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img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/jono.png alt= pWhen I was a kid, I owned a a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_GenesisSega Megadrive/a (Sega Genesis for my American friends). I spent hours on that thing. Sonic The Hedgehog. Streets Of Rage. Desert Strike. Toejam And Earl. I loved it./p pOne game that was released was a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_SandiegoWhere In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?/a Back then it was marketed as emedutainment/em: essentially a sneaky way for parents to infiltrate their kid#8217;s leisure time with learning under the premise of it being #8220;fun#8221;. Of course, kids are smarter than parents give them credit for. Kids were wise to this and often avoided games like that like the plague. The mind of a 12 year-old concluded that enough time is spent in front of teachers, workbooks and exams without it invading precious Sega time. I was one such kid. I emhated/em the idea of edutainment. I didnt want to learn with my Megadrive, I wanted to shoot things with very large, very loud, deeply pixelated guns./p pThings change when you grow up (yes, I have grown up, smart arses). I now love learning. I love reading. I spend hours drowning in Wikipedia and exploring our world, our history and our patchwork of cultures. I love learning about people#8217;s experiences, perspectives and attitudes. I no longer have the 12 year-old mentality that learning is for school time. Learning really is genuinely emfun/em./p pNaturally, there are some subjects I like to learn about in more detail. Community (zing!). Computers. Free Software. Free Culture. Music. There are however some subjects that I develop a curiosity about and feel an urge to investigate. These subjects are not part of my daily interests and hobbies, but are temporary avenues of curiosity./p pOne recent example for me is emHistorical Jesus/em. A few days ago I read everything Wikipedia had to offer about about the subject. This was triggered originally by a history TV show which in turn inspired me to buy a book about significant events in human history. In this book I read about Jesus#8217;s Crucifixion and decided to further refresh my knowledge of the subject by hitting up Wikipedia. In this example we see two distinctive concepts: emPassive Education/em and emContent Aggregation and Linking/em:/p ul liemPassive Education/em - in my example of Historical Jesus, my primary focus was gathering the facts and the story. I was happy for this subject#8217;s learning to be passive. I was happy to merely consume the content and not interact with it much more than selecting what to learn./li liemContent Aggregation and Linking/em - learning has links and connections. I first watched a show about history. This intrigued me to buy the book on historical events. A section in that book inspired me to access specific content on Wikipedia. The thread that connected these different resources together was the subject of Historical Jesus and I aggregated the different pieces of knowledge together in my brain. My current knowledge of Historical Jesus draws from these different resources./li /ul pWhen we learn about our primary interests, learning is different. Our desire is often for emActive Learning/em. We not only want to know the subject, but we want to immerse ourselves in the execution and debate of it too. Much of this is not only collating general knowledge, as I did with Historical Jesus, but learning about more localised information too. When I learn about music, I want to know about local bands. I want to know when my favourite bands are coming to my area. I want to hear about music groups, gigs, and conventions near to me. I want to know about special offers in local music stores. In a nutshell, I don#8217;t just want to consume, I want to emparticipate/em./p pIn recent years, computers and the Internet have made both Active and Passive Learning incredibly accessible. The web has bolstered passive learning resources, and active learning has been thrusted towards us with online communities, social networking, community groups and discussion boards. No matter what you want to know about, the Internet can help you in both Passive and Active ways/p pBut lets get back to emWhere In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?/em. Although I could not stand the concept of emedutainment/em at the time, what that game emdid/em do that intrigues me is that it delivered education to people automatically. The education was emassociative/em: topics and concepts were delivered to you as you played the game./p pI find this really interesting. I find the concept of linking and associating different types of education and resources fascinating. This also holds huge opportunity for the desktop./p pA great example is a href=http://banshee-project.org/Banshee/a. For those who have been living under a rock for the last three years, Banshee is a media player. I have it open all day, delivering a fresh dose of metal to me all day long. Banshee not only plays music, but it brings many diverse music related activities together under the same roof: digital music, Internet radio, CD playing and ripping, meta-data editing etc. The Banshee bods have done a great job./p pBut the most interesting feature to me is its a href=http://www.last.fm/Last.fm/a integration. When I listen to a song (such as Hammerfall right now). The artist and track is posted to a href=http://www.last.fm/user/jonobaconmy Last.fm account/a. This in itself is not all that exciting. But what Banshee does that emis/em exciting is look up the artist of my current playing song and use Last.fm to make recommendations. It delivers those recommendations to me inside the application. That is emwicked cool/em. Sure, I could go and look up these recommendations on the Last.fm website, but I am unlikely to do that. Banshee does the work for me. The result is that this simple feature has helped me discover literally hundreds of new bands. Banshee linked and aggregated the data, and this resulted in better learning for this important part of my interests./p pYesterday I installed the a href=http://getsongbird.com/new 1.0.0 release of Songbird/a. Songbird is an iTunes like Open Source media player that holds some stunning promise. They have used Mozilla technologies and GStreamer to build a cross-platform media player. I know some of the guys who work on Songbird and wanted to give it a try: I had last used an early snapshot. While I don#8217;t want to turn this into a review (if you folks want a review, let me know and I will write one up), it ships with some interesting features that build on some of the concepts seen in Banshee. Oh, and Amarok folks, I know your media player has probably been doing all of this for years, so hold fire. img src=http://www.jonobacon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif alt=:) class=wp-smiley / /p pIn Songbird, for the artist of the song I am currently listening to, Songbird will go and look up data from a number of resources and bring it together. It grabs a summary blurb, discography, members, tags and links of the artist from Last.fm, a photo slideshow from Flickr, videos from YouTube, and News from Google News. Again, I could find this information separately without ever installing Songbird, but Songbird not only aggregated this content, but it linked it to an opportunity of curiosity (what I am listening to). I might never typically go and look for more details about emHammerfall/em, but when I am listening to it, it often triggers my interest. Songbird satisfies that curiosity before I even know I have it./p pAnother great feature of Songbird that builds on emactive learning/em is that it uses a href=http://www.songkick.com/Songkick/a to look up all of the artists in my playlist to see if there are concerts and shows in my area. With this feature I now have a list of all the up and coming shows for the artists I like (including all those obscure metal bands). This provides me with direct access to the local community and opportunities. That is one stunningly helpful and outrageously cool feature. My media player is stopping being a place to merely consume music, and instead becoming a place to aggregate everything these is about the music I listen to and the artists that make it./p pThis is an even more valuable proposition for a desktop. Just think of the range of types of media we consume and the applications that we use to consume them. Now mix this with the range of online sources of education and content. It could be really interesting to pull together these threads into one cohesive experience. I love that Totem in Ubuntu can stream BBC content to me, but I would love it to show me some information and products about that content too. I would love Evolution to provide me with an ability to easily look up terms, acronyms and products in my emails with a single click. When I look at photos in F-Spot I would love to see pricing for prints and frames to put my pictures in./p pIt would also be fascinating to identify the work-flow of education in a computer. From sourcing content in Wikipedia, how does it flow through text editors, communications tools, online services and publishing mediums? How can we identify these links in the chain and optimise them?/p pBig subject. I know. But huge potential./p

