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How To Downgrade from Apple OS X Lion to Snow Leopard

If you're willing to reformat and start fresh, reverting from Apple OS X Lion to Snow Leopard isn't terribly difficult. We like Apple OS X Lion a lot (you can read all about it in our OS X Lion review ), but that doesn't change the fact that a new OS always carries its growing pains.
Finally you can do something with that old LCD monitor you have in the garage. http://www.instructables.com/id/Privacy-monitor-made-from-an-old-LCD-Monitor/

Privacy monitor hacked from an old LCD Monitor

Hello again, everybody ! Today i thought that we’d take a look at a fun and useful topic of interest to many system administrators : load balancing & redundancy. Now, i know, it doesn’t sound too exciting – but trust me, once you get your first mini-cluster set up, you’ll never look at service management quite the same way again. It’s not even that tough to set up, and you can get a basic setup going in almost no time at all, thanks to some great open source software that can be found in more or less any modern repository. First, as always, a little bit of theory. The most basic web server setup (for example), looks something like figure 001, below : http://www.dark.ca/2009/10/21/load-balancing-or-how-i-learned-to-love-a-piranha/

load balancing, or, « how i learned to love a piranha » « dan's linux blog

In 1978 Hans Cousto, a Swiss mathematician and musicologist discovered the natural law of the "Cosmic Octave" as the link between different kinds of perodically occurring natural phenomena, such as the orbit of the planets, the weather, colors, rhythms and tones. The Planetary Frequencies The following pages contain the script of the booklet "The Cosmic Octave Tuning Forks" by Hans Cousto. The frequencies of Earth, Moon, the planets and Sun and their corresponding tones, tempos, colors, chakras and effects are described: Free Downoad : The Cosmic Octave Tuning Forks The complete content of the booklet as PDF-file Tuning Forks http://www.planetware.de/octave/cosmic-octave.html

The Cosmic Octave by Hans Cousto | Planetary Tones | Tuning Forks, Space Flutes

IBM unveils one trillion bit-per-second optical chip

http://www.gizmag.com/ibm-holey-optochip/21799/ IBM's prototype 5.2 x 5 .8 mm Holey Optochip Image Gallery (2 images) Last Thursday at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles, a team from IBM presented research on their wonderfully-named "Holey Optochip."
Anonymity, Darknets and Staying Out of Federal Custody, Part One: Deep Web You've probably seen those deep-web images floating around on the Internet. Usually, it goes something like this: There is a towering iceberg and the deeper the underwater portion extends, the more “hidden” and “exotic” the content is described to be. http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/inspiration/anonymity-darknets-and-staying-out-federal-custody-part-one-deep-web-0133455/

Anonymity, Darknets and Staying Out of Federal Custody, Part One: Deep Web

Gimp or the GNU Image Manipulation Program is a software that enables its user to retouch, edit and manipulate photos or image.

40+ Excellent GIMP Tutorials for Designers

http://naldzgraphics.net/tutorials/40-excellent-gimp-tutorials-for-designers/

Project Kleinrock - OmegaSDG Project Wiki

Following are the details of a project to create a completely autonomous "second layer" of the Internet, completely free of the influence of or need for Internet Service Providers, and untouchable by the government. This plan is named after Leonard Kleinrock, inventor of the Internet Packet. It has been enacted after news of a bill entering the United States Senate which would allow a President to disable all Internet connectivity within the United States. http://wiki.omegasdg.com/index.php?title=Project_Kleinrock
Now that you've installed Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, a kickass GNU+Linux based free desktop operating system, there's a lot of fun stuff waiting for you to try!

The Silent Number: Ubuntu 10.04 Post-Install Guide: What to do and try after installing Lucid Lynx!

http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2010/04/ubuntu-1004-post-install-guide-what-to.html
One of the great revelations of 20th century science is that all existence can be broken down into simple wave functions. https://www.erowid.org/culture/references/other/1997_turmel_resproject_1.shtml

Culture Vaults : Resonant Frequencies and the Human Brain

We’ve been running a series of guides that show just how easy it is to bi-pass general DNS censorship.

8 Technical Methods That Make the PROTECT IP Act Useless

This time I’ll help you to create a ready to print three-fold brochure from scratch using only Photoshop.

Design a Ready to Print Brochure in Photoshop

How To Browse The Nautilus File Manager As Root - Ubuntu 11.10/11.04

In this tip we will see how to browse your files and folder as root via the Nautilus file manager under Ubuntu 11.10/11.04. This will help you edit, copy, paste, and move files and folders that require root privileges (file system) without using the terminal. Getting Started