Daily Archive: July 6, 2009

Jul 06 2009

Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu

FYI, in case you weren’t aware, Firefox 3.5 is available on Ubuntu in the repositories as firefox-3.5, so grab it in Synaptic (or Alt-F2, then type “sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5″ without quotes). It installs concurrently to your 3.0 installation, and automatically makes a copy of your existing profile, so you won’t lose anything. Must remember …

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Jul 06 2009

Okay, then what was the boss of the last stage?

I’m a little uneasy about an article on Daily Galaxy wherein Stephen Hawking postulates that humans are in a new phase of evolution, one where our ability to pass on information has surpassed anything that DNA allows for intrinsically. He also suggests (borrowing heavily from Juan Enriquez, and pretty well everything Ray Kurzweil has ever …

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