Motorcycle Hand Signals to other riders

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Group Riding
Common hand signals

Britains Seed Bank collects Billionth Seed

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Plant vault passes billion mark

Britain's "Noah's Ark" for plants has just collected its billionth seed.

Third work found in the Archimedes Palimpsest

BBC NEWS | Technology | Text reveals more ancient secrets

Experts are "lost for words" to have found that a medieval prayer book has yielded yet another key ancient text buried within its parchment.



Works by mathematician Archimedes and the politician Hyperides had already been found buried within the book, known as the Archimedes Palimpsest.

How to Interpret Windows Installer Logs

How to Interpret Windows Installer Logs

If you have a problem with the Windows Installer or an MSI package you're installing, it's a sure bet that you will be told by some smart person to "enable logging".

That's great advice, except ... what do you do with the log once you get it? A common technique is to open it in Notepad and scroll up and down aimlessly, hoping to spot the "cause of your problem" section. While this is a very popular approach, it rarely yields good results. In this post, I'll walk you through the contents of a typical log so that next time you have an Installer problem you'll be in a better position to troubleshoot it yourself.

How to import saved Firefox passwords into KeePass

How to import saved Firefox passwords into KeePass

f you want to export your Firefox passwords to KeePass, you can do so - with a few plugins, a script, a little Java and some XML elbow grease. Still with me? This process isn't quick and easy (today's theme! user-hostile data transfer!) but it IS possible. Here's how to get it done.

Setting up Netvibes

A nice article on setting up NetVibes

Trick out your Netvibes

Turn off Sticky & Filter keys in Windows XP/Vista

One less annoying thing in windows...

Turn off Filter Keys in Windows XP and Vista

Filter Keys is an annoying Windows feature that can be turned off permanently in one simple step. Filter Keys ignores keyboard input unless the key is held down for a significant period of time, and is triggered when you hold down a key, such as shift, for 8 seconds. Tech/engineering blog //engtech explains how to disable Filter Keys permanently:

Evolution (Outlook replacement) ported to Windows.

Evolution on Win32

The open source software that's been called Outlook for Linux has been
ported to Windows XP and an easy-peasy installer is now available as a
free download.

Handy little snippet. Using For...In to process multiple files in the command window.



Daily Cup of Tech » Quickly Perform a Function on Several Files

for /R %z in (*.zip) do unzip "%z"