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WHAT: Running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS “Precise”. After software upgrade, during boot the message displays: Waiting for network configuration… After an inordinate amount of time a new message appears: Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration… After the system is finished booting and the user logs in, there is no network. WHY: Unknown.  Apparently…

www.colorpicker.com has one of the best color selection tools that I have seen either as a standalone application or on the web.

There is a popular belief that the Sun is extremely detrimental for skin and that it should be avoided at all costs.  Prominent speakers who appear to be basing their statements on medical facts claim that the Sun is extremely bad for skin. Unfortunately this is erroneous and bad advice to follow.  What matters more…

This is one of those really amazing shell commands which is very concise, powerful, and yes elegant. Let’s say you have a file of some text and want to view everything except the top n lines of file.txt, where n is any number.  The command simply is: awk ‘NR>n’ file.txt Where n is the number…

Today I was researching laser treatment of vitreous eye floaters and came across this mind-blowing video of a live procedure being done by one of the only very few physicians in the US who perform it: To anyone who has never had a floater, it might be difficult to imagine how amazing this procedure seems. …

I wanted to offer this method I sort of discovered today on how to organize when you are in a situation where it seems like the task is too overwhelming to the point of being impossible. That is how it has been with me for too long. I have had piles of junk all over…

Transit of Venus | exploratorium.edu/venus brightcove.createExperiences();

For those who like to shop online, it often occurs when checking out that there is a chance to enter a coupon code before the final sale transaction is completed.  Its often worth checking to see if you can find a coupon. Today I ordered a $20 fitness apparel item and was able to get…

Hi, this is my first post with the newly arranged Alaya: Tech blog thingy.  All the previous tech and science related posts will be here.  I apologize if any are missing.  There are around 800 posts to go through and preen and I have not finished the process yet. The other day I finally got…

Is there a massive, hidden planet in our solar system, bigger even than the largest known planet Jupiter?  Or perhaps a red dwarf star that is a sister to our Sun yet which until now has been undetected? Far far beyond the orbit of Neptune lie what are called trans-neptunian objects.  Way out there is…