Для комментария к ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/pm/101906/"~%#r#%~топику~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ многовато, поэтому, с вашего позволения отвечу топиком.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Начиная читать статью, был полностью согласен, как нельзя оценивать эффективность, но дойдя до как можно, стал в очень многом не согласен. О чем я? Смотри далее…~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/pm/102141/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

Дорогие друзья! Наверняка каждый из нас согласится с тем, что учить иностранные слова очень полезно, но почти всегда — неохота. Чтобы забороть эту проблему и придать драйва этому занятию, мы разработали WordSteps.com (см. нашу ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/startup/89474/"~%#r#%~предыдущую статью~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~). Инвестировав в этот сервис 15 минут личного времени, вы можете изучить порядка 20 новых иностранных слов. Но сегодня мы хотим рассказать вам о том, как использовать это время еще эффективнее и с еще бОльшим удовольствием.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Предлагаем вашему вниманию бесплатное мобильное приложение ~%#l#%~a href="http://wordsteps.com/wmc/wordsteps_mobile_client/"~%#r#%~WordSteps Mobile Client~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~img src="http://static.wordsteps.com/pics/thirdparty/articles/wmc/present1/wordsteps_mobil_tim_ferris_approach.png" /~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/i_am_advertising/102140/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

Многие из вас видели как выглядела реклама старых PC? Какими характеристиками в прошлом завлекали пользователей? ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Это вам не 2Ghz процессор с 4Gb оперативки за 400$…

Здравствуйте, Хабралюди.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Представляю вам третью часть из моего цикла статей о исследовании крякмисов. В этом топике мы поговорим с вами о ручной распаковке некоторых пакеров и о преодолении не сложных антиотладочных методов.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/asm/102126/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

Представляю вашему вниманию вторую лекцию из семи прочитанных лауреатом нобелевской премии профессором Ричардом Фейнманом в Корнелльском университете в 1964г, которая называлась «Связь математики и физики».~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~img src="http://yost.com/misc/feynman.jpg" alt="image" /~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ На яндекс видео:~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://video.yandex.ru/users/ztarlitz/view/4/"~%#r#%~video.yandex.ru/users/ztarlitz/view/4/~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Предыдущую лекцию «Пример физического закона — закон гравитации» найти можно здесь:~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/htranslations/101844/"~%#r#%~habrahabr.ru/blogs/htranslations/101844/~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Лекции на рутрекере с лучшим качеством и отдельными сабами здесь:~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t%3D3109286"~%#r#%~rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3109286~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Все лекции на английском (осторожно silverlight! работает только в IE 8.0 и мне тут подсказывают что еще в FF):~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html"~%#r#%~research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/htranslations/102121/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

Что на радаре, %username%?~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~img src="http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5120/appicon.png" /~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Под катом небольшая история о создании простенькой казуалки под iPhone.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/i_am_advertising/90707/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

Недавно на одном из форумов (не буду писать каком, чтобы не провоцировать здесь обсуждение частной проблемы) обсуждался очередной скандал вокруг хитрых тарифных политик, которые могут приводить к неожиданно большим расходам клиентов. Сама ситуация меня не удивила, такое происходит часто, просто этот конкретный случай был вопиющим. Скорее меня обеспокоила одинаковая реакция достаточно большого числа людей, которые обсуждали тему на форуме. ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/company/abbyy/blog/102109/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://habreffect.ru/files/8ea/3a9c4f3b7/computer.jpg" alt="image" /~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~h4~%#r#%~Приложение не отвечает?!~%#l#%~/h4~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Многие из тех, кто программирует WPF-приложения, наверное тысячи раз писали конструкцию вида:~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~blockquote~%#r#%~{Binding Items}~%#l#%~/blockquote~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Если получение элементов коллекции ~%#l#%~i~%#r#%~Items~%#l#%~/i~%#r#%~ выполняется в основном потоке приложения и занимает некоторое время — мы получаем «мертвый» пользовательский интерфейс. Приложение некоторое время не будет отрисовывать изменения состояния и реагировать на пользовательский ввод.~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/wpf/102105/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

