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Gamer buys $26,500 virtual land
A 22-year-old gamer has spent $26,500 (£13,700) on an island that exists only in a computer role-playing game (RPG). The Australian gamer, known only by his gaming moniker Deathifier, bought…
Windows XP SP2 Firewall shows your files and printers to every Internet user
After you set up Windows Firewall in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), you may discover that anyone on the Internet can access resources on your computer when you…
phpBB Attachment Mod: new vulnerabilities discovered
Due to two new discovered vulnerabilities and the release of phpBB a new attachment mod version has been update your Attachment Mod to version as soon as possible. You are…
avast! Virus Cleaner
avast! Virus Cleaner is available free for every user. This tool will help you remove selected worm infections from your computer. Free virus & worm removal tool If, despite all…
Who is Krishna?
Written by Cetanarahita dasa Some say, “God has no name,” but God has so many names that any one name is not God’s only name. We cannot limit the Unlimited.…
Bogus Gurus (Beware!)
By Ananda Tirtha Dasa "I realize that material life is not the be-all and end-all. I want to know more about life's spiritual side. Where do I go? How do…
Who is That Girl with Krishna?
by Jayadvaita Swami People often ask, "Who is that girl with Krishna?" The answer is that She is Srimati Radharani, Krishna's pleasure potency. The devotees of the Krishna consciousness movement…
What are the Vedas?
By Atma-tattva dasa The Vedic scriptures of ancient India are written in Sanskrit. They comprise a huge collection of material and spiritual knowledge. The expression "Vedic" is derived from the…
Why Did I Come to This Material World?
One may ask, "I am originally a pure servant of God, so why did I come to the material world? There is no ignorance in the spiritual world, so why…
The Hare Krsna „Om” Page
by Krishna-kripa Dasa As spiritual beings we are different from our material body. Chanting transcendental sounds like om helps free us from material conditioning and helps us realize our spiritual…
Liberation
By Jayadvaita Swami In the Vedic context, "liberation" means more than just freedom from hangups and freedom being socially pigeonholed or political oppressed. It means freedom from the cycle of…
The Modes of Material Nature
By Atma-tattva dasa In modern physics (classical, quantum mechanistic, and holistic), one frequently sees the term "natural laws." Since Einstein, efforts are being made to find a Grand Unified Theory…
The History Of Computers During My Lifetime – The 1970’s
by Jason Patterson The First General Purpose Microprocessor - The Intel 4004 By the time I was born (1972), Intel had already released the world's first generally available DRAM chip…
The History Of Computers During My Lifetime – The 1980’s
by Jason Patterson The Commodore VIC-20 Riding on the success of the PET, Commodore drove its engineers to make computers that anyone could afford. The 6502 based VIC-20, introduced in…
The History Of Computers During My Lifetime – The 1990’s
by Jason Patterson The IBM RS/6000 In the early 1980's IBM had been right at the forefront of RISC research with the IBM 801 project led by John Cocke, but…
Japan: Making 3G Look As Slow As Smoke Signals
DoCoMo is already testing 4G technology that blows by current data speed limits Mamoru Sawahashi has been driving in circles for 16 months, but he feels like he's making plenty…
Abu Dhabi to North Yemen Overland — April 1982
by Ian and June Harner The choice was eventually made, and two weeks by road to North Yemen triumphed over a three week package tour to Japan. Next followed the…
Overland to Jordan
by Ian and June Hamer Following a successful overland journey to North Yemen in 1982, we decided to try the easier but no less interesting drive to Jordan and on…
Doing Something About the Climate
The Century in Review: Twain's remark about the weather is no longer a laughing matter Mark Twain supposedly wrote, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."…
Dinosaur Extinction
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs A Research Program at the Milwaukee Public Museum by Peter M. Sheehan Curator of Geology EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is reprinted without illustrations from LORE…