Thoughts
This task is pretty straightforward. At least if you already’ve got MacPorts installed.
(If you don’t have macports, please, head on to this website and get it, it’s extremely useful to geeky users).
Let’s proceed.!. Open a Terminal window, and type the following command
That’d be all. To test Lynx, type the following:
If everything went fine, you should see something like this:
Not long ago i’ve read Michio Kaku’s book, Science of the Impossible. If you have enough spare time to pick up a new book, i’d like to recommend it.
Michio suggests, in his book, that building a Warp Drive might become a reality in the next 100 years. But what are the grounds on that saying?.
Proposed by physicist Miguel Alcubierre, the Alcubierre’s Drive is a solution to Einstein’s Relativistic equations. For it to work, we need matter with negative mass… which, as of today, hasn’t been discovered yet.
The idea behind the Alcubierre Drive is pretty clever. An object cannot achieve light speed on its own, because it’s mass would grow to infinity. So… as a brilliant alternative, Miguel proposed that we should move the space around us, instead.
How is that?. Well… imagine you place a toy-car on a sheet of paper. And instead of moving the car… you move the sheet of paper on which it’s standing. The toy would stand still, but the “space” around it would have moved.
If you’d like to go on reading about this, i suggest you click on the Alcubierre’s wikipedia entry!.
The universe is expanding. Almost every human being with a rudimentary education knows that. But physicists have been struggling for the last hundred years with a serious problem.
We know that everything is moving away…. yes, because of the big bang. But thing is… the universe is not only expanding. It’s expanding at an accelerated rate. And that, my friends, is one of the greatest mysteries of science.
One of the most widely accepted theory that can explain this is… there is dark matter all around us. Why dark?. Because we cannot see it directly. And this dark matter, theoretically, matches THE Alcubierre’s Drive requirement: Dark Matter, if it even exists, needs to have negative mass.
Why negative mass?. Well… objects with positive mass attract other objects. That’s known as Gravity. If you wanna repel other objects… you need to twist that around: you need negative mass.
We have the theoretical background that makes Faster Than Light… a theoretical possibility. That’s a HUGE difference with the science of the previous century. At this point, at least, we can dream of building an Enterprise ship.
Hopefully… our grandchildren will be able to experience our dreams. That is… reaching the stars!.
By the way… NASA has its own ‘Status of Warp Drive‘ webpage.
Google has just announced they’d be releasing a new iteration of their chromebooks. They’d call it ‘Pixel’, because they want the pixels, literally, to disappear.
It has a 12.85 inches screen, with a stunning resolution of 2560×1700. That’s beyond Mac Retina… well, just a little bit. Furthermore, it has a touchscreen built with Gorilla Glass display.
Hardware?. Intel i3 running at 1.8ghz, 8gb of ram, and 32gb of flash storage. Not much, but you need to consider that this notebook has been built to work in the cloud… so you wouldn’t be storing, locally, documents.
Personally, i don’t like it. I’m not comfortable with the idea of not having my documents stored in my own machine. Furthermore, at a 1200 dollars price tag (for the wifi version), and 1400 for the 3g capable, i believe that local storage should be far beyond 32gb.
I’ve tested the previous version of the chromebooks, built by Samsung… and let me say just this. It’s less useful than an iPad, but it has a built in keyboard. So, if you’re still interested in buying this device, i strongly suggest you take a look at an iPad + Keboard. You might find it interesting!.
In a recent press release, Apple announced that a small group of computers in their network got hacked. You might be wondering… how in the hell this happened?.
The answer is pretty simple. Java Virtual Machine has been found to ve **very** insecure. Several zero-day exploits have been uncovered, and long short story, if you’ve got Java VM installed in your machine, i suggest you disable it. As soon as possible!.
Who were these hackers?. It sounds crazy, but it has been determined that the attack came from China. Specifically, from a military facility. It seems that the war, these days, has evolved to computer security.
I’d like to recall that Facebook got hacked, also, a couple weeks ago. Remember about it?. Well, the exact same group of hackers is said to be behind this new attack against Apple.
By the way… no important information has been affected. So don’t expect to see iPhone 6 mockups in the net, because it just won’t happen.
Stay safe!
If you’re reading this post, you’re probably aware of the dangers of Flash Player. And you’ve read, most probably, about the last couple of viruses / penetrations to Facebook and Google.
Steve Jobs hated Adobe Flash… personally, i say he had a very good reason. If wasn’t, probably, just because Adobe refused (at first) to publish its suite for Mac. He knew that it was troublesome… so… let’s proceed removing that junk from our system!.
If you’re running Snow Leopard (or newer), you’re gonna need to download the Flash Player Uninstaller. However, if you’re running an older version (Leopard and Tiger), please, download this uninstaller.
You’re gonna need to double click on the DMG file, and click on the “Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller” application. You should get the following window onscreen:
Second: Proceed uninstalling
This is pretty straightforward. Simply hit the ‘Uninstall’ button, and it will all be over, soon enough. You will be required to close all of your browsers first. Once it’s all over, you should see the following screen:
Congratulations! welcome to the future!. HTML 5 is becoming the web standard… and we certainly don’t need Adobe to run anything on a browser.