В «Лабс» от Gmail добавилась новая функция: «Apps Search», которая позволяет искать не только по почте, но и по документам и сайтам Гугл. ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Вы можете включить ее по ссылке ~%#l#%~a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui%3D2%26fs%3D1%26view%3Dpu%26st%3Dlabs"~%#r#%~Gmail Lab в настройках~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~. Кнопка «Search Mail» должна смениться на «Search Mail and Docs», и ваши поисковые результаты будут включать не только письма, но и документы и сайты Гугл. ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JE4qNpFW6Yk/TGs_yxfgqyI/AAAAAAAAArw/v-ccdADK8cw/apps_search_lab.png" /~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Также были добавлена корректировка поисковых запросов, на случай, если Вы опечатались.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JE4qNpFW6Yk/TGs_tkTs_eI/AAAAAAAAAro/fFNlFVx8mZE/apps_search_lab2.png" /~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Вы можете заметить, что письма в результатах поиска появляются так же быстро, как и раньше, тогда как другие результаты (документы) могут выводиться немного дольше. Таким образом, если Вы всего лишь ищете письма — эта Apps Search вас не замедлит.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Оригинал в блоге Gmail: ~%#l#%~a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-in-labs-find-docs-and-sites-quickly.html"~%#r#%~gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-in-labs-find-docs-and-sites-quickly.html~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Опубликовано по просьбе. Если плюсиков по этой статье наберется 100+ то инвайт получит Michael Ladanov, кто собственно эту новость и перевел.

~%#l#%~img src="http://habreffect.ru/files/1fe/5cc4476e4/toshiba-issd-2010-08-18-600.jpg" alt="image" /~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Научно-технический прогресс идет такими темпами, что даже адаптировавшийся к быстрому изменению всего и вся человек не успевает привыкнуть ко многим вещам. К примеру, я до сих пор помню, каким чудом мне казался обычный «пенек», который тогда, в 90-х, был недостижимым благом. До сих пор подобное чувство вызывают некоторые устройства, которые уже у меня есть (например, робот-пылесос — хожу за ним во время уборки, как привязанный, настолько он интересен), но как-то слабо осознаешь их реальность, удивляясь техническому гению обычных вроде бы людей, создавших все это. Но оставим все эти сантименты. Дело в том, что компания Sandisk выпустила новое чудо, крошечный SSD-накопитель объемом в 64 гигабайта. Это не карта памяти, а интегрируемый в материнскую плату ПК или схему любого мобильного устройства чип, практически не занимающий места.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/hardware/102099/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://habreffect.ru/files/d44/20ee262ce/calculatelinux-142x82.gif" alt="Calculate Linux" /~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Вдоволь «наигравшись» настройками десктопов и сборками Calculate Directory Server (CDS), стало понятно, что большинству администраторов нужно нечто большее. Точнее в точности до наоборот — чаще требуется только часть заявленных возможностей.~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/linux/102095/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

Пару месяцев назад Rafal Wojtczuk придумал серьёзный эксплойт, позволяющий получить права суперюзера из непривилегированного процесса, имеющего доступ к X-серверу (то есть, из GUI-приложения, работающего под обычным пользователем). Другими словами, любая GUI-программа (например, читалка PDF-файлов), если она скомпроментирована (например, специально подготовленным PDF-файлом), может пробить все барьеры защиты на пути к полному обладанию компьютером. Не спасает даже песочница SElinux (~%#l#%~a href="http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31146.html"~%#r#%~SElinux «sandbox -X»~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~). И проблема существует много лет — по-видимому, с первых версий ядра 2.6.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Обзор этой уязвимости вышел 17 августа в ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/misc-2010/xorg-large-memory-attacks.pdf"~%#r#%~[2]~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, и я хочу о ней рассказать местами в упрощённой, местами в развёрнутой форме.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~h4~%#r#%~Как это работает~%#l#%~/h4~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/infosecurity/102077/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

Всем привет!~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Сегодня вышла версия 0.1.92 (0.2.0 RC1) моего проекта Winegame (и winestuff — базовой библиотеки).~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ О том, что это такое, вы можете прочесть в смежных топиках (см. справа). Из названия следует, что это «надстройка» над ~%#l#%~a href="http://winehq.org"~%#r#%~Wine~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, чтобы легко устанавливать игры.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ В новой версии столько мелких изменений, что я не могу перечислить их все.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/linux/102091/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

Недавно компания Blizzard подала необычный иск, по которому издатель отсудил у неназванной жительницы США 88 594 539 долларов…~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ … Гигантская сумма в 88,5 млн долларов получилась из простого расчета — 200 долларов за каждого из 427 393 участников проекта и еще 20,9 млн долларов ей предстоит выплатить за незаконную торговлю артефактами и за "прочие издержки", понесенные Blizzard.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ "Незаконная торговля артефактами" — это нечто!

