Available on desktop and Android
Macbuntu is an open source operating system coined out of the Linux -based Ubuntu OS that features OS X-inspired desktop shell. Macbuntu derives its Mac OS X look and feel from the Mac OS X Transformation Pack, which can also be used in other operating systems based on Debian / GTK to provide the same Mac OS X inspired shell interface.
No, but seriously, it’s actually a pretty solid operating system. It’s basically just Ubuntu 11.04 with a new theme style .
In case you missed it, 11.04 was the latest Ubuntu operating system that has actually worked for most of us without any sort of lag (like when opening a program or switching windows or opening the dash). So if you want a stable version of Ubuntu that works really well and looks really spiff, Macbuntu is a really easy option. And it’s just Ubuntu, so you already know how to use it.
Now, of course, you could just go through and just install the theme on your current version of Ubuntu,
but I’ve tried it, and it’s a pain in the ass. And you’d have to downgrade to 11.04 anyway if you
want the full Macbuntu awesomeness, so you might as well just install Macbuntu instead.
Visual apeal.
For windows users, using Mac Lion Pack transforms your Os to look more like Mac Os but now this really lags down your pc to a point you may throw it to your walk - unless you are running an i 8 ,hich is yet to be manufuctured.
So there you have it. If you want an operating system that looks fantastic, is easy to use, and
works with no setup, then Macbuntu is exactly the operating system for you. But if you want something fun, look elsewhere.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/burg sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install burg burg-themes
sudo burg-install "(hd0)"Remember to substitute ‘hd0′ with the drive on which your MBR is installed.
sudo update-burg
sudo burg-emu
It’s really suprising how close Safaricom we’re portraying their national security ideas basing on the Persons of Interest show .
Persons of Interest was also acted based on a part of a project that DARPA undertook a number of years ago that was coined Total Information Awareness, and a couple other projects: The U.S. Special Operations Command,Defense Intelligence Agency’s ,Able Danger, and the NSA’s ThinThread and Trailblazer.
The US government, for years now, has had a firehose of information—whether it’s
wiretapped phone calls, security cameras, Internet traffic monitoring—that pours into NSA headquarters at Fort Meade.And what the government has been actively looking for is a piece of a computer software—they call it a machine, because it sounds more dynamic to sift through that information. That’s what they’ve spent the last 10 years doing, building software.
So the only science-fiction part of the show is imagining that they actually built one that worked.It goes through everything, looking for malicious intent, listening for people scheming, plotting, and putting things together,pulling together all this aggregate information—whether it’s purchase records from credit card receipts, phone calls, emails, suspicious activity on surveillance cameras—to get a bigger picture of what’s happening out there.
All of that is going toward preventing these terrorist attacks or threats to national security, but they’re probably seeing all kinds of other stuff as well.
We have a couple of advisers who
use code names.Perhaps Safaricom has been talking to some pretty interesting people, whether it’s in technology or in special operations—a number of people who have a pretty good idea of the government’s capabilities at this point.
If all goes well without any agonistic amongst our leaders, -as encountered in the Laptop plan, we’re reaching the point where all these information technologies are beginning to bear fruit, not just for the government but for private enterprises .
Ever wondered if the security body of our government had that ability to learn an awful lot about terrorist, gangs and other contrary channels really quick? and the other question is, what are they going to do with that information?
By Ken Ronoh.
Japanese beverage maker Otsuka is sending a 1 kilogram titanium can filled with powdered sports drink and children's dreams to the moon .
The specially designed
canister, which contains a shipment of Otsuka's Pocari Sweat powder, will mark a disturbing new frontier for humanity: the
first commercial product delivered to another world for marketing purposes.
The canister will be carried to the lunar surface aboard the first planned private moon-landing mission, set to take place in October 2015.
Otsuka says it hopes that the stunt will inspire young people to become astronauts, so they can travel the 380,000 kilometers (236,121 miles) to our closest celestial neighbor, crack open the can, and consume the powder inside.
The capsule will be conveyed to the moon by the Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon 9, designed to be a potentially reusable means of space travel by Elon Musk's SpaceX, has already made three successful supply runs to the International Space Station, but the planned mission in October 2015 would be the first time one of its rockets has successfully provided propulsion to the
moon.
After the Falcon 9 rocket has ignited its second-stage boosters and completed a four-and-a-half day journey to the moon, the Pocari Sweat-branded canister will be deposited on the surface by private company Astrobotic Technology's "Griffin" lander. "Otsuka hopes someone will eventually be able to drink the moon powder" Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology has more important reasons to be up on the moon than to leave a beverage can on its face.
The company is angling to win Google's Lunar X prize, a $20 million bounty for the first company to land a device on the moon that can both travel 500 meters on the surface and transmit high-definition pictures back to Earth. Astrobotic's deal with Otsuka will provide them with funds to achieve this goal — the company reportedly charges upwards of half a million dollars for lunar delivery — but the mission to drop a can is somewhat ironic: Astrobotic is a company that develops technologies for clearing space trash.
In addition to Pocari Sweat, the titanium capsule will contain the wishes of children from across Asia, obtained from letters sent
to the company and etched onto silver disks.
The company says that when the project succeeds, Pocari Sweat, with its ambiguous citrus taste, will become the first beverage to reach the surface of the moon. The American makers of another powdered beverage, orange flavored breakfast drink Tang, may take issue with that claim. NASA chose Tang to fly with its astronauts on a number of missions , but it's unclear if the powder ever actually made its way onto the lunar surface during the Apollo missions.
Read from Japan Times.
