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Our Altruistic Impulse

Lev — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:18:33 +0000

Many researchers point out that human beings are a spectacularly cooperative species, far surpassing other animals in the willingness to work closely and amicably with non-kin. Our altruistic impulse, they say, is no mere crown jewel of humanity; it is the bedrock on which we stand.

The Pathological Altruist Gives Till Someone Hurts – NYTimes.com

Facebook Tech Support

Lev — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:58:49 +0000

Bye-bye Geek Squad?

The Known Universe by AMNH

Lev — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:05:41 +0000

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.

Start Windows XCV

Lev — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:32:56 +0000

Grey Screen of Death?

Lev — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:03:55 +0000

Not cool. I don’t even know what I didn’t save.

Walking My Shadow by the Dead Sea

Lev — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:51:06 +0000

Luckily, it took me less than 127 hours. And here are some other sights of winter in Israel.

Why are you in it?

Lev — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:15:29 +0000

Lego Life

Lev — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:30:15 +0000

Flying Over Earth

Lev — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:18:45 +0000

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König.

How to Expand Windows 8 VirtualBox Disk

Lev — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:54:13 +0000

It seems before VirtualBox 4, expanding a virtual machine hard drive was not a simple task. But after updating to VirtualBox 4.1.6 resizing the disk has become easy.

On Mac OS X 10.6.8 these are the steps. According to the VirtualBox Manual, “This currently works only for expanding the capacity of VDI and VHD formats, and only for the dynamically allocated variants.”

cd /path/to/vm/disks
VBoxManage modifyhd [disk name] --resize [new size]

Then, start the Windows 8 (Developer Preview) virtual machine, go to Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools and open Computer Management.

In the left pane, under Storage, click on Disk Management. Right click the (C:) partition and select Expand Volume. Follow the wizard which should suggest expanding to maximum capacity.