Interesting stuff from all around the web today:
- Open Letter to My Fellow Americans (Washington’s Blog)
- Return of the Gold Standard as world order unravels (Telegraph)
- Derivative Map of Tranch-L-Vania (Flickr via @Williambanzai7)
- Worried About Debt Limit? The Bond Market Isn’t (Bloomberg)
- Silvio Berlusconi: Inside His World (Business Insider)
- The Truth About America’s Gigantic Deficit Mess To Come (Business Insider)
- The euro zone on the edge: The road to Rome (The Economist)
- Don’t Mess with the Debt Ceiling, the vigilantes will make you pay (the trader)
- Goldman Bet Against Entire European Nations – Who Were Clients – the Same Way It Bet Against Its Subprime Mortgage Clients (Washington’s Blog)
- Behind the downgrades and the doubt: A crisis of growth (BBC)
- Getting to Crazy (NY Times)
- Rosenberg On The Debt Ceiling (zero hedge)
- Study Says Internet Use Affects Our Memory (Care2 Causes)
- An Alarming New Stimulant, Sold Legally in Many States (NY Times)
- Top 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Computer’s Boot Time (Lifehacker / just get a SSD and forget about anything else, it will turn your PC into a rocket. And stay away from OCZ products)
- How Hackers Stole 24,000 Files From The Pentagon (Fast Company)
- Cat Saturday Gallery (Chive)
Enjoy your Sunday
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Liviu,
Regarding http://lifehacker.com/5821865/top-10-ways-to-spee…
Apart from installing an SSD, which would juice ANY system, here's my top 'ten' ;
1) Install any reasonable Linux distro that's stable and rustle up a browser-led workplace or whatever takes your fancy (video rendering, office, file-sharing, web authoring..)
For the most part, installing / uninstalling software doesn't necessitate a reboot — and even i fit did, rebooting is pretty quick if you knew what you were doing on setup anyway. As a result, the other traditional fixes for Windows "just go away".
End of story (except for decrying the various NTFS flavours for not being forward/backward compatible in favour of ANY journaling filesystem, but that's a different topic entirely.)
I use Linux on servers since the year 2000 and it is doing an excellent job. I can't even imagine doing the same things on a Windows Server.
But for a workstation I for one prefer Windows 7. There are too many applications that are available on Windows only, especially trading software (charting etc). Games too.
But yeah, for light computer usage as home user such as browsing, email, watching videos – Linux is a great choice and it is free! Also no worries about viruses and malware :)