Death of our seas in 2100?

This week I read an article in National Geographic Magazine on acidity in the seas and pH changes, but what I wonder is what is causing these changes in pH in our seas, tons of CO ₂ we emit daily into the atmosphere and today has a higher concentration at any time in the last 800,000 years of Earth’s history (Article from National Geographic). Complicating the issue is that these drastic changes in water acidity sets off a chain of events which results in the slow death of the biodiversity of the seas, well not so slow, according to the article about the year 2100, a large percentage of life in the seas is gone, then, that future is awaiting us? Are doing what our government to solve this problem? Is it enough?

The best comes next, yesterday RCN Radio and other Colombian media reported the country’s great news that we Carbon for another 100 years (Article RCN Radio) and the production of this product, not renewable, increase from 32 million to 40 million tons annually, or HELP to emit more CO ₂ in the atmosphere, accelerating the processes of pollution and global warming, that’s what awaits us in the future, good Nostro not, but if our children.

Many countries spend billions of dollars in finding and exploiting non-renewable materials such as oil, coal and gas, mining and search through Gold, Silver and Diamond Mines or general that are open, which are the more environmental damage to occur, my question is, why not invest those billions in seeking a way to stop all the damage we are doing?, to investigate new forms of energy contaminants, or find a way to protect our planet and not just think of the revenue they produce non-renewables.

I believe and I think that humanity should worry more about what is happening around us and we be indifferent to this, the indifference is destroying us in many ways and ignore this will get us nowhere.

Quantum levitation a reality today!

One of the most anticipated developments in recent years, quantumlevitation, which shows that we have zero friction with a moving object, here is a video that I found in the network of students at the University ofTel-Aviv , Association of Science - Technology Centers (ASTC).

 

I can not say that young, at school, do an experiment trying to levitatemagnets together to form magnetic fields by means of electric current and some wires, obviously failed in that attempt, but today I feel comfortable in knowing that was not so out of reality at that time.

How to study today?

A few days ago chatting with friends and acquaintances came to us a theme to the gathering, how to study today?, Or rather how will the way we learn to do things, the present method teaches students in a classroom in which a teacher instructs dozens of people in the room, the class ends and find the next class and continuous dynamics, and during the day and semester. Each university or institution has its academic curriculum which they follow to complete the necessary credits to graduate. and this method is repeated and repeated.

Now let’s put an example, a graduate school student go to get to study, and it is clear what he wants, he wants to study engineering systems during the first semester you realize that what you really want to do is have a lot of knowledge bases data and more object-oriented programming and some SOAP, Design (does not fit into the curriculum), but during the race that it is not within their curriculum, and imagine that the young man is disciplined and search the web all the information he needs and becomes an expert on the subject before finishing the race and having studied more than 6 semesters materials that literally did not want to see. This is necessary because Title that accredits Engineer Job Search in any Company

Now then you have the college degree for the graduate major in something related to database design and some other 2 years ago to become a specialist in databases and in their free time Research on Design coming make a good designer.

7 years we have been learning with this we ask, is not much time to just have so little information?, all were gathered engineer with experience in many fields with years of research takes on specific issues each came to the conclusion that most of the information they had had NETWORK achieved thanks to the Internet, and laboratories but an occasional get-together, like this, with industry peers, and we wonder, what if the university one out of 4 semesters?, explaining only 4 semesters of basic need for every type of race, math, languages, science gral, related to careers, and each person could choose after endless possibilities each subjects or topics you want to see who wants to learn, from a list of universities and experts in each subject, each university to become an expert in one subject and choose where you want to get information.

Example, mathematical sciences at a university in Spain, one in Modern Physics in Washington, Advanced Computing in Germany and the list. End the person is an expert in topics taught by experts.

Today, each study at their own pace, reading scientific papers (IEEE, ITU, etc), attending lectures and workshops and so we realized that this type of education enhances the capacity of each us, we are experts in topics, and have general knowledge obtained by research and reading online information technology through digital media.

What do you think??

Ubuntu Server 11,04 Connect MS SQL Server 2008

Hello everyone.
This week I was trying to connect a server to Ubuntu Server MS SQL Server 2008, after a few days researching and conducting tests prune successfully connect, here I leave the steps of:

Installing required packages

sudo apt-get install freetds-bin freetds-dev freetds-common
sudo apt-get install unixodbc unixodbc-dev

With it installed the drivers necessary to connect to the database and the Unix ODBC system.

File edition

archivo ODBCINST.ini ubicado en /etc/

[ms-sql] ;– Name of driver
Description = SQL Server Driver Connection
Driver = /usr/lib/libtdsodbc.so ; cuando esta en 64bits es /usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so
Setup = /usr/lib/libtdsS.so ;; cuando esta en 64bits es /usr/lib64/libtdsS.so
FileUsage = 1

 

archivo ODBC.ini ubicado en /etc/

[odbc-sql] ;–
Description = Driver de conexión SQL Server
Database = NombreDelabasededatos ;
Driver = ms-sql ;; Driver del Archivo ODBCINST.ini
Servername = ms-sql ;; Del Archivo FREETDS.conf
UID = vips
Port = 1433

 

archivo FREETDS.ini ubicado en /etc/

[ms-sql] ;– Nombre del driver
Description = Driver de conexión SQL Server
host = IP del servidor MS SQL
Port = 1433
tds = 8.0 ;; Version de servidor
dump file = /var/log/freetds.log ;; Logs de las conexiones
 

console enter the following command
isql -v odbc-sql $usuario $password

shows the database connection.

Done.!