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330 MPG Uber Hybrid?:
They plan to sell a revolutionary hybrid two-seater car that they say can get up to 330 miles per gallon, and will sell for under $20,000.

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As usual, the discussions were almost as good as the essay:
Comments at reddit.com on Graham’s “How to Do What You Love” Essay:
Paul: But, curiously, the two-job approach could be translated into the converse: “get the money, doing what you love will follow.”
That is very true, and it’s exactly what I have been trying to accomplish. [...]

[SECURITY] [DSA 946-1] New sudo packages fix privilege escalation
I got this security update with aptitude on my own Debian GNU/Linux server and now when I use VIM with sudo (I think) sudo no longer passes the $HOME variable over to VIM, and VIM looks for $HOME/.viminfo by default. I guess $HOME is set to [...]

Now we no longer have to click “secure login” to switch to SSL login… I guess Yahoo got a tiny bit smarter…
Sign in to Yahoo!
What does “Submits over SSL” mean?
When you sign in to Yahoo!, you’re now protected via industry-standard Secure [...]

Pornographer plumps for Blu-ray
Digital Playground says it will use Blu Ray disks to pump out its future output, adding a touch of spice to the format battle between Blu ray and HD DVD.
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No Intel-based OS X version of CS until CS3? - The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog
It was the opinion of the Photoshop TV guys that Adobe might not offer any kind of update/upgrade of CS or CS2 until Adobe releases a truly new version - CS3 - for which there is no present ETA. I [...]

I just opened one of these Orange accounts with the TiVo promotion, now for new deposits from Jan 19 til April 15 of this year you ca nget 4.75% APY, that’s pretty damn awesome! Good that I didn’t put a big opening [...]

I cvsup’ed the ports tree on my client’s new server and did a ‘portmanager -u’, :lol:, it deleted itself! I’ve used portupgrade for years but the latest FreeBSD Handbook mentioned portmanager. I tried and liked it. Oh well…
Google Groups : mailing.freebsd.cvs
Remove portmanager. Author has withdrawn permission to distribute it.

From this teardown of the Intel-inside iMac, it contains a Broadcom PCIX wifi chipset. And according to this press release, the BCM4311 supports 802.11a/g. So I guess these rumors were not exactly true, at least not for the iMac, we will have to wait for somebody to take apart a MacBook Pro to find out [...]

Check out these benchmarks. As expected, running (or rather, emulating) Photoshop with Rosetta is slow as shit. Like I told my friend Ming when he told me he was getting a MacBook Pro, if you are getting one to do Photoshop primarily, you should wait until Adobe releases a native version of PS CS2 for [...]