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Pretty good selection! bit of a Project Gutenberg for docos Here is some fr3e skool'n http://www.udacity.com http://www.khanacademy.org http://www.coursera.org

Interesting: your eye can make you hear something different- The McGurk Effect

Horizon: Is Seeing Believing? - BBC Two

Penryn / Ivy Bridge

I never intended this to be a condensed matter physics blog but there have been a few developments in the last few months! Intel look like they have got their 3D transistors sorted for the next gen of x64 processors "Transistor Technology Breakthrough Represents Biggest Change To Computer Chips In 40 Years"

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110505092252.htm

For the first time since the invention of silicon transistors over 50 years ago, transistors using a three-dimensional structure will be put into high-volume manufacturing. Intel will introduce a revolutionary 3-D transistor design called Tri-Gate, first disclosed by Intel in 2002, into high-volume manufacturing at the 22-nanometer (nm) node in an Intel chip codenamed "Ivy Bridge."

Higgs boson spotted at LHC???

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/

Rumored that the LHC spotted the Higgs boson at 115-120GeV where theory predicted...

Lets see if this is true/verified in the coming weeks

Live Partition Mobility

Here's a demo I've done of a 5 min Live LPAR Mobility (think vmotion for POWER LPARs)

Its a running AIX 6.1 LPAR moved on the fly between 2 POWER7 frames: 5mins, not one lost ping!! (longest delay to any ping I got was ~78ms)

remote HMC LPM

(remote HMC - not both frames under the same HMC this time)

CentOS 5.6 get ext4

Centos 5.6 came out recently (not CentOS 6 - RH drip feed this stuff...)

2 points of interest

- ext4 filesystem
- php 5.3

RH is now a billion dollar company not bad for selling 'free' software

Couple of nice radiation dosage charts

Due to the log scale required to show this (or sound) its hard

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

XKCD have do a bossjob of it!!!

and to a lesser extent....

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/

does not really show the logarithmic nature as well as the little coloured boxes