100,000 please Mr Livingstone

I’m going to be rich! Apparently there’s a reward for the design of a cooling system for London’s tube network: …Subterranean heat reached 52 degrees Celsius [on the tube], with humidity factored in. Ken Livingstone, London’s mayor, has promised a reward of £100,000 ($160,000) to anyone who invents an air-conditioning system that will work on… Continue reading 100,000 please Mr Livingstone

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Experimenting with Linux, part 3

The final options are both based on Mandrake 9.1. I’ve been a fan of Mandrake for a while now – I’d heard it was a friendly distro and given it a try at Mandrake 8.0, after buying Redhat7 & discovering it didn’t want to play with my hardware without significant pushing and shoving. Mandrake was… Continue reading Experimenting with Linux, part 3

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Pictures of America

Searching for Wile E. Coyote on Google images (don’t ask) and I came across a picture of a RoadRunner-esque rock formation. This page has links to a small collection of photographs across America, some of which are very good. Here’s a sample: I do hope the author/photographer (EC Nelson, I presume) doesn’t mind me using… Continue reading Pictures of America

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