World IPv6 Day Was A Success - ISOC

Great overview at CircleID.

Also:

"Based on the encouraging results, we’ve decided to leave our Developer site dual-stacked, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6. And we will continue to adapt our entire code base and tools to support IPv6."
Donn Lee, Facebook Engineering

Lunar Eclipse - End of Humanity

Wikipedia link earlier today when clicking on the Google headline for the lunar eclipse:

"A lunar eclipse is when the moon turns black and explodes, releasing a poisonous gas, killing all of humanity..."

It takes you to the real Wikipedia page, but I'm not sure if this bit of humour is from Google or Wikipedia.

Sadly, the link no longer shows up like this if you check now.

Unlocked iPhone Direct From Apple

This is huge. Especially if you travel between Samoa and the mainland a lot.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC603LL/A?mco=MjI4NTM2NTM

Via TUAW

Attack the Block

Looks pretty sick.

HD Trailer on YouTube

CSL Offering Free Internet Access for Samoa Primary Schools

http://www.spasifikmag.com/publiceducationpage/26may11freeinternetaccess/

Great job by CSL.

LeBrondown

This article pretty much sums up my thoughts about Lebron James.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6640925/time-lebrondown-part-ii

Micheal's getting a little old now, but the 1998 Jordan would have wiped the floor with this guy.

via kottke.org

Sarah Palin: A Hero’s Journey?!

WTF?! moment of the day:

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2011/06/06/sarah-palin-a-heros-journey/

Maybe this is why people like her. Of course, going from what she is now to Wonder Woman is a pretty tall order.

NBC's The Voice Counting iTunes Downloads As Votes

That's actually a pretty good idea. Considering the aim of the The Voice is to get a recording contract, counting how many songs an artist actually sells would be a good indicator of how they sell if signed.

Plus, adding money to the mix means your votes really will count. You wouldn't download a garbage song just because the singer looked hot. Or would you?

via http://mashable.com/2011/06/07/itunes-the-voice/

'Functionally Cured' of HIV

Helluva story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110603/us_yblog_thelookout/first-man-functionally-cured-of-hiv

Laptop Runs Faster On Battery

Here's a Dell Latitude e6400 with SpeedStep turned on running with the charger plugged in.

A Core 2 Duo running at 800Mhz?! Yup, the multiplier has been set to 6 and the frequency is halved at 133.

Ok, let's unplug the power and run off battery.

Oh, hey, 2.5GHz. That's more like it.

Unfortunately, this means I get full speed for about two hours then have to put up with 800MHz on battery.

But what happens if we disable SpeedStep? Well, then it sets it to the lowest clock multiplier of 6, but the regular frequency of 266, and I get about 1.6GHz all the time, on charger and battery.

What I'm guessing is that the 65W charger that the laptop came with doesn't provide enough power to run the laptop at full speed. A 90W charger may solve the issue, but I don't have one to test with.

For now, I'll probably just compromise, turn off SpeedStep and run at 1.6GHz. 

p.s. Turning off SpeedStep has to be done in the BIOS and requires a reboot. Ugh.