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Solaris (film review)
“Science? Nonsense! In our situation, mediocrity and genius are equally useless. We have no interest in conquering any cosmos: we want to extend the Earth to the borders of cosmos. We don’t know what to do with other worlds. We … Continue reading
Economical growth
. Physically and mathematically, it is impossible to grow indefinitely in a finite system, such as planet Earth. Any subset of a finite system can only grow at the expense of the rest. The expression sustainable growth is a fallacy, … Continue reading
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The fire of my loins
. Anonymous reader: would you stop by and make me company for just a little while? Look: I can’t help hearing a voice inside me, that is talking to her all the time, pushing its way through my thoughts to … Continue reading
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Get rid of Acrobat's upgrade notification popup
. Are you tired of the annoying “update acrobat” Acrobat icon popping up in your screen’s lower right corner every time you switch your computer on, or access any pdf document? For getting rid of it, you can go to … Continue reading
Fix for Macbook white screen of death. Shame on Apple!
If one day, on booting your Macbook (likely, after doing some serious modification to your hdd or filesystems), you hear the startup chime but you get an empty white screen showing no activity at all, which stays there forever, then … Continue reading
Fighting obesity?
[:en]I’ve been six hours packing at home, struggling with my stuff to make the suitcase comply with the airlines’ weight allowance: 20 kg. You can’t easily do with less than 20 kg of luggage for a one month holiday, and it’s … Continue reading
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Shame on Spain
. With the help of media, grudge and nescience can grow really powerful. And now, in Spain, they’re achieving their goal: presently, the main national and international news about the Pope’s visit to Madrid is not the event itself, nor Benedict XVI himself, … Continue reading
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How to login as root in Xfce
. Log in as root in the Xfce environment is disabled by default. When I tried to google how to change this behaviour, I got lots of results, but useless, because though dozens of people had posted that same question … Continue reading