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Google Quietly Closes AdSense API to Small Sites

Google has raised the required minimum traffic limit for publishers who wish to use its AdSense API to 100,000 page views per day. The AdSense API was introduced in March as a way for sites with user generated content to share advertising revenue with their members. Says Google, “This policy change will probably result in […]

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Intel Releases Mashups for the Masses

Intel has released an online tool called Mash Maker with the intent of allowing anyone to create mashups. They offer some training on how to use it, but the tool is fairly easy to use out of the gate. I see it more as a rudimentary semantic browser. From the article: ‘Mashups have still not […]

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Boot Linux Faster With An Open BIOS

Before reading the post firstly a question? which linux distribution boot faster?if you dont know the answer check it out!!
Linux device designers looking for faster boot/reset times should consider alternative BIOSes, suggests Peter Seebach in a technical introduction to open BIOSes published on IBM’s DeveloperWorks website. Among other benefits, open BIOSes can save the time […]

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Novell Gives openSUSE the (Faster) Boot

Novell Thursday updated OpenSUSE to version 10.3, adding the latest and greatest the open source community has to offer. Perhaps just as importantly, it’s now also faster to get to all the latest and greatest, with what Novell claims is the shortest boot time yet for its community Linux distribution.
The openSUSE 10.3 release includes the […]

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The most famous photography of the history of science

At the beginning of the past century XX, the industrialist and filántropo Belgian Ernest Solvay used part of his fortune in organizing several conferences on physics to which the privileged minds more of the moment were invited.
Without a doubt most famous of all it was the fifth conference on physics that took place in October […]

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10 boot time parameters you should know about the Linux kernel !!

The Linux kernel accepts boot time parameters as it starts to boot system. This is used to inform kernel about various hardware parameter. You need boot time parameters:
* Troubleshoot system
* Hardware parameters that the kernel would not able to determine on its own
* Force kernel to override the default hardware parameters in order to increase […]