«When using Windows Update or Microsoft Update to update the system, some updates or components cannot be installed properly. Beside, if the update is high priority update, Automatic Updates will not be able to install the update automatically or manually too, causing the Automatic Updates to keep prompting again and again for you to install the failed updates. ~ If you go to Review your Update history, you will see the update is listed with Failed status when when click, give the detail that it’s because of installation failure with error code 0×80242006. At the last column, the Source will tell you whether the installation is done through Automatic Updates or Microsoft Update or Windows Update. ~ Currently, the updates that known to cause this error are Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications (KB905474) and used to be Security Update for Windows XP (KB913446).»

«[...]~ The idea behind Blue Pill is simple: your operating system swallows the Blue Pill and it awakes inside the Matrix controlled by the ultra thin Blue Pill hypervisor. This all happens on-the-fly (i.e. without restarting the system) and there is no performance penalty and all the devices, like graphics card, are fully accessible to the operating system, which is now executing inside virtual machine. This is all possible thanks to the latest virtualization technology from AMD called SVM/Pacifica. ~[...]»

«Hot day, stuck in the office? Worried about waking up with your face on the desk? National Siesta Day has the evidence that two sleeps a day is natural and that there's nothing Spanish about the siesta.»

«[...]~ I don't recommend installing the NVIDIA or ATI binary drivers through EasyUbuntu, and recommend following the Ubuntu Binary Driver HOWTO instead. I also would not recommend the "embed Totem in Firefox" option, because of the following recommendation. The default Totem (totem-gstreamer) cannot play DVDs; this is remedied by installing the package "totem-xine"; you can embed totem-xine in firefox by also installing "totem-xine-plugin". Other than that, everything is superb.»

«[...]~ So, what exactly does Google Browser Synch (GBS) do? It's pretty simple. First, it only works with Firefox 1.5 and up. Second, once you install it, it synchs your bookmarks, cookies, saved passwords, history, tabs, and windows to an online repository that Google runs on it's servers (through its configuration screen pictured below, any one of these can be turned off. Third, once you configure your other installations of Firefox (perhaps at home or on another computer) with GBS, then all of your Firefox installations should stay in synch with each other. ~[...]»

«An anonymous reader writes "The world's most ubiquitous wireless access point is free to run Linux again, thanks to a brilliant hack by db90h, aka Jeremy Collake. No soldering is required, as Collake's 'VxWorks Killer' nixes the WRT54G's VxWorks bootloader and installs a normal Broadcom one, allowing Linux to be installed easily. One distribution small enough for the series five WRT54G's 2MB of Flash and 8MB of RAM is the free DD-WRT project's "micro" edition. It lacks some of the fancier Linux router packages, such as nocat and IPv6, but does support PPPoE, and could be more stable than the VxWorks firmware, which seems to have generated mixed reviews."»

«Huntington’s disease may be about to meet its match with the development of a therapy designed to knock out production of the defective protein that causes the condition. ~ Huntington’s is an untreatable inherited disease in which repetitive sequences of DNA lead to the production of a faulty version of a protein called huntingtin, giving it multiple copies of the amino acid glutamine. As adults, its victims lose their cognitive abilities, suffer involuntary movements and, after a decade or more, die. ~ [...]»

«OAKLAND, Md. — Dan Boone has no doubt that his crusade against wind energy is the right way to protect the Allegheny highlands he loves. Let other environmentalists call him deluded at best, traitorous at worst. He remains undeterred. ~ For four years or more, Mr. Boone has traveled across the mid-Atlantic to make every argument he can muster against local wind-power projects: they kill birds and bats; they are too noisy; they are inefficient, making no more than a symbolic contribution to energy needs. ~ [...]»

«Enough details have emerged from survivors and military personnel to conclude that in the town of Haditha last November, members of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment perpetrated a massacre. The killings may have been in retaliation for the death of a Marine lance corporal, but this was not the work of soldiers gone berserk. The targets (children from 3 to 14, an old man in a wheelchair, taxi passengers), the hours-long duration of killings, the number of Marines involved, the careful mop-up--all amount to willful, targeted brutality designed to send a message to Iraqis. As Representative John Murtha has pointed out, the patently false story floated afterward, blaming the killings on roadside bombs, and Marine payoffs to survivors imply a cover-up that may extend far up the chain of command. [...]»