Support for Windows 7 is ending in 2020. it will show a full-screen dialog explaining the risks of continued use after this time. This is the risk of running Windows, but it is also a problem if a user had an older version of Linux installed and did not install…
Read MoreNew exoplanets have been discovered 39 light years from Earth. This is 3.689685e+14 kilometers. This is apparently a system with seven planets. There is such a big fuss about the possibility of life here, but the distance is massive. Traveling at 200,000,000 miles per hour, it would take 130 years…
Read MoreThe support for Windows XP will end soon. April 8th in fact. This means that existing installations of Windows XP, and there are many around the world will be rendered vulnerable to exploits. Windows XP has been around since 2001 and it is time that is was replaced by something…
Read MoreA new exoplanet has been measured, HD 97658. This planet is hardly larger than the planet Earth, but this is nearly eight times the mass of our planet. This means that the gravitational pull would be much higher than Earth. Possibly 6-7 times the gravity of Earth and also it…
Read MoreThis is game-play footage of Half Life 2 running on Ubuntu 13.04. There are native binaries of Half Life 2 for Linux; this means that gamers all over the world can play this game without using Windows or WINE. A good win for open source software; the Ubuntu distribution is…
Read MoreThe old Half Life game by the Valve game studio has been released as an open game using the Source engine available in the Steam store. This is an entirely new game that revitalizes the ancient adventures of Gordon Freeman and brings it to a whole new generation of gamers. A project…
Read MoreThe search for alien intelligences continues and though we have not found any alien civilizations yet, the search continues. The ability of life to exist in harsh climates is astounding, there are fish on this planet that live in sulfuric acid, and the lifeforms that exist around black smokers on…
Read MoreThe Ridley Scott movie that has just been released, that is a prequel to the first Alien film is a movie that introduces the moviegoer to the Space Jockeys and the Engineers that supposedly created life on this planet. In the novelization of the Alien move the alien race that…
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