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Эту заметку мне захотелось написать после нескольких неприятных моментов, связанных с утратой работоспособности моего мак-компьютера. После очередного системного обновления Maverick макбук перестал загружаться. Серый экран с яблоком и индикатор загрузки и дальше ни в какую. Я думал, что уже не столкнусь с таким никогда - времена хакинтоша давно позади. Некоторое время я был очень подавлен и не мог осознать реальность. Сразу вспомнил про вербальный режим загрузки (Cmd-V при включении питания). Запустил в этом самом verbose-режиме загрузку и вот что увидел в конце: Read more...07-03-2014 19:01
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KUALA LUMPUR/PHU QUOC ISLAND, Vietnam T he disappearance of a Malaysian jetliner is an "unprecedented aviation mystery", a senior official said on Monday, with a massive air and sea search now in its third day failing to find any confirmed trace of the plane or 239 people aboard.
10-03-2014 07:31
ULAN BATOR The world must increase its food production by 60 percent by mid-century or risk serious food shortages that could bring social unrest and civil wars, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday.
10-03-2014 07:08
ADEN, Yemen At least 42 illegal African migrants drowned in the Arabian Sea off the southern coast of Yemen late on Sunday, the defense ministry said on its website.
10-03-2014 06:49
CARACAS As violent protests in Venezuela alienate moderates in the opposition and show no signs of toppling President Nicolas Maduro, the socialist leader's call for talks is deepening divisions between his rivals.
10-03-2014 05:06
WELLINGTON New Zealand will hold its general election on September 20, Prime Minister John Key said on Monday, in a vote that is likely to focus on his center-right National Party's economic record.
10-03-2014 04:50
SAN SALVADOR A former Marxist guerrilla leader and his conservative rival were fighting an unexpectedly tight race on Sunday in El Salvador's presidential election run-off with the contest too close to call after results came in from over one-third of polling stations.
10-03-2014 01:12
A magnitude 6.0 quake hit in Oaxaca state in southwestern Mexico, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Sunday.
10-03-2014 01:06
MALE The Maldives Supreme Court on Sunday dismissed the country's top elections officials for failing to follow its guidelines during last year's presidential polls and for disbanding eight political parties ahead of a parliamentary election this month.
10-03-2014 00:26
BEIRUT Newborns freezing to death in hospital incubators, doctors cutting off limbs to stop patients from bleeding to death, surging cases of polio: a new report published on Monday paints a dire picture of Syria's collapsing healthcare system.
09-03-2014 22:41
KORIYAMA, Japan Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, barely know what it's like to play outside -- fear of radiation has kept them in doors for much of their short lives.
09-03-2014 22:24
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya Armed protesters in eastern Libya traded threats with the government on Sunday in a tense stand-off over the unauthorized sale of oil from a rebel-held port.
09-03-2014 20:22
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine Germany's Angela Merkel delivered a rebuke to President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, telling him that a planned Moscow-backed referendum on whether Crimea should join Russia was illegal and violated Ukraine's constitution.
09-03-2014 17:34
CAIRO The Arab League on Sunday endorsed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's rejection of Israel's demand for recognition as a Jewish state, as U.S.-backed peace talks approach a deadline next month.
09-03-2014 16:17
MUSCAT A court in Oman on Sunday sentenced a former executive of an engineering firm to a total of 15 years in jail for five counts of bribery in exchange for contracts from a state-owned oil company.
09-03-2014 15:49
VATICAN CITY Pope Francis left the Vatican on Sunday ahead of the first anniversary of his papacy, which he will pass with the Roman Curia on a Lenten spiritual retreat held outside the city state for the first time in decades.
09-03-2014 15:46
TOKYO A Japan Airlines- operated Boeing 787 made an emergency landing at Honolulu Airport after oil pressure in its right engine dropped, the Japanese carrier said.
09-03-2014 14:58
Hi-Tech
HONG KONG An online education company backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said on Monday that a unit of Softbank Corp had made a strategic investment in the company for an undisclosed amount.
10-03-2014 03:25
BEIJING Tencent Holdings Ltd will buy a 15 percent stake in China's No. 2 e-commerce firm JD.com for $214.7 million, saying the two firms want to form a strategic partnership to transform the country's e-commerce industry.
10-03-2014 01:33
SAN FRANCISCO Employees of Freescale Semiconductor who were on a Malaysia Airlines flight presumed to have crashed were doing sophisticated work at the U.S. chipmaker, a company spokesman said on Sunday.
