Saturday 15 November 2008

Geeky things i found

Originally posted on 'The DailyDaniel'
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Linux is 17 years old. In May 2008, 1.95% of the OS market was shared by Linux distributions (compared to 91.11% Windows). This depresses me.

Check out Ubuntu at http://www.ubuntu.com/. It's just a great operating system.

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Did you know that the Matlab logo (the first eigenfunction of the L-shaped membrane) is on a “sponsor a highway” sign on Route 9 in Natick,Massachusetts. Cleve Moler, creator of Matlab, likened its shape to "a beach towel blowing in the wind, constrained by a picnic basket on one-fourth of the towel".
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A map of the internet!!! Now this IS cool

http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.php?start=digg.com

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and finally a very funny and clever map from the makers of the Onion

http://www.theonion.com/content/atlas/


Good night!

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