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A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.

House, for instance, is feminine: la casa.
Pencil, however, is masculine: el lapiz.

A student asked: “What gender is computer?”

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class in to two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer should be a masculine or a feminine noun.
Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.

The men’s group decided that computer should definitely be of the feminine gender (la computadora), because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for possible later retrieval.
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your pay check on accessories for it.

The women’s group, however, concluded that computer should be masculine (el computador), because:

1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on.
2. They have a lot of data but still can’t think for themselves.
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem.
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer you could have got a better model !!!

The women won.

Send this to all the smart women you know… and all the men that have a sense of humor.

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The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term.

The answer by one student was so “profound” that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following.

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, “It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you!” and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct… leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting “Oh my God.”

This student received an A+.

Well, the time has come: YouTube no longer supports Internet Explorer 6, and recommends to update to a newer browser: Internet Explorer 8, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome.

Links:

• YouTube Drops IE6 Support on March 13th
• IE6 No More
• It’s Time to Finally Drop Internet Explorer 6
• Apple’s MobileMe drops support for IE 6
• More…

This procedure allows you to copy Microsoft Office 2003 settings (including Outlook AutoCorrect options) to another PC.
This tutorial is valid for Windows XP with Microsoft Office 2003.
It is likely that this also works on other Windows versions with other Microsoft Office versions.

On the PC you would like to EXPORT Microsoft Office settings, do this:

1. Exit any Office applications that are running.
2. Click Start, click Programs, click Microsoft Office, click Microsoft Office Tools, click Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizard.
3. Go through the Wizard. Don’t change any settings.
4. When completed, navigate to "%userprofile%\My Documents" folder.
5. Cut and Paste the file “New Settings File.OPS” to a USB or CD.

On the PC you would like to IMPORT Microsoft Office settings, do this:

1. Place the file “New Settings File.OPS” from the USB or CD in "%userprofile%\My Documents" folder.
2. Exit any Office applications that are running.
3. Click Start, click Programs, click Microsoft Office, click Microsoft Office Tools, click Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizard.
4. Click “Restore previously saved settings to this machine”.
5. Click Next.
6. Browse to the file “New Settings File.OPS” location.
7. Click Finish and you’re all done.

Links:

• Description and use of the Save My Settings Wizard

YouTube announcement: We will be phasing out support for your browser soon. Please upgrade to one of these more modern browsers: Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.6, Opera 10, Safari 4, Google Chrome.

It is a matter of fact that Internet Explorer [IE] 6 does not support web standards and modern technologies.

These web standards and modern technologies have been developed to easily build web sites and to provide a better web navigation and experience to any internet user.

Unfortunately, web developers have to use obsolete and unnecessarily complex techniques to ensure their pages would render properly in IE.

In other words, IE6 downgrades the internet.

Who still uses IE6 and why?

Mostly companies running their PCs on Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

Windows 2000 can run any version of Internet Explorer up to 6, while Windows XP can run any version of Internet Explorer up to 8.

Most of the companies still uses IE6 because they built applications and software running on Microsoft APIs belonging to IE6, and if they update to a newer version of Internet Explorer, their applications and software will stop working or become buggy.

Good practice when building any application or software is to make it platform independent, so that it can run on any operating system, does not depend on any third party software to work, and it makes future upgrades easier.
A good example of a platform independent software is Java.

YouTube and its parent company Google have chosen to phase out support for IE6 after the attack from hackers in China to their platforms.

Digg has been the first web firm to announce their phasing out support for IE6.

Ubuntu is a complete desktop Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customize and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. “Ubuntu” is an ancient African word, meaning “humanity to others”. The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world. Source: DistroWatch.

We tested Ubuntu from the Live CD on several low and high specs computers powered by Intel processors where Windows is installed and our first conclusions are:

• Faster operating system.
• Drivers for most computers included.
• Less resource (memory, CPU, graphic card) consuming so that it can run on old or low specs PCs.
• Running on Apple computers too.
• Run Windows apps seamlessly.

Learn more about Ubuntu at:

• Ubuntu Official site
• Ubuntu (operating system)

Learn more about Linux at:

• Linux
• List of Linux distributions
• Comparison of Windows and Linux
• Comparison of Windows and Linux: real world experience
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Install Windows inside Linux

Life is what we make of it.

[Source: Wikipedia]

In February 2009, Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for version 3.5 of the .NET Framework. This update also installed Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant add-on (enabling ClickOnce support).
[Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability]

The update received a moderate amount of media attention after users discovered that the add-on could not be uninstalled through the add-ons interface.
[How to remove the .NET Framework Assistant for Firefox]
[Remove the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant (ClickOnce) Firefox Extension]

Several hours after the website Annoyances.org posted an article regarding this update, Microsoft employee Brad Abrams posted in his blog Microsoft’s explanation for why the add-on was installed, and also included detailed instructions on how to remove it.

On 16 October 2009, Mozilla blocked all versions of Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant from being used with Firefox and from the Mozilla Add-ons service.
[Mozilla Blocklist]

A new multipurpose toolbar is available from today on Zialingua.com to facilitate your web navigation experience.

What is Zialingua.com?
Zialingua.com is a Social Bookmarking website listing Bookmarks of Web Resources.
Social Bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren’t shared, merely bookmarks that reference them.
Find out more about social bookmarking on Wikipedia.

The search feature allows you to search with three different search engines (Google, Wikipedia, YouTube) and to search this same website.
Just type in the box what you are looking for and hit the button corresponding to the search engine you want to use.

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The toolbar is embedded in this website.
Just bookmark Zialingua.com in your favorites or use it as your home page for easier access to the internet.

Features:

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3. Search This Site
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5. Wikipedia Search
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