This movie is coming soon near you, and what’s more this movie is completely FREE! You can also get the original source of the movie for free again. This is an Open Source Movie!!! Visit its site at www.bigbuckbunny.org and peach.blender.org.
Category / Show Casing
BackRub: The former Google
Today I sumbled upon this site – BackRub.c63.be. Backrub is the former name of Google. On that site you will find an archive of pages from the earliest days of Google. So goto http://backrub.c63.be and have a view at the giant’s past. 😀
Get the Wikipedia database!
Wikipedia, possibly world’s largest encyclopedia. It has over 2 million articles. I sometimes shudder at the thought that someday (maybe) if (for some reason) Wikipedia shuts down then what will happen to vast amount of data we have now! Surely, this hears like a dooms day, which we assume it will never ever happen. I am born collector. I love to collect anything which is very dear to my heart and is valuable. So, I was wondering today can I keep a backup copy of Wikipedia? If yes then how BIG would be the database?
As it turned out after some googling and more re-googling that there are more than one ways for this and the size of Wikipedia’s database (all articles, templates, image descriptions, and primary meta-pages, but no images) is 3.2 GB (compressed size – archive as on Jan 2008). Below are the various methods to get the database.
- Data dumps (link). These are raw data dumps of Wikipedia. You have options of various kinds of downloads. You can download the wiki in any particular language, or a particular subset of the database (e.g. only the titles of articles or only the abstracts of articles). This is the link to English Wikipedia’s Jan 2008 backup (3.2 GB download size).
- Wikipedia on DVD (download link) – only 422MB uncompressed size. This is the best way to download Wikipedia. This is the DVD version of Wikipedia, but has only selected articles and is quite outdated. I would sincerely urge Wikipedia to keep this updated. The DVD consists of a nice GUI provided by the software – Kiwix.
- Misc downloads (link). For example, Commons Picture of the year archive (link), MediaWiki – The website software Wikipedia.org uses itself (link).
- To download all the pictures of Wikipedia read here (to download the all image torrents click here). Note: that many of these pictures could be copyrighted. So, if you take full assume all liability for the use of any images. The download size could be as big as hundreds of GBs. The best way to download the pictures is download a subset of them. If you want to download only the pictures that are referenced by the XML file you download from here, then use Wikix.
- You can also download all XMLs for English Wiki from here.
So, happy life and stay informed.
Crazy and cool CPU mods.
See the cool and some really crazy CPU mods. Below are the pictures stolen from ExtremeTech.
No, It’s Not a Gumball Machine
Computer Bike
Waterlogged PC
The Videophone Star
Mirage: Best of Both Worlds
The Wall Crawler PC
Spooky Skeleton
You Modded My Battleship!
Crystal Power
Lord Vader, Your Case is Ready
I Screen, You Screen
Pagoda PC
Athlon Hamster PC
The Sangaku Case Mod
This is really cute. Flower Puppies.
Flower Puppies
Pics for Laughs.
It seems the cow has some tastes for dogs.
Quack-Highness
Royal Bengal Tiger. Is McDonald responsible for it?
“Who is that, with wierd hairs?”
“There u r.”
Cross Atlantic Cruisers.
“It’s just a bad hair day”
“The coast is clear.”
Cross breed-ed?
“No I won’t go with u. I will stay at home.”
“Hey sis. Look at that wierd face.”
“Hmmm…”
“Aaaah! This smells so sweet. Will make a good snack.”
“Ha ha. Who am I?”
“Hey u go off. He is my prey.”
Chicken Littles.
Snaps from Movies (edited)
All pics from Opera community @ http://my.opera.com/community/
Almost all pics (maybe all) has been taken from Mathilda Tómasdóttir’s album at Opera Community.
Well the captions are mine.