This blew me away at the Ted conference 2009 — worth watching.  Dr. Pattie Maes of MIT Labs is pioneering research in 6th sense technology, that in her words, “is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that [...]

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From The Economist:
“HOW wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” So said Niels Bohr, one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Since its birth in the 1920s, physicists and philosophers have grappled with the bizarre consequences that his theory has for reality, including the fundamental truth [...]

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Note:- Before Converting make a backup copy of your vmware image
Solution 1
We are going to use qemu-img tool to this.QEMU disk image utility
First Install qemu  qemu-img is included with qemu package using the following command
sudo apt-get install qemu
Convert a VMWare Image to VirtualBox Image
Convert VMWare image called whatever.vmdk to /tmp/debian.bin (or a path of your [...]

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You are probably all too familiar with the situation – you are trying to unmount a drive, but keep getting told by your system that it’s busy. But what application is tying it up? A quick one-liner will tell you:
lsof +D /media/disk1
This will return the command and process ID of any tasks currently accessing the [...]

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