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From Think Secret: May 5, 2006 - Following up on our report earlier this week concerning the MacBook’s May availability, sources have nailed down next Tuesday, May 9, as the introduction day for the Intel-based laptop. … Update - May 6, 2006 Additional sources have confirmed the MacBook’s announcement this Tuesday. Further, sources report that the MacBook will be thinner than current iBooks, will be available in both black and white configurations, and will likely cost slightly more than previous iBook models—not unlike the price increase Apple’s Mac mini saw with its transition to Intel processors. ...

The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest brings the ideas of Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Rube Goldberg’s “Invention” cartoons to life. Named after, and inspired by the cartoonist Reuben Lucius Goldberg, this Olympics of Complexity is designed to pull students away from conventional problem-solving and push them into the endless chaos of imagination and intuitive thought. To be specific, groups are given an elementary challenge: something as simple as peeling an apple, sharpening a pencil, or putting toothpaste on a toothbrush. But instead of just “solving” the problem, students have to make the solution as complicated and as convoluted as possible. In fact, the more steps - there’s a minimum of twenty - the better the Rube Goldberg Machine. And what a machine! An assemblage of ordinary objects, mechanical gadgets, and the oddest odds and ends are linked together and somehow get to the desired goal. An example? For video, ...

A portable NES/Famicom emulator written in C++ It’s available for Windows and MacOSX and here you can found a rich collection of roms. Source, Melablog. On The Old Computer Dot Com a wide collection of emulator and roms.

Run Windows, Linux and a lot more Systems on your Mac. Q is a feature packed cocoa port of QEMU: Switch fast between guest PCs. Save and restart guest PCs at any stage. Easily exchange Files between Host and Guest. Q makes use of OS X most advanced technologies like openGL and coreaudio to accelerate your experience with your guest PC. This is “only” an easy-interface to QEMU, «a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using dynamic translation», but it works very very good (and smarty, imho). ...

… o almeno iniziano a farlo. Io personalmente non avevo mai letto niente a proposito di test/challenge per il cracking di sistemi MacOSX (ce ne sono stati, ma sempre per dimostrare la robustezza di questi sistemi e di Linux rispetto a W32). Ebbene, ne sono stati lanciati già 2 (ma sicuramente altri ce ne sono e non ci (mi) sono pervenuti): RM MY MAC Mac OS X Security Challenge ...

Introduction A Multi-Seat Linux Box: This tutorial shows how to build a multi-head, multi-user Linux box using a recent distribution of Linux and standard USB keyboards and mice. Xorg calls this arrangement a "multi-seat" system. > Advantages of a Multi-Seat System: The advantages of multi-seat systems in schools, Internet cafes, and libraries include more than just saving money. They include much lower noise pollution, much less power consumption, and lowered space requirements. For many applications, power and noise budgets are as important as initial cost. http://www.detronizator.org/wp-admin/post.php Requirements: To build a multi-seat system you need a video adapter, keyboard, and mouse for each seat. For six seats, you'll also need a motherboard with an AGP slot and five available PCI slots. In our test system we used USB keyboards and mice exclusively, but you can use a PS/2 keyboard and mouse for one of the seats if you wish. > Xorg 6.9 or later is required, but this already ships with many of the major distributions. Our test system uses the free version of Mandriva 2006 and we did not rebuild the kernel or install any additional packages. Here for the full article. ...

Pure MS Style! :lol: At Naples we use a meaning-full expression: CAFONE!

What Would Jobs Do? A beautifull gallery on Engadget. Some of these are pretty COOL! The first entry, for example.

School Announcement This school brings together scientists and engineers interested in recent developments of magnetism. Emphasis is placed on micro-electromechanical systems and spintronic applications. > Objectives The objective of the school is to propose a synergic junction between the characteristic expertise of the engineering and the knowledge of the basic science. The main effect should be a cross-cultural fertilization favoring an interdisciplinary enrichment for the attendants and their research perspectives. The program of the school will cover a wide area in the domain of the science and technology of magnetic nanostructures and microsystems. The lectures are organized in four main topics: Spintronics; Magmas (magnetic MEMS and NEMS for micromachines, microrobotics and microsystem technology); Magnetic recording; Magnetic Nanoscience. The school was ideated from the Magnetism Research Group - University of Messina (Italy) and will start in Villa San Giovanni - Scilla, Calabria, Italy 2 - 15 July 2006. ...