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Samsung Hard Disk Soup
"Because its Nod32 license ended, this guy had to take action and get rid of the viruses from this computer. And indeed he found an amazing method of doing that and much more. The recipe you ask? It is quite simple. But first here are the ingredients: one Samsung hard disk, 2 liters of water, 10 peas of black pepper, 2 pieces of laurel and a pinch of salt. First get the water to a boiling point and then add the rest of the ingredients. Do not forget the most important one, the hard disk. Boil this mixture for 10 minutes and let it cool for about 20-30 minutes. Once the hard disk has cooled off you can insert it back into your computer, virus scan free!!"
3 rare White Lion Cubs !!!
Three white lion cubs were born last week in the Olmen Zoo. White lions are very rare, worldwide there are only 200 of them, and they only survive by selective breeding in zoos.
Diamond-studded iPod shuffle photo
Does your girlfriend like bling a lot ? Well ehad on over to London where this Diamond-studded iPod shuffle is to be auctioned. Yeah, there's a lot of good, civically-minded things you could do with your cash... but wouldn't it be more fun to blow it on a 1GB iPod? If you're dying to prove how little £20,000 (or around $40,000) means to you, here's your chance. A jeweler named Thomas Heyerdahl has created an 18 karat, diamond studded, ...
The one-off piece was created by jeweller, Thomas Heyerdahl, who says the process was painstaking and meticulous as there wouldn't ever be another one.
He said: "It's a special thing, making just one. If we had make this for commercial sale, it would be quite a different thing because then you have to take care of, much more things to make it work commercially."
Source: yahoofunny Cool car tunning !
The COO of Nintendo’s U.S. “Dirty South” divison?
So much chrome, the train horns are unnecessary. Thanks anyway.
Ok, this definitely belongs to some good old White Trash…
The standard factory overhead lighting was a little too “cheap”!
Very happy McDonald’s employees on their way to work:
What a beautiful ocean shot!
(The 28 count means 28 inch rims — fun filled fact)
Making Chester very proud.
Did You Know How These Names Came About ?
Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server -- thus, the name Apache
Apple Computers - favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.
C - Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie)
CISCO - its not an acronymn but the short for San Francisco.
Compaq - using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
GNU - a species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humour associated with its pronuniciation and was also influenced by the children's song 'The Gnu Song' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'.
Google - the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'!
Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.
HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Java - Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was another language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank.
Best wallpaper II wide
Kirei desu III by *tumb on deviantART
The Hill by ^manicho on deviantART
Dual-Dream by ~Cyher on deviantART
Blue Dock by ~dimage on deviantART
Long Road Ahead II by *tumb on deviantART
Pale skies by ~MohsinNaqi on deviantART
Colonize the Moon by ~Joker84 on deviantART
Kirei Desu IV by *tumb on deviantART
Death Star-Inspired Hotel to Open in Azerbaijan
That's right, a Death Star-inspired hotel is set to open in Burka, Azerbaijan. Standing 521-feet high, it features 382 rooms and 35-plus floors. They call it "Full Moon" but they are not fooling us: this is a fully armed, fully operational battle station.
And it shall be destroyed before it's too late, with a bunch of small fighters that can escape its turbolasers and drop proton torpedoes down an exhaust port. Or maybe not, if you look at it from its side. Yes, I know, even with 104,182 square metres, with 382 rooms over 35 floors, it's a complete letdown. Jeff Vader won't be happy with this pancaked Death Star at all.
Source: skyscrapernews.com