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is an in-car navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Roadnav can obtain a car’s present location from a GPS unit, plot street maps of the area, and provide verbal turn by turn directi
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Good tactic to install Linux (ubuntu flavor) on a notebook w/o CD player. By « hack-a-day O’Brien.
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Browsing Technorati for tag : Passivhaus brought me to Mel Starrs, a (she) Sustainability Consultant, Chartered Building Services Engineer and Bespoke BREEAM Assessor in Leeds, UK. She is also undertaking an Executive MBA which she looks forward to finishing soon Assessor in Leeds, UK, currently undertaking an Executive MBA at Leeds Uni (& Lifehacker reader) and blogs about all that at Elemental (« Communicating sustainable solutions for the built environment »). Exerpts:
- PassivHaus UK. [x]
- top 100 environmentalists of all time (as reviewed by Environment Agency, where Gro Harlem Brundtland is quoted as being the lady who coined the phrase which defines sustainable development: ‘Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.’) [x]
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Chumby co-founder and Xbox hacker Bunnie Huang, gone away from being a gadget freak to the kind of guy who carefully researches his gadgets and carries around a select set of well-worn gadgets.
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In the village of Bourem Inaly, Mali there are over 120 television sets powered by 12-volt car batteries, but there is almost nothing to watch. With its CanTV project, Geekcorps has helped the local radio station stream video content to the local communit
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NZ Travelogue
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« A view of Africa and Africans with a focus on entrepreneurship,innovation,technology,practical remedies and other self sustaining activities »
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There’s even a whole website dedicated to how various Linux distros run on various laptop brands.
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How to do almost anything on Ubuntu
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We believe in choice. Ubuntu and Kubuntu tend to follow the « free software » philosophies and for this reason do not include « dirty » software (patented or proprietary technologies for instance). This is great and this is the way it should be. However, othe
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Lost an dead , survival unsuccesssful
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But who are ye in rags and rotten shoes / You dirty-bearded, blocking up the way? / // We are the Pilgrims, master: we shall go / Always a little further: it may be / Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow, / Across t
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Let’s be clear about it: The term Web 2.0 is, first and foremost, a marketing gimmick. Its purpose is to create a sense of new, foster a buzz about new media, and generate new investment. So far, it’s working.
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accès à 90 000 ouvrages numérisés (fascicules de presse compris), majoritairement des imprimés numérisés en mode image.
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Download .pdf on passivhaus
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Interesting ad campaign promoting water conservation in Denver.
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Ubuntu Video is a video portal that takes the best Ubuntu-related videos on the Internet, from places like YouTube and Google Video, and centralizes them in one convenient spot.
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as featured in the premiere edition of Make
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What is the difference between a hub, switch and router?
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originally published in vol 1 of Make
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ay goodbye to the bank-breaking audio/video cables at your local electronics superstore. Save your money and build out your home theater DIY style. With a total running time of 45 minutes, Kevin and Dan talk to a broadcast engineer to demonstrate how to m
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1st Passivhaus certified house build in North America
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Lides d’une journée d’information organisée le 28 septembre 2006 à Paris, par le CSTB en partenariat avec le Groupe Moniteur, consacrée aux bâtiments à énergie positive. (es enjeux de la consommation énergétique dans les bâtiments ; les premièr
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GFreePlayer est un gestionnaire de playlists, ainsi qu’un générateur de playlist compatible avec le Freeplayer de free.fr (vlc-fbx.sh). C’est une version beta, mais pleinement fonctionnelle, releaser en GPL(v2).