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South African Dr. Sonnet Ehlers was on call one night four decades ago when a devastated rape victim walked in. Her eyes were lifeless; she was like a breathing corpse.”She looked at me and said, If only I had teeth down there,” recalled Ehlers, who was a 20-year-old medical researcher at the time. “I promised […]

High Res of the island map via High Res of the island map. A must see for any Lost fans

As the remaining pool of IPv4 addresses dwindles (only 623 million are left!), it turns out that the remaining address space isn't exactly beachfront property. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) currently has 16 blocks of 16.8 million IPv4 addresses left—out of a total of 221 usable such blocks. In January, IANA gave the 1.0.0.0/8 […]

Verizon Wireless is toying with the idea of eliminating its unlimited data plans and switching to tiered pricing, according to its parent companys chief financial officer, John Killian.In an interview with Bloombergs BusinessWeek, Killian said, “We will probably need to change the design of our pricing where it will not be totally unlimited, flat rate.”A […]

Someone might be planning a big tailgate party in Bismarck. Bismarck police took nine reports on Thursday of tailgates being stolen from pickups. Most of the thefts appear to have occurred Wednesday night or Thursday morning. Sgt. Mark Buschena said seven Chevrolet pickup tailgates, one GMC tailgate and one Dodge tailgate were reported stolen across […]

Hardware and Software failures are part of Life. That is why you need to have a backup. I have already written about backing files and MySQL databases. You need not to backup all installed binaries (mostly software) with following tips. It will not just save your time but both Debian and RHEL distro can update […]

Rooting your Android device is much like jailbreaking an iPhone. Once rooted, you can make your phone run faster, tether it to your computer, tweak hidden settings to your liking, and more. Here's how to do it on your Motorola Droid. Rooting essentially means giving yourself root permissions on your phone. It's the equivalent of […]

WTF is HTML5 (Infographic) – ImJustCreative. Very cool info-graphic on HTML 5

All Thats Interesting – What Happens When An Engineer Owns A Dog.