Вышла очередная, долгожданная версия интерпретатора Ruby за версией 1.9.2~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~h4~%#r#%~О 1.9.2 по пунктам~%#l#%~/h4~%#r#%~Ruby 1.9.2 в основном совместим с 1.9.1, за исключением следующих изменений:~%#l#%~ul~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~Множество новых методов~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~Новое API для сокетов (с поддержкой IPv6)~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~Поддержка большего числа строковых кодировок~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~Класс Random, который поддерживает различные генераторы случайных чисел~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~Переработан класс Time. Теперь проблема 2038 года — не проблема.~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~Некоторые улучшения в регулярных выражениях regexp~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~$: больше не содержит текущую директорию.~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~dl переработан как надстройка над libffi.~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~Новая библиотека psych, являющаяся оболочкой для libyaml. Вы можете её использовать вместо syck~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/ul~%#r#%~~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/ruby/102081/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

Дорогие Друзья!~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Рады вас приветствовать на нашем блоге, который мы надеемся займет достойное место на хабракарте. ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Наша компания занимается разработкой программного обеспечения для работы с медиаконтентом. Об выходе новой версии одного из наших продуктов, а именно FVD Suite и пойдет речь в этом посте. ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ FVD Suite это возможность скачивать Ваше любимое видео и кодировать в нужный формат в несколько кликов мышью.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/6236/86656050.png"~%#r#%~~%#l#%~img src="http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7065/1minh.png" alt="image" /~%#r#%~~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/company/fvdmedia/blog/102073/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

Этот пост — ответ на публикацию ~%#l#%~a href="http://eldarmurtazin.habrahabr.ru/"~%#r#%~EldarMurtazin~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/telecom/96877/"~%#r#%~ ««Безлимитный» мобильный интернет или это фантастика сынок» ~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Ни одна революция, в том числе техническая, не происходит без предварительного создания должной инфраструктуры. Зачастую основную роль играет также снятие ограничений в той области, где снимаемые ограничения всеми воспринимаются как де-факто. Примеры — финансирование гиковских исследований в Пало-Альто дало миру мышку, графический оконный интерфейс, Ethernet. Тогда это не было востребовано 99.(9)% пользователей ПК, да неперсональных компьютеров тоже. Хорошие дороги? В Германии их построили для танков, в те времена, когда о массовой автомобилизации никто не думал и 95% населения никогда бы не поддержали подобные траты. Но то – военные расходы, весьма спорная штука. ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ О чем же этот пост? Об инфраструктуре и людях.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~h5~%#r#%~Инфраструктура~%#l#%~/h5~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Вот прогноз от Cisco по росту мобильного трафика на ближайшую пятилетку.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~img src="http://exectweets.com/files/2010/02/cisco0.png" alt="image" /~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/telecom/97624/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

