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2010

Image Viewer

by karlcow

45. Wreck of the 'Gratitude', Macquarie Island, 1911

Run IT as a business -- why that's a train wreck waiting to happen

by wabaus
"Want to board the right train? Your ticket to the promised land begins with this: No one inside your company is your customer. Thinking that they are is the core fallacy of the standard model, and it has caused no end of trouble." "My advice? Don't act like a separate business. Do the opposite -- be the most internal of internal departments. Become so integrated into the enterprise that nobody would dream of working with anyone else."

2009

Language Log » Google Books: A Metadata Train Wreck

by night.kame

It might seem easy to cherry-pick howlers from a corpus as exensive as this one, but these errors are endemic. Do a search on "internet" in books written before 1950 and Google Scholar turns up 527 hits

On connaissait Gmail la poubelle à courriels, maintenant on a Google Scholar la poubelle à livres.

.:Scribus:. GPL Desktop Publishing and More

by tadeufilippini (via)
Advanced Ghostscript and GSview Hints One of the frustrations for users of RPM-based or commercially created distributions, is the lack of availability of the latest versions of Ghostscript(GS). Because of the differences in licensing between the GPL Ghostscript and AFPL Ghostscript, GPL Ghostscript releases usually follow by about a year, the release of the most up to date AFPL GS. Because, there are certain restrictions in AFPL, most Linux distributions ship an older and heavily patched version of GPL Ghostscript. As the current GS 8.x resource configuration (where it looks for fonts and fontmaps) is new, simply dropping in the latest GS tarball and rebuilding the RPM does not quite work. Lord knows I've tried on Red Hat and I consider myself to be pretty well versed in RPM building. If you have ever seen the Red Hat or Suse rpm spec file for GS, you will know what I mean. ;) So, why do I want to go to the trouble of worrying about having the absolute latest version of GS? Not so difficult. 1. There are real substantial improvements in the ability of GS 8.5 to handle EPS and PDF files which have the kinds of advanced features Scribus and other DTP applications can create. This can in some cases directly affect the quality of EPS and PS imports into Scribus. 2. You can build it with full on compiler optimization, which speeds up print and separation previews in Scribus. Many distributions only compile it with i386 instructions. This is probably more beneficial to older workstations compared to newer ones. Image processing programs are one area where compiler optimizations do make a difference. 3. Having the latest GS, makes GSview (and Scribus) more capable and more robust at handling both EPS files and a special kind of EPS called DCS 2.0. 4. Both Scribus and GSview have the ability in their preferences settings to use alternative locations for GS and GS libraries. So, how does one get the latest GS for Scribus and GSview - without breaking your existing distribution printing setup? The secret: a parallel build of GS. Disclaimer: This works for me. It could wreck your system, catch your hair on fire and other nastiness.

2008

Téléchargement de photo Flickr : Steamship "California"

by sbrothier
Description: This is an illustration of steamship "California" at sea (1848 1894). Only a few passengers were on board when the ship left New York on October 6, 1848. By the time the ship reached its stop on the Panama's Pacific coast, word had spread of the great new find of gold in California. Over 700 people tried to get passage on the ship in that harbor. The Pacific Mail agent managed to cram 365 people aboard the ship before it set sail for California. The ship and passengers reached San Francisco on February 28, 1949, where all but one member of the crew deserted the ship for the goldfields. The ship was lost in a wreck off the Peruvian coast in 1894.

The Official Netflix Blog: Encoding for streaming

by night.kame

This venture is doomed to fail! WMV? Silverlight? Are you kidding? Isn't it about time for Netflix to grow up?

NBC was paid by Microsoft to use this technology for the '08 Olympics - NBC abandoned the technology as soon as Olympics were over. MLB used Silverlight for the same reason - Microsoft subsidized the project. Did you read the news last week? MLB is abandoning Silverlight for 2009 season in favor of Flash.

Netflix is marrying itself to yet another also-ran technology from Microsoft. This should be a fun train wreck to watch!

C'est le film qu'on attend tous sur Netflix : "Le Silverlight infernal". Si ça pouvait nous emporter un Icaza au passage, ce ne serait pas plus mal.

dive site directory

by rmaltete
Scuba diving information and diving reviews on dive sites and countries all over the world including the Caribbean, Canary islands, Fiji, Indonesia, Malta, New Zealand, USA, Australia the UK and the Red Sea. Dive site directory was set up to give divers easy access to diving information on dive sites all over the world, with information collated from contributions by the diving community. Our information includes overviews for over 49 countries worldwide, spans over 936 separate dive sites and includes dive site maps for each location, photos, and even diving videos and wreck illustrations!

2007

Coffee and caffeine addiction

by jcosmo77 (via)
With more and more people in offices now a days, coffee inside these offices has become, sadly, almost mandatory. A cup of coffee seems to stimulate your senses, but did you know that the regular in-take of caffeine can leave you wired and a complete wreck. Why? It’s because coffee (with caffeine) will stimulate the central nervous system of your body and will increase the stress hormones in your blood.

2006

Corey Haim at Fan Convention in Chicago

by evilmonkeypaw
Corey Haim is a walking train wreck and completely clueless.

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning

by gilles@reseau2000.net & 1 other
Star Wreck is a feature-length science fiction parody made in Finland. The film took seven years to make, but in the end we had a film with amazing special effects, action and lots of dark humor. Go and download the movie, it's free. If you like the film,

Records: Fat Wreck Chords

by banzai
Wolves In Wolves' Clothing

2005

The Daily News: Ship’s secrets up for grabs

by multilinko
the Fantome was loaded with loot from the White House, which British troops burned in August 1814. The ship was heading home to Halifax with a convoy when it lost its way in a vicious storm. No survivors With untold treasures, Fantome smashed into shoals and sank off Prospect on Nov. 24, 1814. The wreck was left undisturbed for political reasons. The event coincided with the end of the war, and the two nations wanted to move on. “Obviously, this was a very touchy subject at the time, so no one really said any more about it,” Chisholm said. Jagged rocks kept excavators away for nearly 200 years. It’s only recently that the technology has allowed anyone to take a look.

JAMES CARROLL: Train wreck of an election

by mikepower
There is only one way in which the grand claims made by Washington for the weekend voting will be true -- and that is if the elections empower an Iraqi government that moves quickly to repudiate Washington.

2004

Star Wreck

by relax & 1 other
An epic film about the emperor of the world in the far reaches of the galaxy.

2003

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