A few days ago I’ve come across an interesting puzzle at the Physics Forum. The general answer given is the same one as what I though, but I think you should give it a try too before reading the rest of this post. You’re in a room with three switches that open three light bulbs in [...]

This joke was mentioned in a discussion over that the Physics Forums about proving the Big Bang Theory. For some reason, I found it to be very funny. The famous joke about a bunch of scientists observing a cow from a train. Look says the astronomer - all cows in America are black No says the physicist - [...]

Watch the video above to see an example of CERN physics at work. Well, someone has to tell the public about the “deadly” experiment they are running. ---Related Articles at Karol Krizka:No related posts

The above video demonstrates what happends when you place a cornstarch-water mixture, a dilatant, on top of a speaker. A dilatant is a material that responds differently to pressures; if you hit you apply a lot of pressure it will solidify but if you apply a little bit of pressure, it will act as a [...]

If you haven’t heard yet, Team Firefox did it and set a new Guiness World Record in most downloads in a 24 hours period. That’s right, over 8 million people downloaded Firefox 3 the day it was released. ---Related Articles at Karol Krizka:Don’t Forget To Spread Firefox!Ouch…Konqueror And AdBlockRevolutionary Blog ContestBreaking the 100 Subscribers Barrier

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Today is Firefox Download Day, so make sure to do your part in helping to set a new world record. That’s right, the Spread Firefox project is taking advantage of the release of the brand new Firefox 3 by attempting to enter the Guiness Book of Records for most downloaded software in 24 hours. So [...]

While working on my ThinkPad X61, I realized that the ThinkVantage button was not working on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Even though there isn’t any special application for Linux, I still though it would be a good idea to use the button to launch GNOME Terminal (which I use quite often). After doing some research, it turns [...]

If you ever edited an Eclipse project outside of Eclipse, then you might have experienced the “Resource out of sync with the file system” error. Sadly the error message does not give you any hints on how to fix it and a simple Google search does not have any helpful links on the first [...]

I just started to play around with the Eclipse IDE and the C++/C Development Tools plug-in, called CDT. One task that I tried to accomplish was to extend the plug-in to allow printing of PDF files, following this tutorial. But to extend CDT, you also need the CDT SDK, which does not come by default [...]