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THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
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  • Intro to the Semantic Web

    Rated Jan 15 2008 • 8 reviews • internet, computer • youtube.com

    The Semantic Web for Non-Geeks
    via Minding the Planet, Nova Spivack; on You Tube by Manu Sporny President and CEO of Digital Bazaar

    Question: What do you do if you're not a computer scientist but you are interested in understanding what all this Semantic Web stuff is about?

    Answer: Watch this video!

    Intro to the Semantic Web
    RDFa Basics


    A promising and exciting development of the web.






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    Intro to the Semantic Web

  • Google and the Wisdom of Clouds

    Rated Dec 16 2007 • 3 reviews • internet, change, computer, freetools • businessweek.com

    Google and the Wisdom of Clouds
    via InnovationWatch, in Business Week by Stephen Baker

    What is Google's cloud? It's a network made of hundreds of thousands, or by some estimates 1 million, cheap servers, each not much more powerful than the PCs we have in our homes. It stores staggering amounts of data, including numerous copies of the World Wide Web. This makes search faster, helping ferret out answers to billions of queries in a fraction of a second. Unlike many traditional supercomputers, Google's system never ages. When its individual pieces die, usually after about three years, engineers pluck them out and replace them with new, faster boxes. This means the cloud regenerates as it grows, almost like a living thing.

    Google and the Wisdom of Clouds
    Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft



    These 2 articles supplement the article about the new Linux/SAAS office model I referred to yesterday.

    Cloud computing initially enabled Google to answer our searches in an extremely fast way. It then evolved into Software As A Service (SAAS). There is an explosion literally of new applications (apps) becoming available by the day online.
    I myself now, on a daily base, use Gmail + iGoogle + Gbookmarks + Gnotebook + Greader + Gsearch + Gimages (Picasa) + Gdocs + Gmaps and Gearth + Gblogger +... and SU! My experience with these Google Apps is most satisfactory I must say. No loss any longer of bookmarks and notes due to system upgrading or HD crashes...

    SAAS satisfies 95% of my daily needs on the computer. But SAAS is only feasible from a computer loaded with a system and a browser. That's where Linux and Open Source Applications are bound to make inroads...

    I use Ubuntu and Firefox.
    Those who use professional applications (writing, imaging, engineering or other) will not be satisfied by Online Apps at least in their present versions. They still need their specialized software. I myself, for example, often use imaging and writing software and I'm very satisfied with Open Source offerings. (Imaging: The GIMP, INKSCAPE, PICASA, XSANE SCAN,... Writing: TOMBOY NOTES, OPEN OFFICE, SCRIBUS, ...)




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    Google and the Wisdom of Clouds

  • My Way

    Rated Apr 21 2006 • 1 review • computer • myway.com


    Linux Distributors Unite on Standard
    It's high time. I work 100% on Linux (Ubuntu) and find the experience totally satisfactory but what the heck do all those geecks think about? A hundred or more versions of Linux? I'm not against diversity, I think it's a richness, but you need at a minimum to give the users a free passage from one version to another...
    in MyWay by PETER SVENSSON
    """ In a move to make the freely distributed Linux operating system a stronger alternative to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows, a group of major Linux distributors announced Friday they have united on a standard set of components for desktop versions of Linux.
    The standard created by the Free Standards Group should make it easier for developers to write applications that will work on Linux versions from different distributors. """

    URL: Linux Distributors Unite on Standard


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    My Way

  • Planetside - Home

    Rated Mar 12 2006 • 80 reviews • computer • planetside.co.uk


    Terragen, landscape generator.
    via Bill Hunt's pages
    From the page: "Terragen is a work-in-progress scenery generator for Windows and the Mac OS. At this stage of its development, Terragen is free for personal non-commercial use.
    Terragen is capable of photorealistic results for professional landscape visualisation, special effects, art and recreation."

    URL: Terragen


    186K views
    Planetside - Home

  • OliviaBs reviews - StumbleUpon

    Rated Mar 12 2006 • 1 review • software, computer • stumbleupon.com


    OliviaB's hard drive crash
    I went through the same problem as OliviaB a year ago. My experience flows along the same lines of what she describes in her post. So what did I do about it?
    First of all I bought a new hard drive and decided to go 100% Linux (User friendly Ubuntu). Before starting loading programs and data that I had saved here and there I decided to take a good look at my back-up strategy. After having gone over all the possibilities I decided to follow a double strategy
    1.
    Back-up on a second hard-drive. So I have my working hard-drive with system, applications and data and my second hard-drive is only for my data. In Ubuntu it is easy not so in Ms Windows where the data are dispersed all over the directories. Data, documents, images, music and whatever else, in Ubuntu, are stored in the HOME directory. So every week I just save my Home directory to my back-up drive. This is fast and a one click solution.
    2.
    Web storage. Gmail comes to mind (I have a storage space of some 2.5 Gigabites). Another system is ESnips that gives 1 Gigabite storage FREE. There is also your home page... I use myway and store my most used bookmarks there. I also use del.icio.us and now also StumbleUpon to store articles, studies,... that I find of interest and wish eventually to have the opportunity to find back later on. But the most exciting is Google's coming GDrive that will offer ILLIMITED STORAGE...

    Good luck.
    My hard drive crashed a couple of days ago, and cannot be accessed at all. It's completely gone. I have lost everything on it. I feel devestated. It's never happened to me before. Had I been backing everything up? Well, no. And yes, I do feel like a complete idiot, because I knew I should be backing up.
    Now I'm seeking a good back up program and routine. I'd very much welcome any suggestions. Makes me glad that SU is stored on the net. Imagine losing all those stumbles. I'll probably use one or two of those internet storage sites now, too, and would very much welcome recommendations on this. And on any other protective measures I should be taking.

    URL: News from Behind the Monitor and a request for advice

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    OliviaBs reviews - StumbleUpon

  • http://mmmaybe.gimp.org/tutorials/

    Rated Feb 10 2006 • 66 reviews • linux, open source, art, computer, freetools • gimp.org

    An archive of tutorials for Gimp users
    262K views
    http://mmmaybe.gimp.org/tutorials/

  • http://www.linuxartist.org/

    Rated Feb 10 2006 • 14 reviews • linux, internet, art, computer • linuxartist.org

    Linux Art and Design Resources
    44K views
    http://www.linuxartist.org/

  • Index of Course Sections

    Rated Dec 30 2005 • 4 reviews • computer graphics, art, visualization, computer • osu.edu

    A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation is a reasonably interesting academic-esque survey of computer graphics history, up to the year 2000 at least
    947 views
    Index of Course Sections

  • Rudy Ruckers Home Page. Writing, science fiction,...

    Rated Dec 19 2005 • 6 reviews • complex systems, science, art, computer • sjsu.edu

    - The POP FRAMEWORK Framework for computer games. - James Gleick's CHAOS: The Software - CAPOW Continuous-Valued Cellular Automata. - DOS Gnarl (Spirograph, Chaotic Vine, Quartic Julia Sets). - BOPPERS. Artificial Life Laboratory. - CELLAB. Discr
    10K views
    Rudy Ruckers Home Page. Writing, science fiction, Bruegel novel, cellular automata, computer games, software downloads.

  • Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications Of 2005

    Rated Dec 17 2005 • 9 reviews • software, computer, internet, technology, freetools • articledashboard.com

    Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005 Here is another reprise of Web 2.0 applicatons of 2005, this time done as a top ten list.
    790 views
    Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications Of 2005