.Net используются при программировании настольных и веб-приложений, а возможно ли использовать фреймворк для управления промышленными объектами?~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Разберемся в начале с тем, где возможно применение такого ПО.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Промышленные системы управления состоят из нескольких уровней:~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~ul~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~уровень датчиков~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~уровень управления (ПЛК, компьютер)~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~уровень визуализации/SCADA~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/ul~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Визуализация – самый неприхотливый уровень АСУ по скорости обработки информации, обычно на операторских панелях отображается информация о состоянии какого-либо агрегата всей системы (некоторые численные значения, биты состояния (вкл-выкл), графики изменения величин). Для этого уровня можно свободно использовать все возможности .NET для вывода графической информации (Win Forms, WPF, SilverLight).~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Рассмотрим уровень управления. Здесь нужная скорость обработки информации зависит от объекта управления: если вы хотите просто помигать светодиодом или включить/выключить двигатель без жесткой привязки по времени, то это возможно. Если же необходимо управлять объектами с жестко-определенным временем реакции, то необходимо использовать систему реального времени. ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Для систем реального времени необходима ОС реального времени. В таких ОС жёстко определено время переключения контекста задач, т.е. квант времени на обработку каждого потока с одинаковым приоритетом выделяется одинаковый. ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ А что может получиться при использовании «десктопной» ОС?~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/net/102049/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~h4~%#r#%~Часть 8 (Работа с Quality Gates)~%#l#%~/h4~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ В предыдущей публикации мы говорили о контроле рисков в нескольких проектах одновременно. Сегодня мы поговорим об отслеживании качественных характеристик (Quality Gates).~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Давайте задумаемся об этом на мгновение. Скажем, когда мы приступали к разработке Orcas (Visual Studio 2008), кто-то на самом верху давал указания:~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~ol~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~VS2008 не будет иметь производительность хуже, чем VS2005.~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~li~%#r#%~Мы покроем 70% кода автоматическим тестированием.~%#l#%~/li~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/ol~%#r#%~~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Это всего лишь два требования, но зато самые большие. Как можно быть уверенным в том, что 3,000 человек добавит сотни новых функций в следующие 2-3 года, и эти указания будут выполнены?~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ Нашим ответом были Quality Gates. При работе над Orcas мы установили 16 таких ворот, от простых, как «Вы должны иметь письменные спецификации», до численных, например: «70% кода должно покрываться автоматическим тестированием».~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ В рабочем элементе типа Feature мы посвятили Quality Gates целую форму.~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/teams_wit_tools/WindowsLiveWriter/21a025b4053b_7E5E/image_2.png" alt="image" /~%#r#%~~%#l#%~div~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://habrahabr.ru/company/microsoft/blog/102042/#habracut"~%#r#%~Читать дальше →~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~/div~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://root.ua/typo3temp/pics/4fb6630631.jpeg" alt="image" align="right" /~%#r#%~Вышел в свет восьмой номер газеты FOSS News №8 (20) 2010. Вашему вниманию — подробная сводка международных новостей, обзор новых версий свободных/открытых программ и новинок железа, анализ проблем безопасности, анонсы новых публикаций в сети, отчёт с FOSS Fest 2010 и Первого одесского международного кинофестиваля, а также свежие статьи: «Раскраска bash», «Смотрим состояние системы» и «Настройка sendmail для быстрой отправки писем». ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~br/~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://root.ua/nashi-izdanija/gazeta-foss-news/arkhiv/2010/gazeta-foss-news-820.html"~%#r#%~Скачать FOSS News #8(20)~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/pitchfork.jpg" /~%#r#%~Less than one hour after ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook"~%#r#%~Facebook~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ struck the ceremonial gong, signaling the official birth of Places, the ACLU of Northern California was ready to cry foul play. In a 429-word ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.aclunc.org/issues/technology/blog/facebook_places_check_this_out_before_you_check_in.shtml"~%#r#%~post~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ titled, "Facebook Places: Check This Out, Before You Check In," the ACLU branch rips the new feature for a perceived lack of user control, complaining (in dramatically bold font) that ~%#l#%~strong~%#r#%~"in the world of Facebook Places, “no” is unfortunately not an option."~%#l#%~/strong~%#r#%~ While this anonymous ACLU member may have a real knack for writing movie trailers, I don't buy the ~%#l#%~a href="http://dotrights.org/facebook-places-your-friends-are-here-what-about-your-privacy"~%#r#%~case~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ they're building against Facebook. To be honest, I've never been a fan of Facebook's history with privacy, but they are making a real effort to dial up privacy with Places. So while all sins are not forgiven, let's start with a solid B for Places and a promise not to burn them at the stake (at least not today). First, let's walk through what you need to know as a user (this post is updated with further clarification from Facebook's Director of Policy Communications, Barry Schnitt).~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209380%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~a href="http://www.lunascape.tv/"~%#r#%~~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/ilunacape.png?w%3D300" /~%#r#%~Lunascape~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, the company behind the eponymous ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/10/triple-engine-browser-lunascape-firefox-internet-explorer-and-chrome-all-in-one-now-supports-triple-add-on/"~%#r#%~triple-engine browser~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ for desktop PCs, has just released its first browser created specifically for the iPad. Dubbed ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.lunascape.tv/iLunascape/tabid/123/Default.aspx"~%#r#%~iLunascape~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, the browser is available for free in the ~%#l#%~a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ilunascape/id380065805?mt%3D8"~%#r#%~App Store~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, and it's a more than solid alternative to Safari on the iPad.