Barack Obama, US presidential candidate, has taken a huge leap forward from his contemporaries by creating his own social networking site, in addition to maintaining his presence in YouTube and MySpace (possibly unofficial) and other places.

Twenty years before most scientists expected it, DWave has announced a 16 Qubit quantum computer that promises to massively speed up computation as we know it (64, 000 operations simultaneously). DWave will debut at two locations, one at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on February 13th, and the second at the Telus World of Science in Vancouver, Canada on February 15th. These events were open to the public, but currently they are already filled up. The amount of anticipation worldwide is immense.

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CVS is commonly used by open source project to provide access to their source code. Here is a simple way how you can connect to CVS server from behind a proxy server.