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Nov. 17, 1749: Father of Modern Canning Born
1749: Nicolas Appert is born. He will invent the modern food-canning process while trying to help Napoleon conquer Europe.By 1795, France was in an expansionist mood and quarreling with its neighbors. As the army and navy found themselves increasingly embroiled in foreign entanglements, the realization that an army travels on its stomach began forcefully hitting home. Looking for a way to efficiently provision its troops in the field, the revolutionary government offered a prize of 12,000 francs to whoever could devise a way of doing just that. Nicolas Appert, an experienced chef living on the outskirts of Paris, took up the challenge. More than a decade later, he had the solution. Through experimentation, Appert eventually concluded that the best method of preservation was to heat the food to the boiling point of water, then seal it in airtight glass jars. Appert's principles were tested successfully by the French navy, which found that everything from meat to vegetables to milk could be preserved at sea using his method. Napoleon was running things by now and immediately recognized the benefit to his far-flung armies. He was so grateful to have the problem of victualing solved that in 1810 he had the revolutionary government's Directory award Appert the 12,000 francs. Appert took the money and opened the world's first cannery. The cannery was destroyed in 1814 as Napoleon's world came crashing down.A few years later, Englishman Peter Durand refined the process even more by switching from glass to the tin containers we associate with modern canning.Fortunately for Appert, Napoleon did not retain his services as chef on his ill-fated invasion of Russia, and so lived on until 1841, dying at 91. Source: Various
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Hacker Takes Over Torrentz, Sort Of? | TorrentFreak
A hacker has successfully changed the nameservers of the popular BitTorrent meta-search engine Torrentz.com. For a few hours the site was replaced with an Adbrite ad, and a link to a warez forum. To top it off, the hacker then contacted the Torrentz admin to brag about his hacking abilities.
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Stop pirating Adobe software, use Free Software instead
Don't pirate Adobe Photoshop, use Free Software, try the Gimp. You'll find countless tutorials and resources to get started on the Internet
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FOIA docs show feds can lojack mobiles without telco help
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Adobe wants to bridge gap between PCs and cloud
Microsoft's business is tethered to the PC. Google is trying to conquer the cloud. This week, Adobe Systems will show AIR and Flash technology that draws from both approaches.
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