Watch as a modern PC gets Windows 1.0 installed, and upgraded through every major version up to Windows 7. Not sure what’s more amazing; that this screencast is possible today in a VMware virtual machine, or that applications installed in Windows 3.1 still worked through every upgrade to Windows 7, representing nearly 20 years of compatibility. (via kottke)
This is great
Still on the “I can’t believe Trent Reznor has an Oscar” tip: Reznor has already said he’s keeping busy with his kid; working on a full How to Destroy Angels release (his band with his wife, Mariqueen); and on another David Fincher project, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo remake. The latest, according to Badass Digest, is that he’s reteaming with Atticus Ross to creat the score for Timur Bekmambetov and Tim Burton‘s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Pure Awesome. Excited for the The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo remake too.
Pope Benedict XVI exonerates the Jewish people as a whole from responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in a new book due to be published this month, prompting praise from Jewish groups.
The pope wrote that the condemnations of Jesus Christ came from the “aristocracy of the temple” in Jerusalem and from the “masses” who acclaimed Barabbas instead of Jesus — not from “the Jewish people as a whole”.
Extracts from the book, the second volume of a biography of Jesus Christ, were published by the Vatican’s official Osservatore Romano daily on Thursday.
The World Jewish Congress in a statement praised the pope “for unequivocally rejecting the argument that the Jewish people can be held responsible.”
Congress head Ronald Lauder said: “2,000 years after the event it really was high time that the head of the Catholic Church made a clear statement on this.
“It sets an important marker against anti-Semitism in the Church,” he said.
“Jews suffered from brutal persecution and anti-Semitism because Christians held them collectively responsible for the killing of Jesus Christ, even though he was himself a Jew and was crucified by the Roman rulers,” he added.
Marco Politi, a Vatican expert at Italian daily Il Fatto, said the pope’s words were “a positive signal for the Jewish people, showing that Benedict XVI absolutely does not consider the gospels as a basis for any anti-Judaism.”
Tensions between Judaism and Catholicism have been high for centuries because of Catholic blame of the Jews for Christ’s death.
A Vatican Council in the 1960s that exonerated the Jews failed to end tensions, which have resurfaced in recent years under Benedict’s papacy.
In 2007, the pope reinstated a “prayer for the conversion of Jews”.
The following year he infuriated the Jewish community with a decision to lift the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop, Richard Williamson.
There have also been Vatican moves to sanctify World War II-era pope Pius XII, whose public silence on the Holocaust has been widely criticised.
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Years and many thousands of hours in the making, pfSense 2.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available! Most of the mirrors are synced up and have it available now, with the remaining couple syncing within the next few hours.
List of new features and changes is available here.
This is considered a stable release suitable for production use, as we’ve already widely deployed it over the past several months in beta and upgraded numerous systems to RC1 over the weekend. This is the preferred version for new installations at this point.
For existing 1.2.x users, upgrading will be a smooth process for most if not all scenarios. Some portions of the configuration are considerably different now than in 1.2.x releases, and we suspect there may be some configuration upgrade problems remaining, though we aren’t aware of any specific issues at this time and have tested a wide variety of configurations. If you encounter any upgrade issues, please post to the 2.0 board on the forum with information.
Please report any problems, questions or comments to the 2.0 board on the forum.
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How many more RC releases (if any) we will see and when the final official release happens is yet to be determined. It will see wider use now, but we were already seeing in excess of 2500 unique IPs per week downloading 2.0 snapshots, so it’s been widely tested.
Enjoy!
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Taken with picplz.
Taken with picplz.
