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TrueCrypt 7.1a source and binary archive:
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In some situations, Android is being run on actual x86 PCs (we're talking traditional desktops and laptops that most likely shipped from the factory with Windows XP or 7 pre-loaded). There is a port of Android for such PCs lead by a Taiwanese developer over at Android-x86.org - people are even making "distributions" of it, much akin to what CyanogenMod and AOKP are on tablets and phones. In fact, I'm using their second release candidate build of Android 4.0 on a Dell Latitude D430 to make this post. Screenshot link: http://db.tt/Mx3SQm3Z

I wonder if I will get a DMCA take down for this PDF snapshot? http://db.tt/Y9GCT7N4

You could buy my book. No one has complained it's not "professional-quality." I specifically requested no DRM from Amazon. It can be done. It's easy. Amazon doesn't require it, it's up to the publisher, and since the publisher is me, and I think DRM is stupid, I made it DRM-free. Just because I'm not a big name yet doesn't mean I can't produce a worthwhile piece of entertainment that stands equal to the best of what's available. If I were a big name, writing for a big publisher, I would demand DRM-free, since it doesn't matter how big you are, DRM is always stupid. Of course it's also available in paper form, for those who prefer it that way.

Links:
Amazon Kindle version of Cerberon
Printed version from Amazon
And if you prefer it from someone other than Amazon:
Lulu totally device agnostic DRM-free epub from Lulu. Wil Wheaton told me to use them.
B&N Nook version (also DRM-free, as far as I'm aware).
Apple iTunes iBook version, despite the fact that iDespise iTunes.
Createspace printed version, which is also Amazon, but gives me a better commission if people buy it here.
Straight from me, half the book as a free preview. DRM-free epub, of course.

Apologies for the advertisement, but you asked.

This is advertising. It is also a lie. That's fraud, plain and simple.

What if I post my dropbox referral code? I don't get anything but free space.

Ahem - hey, I like dropbox, check it out! http://db.tt/hfwPL1N Sign up with that code and you get 500 megs free too!

lol. It's funny because it's true.

I am not sure about Rapidshare and others, but I think that Dropbox has not a lot to fear. I guess most people (including myself) only use it primarily as a backup service or to synchronize stuff between computers, occasionally to share things with friends and even rarer to share things with the general population (using the Public folder). Of course this could be used to share movies with friends, but this is not much different than sharing them via USB stick. Using it to share illegal stuff with the general public could be done (it has been tried in the past), but this is easily detected and people caught are likely expelled from the service. This can not be done for anonymous services like Megaupload or Rapidshare. Dropbox is thus largely used for innocent activity (as seen by the RIAA/MPAA), while in case of Megaupload it was the contrary (mostly illegal stuff and the occasional innocent use).

The fact that the thing is not engineered for high temperatures may limit its efficiency, but does not necessarily mean that there isn't a large generation of power in the system. It just means that there would be a much larger flow of the fluid to carry the heat away from the source and the fluid (light water, I think) could be at a low pressure. An observer saw a thermometer on the outgoing side registering about 109 degrees Centigrade. Not enough to melt many engineering plastics. The heat was reportedly dumped using some sort of radiator, and the fluid was recirculated to the cells.

I find it highly suspicious, however, that there was a generator set, rated at perhaps 500KW, running continuously during the test. Rossi's statement on this is that the genset was required to run pumps and instrumentation while the system was in 'self-sustaining' mode. It was also used to pump 400KW of heat into the system to raise the temperature to boiling point and get it there.

Time will tell, I guess.
Markets will fluctuate.
Someone will make a lot of money.

Let's hope it's real and Rossi builds and sells successful E-cats. It would change the world for the better.

Link to Rossi's own report:

http://db.tt/wu4OLbgk

Two seperate reports on the test:

http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3303682.ece

http://pesn.com/2011/10/28/9501940_1_MW_E-Cat_Test_Successful/

The fact that the thing is not engineered for high temperatures may limit its efficiency, but does not necessarily mean that there isn't a large generation of power in the system. It just means that there would be a much larger flow of the fluid to carry the heat away from the source and the fluid (light water, I think) could be at a low pressure. An observer saw a thermometer on the outgoing side registering about 109 degrees Centigrade. Not enough to melt many engineering plastics. The heat was reportedly dumped using some sort of radiator, and the fluid was recirculated to the cells.

I find it highly suspicious, however, that there was a generator set, rated at perhaps 500KW, running continuously during the test. Rossi's statement on this is that the genset was required to run pumps and instrumentation while the system was in 'self-sustaining' mode. It was also used to pump 400KW of heat into the system to raise the temperature to boiling point and get it there.

Time will tell, I guess.
Markets will fluctuate.
Someone will make a lot of money.

Let's hope it's real and Rossi builds and sells successful E-cats. It would change the world for the better.

Link to Rossi's own report:

http://db.tt/wu4OLbgk

Two seperate reports on the test:

http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3303682.ece

http://pesn.com/2011/10/28/9501940_1_MW_E-Cat_Test_Successful/

I don't know about the plastic things that are meant to be a reactor, but looks he doesn't used a generator on purpose, he just measured the water temperature before and after it passed the reactor and calculated the thermal generation. At least is what i thought after reading the report in http://db.tt/wu4OLbgk in the second page. But looks like no one at the test was able to measure the water temperature with their own equipment. For someone trying to prove a pathological science, that is very strange indeed.

... but the cablemap app was really annoying, it slowed Firefox down like hell, and there was no way (that I could discern) of easily seeing the whole world map at a high resolution, so I made some screen caps and put them together in Photofiltre. I gave the author credit in several places on the map.

http://db.tt/UEjKBo5

I was a little disappointed to learn that this won't really complete with or replace Dropbox, at least not yet. For me, OS-integration is critical-- I've got plenty of places to store info via a manual interface (web, FTP, etc). Hopefully this is just a start, and we'll see more features soon. Frankly, Dropbox works perfectly for me, so this just adds competition to the space that will hopefully drive up free storage capacities.

I can't tell you have wonderful it is to be able to play a game like Puzzle Quest on my desktop and then continue my game right from where I left off on my laptop without having to hunt down the save game file and transport it myself.

If this is a big deal for you, why not just install something like Dropbox (referral link if you want extra storage for free) or Spideroak (Referral again if you want free stuff) and set it up to sync all of your saved games automatically without having to wait for Valve to do it for you?

It's simple, it's reasonably secure, and I have been using it to run the same games on my Windows workstation, Debian desktop and Ubuntu Notebook for quite a while without any troubles at all.

Well, the fact that i detects active changes, and has easy to install and use clients for Windows, Mac and PC (rsync not so much) and easy to use. With the benefit of web based access, as well as platform clients for various phones, etc... it goes a bit beyond rsync. The 2GB free account comes in handy enough, I use it to sync my application profiles and data between a few different systems (mac,win, lin). Good option for portable apps too (keepass, portable thunderbird, etc) I have a few other folders symlinked in my dropbox directory, and it works great.. local network syc & offsite backup. Not sure how well the truecrypt support is, but pretty cool imho.

If you pimp dropbox, you get an extra 250MB of storage per referral, up to 8gb of space.