for users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Sites that I found interesting for September 16th 2009

• Repair Damaged Drives With Linux – Has your OS installation gone bad? Grab a Live CD and follow our guide to rescuing rogue partitions. Via @paulpuri on Twitter
• Seagate FreeAgent dockStar network adapter unveiled – The DockStar network adapter gives access to the data on the FreeAgent Go external hard drive from anywhere outside or inside the home and allows the user to selectively choose the files that are shared online. Seagate also offers an iPhone app to allow access to the drive.
• Don’t buy the Beatles remasters, unless… – They're good, but do the remastered Beatles CDs offer a big enough sonic improvement over the 1987 CDs to make them essential?

Sites that I found interesting for August 22nd 2009

• 5 Awesome facts about Moon you didn't know – In salute of the lunar landing and this brilliant stone and all the dreams she inspires, we present five things you didn’t know about the moon.
• Wakali Wa Downtown – In the fall of 2008, Urban Project, a grass roots Canadian charity helped a group of talented Tanzania street youth record this Bongo Flava hip hop album. By purchasing this album, you are contributing to a fund that goes directly back to these artists.
• 64-Bit Chrome Emerges for Linux First – Google Chrome will soon be available in 64-bit form, but only for Linux.

Sites that I found interesting for April 9th 2009 through April 15th 2009:

• Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories – Now you can send your tweets directly into Evernote.
• MoWeS Portable – CH Software – MoWeS stands for the three letter abbreviation Modular Webserver System and makes it possible, to run a webserver based on Apache, MySQL and PHP from an USB Stick or any other writable media (harddrive, flash cards etc.) without installation under Windows (98 to Vista).
• 10 Recent Scientifically Solved Mysteries – Epidaurus Theater Acoustics, Crystal Skulls, New England’s Dark Day, Face on Mars, The Barreleye Fish, Solving Checkers, The Unknown Titanic Child, Ancient Tablet Deciphered, Sharks Virgin Birth, Flight of the Bumblebee

Sites that I found interesting for January 10th 2009

• Slacker Personal Radio – Slacker Radio on Blackberry Mobile Devices – Listen to all of your favorite personalized Slacker stations on your BlackBerry for free! You can listen to over 100 stations programmed by music experts or create your own custom stations right from your Blackberry.
• Chrome 2.0 Preview Means Mac, Linux Versions Coming Soon – Google has rolled out an alpha preview of the next major revision for its Chrome web browser. Those undaunted by the current alpha status of 2.0 can get an early taste of what's to come in Chrome.
• Podiobooks – Serialized audiobooks – Serialized audiobooks which are distributed via RSS, much like a podcast. Listeners to Podiobooks.com can choose to receive the episodes of their books via an RSS feed or by listening to episodes by directly downloading episodes from this site.

Sites that I found interesting for December 7th 2008 through December 8th 2008:

• London from above, at night – Very cool pictures.
• Five Best Media Center Applications –
• Apple Shuts Down iPod Interoperability Effort – Apple is invoking the DMCA in an effort to block people from using iPods with Linux.

• Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1
  Starting with Exchange 2007, neither the Messaging API (MAPI) client libraries nor CDO 1.2.1 are provided as a part of the base product installation. As a result, there is functionality missing that many applications depend on. Microsoft Exchange MAPI and
  (tags: collaboration data Exchange mapi lotus notes)
• Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth: We can surpass Apple in two years
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• Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista
  Look at five features of Windows Vista that are often misunderstood, learn about their background and rationale, and get the straight scoop on how to deal with them. User Account Control, Image management, Display Driver Model, Search and 64 bit architect
  (tags: microsoft windows vista)

• Open Source Laptop Tracking With Adeona
  The client will collect information, such as current IP address and any location information it can gather, along with a photo if there is a webcam. It will periodically encrypt this information using PKI and then send it to the OpenDHT network – from whe
  (tags: Adeona opensource open source mac linux windows)
• 50 Cool Things You Can Do with Google Charts API
  (tags: ajax analysis analytics api applications collaboration cool css funny webdev Web2.0 webapps how-to howto)

• How To Increase Screen Resolution with VirtualBox and Ubuntu
  (tags: virtualization ubuntu tips screen linux virtualbox)