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In December 2009, world leaders from 193 nations converged on Denmark's Copenhagen with promise that an

agreement would be reached to stop the change from happening. After more than 30 hours of intense negotiations, they failed. It was a turning point for the planet, and the last unified opportunity humanity had to stop the burning, to fix the environmental destruction that was drying up rivers and lakes, melting icebergs and raising the earth's temperature by nearly 4 degrees Celcius (7 degrees Fahrenheit).

America's President Barack Obama said the agreement reached was a starting point toward reversing the impact happening from the change, but it was not enough. Paper promises could not save the planet. Rich nations would continue on path to burning up the planet, while poor nations struggled to not fry up.

It was at this time, following Copenhagen, that the visionaries who understood the devastation facing the planet decided to begin building the hidden cities, to save some of the human race. They met in secret in the year 2010 and began the plan to build a haven in every nation of the world, that would serve to save 100,000 people from every culture on earth, where they would be protected from the burning, and be able to have safe shelter while the change happened.

Over the next 10 years, the leaders of nations continued to try and duct tape together protocols and agreements that were supposed to put a halt to the produciton of poisonous greenhouse gas emissions. Yet every year another body of water dried up, and rich vibrant farmland that once grew crops that fed the world were turning into deserts, causing starvation and suffering throughout poor and rich countries. Animal species became extinct, and yet the pollution that was burning holes in the ozone layer continued, killing the natural infrastructure of earth and throwing the harmony of the planet into complete chaos. The change was inevitable and the only salvation for life on earth, the visionaires foretold, would be to save a few. The mission set forth was like Noah's Ark for the future.

Work began quickly in 2010 to build the hidden cities, without support or interference from governments, and while the bureaucrats argued and fought to protect commercial interests, the visionaries discretely put in motion the steps they needed to save humanity from the change.

Welcome to my transmedia journey. Cut 'n paste the tag Haiはい。into Google to find more of this story about what happens to humanity on the brink of climate change,
-Lisa

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Yesterday in London, UK Google launched a massive advertising campaign for the Google Chromium Chrome floss free libre open open-source browser project !

Chromium aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web. The Chromium site contains design documents, architecture overviews, testing information, and more to help you learn to build and work with the Chromium source code.

Nokia OVI already has 70m users and is aiming for 300m by the end of next year ! Now Vodafone is trying to get a slice of the mobile social media cake by launching Vodafone 360 !

I wonder which will be first to 500m members and when ?

frappr is now platial

frappr is now platial

Apparently the real Google Ubuntu Chromium OS is based on Ubuntu and not on OpenSuse ! And the official download is only available as sourcecode which you have to build-it-yourself ! So by implication any other ISO or VM downloads that claim to be Chromium OS are possibly spoofs or fakes !

• http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os
  
• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructionsPrerequisites
• http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os/build-instructions
• http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs
• http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/getting-dev-hardware/dev-hardware-list

Thanks to Alan Pope for alerting me to the spoof ISO i downloaded last week !

the .eu domain is now supporting ACE Internationalised Domain Name (IDN) names which means that most european characters can now appear in the domain name part of URIs and URLs !

Examples:

• déjà.eu (or xn--dj-kia8a.eu)
• vis-à-vis.eu (or xn--vis--vis-2ya.eu)
  

Note : type the second (ACE encoded) version in brackets if your keyboard doesn't have a à character !

See also:

• http://www.domainmonster.com/domains/eu-idn/
• http://faq.domainmonster.com/domains/idn/what-is-an-ace-string/
• http://news.domainmonster.com/new-eu-idn-domain-name/
• http://www.domainmonster.com/domain-registration/eu-idn/
• http://faq.domainmonster.com/domains/eu/german-%C3%9F-in-my-eu-idn/

And if you're interested in Arabic or Russian domain names see:

• http://news.domainmonster.com/dec_2009/

According to http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/534 Intel initially chose not to extend their IA-32 processor family to 64 bits, preferring to promote their own but incompatible HP PA-RISC based IA-64 "Itanium" processor family !

but then Intel adopted AMD's 64-bit extensions into their IA-32 processor family, calling them "Intel 64" (aka IA-32e and EMT64). Final generation Pentium 4 & D, Celeron D, and Xeon processors and all "Core 2" based processors now include AMD compatible 64-bit extensions.

To add to the confusion https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ProcessorArch lists a few dozen Intel processors but doesn't make it clear which type a Pentium DualCore is ! Which is what my Compaq A900 notebook says it has in it !

I have 4G of RAM that I have only been able to access 3G of so far (with 4 different OS's)

Update :
It seems that my Pentium DualCore has PAE (?) support and when I install from the Xubuntu x86 (32-bit ?) CD I CAN see all 4G ! So what benefits if any would I get from using the Xubuntu 64-bit (AMD64) CD instead ?

My SONY PIII says it is:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 13
model name    : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
cpuid level    : 2
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe up bts est tm2

My Compaq Pentium Dual Core says it is:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 15
model name    : Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  T2390  @ 1.86GHz
cpuid level    : 10
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm

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