Is @instagram really worth 1 Billion $ us ?

So facebook has reportedly paid $1 Billion Dollars, im assuming that's an american billion and not the correct unit for a billion. Which ever denomination its a $hit tone of cash for a very lean start-up who is only 8 people strong, congrats to them i guess.

 

Flashback on track to be worst Mac malware in decades

Flashback on track to be worst Mac malware in decades

http://www.digitaltrends.com/apple/flashback-on-track-to-be-worst-mac-malware-in-decades/

It took AOL 9 years to reach 1 million users, took Draw Something 9 Days !

R/GA (@RGA) It took AOL 9 years to reach 1 million users. It took Facebook 9 months. It took Draw Something 9 days. read.bi/HnuzX5 via @jmoney

HTC takes 4 of the top 10 smartphones to kick off 2012. Which is your favorite?

HTC (@htc) 05/04/2012 21:08 HTC takes 4 of the top 10 smartphones to kick off 2012. Which is your favorite? zd.net/HS2JE0

I would like to add the phones i am looking forward to are iPhone 5 and Galaxy SIII, still not sure if i should go back to iOS or stick with ANDROID, i favour android atm but will see what the new Jesus phone has to offer.

Android instagram love

I missed the fact @instagram is now out for ANDROID at last. :)

Arch Linux ARM for Raspberry Pi is now ready to go ! Please Seed the Torrent !

Arch Linux ARM

Arch Linux ARM is based on Arch Linux, which aims for simplicity and full control to the end user. Note that this distribution may not be suitable for beginners.

Torrent	archlinuxarm-01-03-2012.zip.torrent
Direct download	archlinuxarm-01-03-2012.zip
SHA-1	94ba748b1d0de704e5c4bd1335570fe1d23b38ba
Default login	root/root

Arch Linux ARM is based on Arch Linux, which aims for simplicity and full control to the end user. It provides a lightweight base structure that allows you to shape the system to your needs. For this reason, the Arch Linux ARM image for the Raspberry Pi does not come with a graphical user interface, though you can easily install one yourself. Please note that this distribution may not be suitable for beginners.

Arch Linux ARM is on a rolling-release cycle that can be updated daily through small packages instead of huge updates every few months.

To update the package list:

pacman -Syu

To Install LXDE:

pacman -S lxde xorg-xinit xf86-video-fbdev

To run LXDE:

xinit /usr/bin/lxsession

More information is available at archlinuxarm.org

http://www.raspberrypi.org

Raspberry Pi sells out ! DDOS effect on rs & farnell servers

It seems the launch of the @Raspberry_Pi from UK company has sold out

only an hour after going live for orders.

Stock was available through Rs components and Farnell.

Can only register interest now through RS and Farnell site still down

due to the weight of people trying to order what has to be one of the

worlds cheapest computers.

CERN Confirm two possible causes for faster than light speeds.

UPDATE 23 February 2012
OPERA experiment reports anomaly in flight time of neutrinos from CERN to Gran Sasso.

The OPERA collaboration has informed its funding agencies and host laboratories that it has identified two possible effects that could have an influence on its neutrino timing measurement. These both require further tests with a short pulsed beam. If confirmed, one would increase the size of the measured effect, the other would diminish it. The first possible effect concerns an oscillator used to provide the time stamps for GPS synchronizations. It could have led to an overestimate of the neutrino's time of flight. The second concerns the optical fibre connector that brings the external GPS signal to the OPERA master clock, which may not have been functioning correctly when the measurements were taken. If this is the case, it could have led to an underestimate of the time of flight of the neutrinos. The potential extent of these two effects is being studied by the OPERA collaboration. New measurements with short pulsed beams are scheduled for May.

Source

New apple CPU, iPad3 chip ?

Is this a picture of a quad core cpu as offered on the forth coming
iPad3 tablet.
Looks like the new A6 S5L8945X system on a chip.

Rasberry Pi first file system avalible for download here Now !

Downloads

This page contains links to SD card images for various Linux distributions. For each distribution, we provide both a direct HTTP download, a torrent file and a SHA-1 hash; the total number of concurrent direct downloads is limited, so we encourage you to use the torrent file if at all possible.

To use an image file, you will need to unzip it and write it to a suitable SD card using the UNIX tool dd. Windows users may find Chrysocome’s windd port to be a suitable alternative.

Thanks to Webfusion for providing hosting and bandwidth for this service.

Debian “squeeze”

Reference root filesystem from Gray and Dom, containing LXDE, Midori, development tools and example source code for multimedia functions.

Above is from the official downloads page I have decided to help by offering the official torrent which would be the best way to spread the software.

I am currently seeding with a good 9Mb up. See the links below to get the torrent file, please use the official torrent link, but if its down for some reason please use the other link below from one of our drop box accounts.

Here is the official link to the torrent file

Here is a link to the torrent file from one of our dropbox public folders

Direct Link from one of our dropbox public folders (Not currently live pls check back) 18:50 GMT
Direct Link now up and working 21:35 GMT