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Strange Ubuntu/Vista Compatibility Bug, Solved

Walter Vos writes "Since I've been running Vista and Ubuntu in dual boot with a shared FAT32 partition for my personal folders, I've been seeing some strange compatibility issues between these two operating systems. Somehow Vista locks the folders on the FAT32 partition that are used for folders like Documents, Downloads, etc. A blogpost I wrote gives a detailed description of the problem and a fix for it."

One Strange Fish, Potential for 2 World Records

The fishery already has produced world records for blackbelly rosefish, snowy grouper and tilefish. But it also produces pretty strange fish, some of which anglers struggle to identify.

Pregnant Mice Block Odor Of Strange Male's Urine To Protect Their Pups

Mouse mothers-to-be have a remarkable way to protect their unborn pups. Because the smell of a strange male's urine can cause miscarriage and reactivate the ovulatory cycle, pregnant mice prevent the action of such olfactory stimuli by blocking their smell. Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Monterotondo, Italy, have now revealed the nature of this ability. A surge of the chemical signal dopamine in the main olfactory bulb - one of the key brain areas for olfactory perception -- creates a barrier for male odours, they report in the current issue of Nature Neuroscience.

Strange Skype Network Activity - Even on Linux

"The last time something similar to this happened, Skype was continuously eating CPU power on every system it was installed on, and that time Skype "explained it away" with a totally lame "oh, we forgot and left some debug code in the production release". Is this something similar?"

Strange Skype Network Activity - Even on Linux

I have a few contacts with whom I still chat on Skype, so I still start it from time to time. Yesterday I started it in the morning, and then got distracted and forgot to stop it when the person I was looking for was not around (at least according to Skype's totally unreliable presence reporting). When I went back upstairs in the evening, I noticed the that the 5GHz LED and the Internet LED on my shiny new Netgear WNDR 3300 Wireless Router were blinking like crazy, and I really mean like crazy. I knew that there shouldn't be anything happening on my home network at that time, so I started investigating.

Strange Fart Related 'Ninjatown' Press Release (DS)

After Shigeru Miyamoto developed a love of puzzles, the "brain-training" software that has proved to be an international "killer app...

Strange sex life of melons exposed

A French study reveals the genetic underpinnings to the curious reproductive system of melons, called andromonoecy, in which individual plants carry both male and bisexual (hermaphroditic) flowers.

Strange Google Names

Desktops Digital Cameras DVD Creation Handhelds Laptops LCDs MP3 Players PDAs & Phones Printers VoIP Windows XP Wireless Networks All categories

Strange Itunes payment

I have no idea what this is for, as the last time I topped up my account was at least a month ago... So it wouldn't have been to make sure the card was actually legit or something like that, as I wasn't trying to buy anything from them

Strange discontinued Olympic sports

Not every Olympic event has been a success. Some, like live pigeon shooting and equestrian high jump, lasted just one year. Here's a look at some other sports no longer in the Olympic program:

Strange cults, vocal surgery and the quiet man: Inside Microsoft

Nail down your security priorities. Ask the experts and your peers at The Register Security Debate, September 24 2008.

Strange Asteroid Shapes Explained

The asteroids that pepper our solar system come in all shapes, sizes and ages. What causes such a variety among space rocks has been something of a mystery, until now.

Forums: strange Apps, iPhone cracks

Forum roundup: A hot topic in the MacNN forums today revolves around bizarre Apps in the App store, one in particular costs $999 to download, is titled I Am Rich, and serves no real purpose. Curiosity about MacBook Air upgrades are addressed in this thread. Sandy H., a Fresh Faced Recruit to the forums, is looking for some advice on the proper direction to go with configuring drives for use in video editing. One user asks for ways to clean up Leopard to make as much room on their system as possible. Members discuss whether or not the reported cracks in the new iPhone 3G cases are a widespread issue or just a random occurrence in this thread.

The strange things people search for on the web

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FEC elates strange bedfellows with political blogging ruling

The arch-conservative Heritage Foundation and a pro–Barack Obama blogger found common cause for celebration this week when the Federal Election Commission ruled that former Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Gordon Fischer, author of Iowa True Blue, is not subject to campaign finance restrictions, however partisan his posts.

Quantum Physics: Disentangling Strange Behavior Of Qubits

Current technology enables the building of electrical circuits similar to those we use at home but reduced thousands of times in size to a micrometric scale of thousandths of a millimetre. When these circuits are built of superconductor materials and at near-absolute zero cryogenic temperatures, the world of everyday physics is left behind and the amazing world of quantum physics is entered.

A lot of strange creatures took to the air back then. Some large flying reptiles fed on dinosaurs. One early dinosaur appears to have been the first biplane. Other small reptiles that seemed to have wings had remained largely mysterious, however.

Researchers modeled how the extinct reptile known as Kuehneosuchus may have flown in aerodynamic experiments.

Giant crater explains strange shape of Mars

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A giant crater made by an asteroid or comet explains why Mars is so lopsided, with a basin on one hemisphere and high terrain on the other, three separate teams of scientists said on Wednesday.

Giant crater explains strange shape of Mars

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NZ judge rules against strange names

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Bell finds form before strange return of the dead sheep stroll

England 296-7 South Africa 170 (Eng win by 126 runs): Flintoff's calm under fire steers England to victory

The Olympics: History, Controversy and Just Plain Strange

Jesse Owens at start of a record-breaking 200-meter race in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Owens won four gold medals, for the 100-meter, 200-meter, long jump and 4x100 relay. Credit: Library of Congress

'Painter In a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America' by Miles Harvey

GLIMPSED IN history's rearview mirror, events seem to follow one upon the other with fluid inevitability. Thus, the 516-year arc from Columbus' first wondering footfall on the shore of the New World to this morning's traffic jam on the 405 appears seamless and foreordained.

Intro to Awk, the Great Language with a Strange Name

"As you can see, awk prints out the first and third fields of the /etc/passwd file, which happen to be the username and uid fields respectively. Now, while the script did work, it's not perfect -- there aren't any spaces between the two output fields! If you're used to programming in bash or python, you may have expected the print $1 $3 command to insert a space between the two fields. However, when two strings appear next to each other in an awk program, awk concatenates them without adding an intermediate space. The following command will insert a space between both fields:"

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