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209609%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/4sq.jpg" alt="" /~%#r#%~ On the left is the logo for Facebook's newly launched geolocational product ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-places-iphone-2/"~%#r#%~Facebook Places~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, on the right is the logo for the current leader in the space ~%#l#%~a href="http://foursquare.com"~%#r#%~Foursquare.~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ Notice anything interesting? So Facebook, between ~%#l#%~a href="http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/06/bizarre_facebook_insignia_reve.php"~%#r#%~the hoodie~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, ~%#l#%~a href="http://twitter.com/alexia/status/21536276991"~%#r#%~the gong~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ and this I'm starting to think you guys are just baiting me. And while I do not think this was intentional, I'm once again way too sober to opine. I'll let our resident humorist Greg Kumparak take it from here: ~%#l#%~blockquote~%#r#%~"Bahaha. It's a 4. In a square. And on that night, tongue and cheek were reunited."~%#l#%~/blockquote~%#r#%~~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209579%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/andrew.jpg" class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" /~%#r#%~This is crazy - and terribly sad - and we didn't become aware of it until a few hours ago. But former TechCrunch intern Andrew Phillips' father died in the Alaska plane crash last week. We ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/10/a-series-of-tubes/"~%#r#%~reported~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ on Senator Ted Stevens passing in that crash, but we weren't aware that Andrew's father Bill Phillips, who was formerly Stevens' chief of staff, was also on the plane. Andrew's younger brother Willy Phillips was also on the plane and ~%#l#%~a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alaska_plane_crash"~%#r#%~survived~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, and is expected to recover fully. His worst injury was a broken leg, which occurred after the plane crashed.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209517%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-209567" title="Back Camera" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/fbpl.jpg" alt="" /~%#r#%~If you hate the idea of Facebook gaining a location element, you're really going to hate this. It's awesome. Tonight, immediately after their Places launch ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-location-video/"~%#r#%~event~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, the company flipped the switch (an actual switch, by the way) to make the location product live. While it was a few hours before the new location-enabled iPhone app ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-places-iphone-2/"~%#r#%~went live~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, touch.facebook.com went live for millions of users around the U.S. right away. And Facebook had some giant projections to showcase that.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209560%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/screen-shot-2010-08-18-at-10-46-19-pm.png" /~%#r#%~Here's some infographic perspective on the eve of ~%#l#%~a href="http://facebook.com"~%#r#%~Facebook's~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ copycat ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-location/"~%#r#%~Facebook Places~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ launch, which has some ~%#l#%~a href="http://twitter.com/mbaratz/status/21534687759"~%#r#%~ringing the death knell~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ for location based startups ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-places-gowalla/"~%#r#%~Foursquare and Gowalla~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~. A stroll through the ~%#l#%~a href="http://google.com"~%#r#%~Google~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ graveyard is a lesson in how rarely it works out when successful companies stop focusing on their core competency to go after the little guys. Between Wave, Jaiku, and Foursquare precursor Dodgeball, Google's a repeat offender in the "failing to kill the next big thing" department. With the launch of ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-location-history/"~%#r#%~today's check-in utility~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, it seems like the Facebook product team might be following in the search giant's ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.quora.com/"~%#r#%~startup-crushing~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ footsteps. After all, when was the last time you asked a ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/31/facebook-questions-facebook/"~%#r#%~Facebook Question?~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209518%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img class="alignright size-full wp-image-209534" title="fs" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/fs.png" alt="" /~%#r#%~Perhaps you've heard: Facebook just released their new location feature called Places. If not, we have about a dozen ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/tag/facebook/"~%#r#%~posts~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ about it that we recommend. But the obvious next question is what this means for those already in the space -- and specifically the current buzz leader, ~%#l#%~a href="http://foursquare.com"~%#r#%~Foursquare~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~. Sure, they're ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-places-gowalla/"~%#r#%~partnering~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ with Facebook on the API launch, but are they in trouble? They don't seem too worried about it. Instead, it's expansion time. Foursquare is on the verge of opening their first office outside of their New York City headquarters, we've confirmed with the company. Shortly, they will open an office in San Francisco's SoMa district. Both ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/16/foursquare-mobile/"~%#r#%~new Foursquare VP~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ of Mobile, ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/holger-luedorf"~%#r#%~Holger Luedorf~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ (who was on-hand at the event tonight), and VP of Business Development, ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/tristan-walker"~%#r#%~Tristan Walker~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, will be based out of that office, we're told. And they hope to hire a couple more people to work there soon too.