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Felix Baumgartner jumps from 128,038 feet or 39.026 kilometers.

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The world record for the highest skydive has been broken with Felix Baumgartner jumping from 128,038 feet or 39.026 kilometers. The previous record; set in 1961 was 102,800 feet; set by Joseph Kittinger. This record will stand for some time before this is broken again. Humans can achieve some incredible things when we set our … Read more

A look at the very latest Ubuntu 12.04 Unity desktop.

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I have had another look at the Ubuntu Unity desktop, I am aware that this desktop environment is not everybody’s favourite user interface, but it deserves another look. I have recorded a Youtube video of the latest Unity desktop and with the MyUnity desktop configuration tool that allows even more configuration of the Unity interface … Read more

Play video with mplayer and scale the output.

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To playback video in mplayer in different sizes, just use this command: 4.4 Fri Oct 05 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ mplayer -vf scale=960:720 Listening\ to\ the\ radio\ in\ Syria.\ This\ guy\ is\ very\ chill.-ncMhr.mp44.4 Fri Oct 05 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ mplayer -vf scale=960:720 Listening\ to\ the\ radio\ in\ Syria.\ This\ guy\ is\ very\ chill.-ncMhr.mp4 This is … Read more

Windows 1.0 in Virtual PC. A look at Windows 1.0 and the new features it offered.

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http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/052611-windows-1.html [http://www.networkworld.com] This is an interesting article where someone has gotten Windows 1.0 installed in a Virtual Machine on a modern Windows machine and taken a look at the applications that were shipped with the release of this ancient operating system. Now this is a blast from the past, Windows 1.0 would run fine on … Read more