With tourism substantially down there is hope for Greece's 'green' energy plans. Apart from being a cultural pivot of the world Greece has, like Iceland, lots of volcanoes. Something few realize. Volcanic energy, or thermal power, could be put in use there and contribute for at least 20% to its energy requirements. But nothing happens! For about 20 years an experiment went fatally wrong, which now possibly causes caution from the side of authorities. The choice for some volcanic islands also being: living from the fumes or from the tourists. A difficult choice, particularly when the latter stay away already this year...
Browsers are such things! The latest Opera browser is fast, Google Chrome a notch faster, but FireFox? Gradually it appeared to me that FireFox lost its glamour... In Ubuntu its versions 3.0x started to get a memory hog, it slowed down, used CPU power (heat), didn't load that fast, and lost its stability. Were it the Add-ons? No. When problems arose with 'YouTube'-viewing I ventured into "Minefield", a new browser nicely hidden in the Ubuntu repositories when you search for 'FireFox'. It is the new Ubuntu-Firefox 3.6alpha, obviously paving the way for a new dimension in web-browsing. Did this browser handle sound better, movies, loading and displaying websites? Is it secure enough? Take a look for yourself...
It's hot, these days! Summer is here at the northern hemisphere, and I feel it every day in our Andalucian desert. It's cooking daily with 33C/92F and more at the clocks. My computer is 'sweating' and so am I. High temperatures are bad for any computer. How to cool it when your cats and dogs run around, family members smoke and a baby tries to run around and grab anything that it sees? You can't open its side panel, can you? How to watch what happens then? Linux is changing rapidly these days. Its 'desktop' is changing, leaving you options to even more 'personalize' it from the rest. How to add 'alien' software to your distro coming in different formats? Getting a lame hand from 'sudo' already? Then 'fake' your 'root' in a safe way to keep..., you know, cool. And what about Dell's new Microsoft OS called 'Ubuntu 8.04'? There are some nifty tools around that do a great job, and things to laugh about, when you get hot!
Most disturbing is that history is an illusion. Your understanding of history will be (partly) inconsistent with mine, or with history as known to people from Turkey, Arabia, India, China, Africa or the Americas. All those 'histories' fail to fit a common scheme! There is no logical connection, dates are grossly conflicting, assumed facts are at best twisted or at worst illusory. Should we base a new global culture upon sectarian imaginations, blunt allegations, folklore, plain lies and science-fiction from historians and archeologists? DNA-research has revealed that the cradle of mankind stood in Africa. Perhaps only 100.000 years ago. From there gradually spreading and moving (often at times of catastrophic events, like sudden climatic changes) to Mesopotamia, North-Africa, Spain, as well as India and China. However these people weren't stupid, blind or deaf. They communicated, exchanging thoughts and views, even art. Did they speak a common language? Did we once speak a Common Word?
Who are the players in the world's most deadly game: threatening with nuclear bombs? They aren't but Russia and America. What about Pakistan, Israel, UK, France, China, India or Iran. The looming crisis about North-Korea has triggered new discussions about nuclear proliferation. How to build an atomic bomb is no rocket-science. How to control peace and not having to use them as a last resort is just another story. Control peace to maintain it? Which sort of 'peace' is that? The latter being the cardinal question! This world needs stability and peaceful coexistence of cultures. Not one dominant ideology suppressing other believes, convictions, lifestyles, ideologies, economies and freedom of people to shape their own lives. Or a 'rogue' one using threats and its bomb to silence some neighbors. Yet, various US adventures have turned the planet in a more dangerous place over the last 25 years...
With tourism substantially down there is hope for Greece's 'green' energy plans. Apart from being a cultural pivot of the world Greece has, like Iceland, lots of volcanoes. Something few realize. Volcanic energy, or thermal power, could be put in use there and contribute for at least 20% to its energy requirements. But nothing happens! For about 20 years an experiment went fatally wrong, which now possibly causes caution from the side of authorities. The choice for some volcanic islands also being: living from the fumes or from the tourists. A difficult choice, particularly when the latter stay away already this year...
WIDGETIZE