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209516%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/totalbeauty-screen.jpg" /~%#r#%~ Total Beauty Media is adding to its quickly-growing fashion empire. The Santa Monica-based startup operates cosmetics tips and review site ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.totalbeauty.com/"~%#r#%~TotalBeauty~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.beautyriot.com/"~%#r#%~BeautyRiot~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, and ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.modernman.com/"~%#r#%~ModernMan~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ (the latter as a joint venture with Break Media). Now, it has acquired ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.limelife.com/"~%#r#%~LimeLife~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, a woman's lifestyle portal in an all-stock deal. The value of the acquisition is not being disclosed, but it is less than the ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/limelife"~%#r#%~$21 million~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ raised by LimeLife since 2005. Limelife is struggling as a women's lifestyle site on the Web, but on mobile it is doing much better, with about 2 million monthly mobile visitors (versus only 750,000 for the Website). Much of this traffic comes from being placed on the carrier deck of many feature phones. LimeLife will bring the company's total reach to about 6 million people a month, including its ad network of about 40 fashion blogs and other sites. Most of Total Beauty's traffic is driven by search.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209472%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img class="alignright size-full wp-image-209491" title="aaaaaaa" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/aaaaaaa.png" alt="" /~%#r#%~At Facebook's Places event earlier tonight, they noted that ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-places-iphone/"~%#r#%~their iPhone app would be updated tonight~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ with the new check-in functionality. Sure enough, here it is. Though the App Store update alert hasn't kicked in yet, if you ~%#l#%~a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook/id284882215?mt%3D8"~%#r#%~go to the actual page~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ and redownload it, it should be the latest version (version 3.2). As you can see, the new Places area is front and center in the app. Clicking on it brings up a list of your friends who have recently checked in to various places. Clicking on those friends shows more details about the place they are at.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209487%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/places_advertisers-1-pdf-page-1-of-6.jpg" /~%#r#%~As we heard tonight, Facebook has ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-location-video/"~%#r#%~officially launched~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ Places, the social network's location-based platform. We know what Places will mean for Facebook users. Users will be able to ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-places-iphone/"~%#r#%~check-in~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ to Places (created by both people and businesses) via the web or through mobile apps. And the feature has an API so ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-places-gowalla/"~%#r#%~partners~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ like Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp and Booyah can allow their users to check-in to Facebook's places. But what does this mean for businesses? Interestingly, Facebook seems to actively be targeting advertisers on the network. It is already distributing a how-to guide for registering a Place page for their businesses, the benefits and more. You can find the guide ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.facebook.com/help/?page%3D1159"~%#r#%~here~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ and we've embedded the document below. Facebook is wasting no time encouraging advertisers to start registering their businesses. The social network may be starting from behind, but it wants to ramp up its directory quickly and is encouraging advertisers to create their own Places Here's how Facebook markets Places to advertisers in its how-to guide:~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209446%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/courserank1.jpg" class="border" alt="" /~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.chegg.com"~%#r#%~Chegg's~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ textbook rental business continues to grow like crazy - we've ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/05/teardown-chegg/"~%#r#%~estimated~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ 2010 revenues of $130 million, for example. And the company is now starting to acquire businesses complimentary to their core focus. First up is ~%#l#%~a href="http://courserank.com"~%#r#%~CourseRank~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, founded in 2007 by three stanford students. Total funding raised by CourseRank is $0 - it's "Mountain Dew funded to date," says Chegg. CourseRank helps students choose classes, and 95% of Stanford students use it, says the company.UC Berkeley, Duke, Cornell and other universities and colleges in the U.S. and Canada now use it as well. The company now has five employees. ~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209449%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img class="size-full wp-image-209428 alignright" title="fb" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/fb.jpg" alt="" /~%#r#%~Today at an event at their headquarters in Palo Alto, CA, Facebook unveiled their ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-location/"~%#r#%~new Places product~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ -- their location/check-in solution. Obviously, their entry in this space has been rumored for a long time -- a very long time. But during the Q&A session, someone asked how long Facebook has actually been working on this Places product. Since December, one of the engineers in charge of the product replied. But he also revealed that there have been other "skunkworks" projects internally at Facebook surrounding location long before that. The past 8 months have just been specifically focused on what is now called Places. CEO Mark Zuckerberg stepped in to say that Facebook was focused on the question of "~%#l#%~em~%#r#%~what is a good set of features and a good product?~%#l#%~/em~%#r#%~" He noted that they wanted to make sure they were building something different than what everyone else already had built.