December 2009
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The Changing Design Of Santa Claus
As it’s almost Christmas Day, I thought it might be a good time to take a look at how Santa’s look and feel has changed over time. Today’s Santa Claus is believed to have been inspired by a 4th century Greek Christian bishop, Saint Nicholas of Myra. Saint Nicholas became known for his gifts to the poor. Early artists impressions portray him as a bearded man in canonical robes. A little...
The Making Of: Avatar - 10 min video
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Terminal Tips: Enable "path view" in Finder - very...
Filed under: Terminal TipsTerminal Tips: Enable “path view” in Finder by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Dec 5th 2008 at 11:00AM When you open a Finder window and start browsing to a folder, do you lose track of the path to that folder? If you do, the Terminal command below will enable path view in the Finder — this means that you will see the directory path to the current folder...
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON - "Meet The Wolfpack"
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Wikipedia has a problem - this is the first time i...
Wikipedia has a problem Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. Try waiting a few minutes and reloading. (Can’t contact the database server: Unknown error (10.0.6.32))You can try searching via Google in the meantime. Note that their indexes of our content may be out of date. Wikipedia WWW via en.wikipedia.org Posted via web from Rajani’s...
Most Popular Linux Posts of 2009 - Best of 2009 -...
A new browser, two new Ubuntu releases, and more than one new netbook OS—2009 was a big year for open-source software. Here are the Linux-related posts that caught our readers’ attention in 2009. Last year, we compiled the most popular Linux downloads of 2008 and the most popular Linux posts. The most popular Linux downloads, however, tend to also be...
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Centre's nod to Telangana spurs demand for 9 new...
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Google Public DNS - a new DNS resolver from...
Using Google Public DNS Download this page in PDF Configuring your network settings to use Google Public DNS When you use Google Public DNS, you are changing your DNS “switchboard” operator from your ISP to Google Public DNS. In most cases, the IP addresses used by your ISP’s domain name servers are automatically set by your ISP via the Dynamic Host Configuration ...