09-03-2014 21:49
SEOUL/JAKARTA South Korea's pioneering mobile messaging apps have taken their oversized emoticons to Indonesia, intent on breaking the dominance of BlackBerry Ltd's BBM messaging service in one of the world's most active social media markets.
09-03-2014 21:41
SHANGHAI A wildcat strike at an IBM factory in southern China illustrates how tectonic shifts under way in the country's labor market are emboldening workers to take matters into their own hands, raising risks for multinationals.
09-03-2014 06:23
AT&T Inc said on Saturday it is cutting wireless data charges for individual customers who have no annual service contract, as the No. 2 U.S. mobile operator attempts to better compete with rival T-Mobile US Inc.
08-03-2014 19:16
SHANGHAI China's largest Internet company Tencent Holdings Ltd may soon announce a deal to take about a 16 percent stake in online retailer JD.com and merge their online shopping platforms, local media reported on Saturday.
08-03-2014 11:00
MEXICO CITY Mexico's telecommunications watchdog unveiled a slew of regulations on Friday to claw back the massive telephone business of billionaire Carlos Slim, but said it would not order a break-up of his companies for now.
08-03-2014 06:00
WASHINGTON The Obama administration said on Friday Verizon Communications Inc's Terremark unit will remain under contract as host of the federal website HealthCare.gov to better ensure a smooth end to Obamacare's open enrollment period on March 31.
07-03-2014 22:56
NEW YORK A New York businessman must face criminal fraud charges for trying to claim a billion-dollar stake in social media company Facebook Inc, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
07-03-2014 20:11
MEXICO CITY Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slim's conglomerate Grupo Carso said on Friday it had been declared dominant in the telecoms sector by a new watchdog, which cited the firm's "economic interests".
07-03-2014 18:44
BERLIN German Infrastructure Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Friday Berlin will invest the proceeds of planned sales of frequency bands to mobile telephone services in broadband infrastructure expansion.
07-03-2014 18:35
LONDON Amazon's tax affairs could come under more scrutiny in Britain, tax experts said, after a judge questioned whether it really was organized in the tax efficient way it said it was.
07-03-2014 18:34
MEXICO CITY Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slim's financial arm Inbursa said on Friday it had been declared dominant in the telecoms sector by a new watchdog, which cited the financial group's "economic interests".
07-03-2014 18:31
SAN FRANCISCO A few days after selling WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion, Jan Koum stepped into a suite at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco to celebrate with old friends, including CEOs, reformed hackers and a few people who fell into both those camps.
07-03-2014 11:14
BEIJING Baidu Inc has formed a partnership to apply for a private banking license, as China's biggest search engine provider moves from acting as a store front for money market funds to a certified financial institution.
07-03-2014 11:09
Science
SYDNEY It may sound like science fiction but an Australian team is working on a project to zap orbital debris with lasers from Earth to reduce the growing amount of space junk that threatens to knock out satellites with a "cascade of collisions".
10-03-2014 02:49
OSLO Scientists have detected four new man-made gases that damage the Earth's protective ozone layer, despite bans on almost all production of similar gases under a 1987 treaty, a study showed on Sunday.
09-03-2014 18:29
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata assumed command of the International Space Station on Sunday, the first Japanese national to oversee a manned space mission.
09-03-2014 16:44
BRUSSELS EU scientists have found that the new car coolant at the centre of a dispute that has pitched regulators against Germany and its luxury carmaker Daimler does not pose any serious safety risks, the European Commission said on Friday.
07-03-2014 18:00
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida About 5 million years ago, an asteroid or comet slammed into Mars so hard that rocks and other debris launched into space.
06-03-2014 23:11
JERUSALEM It's only the size of a dishwasher and weighs as much as giant panda, but its inventors are hoping this spacecraft will go where no other Israeli vessel has gone before - to the moon.
06-03-2014 17:10
WASHINGTON Patsy Cline's classic country song "I Fall to Pieces," has nothing on this one.
06-03-2014 17:09
ROME Sicilian amateur scientists have launched a model cannolo, a cream-stuffed pastry roll symbolic of the Italian island, into the stratosphere, capturing bizarre images of the dessert flying far above the earth.
06-03-2014 13:40
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida A supermassive black hole inside a distant quasar spins at about 336 million mph (540 million kph) or roughly half the speed of light, according to research published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.