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209423%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0001/8557/18557v2-max-250x250.jpg" class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" /~%#r#%~~%#l#%~a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/madhu-yarlagadda-3"~%#r#%~Madhu Yarlagadda~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, who joined Skype as Chief Development Officer last month, has left the company. Generally speaking executives don't leave a startup as it jumps into the ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/09/skype-ipo/"~%#r#%~IPO process~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, and they certainly don't leave after just a month on the job. Yarlagadda was previously a VP Engineering, Messenger, at Yahoo. The New York Times ~%#l#%~a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/skype-loses-engineering-chief-ahead-of-offering/"~%#r#%~says he left~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ after scathing comments on TechCrunch about his new role at Skype came to the attention of Skype executives. The ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/06/skype-recruits-yahoo-engineering-exec-for-key-technology-role/comment-page-3/#comments"~%#r#%~post they're referring to~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ has dozens of extremely detailed negative comments about Yarlagadda, although we've deleted the worst of them. That level of uniform negativity was unprecedented in our experience. In the past we've occasionally wholesale deleted negative comments about an individual, particularly since most of these comments tend to be anonymous. But in this case we were threatened with legal action by his wife almost immediately as the comments started flowing:~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209420%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-209413" title="222" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/222.jpg" alt="" /~%#r#%~Today at an event in Palo Alto, CA, Facebook unveiled its ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-location/"~%#r#%~new Places product~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ -- essentially their ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-places-iphone/"~%#r#%~check-in utility~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~. Obviously, there has been a lot of talk about what this means for the current players like Foursquare and Gowalla. Well, Facebook is partnering with both of those guys. We ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/17/foursquare-facebook-twitter/"~%#r#%~hinted at this possibility a couple days ago~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~. Representatives from both Gowalla and Foursquare were invited to take the stage at the event to talk about how they plan to leverage Facebook's new Places API. Both will allow you to check-in and publish the data to your Facebook feed. Your badges and pins from each of those apps will transfer over as well. As we expected, Facebook is playing nice with these guys -- and they're clearly excited to play nicely back given Facebook's 500 million users.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209399%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/1111.jpg" alt="" title="111" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-209389" /~%#r#%~Today at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, CA, the company held an event to show off their new Places product -- essentially their check-in service. ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-location/"~%#r#%~We spotted in the wild a bit early~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, but that was only on the touch.facebook.com site (the site built specifically for touchscreen devices). Later tonight, it will be a central part of the new Facebook iPhone app as well. In the introductory video that Facebook showed off to kick off the event, they showed a bit of the app. It looks like its integration is seamless. There will be a new Places icon in the very middle of the app. Just as with Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt and the rest, you'll be able to check-in to any venue you're at. Or if the venue isn't in the system, you can add it.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209373%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/facebookgeo.png" /~%#r#%~We're at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, where the social network is finally unveiling its much-anticipated location feature, which will be called Places. We've already published the first screenshots of the new feature, but we're about to get the full rundown on how it works and who Facebook is partnering with. The company has invited dozens of press to the event (it even shuttled some of them down from San Francisco), and it's clear that it's treating this as a very big deal. I'm liveblogging my notes from the event below.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209337%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-209345" title="0" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/0.png" alt="" /~%#r#%~We're sitting here in the waiting room at Facebook waiting for the supposed location event to start. Facebook won't say officially what the event is about, but it seems like everyone knows. And now we know for sure. Earlier, ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-places/"~%#r#%~we found code evidence of the new Facebook Places area~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~. Now we've found the feature itself. Welcome to Facebook Places. The following screenshots are from the ~%#l#%~a href="http://touch.facebook.com"~%#r#%~touch version~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ of Facebook's website. The ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/09/facebook-places-check-in/"~%#r#%~same place we originally found the location code months ago~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~. As you can see, there's a new Places tab. When clicked on, it shows friends who have geotagged themselves at various locations (both of the people in the shots below are Facebook employees -- no surprise there). When you tap "Share where you are with friends" from here, it brings up a list of nearby places. Yes, it's Facebook check-in.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209342%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/light-switch.jpg" class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" /~%#r#%~Quick, name one of the best things you can do to save energy at home. If you said "turning off the lights," you'd be wrong. But you are not alone, most Americans say the same thing. A new survey shows most people have misconceptions about what works best to save energy. Keeping lights off isn’t a bad idea in itself, but it has significantly less impact than swapping out the bulbs for more energy-efficient ones, says Shahzeen Attari, who published a ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/08/06/1001509107.abstract"~%#r#%~paper~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ on the survey. ~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209224%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/placesoptin.png" alt="" /~%#r#%~Right now dozens of reporters are making their way down to Facebook's Palo Alto offices for a special event that's widely believed to be the launch of its long-rumored location feature. We've just come across evidence that this is, indeed, what the event will be focusing on, and it's going to be called Facebook Places. Nestled in the source of Facebook's homepage (which I enjoy browsing as a hobby) are two references to Places — namely, a section of the page that will be called pagelet_places_opt_in. My colleague MG Siegler conducted a similar search earlier this week and saw no evidence of the Places opt-in, so it looks like this is new. The code itself is obfuscated so it's difficult to find where it points to (let us know if you figure it out in the comments), but this will almost certainly be one of Facebook's alert messages that appears above the News Feed.