Great organisation, not only providing essential medicine and care for hundreds of thousands, but sharing expertise with doctors and nurses from host countries... Are increasingly my favourite charity, especially for being major suppliers of antiretroviral drugs for people with AIDS. Go Medicine Sans Frontiers!!!
Sweet! I wants some! I can't wait for Feb! And it's an awesome article too - the issue of saftey is a good one, but does anyone really think that any company would release this in todays legal climate without it being kosher? The other applications for the dye sound really cool too...
"a finger paint that fades from every surface except a special paper, a hair dye that vanishes in a few hours, and disappearing-graffiti spray paint. There's a toothpaste that would turn kids' mouths a bright color until they had brushed for the requisite 30 seconds, and a soap that would do the same for hand washing"
Not just washing for kids: doctors and nurses too, this could slow MRSA superbugs a bit! Anyone think of any other cool uses for the dye?
Interesting. I wonder how much variation there is of browser use by other sites... I imagine BBC is higher than most in the Mozilla-bred catagory, as the BBC News site has posted lots of articles about Firefox over the years. I wonder how different it would be for msn.com, foxnews.com etc.
On a related note, I hosted some pictures on my website last week that were posted into a fark.com forum, 47.6% of fark readers seem to use Firefox (from some 14,000 hits in two days) - I bet slashdot beats this though!
I've certainly found in the past that either the worm gear motor or the main spindle motor seems to wear out (ie need more juice to run at the same speed).
I've managed to repair two drives that wouldn't read disks by opening them up and locating two variable resistors, adjustable by means of a cross-hair screw driver. These were box like, and seemed to control the speed of the tracking motor and the spindle respectively (i could make them go stupidly fast or slow). By experimenting with these, i managed to get the right speed for both, and all has been fine since! I don't know if many drives still have these things though, this was five or six years ago...
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Amen, mod parent up etc...
Great organisation, not only providing essential medicine and care for hundreds of thousands, but sharing expertise with doctors and nurses from host countries... Are increasingly my favourite charity, especially for being major suppliers of antiretroviral drugs for people with AIDS. Go Medicine Sans Frontiers!!!
"a finger paint that fades from every surface except a special paper, a hair dye that vanishes in a few hours, and disappearing-graffiti spray paint. There's a toothpaste that would turn kids' mouths a bright color until they had brushed for the requisite 30 seconds, and a soap that would do the same for hand washing"
Not just washing for kids: doctors and nurses too, this could slow MRSA superbugs a bit! Anyone think of any other cool uses for the dye?
On a related note, I hosted some pictures on my website last week that were posted into a fark.com forum, 47.6% of fark readers seem to use Firefox (from some 14,000 hits in two days) - I bet slashdot beats this though!
http://freshmeat.net/project-stats/import-download -stats/53427/
/\Watch the slashdot effect!/\ From 40 hits a day to 280 and rising :)
check out
http://www.gnoppix.org/
for a gnome based live cd,
it's not from quite the same base as knoppix (they now seem to be working with Ubantu), but still pretty damn good
I've managed to repair two drives that wouldn't read disks by opening them up and locating two variable resistors, adjustable by means of a cross-hair screw driver. These were box like, and seemed to control the speed of the tracking motor and the spindle respectively (i could make them go stupidly fast or slow). By experimenting with these, i managed to get the right speed for both, and all has been fine since! I don't know if many drives still have these things though, this was five or six years ago...