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links for 2008-08-24

• Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops
  (tags: software hardware tech)
• Optical solutions to NP-Complete problems
  More examples of problems solved via the massive parallelism of light.
  (tags: tech computing math)
• Exact Cover with light — Very interesting way to solve a computing problem
  "We suggest a new, unconventional, way for solving the YES/NO version of the Exact Cover problem by using the massive parallelism of light. The device can generate all possible solutions of the problem and then to pick the correct one."
  (tags: tech computing math)
• Project Euler
  Cool collection of puzzles designed to sharpen your math and programming skills.
  (tags: math puzzles programming)