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209318%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-209319" title="4369389594_590dec1001_m" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/4369389594_590dec1001_m.jpg" alt="" width="183" height="240" /~%#r#%~~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~A little more than a year ago, I was in London at a dinner party and my friend Matt Ogle was glued to his phone, hanging on every update he could find about an impending shuttle launch. Given it was a room full of entrepreneurs and techies, no one was too offended that anyone was glued to his or her phone—but we were all mocking him about his somewhat dated NASA obsession. And Matt said, “Yeah, I get that a lot. I can’t help it, I still like space.” What happened to our love affair with astronauts?~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209305%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/mimvi.png" class="shot2" /~%#r#%~ ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/kasian-franks"~%#r#%~Kasian Franks~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, an engineer and researcher mostly known for being the technical founder of music search venture ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/seeqpod"~%#r#%~SeeqPod~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ (more about its tumultuous history ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/seeqpod/posts"~%#r#%~here~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~), is back with another startup in the search space. This time, he's set his sights on the world of mobile applications - obviously quite the ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/17/getjar-mobile-app-sales-will-overtake-cd-sales-by-2012-video/"~%#r#%~booming space~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~. Meet ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.mimvi.com"~%#r#%~Mimvi~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~, which aims to combine its proprietary search, recommendation and personalization technology and thus enable consumers to rapidly discover mobile apps and content across all devices and platforms.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209277%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img class="alignright size-full wp-image-209270" title="Screen shot 2010-08-18 at 2.13.22 PM" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/screen-shot-2010-08-18-at-2-13-22-pm.png" alt="" /~%#r#%~Yesterday, ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/17/twifficiency/"~%#r#%~we noted the annoying phenomenon~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ on Twitter that was Twifficiency. For those unaware (though I'm not sure how you could be), it was a third-party app that hooked into Twitter to calculate a grade for you based on your Twitter usage. There are about a million of those, but this was particularly annoying because it auto-tweeted out the results for everyone that used it. Twitter agreed -- and yesterday they suspended the app. But the situation was a bit murky because Twifficiency actually did warn users they would auto-tweet when a user clicked the button. The problem was that this message was hidden in a tiny font at the bottom of the page. Everyone from Google exec Marissa Mayer to about 300 of my friends fell for the tactic and the thing spread like a virus before Twitter cut it off.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209266%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/ipad.png" /~%#r#%~Who in the world has the time in the middle of the working day to make flamebait changes to an ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/08/18/apple-proclaims-the-ipad-is-delicious-and-more-in-its-latest-commercial/"~%#r#%~Apple ad~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~? ~%#l#%~em~%#r#%~Who ~%#l#%~/em~%#r#%~could this handsome mystery man be? We'll never know.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209255%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/screen-shot-2010-08-18-at-2-00-09-pm.png" /~%#r#%~In writing about Groupon ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/17/groupon-manfest-destiny/"~%#r#%~expanding their dominion to Japan and Russia~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ yesterday, I couldn't help but notice one thing setting the company apart from the myriad clones, the ~%#l#%~a href="http://twitter.com/groupon_says"~%#r#%~"Groupon Says"~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ feature, or the random humorous blurb underneath vaguely-related daily deals. "Groupon Says" is just one element of the quirky culture of stunts and pranks that seems to be~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/08/are-the-new-woot-ads-funny-or-just-offensive/"~%#r#%~ endemic to daily deals sites~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~. Mason recently compiled a~%#l#%~a href="http://www.groupon.com/pages/world-of-groupon"~%#r#%~ World of Groupon~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ laundry list of their greatest hits, including their ~%#l#%~a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/01/groupoupon/"~%#r#%~Groupoupon 2010 April Fool's ~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~prank as well as the above ~%#l#%~a href="http://vimeo.com/3952371"~%#r#%~"Monkey For Week"~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ video and ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.monkeyforaweek.com/"~%#r#%~accompanying monkey loan website~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~.~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209203%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~

~%#l#%~img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ipad.png" /~%#r#%~The ~%#l#%~a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/ipad/"~%#r#%~iPad~%#l#%~/a~%#r#%~ is many things and Apple is happy to point out most of its positive characteristics in the latest ad spot: delicious, current, learning, playful, literary, artful, friendly, productive, scientific, and magical. Fair enough. I can get on board with those. I'm just looking forward to the spoof version that will likely drop before the end of the day proclaim all the negative sides too: closed, limited, novelty, restricted, safe, censored and boring -- you know, a video that tells the whole story, not just paint a rosy picture. Anyway, click through for the new video. It's clever. ~%#l#%~img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host%3Dtechcrunch.com%26blog%3D11718616%26post%3D209226%26subd%3Dtctechcrunch%26ref%3D%26feed%3D1" /~%#r#%~