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Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life.  To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades.  Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one.

While not totally comprehensive, here is a list of 50 things everyone should know how to do. from http://www.marcandangel.com

1.  Build a Fire – Fire produces heat and light, two basic necessities for living.  At some point in your life this knowledge may be vital.

• How to Build a Fire
• Wilderness Survival Firecraft
• Build a Fire Without Matches or a Lighter (video)

2.  Operate a Computer – Fundamental computer knowledge is essential these days.  Please, help those in need.

• How To Help Someone Use a Computer
• The BBC’s Guide to Using a Computer
• Mac Basics
• Windows Basics

3.  Use Google Effectively – Google knows everything.  If you’re having trouble finding something with Google, it’s you that needs help.

• Google Guide
• Google Advanced Search Operators
• Google Web Search Features
• 20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches

4.  Perform CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver – Someday it may be your wife, husband, son or daughter that needs help.

• Learn CPR
• How To Perform Adult CPR (video)
• How CPR Works
• How to Perform the Heimlich Maneuver (video)

5.  Drive a Manual Transmission Vehicle – There will come a time when you’ll be stuck without this knowledge.

• How To Drive a Stick Shift Instructional Movie (video)
• Learn to Drive a Stick Shift
• Learn to Drive a Car with Manual Transmission

6.  Do Basic Cooking – If you can’t cook your own steak and eggs, you probably aren’t going to make it.

• Cooking Basics and Tips
• Cooking and Baking How To Information
• Basics of Cooking Series

7.  Tell a Story that Captivates People’s Attention – If you can’t captivate their attention, you should probably just save your breath.

• How To Tell a Great Story
• How To Give a Great Speech
• Presentation Tips for Public Speaking

8.  Win or Avoid a Fistfight – Either way, you win.

• How To Actually Win a Fistfight
• How To Win a Fistfight (video)
• How To Win a Street Fight
• How To Avoid Confrontations Like a Samurai Warrior

9.  Deliver Bad News – Somebody has got to do it.  Unfortunately, someday that person will be you.

• How To Deliver Bad News in Writing
• How to Deliver Bad News to a Customer
• Good Ways to Deliver Bad News

10.  Change a Tire – Because tires have air in them, and things with air in them eventually pop.

• How To Change a Flat Tire (video)
• How To Change a Tire (video)
• Saturday Mechanic: Changing a Tire

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Bytes (8 bits)

• 0.1 bytes: A single yes/no decision  (actually 0.125 bytes, but I rounded)
• 1 byte: One character
• 2 bytes:
• 5 bytes
• 10 bytes: One word (a word of language, not a computer word)
• 20 bytes:
• 50 bytes:
• 100 bytes: Telegram; two punched computer (Hollerith) cards
• 200 bytes:
• 500 bytes:

Kilobyte
     1,024 bytes; 2¹⁰;
     approx. 1,000 or 10 ³

• 1 Kilobyte: Joke; (very) short story
• 2 Kilobytes: Typewritten page
• 10 Kilobytes: Page out of an encyclopedia
• 20 Kilobytes:
• 50 Kilobytes: Image of a document page, compressed
• 100 Kilobytes: Photograph, low-resolution
• 200 Kilobytes: Two boxes (4000) punched computer (Hollerith) cards
• 500 Kilobytes: Five boxes, one case (10,000 of punched computer (Hollerith) cards

Megabyte
     1,048,576 bytes; 2²⁰;
     approx 1,000,000 or 10 ⁶

• 1 Megabyte: Small novel; 3-1/2 inch diskette
• 2 Megabytes: Photograph, high resolution
• 5 Megabytes: Complete works of Shakespeare; 30 seconds of broadcast-quality video
• 10 Megabytes: Minute of high-fidelity sound; digital chest X-ray; Box of 3-1/2 inch diskettes
• 20 Megabytes: Two boxes of 3-1/2 inch diskettes
• 50 Megabytes: Digital mammogram
• 100 Megabytes: Yard of books on a shelf; two encyclopedia volumes
• 200 Megabytes: Reel of 9-track tape; IBM 3480 cartridge tape
• 500 Megabytes: CD-ROM

Gigabyte
     1,073,741,824 bytes; 2³⁰;
     approx 1,000,000,000 or 10 ⁹

• 1 Gigabyte: Paper in the bed of a pickup; symphony in high-fidelity sound; broadcast quality movie
• 2 Gigabytes: 20 yards of books on a shelf
• 5 Gigabytes: 8mm Exabyte tale
• 10 Gigabytes:
• 20 Gigabytes: Audio collection of the works of Beethoven; five Exabyte tapes; VHS tape used to store digital data
• 50 Gigabytes: Library floor of books on shelves
• 100 Gigabytes: Library floor of academic journals on shelves; large ID-1 digital tape
• 200 Gigabytes: 50 Exabyte tapes