I love this santaclaus@gmail.com snapshot, from Bono in his contacts, along with Jesuschrist and Rudolph, to the fact that he'll give Xboxes instead of coal because of the energy crisis or God...

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/22569?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+UK+service+sector+declining+at+record+ratech=Businessc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Recession+%28UK%29%2CEconomics+%28Business%29%2CBank+of+England+%28Business%29%2CInterest+rates+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CUK+newsc5=Credit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CProperty+Mortgages+and+Interest+Ratesc6=Ashley+Seagerc7=2008_12_03c8=1127934c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=Recessionc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FRecession" width="1" height="1" //divpBritain's dominant services sector is shrinking at a record pace, a new survey showed this morning, suggesting the economy is heading into a deep recession./ppThe CIPS/Markit monthly snapshot of the sector showed that the purchasing managers' index, which measures everything from output to orders and jobs, fell to just 40.1 last month, the lowest since the survey began in 1996./ppAs the figure is far below the 50.0 level that divides expansion from contraction, the survey suggests that the sector, which account for about two thirds of the economy, is contracting rapidly./ppThe data come as the Bank of England's monetary policy committee gathers for its monthly two-day interest rates meeting, at which it is widely expected to slash another one percentage point off Bank rate, taking it to a joint all-time low of just 2%./ppThe news also sent the pound down sharply on the foreign exchanges, to below $1.47 and to 1.16 against the euro./ppThe services PMI came on the back of similar surveys of the manufacturing and construction sectors this week, both of which also showed record drops in activity./pp"Given the weakness across all purchasing managers' indices it looks as though we could see the economy contract by close to 1% in the fourth quarter," said James Knightley of ING Financial Markets./pp"The first quarter of 2009 is likely to be similarly weak given the long lead times before the policy stimulus we have seen can take effect, especially since the monetary policy transmission mechanism is not functioning properly. This will put pressure on the BoE to continue delivering aggressive monetary easing and we expect to see a further 100bp of rate cuts tomorrow. Rates are then expected to all to 1% early in the New Year."/ppA similar survey of the services sector in the euro zone was equally weak, leading analysts to predict another interest rate cut from the European Central Bank on Thursday./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/recession"Recession/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/economics"Economics/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/bankofenglandgovernor"Bank of England/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/interestrates"Interest rates/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Bw8jeSGR5X6VieUF1rDI_XW6sYo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Bw8jeSGR5X6VieUF1rDI_XW6sYo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

