Cancer Special: Old Killer, New Hope
Source: New Scientist | www.newscientist.com
Cancer becoming an incurable disease that may no longer be looked upon as a death sentence. New technology, greater understanding of the disease, new treatment options offer greater hope for surviving and living with cancer.
People's plane needs a push
Source: The Sun Newspaper Online
THESE passengers on a Chinese airline show no hesitation in mucking in and pushing their broken down PLANE. The Shandong airlines flight from Guilin to Zhengzhou broke down before it could taxi to the passenger terminal.
Evidence of Scottish "Assisted Suicides"
Source: Scottish Sunday Express
ILLEGAL assisted suicides are now being carried out in Scotland. A shocking investigation has uncovered evidence of terminally ill patients being given access to a lethal drug to ease their pain.
Hotwire: A Combined Terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux
Source: freesoftwaremagazine.com
There is nothing more guaranteed to ignite a bad tempered, incandescent flame war that an outbreak of hostilities between the rival Gnome and KDE camps. Well, except perhaps a slanging match between the champions of the GUI and the command line.
US Airways to now charge for soda, juice, water
Source: Yahoo! Tech - Daily Features
First came extra charges for your second piece of luggage, then came a charge for your first bag. That's not to mention extra fees for choosing your own seat, curbside check-in, booking using frequent flier miles, and the cost of the Santa Fe chicken sandwich.
Albania's Durrës Port to Build New Terminal
Source:
16 June 2008 Tirana — The port of Durres, Albania's largest, will built a new terminal worth €15 million. Funded by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the new passenger terminal will be constructed by the Slovenian company SCT.
New airport terminal planned
Source: The Telegraph: Calcutta
Key facts Tagore theme The designs on ceilings and floors are inspired by Tagore's works. The lighthouse The air traffic control tower will look like a lighthouse, which will become Calcutta's seen-from-the-sky signature In & out Passengers will depart from the first fl …
At Bedside, Stay Stoic or Display Emotions?
Source: The New York Times
A young doctor sat down with a terminal lung cancer patient and her husband to discuss the woman's gloomy prognosis. The patient began to cry. Then the doctor did, too. The scene was undoubtedly moving. But should physicians display this much emotion at the bedside?
World's Largest Building Opens in Beijing
Source: vagabondish.com
Beijing Airport's new terminal 3, said to be the world's largest building, has opened ahead of schedule with time to spare for the Olympic Games.
How Doctors Tell Patients They're Dying
Source: ABC News
"Don't use euphemisms," said Grodin, who teaches his students to say "died" and never "passed away" in situations of emergency room traumas. "You have to use the words 'terminal illness' and explain it's quite serious."
Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer
Source: Telegraph
Patrick Swayze, the Hollywood actor and star of such films as Dirty Dancing and Ghost, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a spokesman has confirmed. But contrary to reports, the 55-year-old is not "terminally ill" with just weeks to live.
While there has been considerable debate in the geek microcosm of the Mac community over whether repairing permissions in OS X does any good or not, what hasn't been debated is that understanding permissions can empower an OS X user and lift them into superuser status.
Apple Widgets on the desktop
Source: macosxhints.com
If you'd like one of your Dashboard widgets to be available all the time, instead of only when you have activated Dashboard via F12, then activate the Dashboard dvelopment mode. Open the Terminal and type defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES and press Return.
Interesting Terminal Uses
Source: ubuntuforums.org
Since I'm a noob myself and don't know much about the inner workings of the terminal, I won't shed any light on that subject. But, I would like to share some interesting and useful terminal code I've found.
Macquarie in hunt for more airports
Source: Australian News Network
Macquarie Bank perfected the art of infrastructure financing and it is still more than keen on fine tuning every last cent out of whatever it can get.
Today, iPhone-dev and others came up with a way to get ringtones on your iPhone. Although some people on howardforums.com were saying that the 21-step process was way too complicated and risky, I decided to try it out. The actual directions can be found here (with pictures).
A day without X (server)
Source: terminally-incoherent.com
Would you be able to survive one full day without using the X server? Linux offers us a wide assortment of CLI based tools which use curses and/or framebuffer for functional user interfaces.