Today we are going to take a look at Kubuntu, a branch-off of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system.
The first thing you'll notice in Kubuntu is the much more Windows 7 style "Aero theme". The whole of the system has a very glassy look, quite similar to the Windows system most people use. However, the resemblances stop here. KDE's desktop environment has no desktop icons or shortcuts. Instead, you rely on widgets (similar to Android) and an application launch drawer, again, similar to Android. Kubuntu also comes preloaded with its own suite of tools used for day to day operations, such as e-mail via Kontact. Kubuntu does, however, share the same terminal Ubuntu uses, except renamed to Konsole.
Konsole shares the same commands as the standard terminal. Lp to print, lpstat to get printer status.

mkdir creates a new folder, mv moves a file or folder (can also be used to rename files)
rm removes files, -r (recursive extension) is required to remove file directories
I'll edit this later...

HP TouchPad CyanogenMod progress

As of a few days ago, the CyanogenMod team released their first Alpha publicly available build of Android 2.3.7 for the HP TouchPad.
Due to its highly experimental nature, it is highly unstable and you are advised against installing it until refinements are made. A plethora of things work whilst more are broken. But, it is more than capable of daily average use at this moment, battery life concerns aside. You may find the release, here.

Again, you are NOT advised to install this until it is further refined. Install at your own risk.

Computers and humans-Our automated future?

According to Henry Markram, our brains are essentially massive super-clusters of small processors, so closely packed that the surface contorts and folds in order to fit more and more. Consisting of over 100,000,000,000,000 synapses, or contact points within the brain (literally contact points), it is an extraordinarily complex organ. Supercomputers at this moment are being used to model the brain in order to understand how it works, and why. These computers and their models will most likely be able to help us understand the brain and disorders, perhaps even developing cures for them in the near future.

My question is, can these artificial brains experience and understand emotion? That is one of mankind's greatest abilities, the ability to use and understand complex emotions.
http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.html