How is it like to work in a factory that is transparent? Someone has visited the Phaeton assembly plant in Dresden of Germany, and posted some photos of the inside and outside of the factory.
I have put together some photos, to provide a bit of a ‘tour’ for folks who have not yet been to Dresden. I hope you find them informative. If you would like to visit the factory, they are very much ‘visitor oriented’ - the factory is open about 10 to 12 hours a day for visitors.
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Get it while it’s hot! It’s the time of the year and Google has released the 2005 edition of Zeitgeist, which reflect tidbits of information related to the search behavior of Google users.
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Published on December 20, 2005
in Internet.
A year ago, the popular torrent tracking site SuperNova.org was brought offline out of the blue.
And now, a year after it was shut down, the creator has finally decided to reveal what went wrong.
On November 2004, I received a call from my ISP saying that all of my servers had been raided by the police. I received nothing from the police before or after the raid, nobody told me what was going on.
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Published on December 19, 2005
in Gadget.
If dirty or wet towel is the reason that makes you avoid taking bath like a cat, consider installing this Triton body dryer at home. Claims to be able to dry your entire body in 3 minutes, this device is more gentle on your skin than towels and more hygienic too. It also doubles as a bathroom heater in winter!
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Published on December 19, 2005
in Security.
The Malaysian web site of Minolta at
minolta.com.my has apparently been taken over by the Turkish hackers group TÜRKİYE. The entire site has been defaced and the following message was left on the homepage:
Please kindly note that we have no allegation and no showing of any strength in these internet area.
Above all we do not have any advertisement.
Our team is always in ourselves right mind.
Our duties are to show our GLORIOUS TURKISH FLAG the sites which are wrong publication against
to Turkey and attacker, looking small, offending to assume and attitude to Turkish Web Pages,
We do not deal with hatred, conservatism and antagonism.
We are always with sites which is agreeable to right mission.But we know how we penalize
someone who is holder of a wrong!!!
No further information about the attack is available and it has not been recorded at zone-h.org.
Thanks to Disposable Hero for the pointer.
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Published on December 19, 2005
in Gadget.
The new USB Anywhere from Belkin lets you copy the contents from a USB thumbdrive into another without the need of a computer (and the hassle of copying the files into a temp folder in the hard drive and move them into the new thumb drive if you happen to have only one spare USB port).
Two copy modes are available for you to either copy individual files or entire folders.
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Published on December 18, 2005
in Gadget.
No, you are not looking at an ordinary plush toy here. It seems that USB thumbdrives that look extraordinary are in lately. As a result, Imation of Japan has unveiled their new range of thumbdrives that is not only good looking, it feels good to touch them too.
Can be an ideal gift, the only limitation we see is its modest capacity of 128MB.
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One of the finest and most impressive Flash sites I’ve seen lately.
Link: iFizzle.com.
Following reports of overheating, Dell has recently announced the plan of voluntarily recalling and offering free replacements for certain notebook batteries that pose a risk of fire as a result of overheating. The affected batteries were sold with some models of Dell Latitude, Inspiron and Precision line of laptops, and were manufactured in China and Japan.
Two months ago, HP similarly has recalled 135,000 laptop batteries (info).
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Yahoo has recently released Yahoo Messenger 7.5 Beta. This is the first version to incorporate the new inbound and outbound calling features. The outbound feature lets you call directly from the computer to any phone number in the world, while the Phone in feature enables callers to call a number and reach a Yahoo! Messenger user.
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