Archive for April, 2012

Domesticating Cows was a Challenge

Friday, April 6th, 2012

There are about 1.3 billion cows in the world today. That makes just a bit of a change from 10,500 years ago, when the first population of domesticated cattle was likely just eighty head. That’s the new finding from a team of British, French, and German researchers, who extracted DNA from cow bones found at [...]

Robocop Statue Coming to Detroit

Friday, April 6th, 2012

A statue of a robotic cyborg from a movie set in Detroit’s future is one step closer to having a present-day home. Hollywood robot statue designer Fred Barton’s life-sized model of RoboCop is being scanned at a studio in Canada so it can be cast in bronze with otherworldly proportions.
“The statue’s definitely coming,” [...]

New Version of Clean Chrome

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

I updated cleanchrome over the weekend and added (1) a new option (-l) to list old versions of Chrome that are currently installed; and (2) a manpage. The latest version of cleanchrome is available at:

https://grommit.com/~ranga/pgms/cleanchrome/cleanchrome-0.1.5.tgz
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/pgms/cleanchrome/cleanchrome-0.1.5.tgz

See also: cleanchrome.pl (Jan. 20, 2012).