Gordon Holmes, a technician at Bradford University and Loch Ness Monster researcher, claims that he has caught Nessie on video. He was at the Loch attempting to listen for Nessie using hydrophone equipment when he noticed something unusual moving in the water and grabbed his video camera. If you have a comment on the video, please post it to Cryptomundo at the link below. From the Yorkshire Post News:
(Holmes said:) “It wasn’t a wave because it was going in the opposite direction to the waves that I could see and the top half of it seemed to be black.

“My camcorder was on a black and white setting and it took me a while to find it again in the water, but I’ve got two-and-half-minutes of footage which I have shown to experts and they think it is definitely a living creature.”
Link to Video

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DAWN WALTON. From Thursday’s Globe and Mail
May 31, 2007 at 12:22 PM EDT

CALGARY — The body of a man with his skull intact, but his skin pulled back and skeleton removed to display every vein, artery and internal organ, floats in a dark, cube-shaped room.

This one-of-a-kind virtual human, known as CAVEman, has more than 3,000 body parts catalogued by computer – each one anatomically perfect and ready to be manipulated at the click of a button.

“What you see is the tip of the iceberg,” says Andrei Turinsky, a research associate in the University of Calgary’s department of biochemistry and molecular biology.

For the first time, scientists have a complete computerized human atlas in four dimensions – length, width, height and time. CAVEman could hold the key to understanding complex diseases and human development, according to the Alberta researchers behind the project, who put it through its paces for the media yesterday.

The CAVEman system allows users to magnify, rotate, and zoom in or out on any image of the human body

Source: Globe & Mail

~LC

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) was once the most widely used protocol for transferring files between computers. However, because FTP sends authentication information and file contents over the wire unencrypted, it’s not a secure way to communicate. Secure Copy (SCP) and the more robust SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) address this security concern by providing data transfer over a fully encrypted channel. You can use these alternatives for transferring files securely over the Internet or any other untrusted network.

Transfer files securely with SFTP

We have seen how to design a fast and appealing desktop with old H/W. But what about the application S/W ? We can use KDE and GNOME based tools, but these S/W again slow down our system, specially KDE. Then what is the use to design such a fast desktop ? Well, we are lucky as there are huge Linux applications which are not based on Qt but the fast GTK/FOX/PyGtk library. So we can extend the power of our old PC with these superior fast GUI. In this PART-II I like to introduce such fast GUI which are non KDE/GNOME but still appealing with strong features.

(Really a good read if you have some older computers sitting around the house that you think are to darn slow to use,Baldy)

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Running Linux GUI Super Fast with Old Hardware [Part-II]