Fake Mars Looks Like a Terrible, Terrible Place [Video]

If I was one of these Mars500 crew members who spent over 250 days sitting in a room as part of a simulated journey to the red planet, and this was the best Fake Mars the European Space Agency could come up with, I'd be pissed. Keep in mind they have to go back in that room for another 200+ days after they finish their "mission," which you can check out in video form: More »


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HP announces 3 new webOS devices

Many geeks (including yours truly) was very surprised when HP bought Palm last April. Since that time, fans of Palm have been anxiously waiting for info on new devices running the webOS operating system. That wait is over…  at least for the info part. Today HP announced 3 new webOS devices: The HP Veer, HP [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/02/09/hp-announces-3-new-webos-devices/

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CorelDraw video tutorial: Pulling in photos and clip art from the Web

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This is the fourth (and final) of our CorelDRAW video tutorials. You can watch the others by browsing the CorelDRAW tag.

When creating a vector image or a composition, you don't always have to re-invent the wheel. After all, it is more than likely that whatever it is you're trying to do has been done before, at least in part. Using existing images or clip art ("media assets" in business parlance) can greatly speed up your work, and even improve the overall look of the image you produce.

To this end, I've chosen to create a video showing Corel Connect. It's a media search engine that comes with CorelDRAW, and helps you pull in images from Flickr, Fotolia, iStockphoto, and of course, your local hard drive and CorelDRAW's own clip art repositories.

Corel Connect ties in very tightly with CorelDRAW itself, and also does a nice job of protecting the original creator's rights so you don't "forget" to license whatever content you're using. See for yourself after the jump!

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Turn off your PC and BitTorrent from a Linux console with rTorrent

This week's series of tips is all about downloading files via BitTorrent. We'll highlight ways in which to torrent more efficiently, obtain higher download speeds, and generally make the whole process easier. For more tech tips, check our Tips index.

Only noobs BitTorrent from their main Windows or Mac computer! Torrenting uses a lot of system resources and can significantly slow down your computer if you have a few torrents open. Additionally, you don't want to upload lots of data while you play games, or while other people in the house are using the Internet -- and really, leaving your computer on over night to download torrents is rather uneconomical.

The best solution, short of getting a VPS and doing your torrenting remotely, is to install a headless Linux or BSD box and control all of your torrents via the text-only console. Now, this isn't a guide on how to set up your own Linux box (there are hundreds of them online, just search) -- but basically any old, unused computer will do. Ideally you want it to be headless (i.e. without a monitor), so that you can put it under the stairs and so that it draws as little power as possible. If you can't choose a distro, Ubuntu Desktop is just fine.

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Turn off your PC and BitTorrent from a Linux console with rTorrent originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Massive Information Stockpile Guides Humanity's Course

Sixty one CD-ROMS for every man, woman, and child on Earth. That's the amount of global data humankind stored on devices of every kind in 2007 -- 295 exabytes, or 80 times more information per person than exists in the historic Library of Alexandria, Egypt. "We tracked 60 analog and digital technologies from 1986 to 2007," said study co-author Martin Hilbert, Ph.D., an information researcher at USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.

Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/71850.html

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Debian 6 Squeeze, the universal operating system, finally released

After exactly two years of development and with over 10,000 new packages, version 6 of the wunderkind jack of all trades, Debian, has been released. This release, along with support for i386, amd64, powerpc, sparc, mips, mipsel, ia64, s390 and armel architectures, also features a technical preview of Debian ported to the FreeBSD kernel, dubbed Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

Along with the usual slew of updated software packages (no GNOME 3 though!), Debian 6 also reaffirms its role as the One OS to Run Them All with the addition of some 10,000 new packages, bringing the total number of software packages in Debian up to more than 29,000. If you want some idea of just how broad Debian's coverage is, check out the new Debian Pure Blends.

Bearded purists will be interested to hear that the Debian 6 kernel is, for the first time, completely free. The problematic non-free firmware files have been moved into a non-free area of the Debian archive, and will have to be explicitly included if you want to use them.

Finally, alongside GNOME, Debian 6 ships with KDE Plasma Desktop, Xfce and LXDE desktop environments. There's also a KDE Plasma Netbook shell that makes Debian a lot more usable on small form-factor devices.

The best way to download Debian 6 is with BitTorrent, but there are HTTP and FTP sources too. If you're enjoying a particularly slow Sunday morning, read the complete release notes...

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Samsung Galaxy S 4G pegged for February 23rd launch at $150

Liked that Galaxy S 4G we just showed you chowing down on tapas out in Barcelona? Well, take heart, T-Mobile subscribers: your Vibrant replacement with HSPA+ support and video calling capability has just been assigned a February 23rd release date for $149.99 on contract. We've known for some time that it'd be released in February, granted, but look at it this way: they're pushing it out a full five days before they'd absolutely have to in order to stay true to their word. If you're feeling tempted, given Sammy's track record, just be sure you're comfortable with the idea that you might be on Froyo for a while.

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Samsung Galaxy S 4G pegged for February 23rd launch at $150 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HP Acquires Data Management And Real-Time Analytics Company Vertica

HP has just announced that it has acquired data management company Vertica. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011, were not disclosed. Vertica, which has raised $30.5 million in funding, develops data management solutions for storing and querying databases. Its products include The Vertica Analytic Database, which helps in analyzing data; Vertica for the Cloud, a cloud-based analytic database that helps in data management; and Vertica Analytic Database appliance, a hardware/software data management platform

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Bundlelytic charity bundle: $300 of system utilities for $50, and a further $10 off for Download Squad readers

Bundleytic, until the end of February, is offering nine Windows programs worth $300 for just $49.99. Half of the proceeds, after the developers get their cut, will go to the Queensland Disaster Relief Appeal to help with the recent floods in Australia.

Included in the bundle is: Partition Manager 11, SafeWallet 2, Divvy for Windows, Oops!Backup, System Speedup PRO, Nova PDF Professional 7, EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 5, Returnil System Safe 3, and Pixo. To be brutally honest, there are free versions available for most of the programs -- but the bundle is probably worth buying just for Data Recovery Wizard and Returnil, both of which are excellent (and costly for the full versions). If you buy the bundle you will also be entered into a giveaway to win a 250 GB ioSafe Rugged Portable hard drive.

Finally, if $49.99 wasn't cheap enough for you, enter the promo code DS5OFF at the checkout you will get a further $10 discount! If you're ever wanted a slew of system management utilities, now must surely be the best time to pick some up.

[If you want to use PayPal to buy the bundle, and there's nowhere to enter the code, use this link to apply the discount.]

Bundlelytic charity bundle: $300 of system utilities for $50, and a further $10 off for Download Squad readers originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Last blocks of IPv4 addresses allocated, exhaustion now imminent

This is just a quick note to say that, in a ceremonial event in Miami, the last five blocks of IPv4 addresses have now been handed out by IANA, a part of ICANN. Each of the five regional registries -- North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia -- now have only a few million IP addresses to allocate.

IP address exhaustion will hit Asia first. With 24 million IP addresses used by APNIC in January 2011, and only around 50 million addresses left in its pool, exhaustion is expected to occur in the next few months. Europe will be next, probably towards the end of 2011, and North America will follow sometime in 2012.

Are you prepared for the IPocalypse?!

Last blocks of IPv4 addresses allocated, exhaustion now imminent originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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