!-- [DocumentBodyStart:717a50fc-9dec-4d82-8480-9ac1e432eb24] --div class='jive-rendered-content'pNicholas,/ppspan  I think that the file isn't necessary for us. Instead of it you can take CPU snapshot - see article "How to report IDEA performance problems and take CPU snapshots" at /spana class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://support.jetbrains.com/kb/entry.jspa?externalID=192"http://support.jetbrains.com/kb/entry.jspa?externalID=192/aspan . Such snapshot will not show us content of your files but will outline which part of RubyMine works slowly./span/p/div!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:717a50fc-9dec-4d82-8480-9ac1e432eb24] --

!-- [DocumentBodyStart:dae6a915-e533-4bc9-9036-f10e38df315c] --div class='jive-rendered-content'pI had this issue as well. I had to go to another machine (with x86 version of OS), install dotTrace there and run the profiler there. It seems to have some issues on x64 bit systems (I had the same behavior on Vista Ultimate x64 with SP1, as well as Windows Server 2008 x64)./pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/ppDavid./p/div!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:dae6a915-e533-4bc9-9036-f10e38df315c] --

!-- [DocumentBodyStart:c5fee734-d422-4789-929b-f23be0cdb39a] --div class='jive-rendered-content'pHello Rob,/pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/ppspanPlease take a CPU snapshot as described in /spana class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://jetbrains.net/devnet/docs/DOC-192"http://jetbrains.net/devnet/docs/DOC-192/a/pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/pblockquote class="jive-quote" level="1"pEnv: Windows XP, JDK 6u10, 2GB memory, Core 2 DUO/pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/ppI was previously running build 8995 and when I switched back to/ppIntelliJ the controls responded immediately./pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/ppHowever, with build 9164 about 60% of the time the GUI controls when/pptrying to run say JUnits, or just clicking in an editor window/pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/pptakes 3-4 seconds to respond. By this I mean before I see a button/ppredrawn as being pushed./pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/ppThe Memory usage is about 50% of maximum heap. I watched the memory/ppgauge and when the/pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/ppIntelliJ finally begins to respond I don't see a drop in the memory/ppusage as I would expect after a garbage collection cycle./pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/ppIs anyone else seeing this under Windows XP?/pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/pp---/ppOriginal message URL:/ppa class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.jetbrains.net/devnet/message/5228067#5228067"http://www.jetbrains.net/devnet/message/5228067#5228067/a/p/blockquotep-- /ppDmitry Jemerov/ppDevelopment Lead/ppJetBrains, Inc./ppa class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.jetbrains.com/"http://www.jetbrains.com//a/pp"Develop with Pleasure!"/pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/p/div!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:c5fee734-d422-4789-929b-f23be0cdb39a] --

La versi#243;n 2008.11 de Opensolaris ya est#225; disponible para descarga. Incluye versiones actualizadas del software incluido en versiones anteriores, como Gnome 2.24, Openoffice 3.0 o Firefox 3. Adem#225;s, al instalarse con el sistema de ficheros ZFS, incluye interesantes innovaciones basadas en #233;ste como Time Slider, un mecanismo de copia de seguridad de archivos mediante la funcionalidad de snapshot de ZFS. Opensolaris 2008.11 es una distribuci#243;n de software libre basada en el proyecto Opensolaris, ideada por Ian Murdock, fundador de Debian. Como otras distribuciones modernas, se descarga como live CD, lo que permite probarla antes de su instalaci#243;n en el disco duro. #191;Qu#233; tal os va con vuestro hardware?