05-03-2014 22:54
WASHINGTON In Europe 150 million years ago, this dude was the biggest, baddest bully in town.
05-03-2014 22:46
WASHINGTON The masquerade party never ends for these ladies.
05-03-2014 18:01
LA JOLLA, California Craig Venter, the U.S. scientist who raced the U.S. government to map the human genome over a decade ago and created synthetic life in 2010, is now on a quest to treat age-related disease.
05-03-2014 04:56
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida President Barack Obama's 2015 NASA budget plan includes funding for a robotic mission to an ocean-bearing moon of Jupiter and could help boost commercial ventures to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, NASA officials said on Tuesday.
05-03-2014 00:35
La Jolla, California Craig Venter, the U.S. scientist who raced the U.S. government to map the human genome over a decade ago and created synthetic life in 2010, is now on a quest to treat age-related disease.
04-03-2014 17:57
OSLO A slowdown in the pace of global warming so far this century is likely to be only a pause in a longer-term trend of rising temperatures, the science academies of the United States and Britain said on Thursday.
27-02-2014 21:27
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida A panel investigating an astronaut's near drowning during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station in July found that his spacesuit leaked during an earlier outing, officials said on Wednesday.
27-02-2014 00:24
Health
TAMPA, Fl. A pregnant woman and her family were hospitalized this week after eating steak bought from a Wal-Mart that local authorities believed was laced with the hallucinogenic drug LSD, according to the medical examiner's initial test results.
08-03-2014 23:34
MUMBAI Indian drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, reeling under a flurry of regulatory rebukes due to manufacturing quality concerns, has recalled more than 64,000 bottles of the generic version of a cholesterol-lowering drug in the United States after doseage mix-up was detected.
08-03-2014 10:37
Indian drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd has recalled more than 64,000 bottles of the generic versions of its cholesterol-lowering drug in the United States due to reports of a dose mix-up, U.S. regulators said.
08-03-2014 02:53
The Food and Drug Administration has asked Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc and Sanofi SA to assess potential neurocognitive side effects of their experimental cholesterol drug, Sanofi said in its annual report on Friday.
07-03-2014 23:09
Cases of the deadly Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus, a highly contagious pig disease, are increasing across the U.S. farm belt, a group of animal health researchers said.
07-03-2014 22:03
NEW YORK Decorative flourishes normally reserved for high-end restaurants can make healthy foods seem more appealing anywhere, researchers say.
07-03-2014 21:35
NEW YORK People who have trouble sleeping tend to have less volume in certain regions of the brain than those without sleep problems, a new study of Persian Gulf War veterans suggests.
07-03-2014 21:33
NEW YORK At least one percent of Americans are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus, which over time can severely damage the liver, according to a new study.
07-03-2014 21:33
The Food and Drug Administration has asked Regeneron and Sanofi to assess potential neurocognitive side effects of their experimental cholesterol drug, Sanofi said in its annual report on Friday.
07-03-2014 20:49
LONDON Tuberculosis is becoming concentrated among immigrants, drug addicts, and the poor and homeless in Western Europe's big cities despite progress in reducing national rates of the disease, experts said on Friday.
07-03-2014 16:02
NEW YORK Both the quality and quantity of nurses on a hospital staff have significant influence on the chances patients will die following even simple surgery, according to a large new study.
07-03-2014 15:42
Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc on Friday said an independent monitoring board had recommended that a late-stage study of its experimental brain-cancer treatment be continued, based on an interim safety review.
07-03-2014 14:25
LOS ANGELES For 33-year-old video editor and hemophilia patient Travis Roop, being able to get life-saving infusions of a blood clotting agent every two weeks, instead of rushing to treat a bleeding episode, meant he could jog for the first time.
07-03-2014 12:39
ZURICH Novartis drug Jakavi achieved its main goal in a late-stage trial for patients suffering from a rare blood cancer, putting it on track to become a potential blockbuster treatment with sales of $1 billion-plus.
07-03-2014 10:30
NEW YORK Caring for aging parents can be a burden for anyone, but poor women are more likely to need to take it on and to enter a financial downward spiral as a result, a recent study suggests.
06-03-2014 22:05
LA JOLLA, California When President Bill Clinton announced in 2000 that Craig Venter and Dr. Francis Collins of the National Human Genome Research Institute had succeeded in mapping the human genome, he solemnly declared that the discovery would "revolutionize" the treatment of virtually all human disease.
06-03-2014 21:30
