5 short links for today #15

myworkplace_thumb 1. Where We Do What We Do: A place to view and share pictures of your workplace. Visitors can rate pictures and leave comments. There are some truly great workplaces here. This is where you can get some inspiration to improve your own workspace.

2. TechPosters: Hundreds of poster sized cheatsheets and keyboard shortcuts on various IT topics like programming languages, Linux, software etc, available for download and print. This is a goldmine.

3. FloodMap: A visualization on Google Maps showing the regions of the continents that would get submerged if the ocean level rises, something which is going to happen sooner than you think. The default level is 7 meters but you can choose any level from 0 to 14 meters.

4. Moonbell: The Japanese lunar orbiter Kaguya spent 20 months on the lunar orbit collecting valuable data on the lunar topography. The data from one of the sensors onboard Kaguya called laser altimeter (LALT) is used by this site to generate sounds.

5. How long will IPv4 addresses last? Till 2010, predicts Ars Technia. Internet Doomsday?

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69 alternatives to the default Facebook profile picture

If you have changed the default Facebook profile picture and uploaded your own, it’s fine. But if not, then why not replace that boring picture of the guy with a wisp of hair sticking out of his head with something different and funny?

How to Schedule Changes to Your Facebook Page Cover Photo

Facebook’s current layout, the so called Timeline, features a prominent, large cover photo that some people are using in a lot of different creative ways. Timeline is also available for Facebook Pages that people can use to promote their website or business or event. Although you can change the cover photo as often as you like, it’s meant to be static – something which you design and leave it for at least a few weeks or months like a redesigned website. However, there are times when you may want to change the cover photo frequently and periodically to match event dates or some special promotion that you are running or plan to run. So, here is how you can do that.

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Whenever the computer is lagging or some application is taking too long to respond, we usually fire up task manager and look under the Performance tab or under Processes to check on processor utilization or the amount of free memory available. The task manager is ideal for real-time analysis of CPU and memory utilization. It even displays a short history of CPU utilization in the form of a graph. You get a small time-window, about 30 seconds or so, depending on how large the viewing area is.

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