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"Adobe has released an update to its Camera Raw Plug-in for Photoshop CS4. Camera Raw 5.2, which replaces v5.1, extends support to seven more cameras, including Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Panasonic DMC-G1. The update includes enhanced color profiles, output sharpening and a new Targeted Adjustment tool. In addition, users can save all image adjustments and settings as a single snapshot for future reference."

The latest release of Adobe Camera Raw adds more than just the usual new cameras. It also adds some great new features. The targeted adjustment tool is especially useful in developing your raw images as you can adjust parts of the photo differently. Kudos to Adobe for continuing to add features to their raw processor. The only downsides I see is that you have to manually remove the beta camera profiles (the only change was to remove the words Beta 2). Some devotees still think the Nikon and Canon software does a better job of raw conversion, but, each new version from Adobe reduces the gap. ACR 5.2 is available for Photoshop Elements 6 & 7, Premiere Elements 4 & 7 and Photoshop CS4.

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Embedded above, and in glorious technicolor downloadable MP4 here: this week's Boing Boing update on Boing Boing tv. diams; We begin with a video chat about O'Reilly Media cofounder DALE DOUGHERTY's guestblog post on why television networks, including CNN, seem to be struggling to cover "The Economic Panic." Why is the current "this great-or-not-so great depression" such a difficult story for TV? Dale believes part of the challenge is that it's big, slow-moving, and abstract. There are no videogenic focal points, no crash scenes or hurricanes for which to don yellow jumpers, no perp mugshots (well, okay, there was this, video here.). We're also in the middle of "a peculiar period inbetween an election and an inauguration," Dale says -- more from him in today's video review, and don't miss the comment thread on the post, either. diams; Next, we speak with JULIE AMERO, the 41-year old Connecticut schoolteacher accused of showing porn to students on a classroom computer when a computer with malware displayed popup windows with sexual content. Last week, she accepted a misdemeanor plea deal to avoid felony charges, despite proof she was innocent, and that her case was mishandled. The deal allows her to avoid a previously-imposed jail sentence, but means she has to surrender her teaching credentials. A forensic report showed Amero was not responsible for the infection of porn pop-up windows on the PC in question. There is also ample proof that the school district's IT manager, detectives and prosecutors misled the court. Here's last week's post by Rob at Boing Boing Gadgets about the plea bargain reached in her case, and here are earlier Boing Boing posts by Mark, starting back in 2007: one, two, three, four, five. I'll be posting the full audio and transcript of our phone interview this week on boingboing.net. diams; Also in today's BB Update: my co-blogger Cory has been posting some HOLIDAY GIFT ROUNDUPS (so far: DVDs and CDs, kids' stuff, fiction, gadgets, comics and nonfiction.) diams; And finally in today's episode, eyewitness snapshots from the MUMBAI TERRORIST ATTACKS, shot by 27-year-old amateur photographer Vinu Ranganathan. He lives in the Colaba distict, near the attack sites. WIRED's Threat Level blog has an interview up with him. Snip: "For hours [on the day of the attacks], his graphic photos of the destruction wrought by the terrorists in the Colaba district on the photo-sharing site Flickr seemed to be the only relevant ones available online." Related Boing Boing posts: Mumbai Attacks: Day 1, Mumbai Attacks: Day 2. Previous Boing Boing updates on BBtv: * Boing Boing tv Update: Virgin WiFi, Obfuscated Code, Comment Poetry, Downfall Housing Remix * Boing Boing tv Update: OFFWORLD, YES MEN, and THIS IS THE FIRST....br style="clear: both;"/gt; a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2f364ee823d403a53b1cdaf3f88c37e5p=1"gt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2f364ee823d403a53b1cdaf3f88c37e5p=1"/gt;/agt; img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=2f364ee823d403a53b1cdaf3f88c37e5" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/gt;

This is pretty cool... I managed to see it once as a spot of light tracking across the night sky. These folks saw a lot more than that! Not many photos, but worth checking out. nbsp; nbsp; It’s not everyday that astronomers take a snapshot of the International Space Station from the ground that actually show it’s shape. It takes perfect timing, patience and probably a huge amount of luck to get it. You just have to be in the right place at the right time to do it. However there are few who appear to have all these attributes and more... nbsp; nbsp; Enjoy!

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