Feeling nostalgic about your old Amiga?
It was my first contact with a command line interface (CLI), even before that dark MS-DOS thing come around into our lives, and made me addicted to it until the time being. Amiga CLI was colorful and cheerful, basically feeling our technology eager spirits with blue, white, black and orange rainbow…

So answering the question I self posed: Yes I do feel nostalgic.

Thus I messed up a bit with my terminal configuration, bashrc and DIR_COLORS to get me a feel of that remote times. So this is what I came up with:


Read more of Amiga 500 Terminal emulation

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João Pina (Portugal) and Batradz Kaimazov (Russia) fought the -73kg men final at the Judo 2010 European Championships in Vienna.
The Portuguese judoka won 1-0, in a very good combat, clean, no penalties, and with a very good time strategy from his part. Congratulations!

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Lacrimosa

Lacrimosa
Lacrimosa dies illa
Qua resurget ex favilla
Judicandus homo reus.

Huic ergo parce, Deus
Pie Jesu Domine
Dona eis requiem, Amen.

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From Dream Theater’s official website:

Prog rock/metal institution DREAM THEATER will spend their summer supporting Iron Maiden on the band’s month-long tour of major US and Canadian markets. The tour launches on June 9 and runs through July 20, and includes a stop at the storied Madison Square Garden in NYC, marking the first time in a lengthy and respected career that Dream Theater have played the world’s most famous arena.

Read more at: http://dreamtheater.net/news_dreamtheater.php#dtmaiden

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These articles on Ksplice blog describe how to map the NULL pointer to physical memory, and how to turn it into a kernel exploit (Thanks JB for the reference!).

Part I
Part II

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Presence

with and without ...

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A great talk by Eric Mazur on Teaching Physics

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The first ATLAS physics paper:

“Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions at sqrt(s) = 900 GeV
measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC”

has been submitted to the archive (http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3124v1) and to Phys. Lett. B.

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Yesterday I saw an abridged performance of an opera dealing with cosmology and quantum physics called “The theory of everything” - Libretto by Nancy Rhodes, Music by David Earnest:

More info at Encompass Opera

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