Terabyte
     1,099,511,627,776 or 2⁴⁰;
     approx. 1,000,000,000,000 or 10 ¹²

• 1 Terabyte: Automated tape robot; all the X-ray films in a large technological hospital; 50,000 trees made into paper and printed; daily rate of EOS (Earth Orbiting System) data (1998)
• 2 Terabytes: Academic research ligrary
• 10 Terabytes: Printed collection of the U. S. Library of Congress
• 50 Terabytes: Contents of a large mass storage system

Petabyte
     1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes or 2⁵⁰
     approx. 1,000,000,000,000,000 or 10 ¹⁵

• 1 Petabyte: 3 years of EOS data (2001)
• 2 Petabytes: All U. S. academic research libraries
• 20 Petabytes: 1995 production of hard-disk drives
• 200 Petabytes: All printed material; 1995 production of digital magnetic tape

Exabyte
     1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes or 2⁶⁰
     approx. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 10 ¹⁸  

• 5 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by human beings.

Zettabyte
     1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes or 2⁷⁰
     approx. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 10 ²¹

Yottabyte
     1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes or 2⁸⁰
     approx. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 10 ²⁴

^{from James S. Huggins’ Refrigerator Door}

What’s New in Firefox 3:

The Web is all about innovation, and Firefox 3 sets the pace with dozens of new features to deliver a faster, more secure and customizable Web browsing experience for all.

User Experience. The enhancements to Firefox 3 provide the best possible browsing experience on the Web. The new Firefox 3 smart location bar, affectionately known as the “Awesome Bar,” learns as people use it, adapting to user preferences and offering better fitting matches over time. The Firefox 3 Library archives browsing history, bookmarks, and tags, where they can be easily searched and organized. One-click bookmarking and tagging make it easy to remember, search and organize Web sites. The new full-page zoom displays any part of a Web page, up close and readable, in seconds.

Performance. Firefox 3 is built on top of the powerful new Gecko 1.9 platform, resulting in a safer, easier to use and more personal product. Firefox 3 now uses less memory while it’s running, and its redesigned page rendering and layout engine means users see Web pages two to three times faster than Firefox 2.

Security. Firefox 3 raises the bar for security. The new malware and phishing protection helps protect from viruses, worms, trojans and spyware to keep people safe on the Web. Firefox 3’s one-click site ID information allows users to verify that a site is what it claims to be. Mozilla’s open source process leverages the experience of thousands of security experts around the globe.

Customization. Everyone uses the Web differently, and Firefox 3 lets users customize their browser with more than 5,000 add-ons. Firefox Add-ons allow users to manage tasks like participating in online auctions, uploading digital photos, seeing the weather forecasts, and listening to music, all from the convenience of the browser. The new Add-ons Manager helps users to find and install add-ons directly from the browser.

download: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US

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Do you like ninja ? :)

Amazing thing and cool idea :) so going to http://www.google.com/earth/plugin/examples/milktruck/ download plugin, restart browser and wheeehoo!

So what I could say. At first IE7 - all new features from mozilla firefox and opera . And now Windows 7 it think it will be with features from MAC . I think we will get a new windows Vista . OS with good design but terrible and uncomfortable functionality. As you see now on video, system already not working quickly. And who, really, who will use touch-screen at home and at office for work?

If you like console instead of windows/mouse interface, please go to http://goosh.org

This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell. You type commands and the results are shown on this page.

goosh is written by Stefan Grothkopp <grothkopp@gmail.com>  it is NOT an official google product!

so lets start with  "help" command

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WAW! really.

Write and collaborate on documents anywhere, anytime

Adobe® Buzzword® is a new online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser, so there’s no installation required. It’s free

Meet live over the web and share your screen with anyone

Adobe ConnectNow is a great way to share ideas, discuss details, and complete work together — all online. Reduce travel costs, save time, and increase productivity with a web conferencing solution that is easy to access and simple to use. It’s free.

Convert up to five files to PDF online

Acrobat.com provides an online PDF converter so you can easily create PDF documents from your existing files in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and many other applications. It’s as easy as selecting your file and clicking Create PDF. And it’s free.

Send files to others for easy access while you maintain control

Acrobat.com provides online file sharing. By sending URLs instead of e-mailing large attachments, you and your team can access files from any computer in the office or on the road. It’s free.

Store your files online for easy access from anywhere

Acrobat.com provides an intuitive interface to help you easily organize all the files you share online, including Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, and images.

It’s free.

Go to acrobat.com and try all these great things!!!!!

Alternativa Platform - solution for multiuser browser project.

Browser 3D-engine.Cross-platform, made for Adobe Flash; best up-to-date performance.

AlternativaGUI - Fast window-based interface for flash-projects.Multi-purpose, open for modification and expansion. - in progress

AlternativaCore - Client-server solution for multiuser games and projects.Specific data workflow model, dynamic load distribution, easy scaling, own data transfer protocol, file versions system. - in progress

some demo and screenshots below:

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