July 2008

Thursday, July 17 2008, the world’s first commercial-scale tidal turbine briefly delivered electricity into the UK’s national grid.

SeaGen was designed and built by the Bristol based tidal energy company Marine Current Turbines (MCT).

2. SeaGen works in principle much like an “underwater windmill” with the rotors driven by the power of the tidal currents rather than the wind. Strangford Lough has a highly energetic tide race and so is recognised as one of the main tidal “hotspots” in UK and Irish waters. Other areas are the waters off Anglesey, the Pentland Firth and the Channel Islands.

SeaGen Project

MCT-Turning The Tide

GreenPeace - Renewable energy

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Cuil (pronounced kewl)

Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. For knowledge, ask Cuil.

http://www.cuil.com/

http://www.cuil.com/info/

The layout is very different from Google, Live Search and Yahoo’s, it’s a magazine style popular with bloggers, complete with tabs.

Typed spyware into the search box.

We didn’t find any results for “spyware”

Some reasons might be…

* a typo. Please check your spelling.
* your search includes a term that is very rare. Try to find a more common substitute.
* too many search terms. Please try fewer terms.

Finally, try to think of different words to describe your search.

Update
A few hours later Cuil produced 317,325,062 results for spyware.

Google produced results 1 - 10 of about 94,900,000 for spyware. But Cuil was just launched and looks promising, especially with the founders’ credentials.

The super-stealth search project was founded by highly respected search experts. Husband and wife team Tom Costello (CEO) and Anna Patterson (VP Engineering) were joined by Russell Power. Patterson and Power are also ex-Google employees, and the company has been the subject of intense speculation over the last couple of years.
TechCrunch.com: Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search Engine

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Pwnie Awards

Pwnie for Most Overhyped Bug
Awarded to the person who discovered a bug resulting in the most hype on the Internets and in the mainstream media. Bonus points for bugs that turn out to be impossible to exploit in practice. Also known as ‘Pwnie for Pwning the Media.’Unspecified DNS cache poisoning vulnerability (CVE-2008-1447) Dan Kaminsky

The Register

Exploit code for Kaminsky DNS bug goes wild
When Dan Kaminsky disclosed a critical flaw in the net’s address lookup system earlier this month, he said it was crucial internet service providers and other organizations install patches immediately. He wasn’t kidding.

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Ina Fried at CNET today.

Microsoft looks to ‘Mojave’ to revive Vista’s image
Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a “new” operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that “Mojave” was actually Windows Vista.

“Oh wow,” said one user,

Ironic, so perhaps it’s perception not usage that has led to at least part of any negative response to Vista.

I have Windows Vista on all my machines excepting Windows XP Pro on a laptop, which I did not upgrade because of Intel’s 915 chipset, which does not support Windows Aero.

Intel continued to provide motherboards with the 915 graphics embedded, and OEM’s sold them, right up to and after Windows Vista was launched.

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And I thought the MVP Global Summit was huge.

Annual Microsoft Global Exchange (MGX)

This year it was in Atlanta, where 13,000 Microsoft employees, sales and marketing types, and evangelists gathered…

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Hard to believe that a year after her conviction was overturned, according to the petition here Connecticut’s State Attorney won’t schedule a new trial, or drop the charges.

Doesn’t seem right to leave a person in limbo land.

Certifiedbug: June 6, 2007, Julie Amero Granted New Trial

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Am I hearing some of you say, “finally!”

Power Pack 1 includes several new features and fixes,

• x64 support for home computers running Windows Vista

• Home Server Shared Folder backup

• Improved remote access experience

• Improvements to power consumption and performance

• Localised products for Japan and China

Windows Home Server Release Documentation

Power Pack 1 also delivers a fix for the data corruption bug.

We Got Served
Windows Home Server Team Blog

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Release Notes

Upgrading Firefox

Automatic updates

By default, Firefox is configured to automatically check for updates for itself.

1. When an update is available, the Software Update dialog is automatically displayed. It contains a list of updates for Firefox components that are installed on your system. To begin updating your software, click OK. The new versions of any selected updates are downloaded and installed.
2. When the install process is complete, you must restart Firefox. To close Firefox and re-open it, click Done.
3. After Firefox restarts, all updated versions of Firefox components are available.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

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This old turkey keeps coming in the mailbox. Hidden under “Click here” is an .exe which will infect your computer.

Angelina Jolie’s Free Video.

Click Here!
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