2009 September 21
WASHINGTON - A refurbished Hubble Space Telescope is showing Earth the sharpest photos yet of cosmic beauty, complete with heavenly glows.
From 2009 March 14 answers.com: “The Greek letter π (pi) is the symbol for the number you get
when you
divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter; it can't be expressed as a fraction and it goes on forever.
Equal to approximately 3.14, it's an irrational and transcendental number with an infinite, non-repeating decimal expansion. So far, it has been calculated out to over a trillion decimal places. We honor π today, on 3/14, Pi Day:
Some college math departments have parties or ceremonies discussing π and how it has affected our lives.
Some celebrate by eating pie — pizza, fruit and otherwise, drinking piña colada and playing piñata.
It's fitting that today is also Albert Einstein's birthday; he was born in 1879.”
Quote: “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” — Albert Einstein
Rod Serling: Submitted for your approval: an ex-boxer and much-decorated former army paratrooper begins to write stories.
His tales are performed on radio and television. Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight and A Town Has Turned to Dust win rave reviews,
but studio executives are not always comfortable with some of the messages the writer wishes to convey. So he turns to science fiction and fantasy, saying, "I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say."
The show is The Twilight Zone. The writer is Rod Serling, born on this date [Dec 25] in 1924.
In the five years the show was on the air, Serling made only one Christmas episode.
It was called "The Night of the Meek", and starred Art Carney as a down-and-out drunkard who wishes to become Santa Claus.
Quote: "There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on." — Rod Serling
67 yrs ago (Sunday 1941 December 7) Pearl Harbor: Japan launched an attack on a Hawaii naval base, drawing the US into WW2
Rivet from USS Arizona that exploded right threw Perry A. Rowe's barricks on Ford Island 12/7/1941
Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1==>
Spotlight: When an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, there is an increase in air resistance, called the sound barrier. There is a difference in the way the air flows around the plane's surface, which causes the planes to slow, unable to increase speed. On 14 October in 1947, Air Force test pilot Charles E. ("Chuck") Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell X-1 aircraft — which had been named the Glamourous Glennis — over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
“The Altair 8800: The computer age reached a milestone when the Altair 8800 — a precursor to the PC — became available on this date [19 Dec] in 1974, allowing anyone to build a computer at home. The microcomputer kit was originally intended to be sold to hobbyists, but it was an instant hit, and in 1990 the computer went on display at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology in Washington, DC. The microcomputer was designed by Ed Roberts, who had been producing calculator kits for hobbyists. Altair BASIC, the interpreter for the programming language that ran the 8800 was the brainchild and first product
of Bill Gates' and Paul Allen's new company, Micro-$oft.”
Waikupanaha Lava Photo's ==>

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Last month, Philipp compiled a list of lost Google features, at the top of which was a reference to the WHOIS OneBox feature that Google added for a brief period back in January 2004.
Well, that OneBox is now back:

By entering a search phrase like [whois google.com] you can quickly see when the domain's WHOIS record was created and when the domain will expire above the search results.
(Somewhat ironically,
it doesn't actually tell you to whom the domain belongs though.)
Google implies it's getting this information from the Domain Tools website, which is linked to from the OneBox result title too. However, it seems the data being displayed is not coming live from the WHOIS record, so Google must be caching the information somewhere.
It has been suggested in the past that Google may use this WHOIS data as part of its ranking algorithms, possibly giving weight to those domains which are registered for longer periods.
[Hat tip to Matt Cutts!]
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[PRo] recommends ==> centralops.net
“Free online network utilities, including traceroute, nslookup, dig, automatic whois lookup, ping, finger, & our own Domain Dossier, Email Dossier.”
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“While other wikis only support plain old text, JotSpot's wiki allows you to create
rich web-based spreadsheets, calendars, documents and photo galleries.
It's as easy as using a word processor — you don't need to know HTML.
Thousands of businesses are using JotSpot to manage projects, build an intranet, share files and stay in sync with colleagues and customers.”.
Google Sites
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55 Ways to Have Fun With Google
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“The Linutop is a small Linux PC. Of course, if you think the Mac Mini is small,
then perhaps the words, incredibly miniscule are closer to the mark. Running a
customised version of xubuntu Linux, this little box could
replace
your desktop for most common tasks, including what you're doing right now.
And if this wasn't impressive enough in a box slightly larger than a Nintendo DS,
the Linutop does it all drawing a maximum of 5 watts -
That's less than an energy-saver light bulb!”
Read full review...
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At http://www.linutop.com/ single quanty is 250euro[=USD]~$380 USD + ~$42 USD shipping
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I'd Suggest Linux--But...
Dec 9, 2007
by Paul Murphy
“The most persistent complaint you hear about Linux
from the
wintel community is that it's for geeks --
and that the geeks involved
so rejoice in their geekiness that
it's off-putting to the sensible majority represented
by who ever happens to be speaking. “This used to be true for a minority of those involved with Linux--as witness the widespread use of the intentional, compiler stopping, minor error in the distributed source to frighten off the unwashed...”
Complete Story
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“Considered one of the most startling achievements of the 19th century, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 has come to life 150 years later. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visits the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to see the machine in action and meet the men who turned Babbage's dream into a reality.”
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Intel won't touch Vista
“ACCORDING TO A memo circulating a few weeks ago, it looks like Intel is taking a wise decision and avoiding the broken OS entirely. Yes, Intel is not going to use Vista on its corporate machines... ever.”
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/23/intel-dumps-vista
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The Future of Windows XP
by Bill Veghte, Microsoft's senior vice president of the Online Services & Windows Business group
“With the June 30, 2008, “end of sales” date for Windows XP approaching, many people have asked me
if
they will still be able to get support for Windows XP. The answer is an emphatic “yes, you will continue
to be supported.” We recently released Service Pack 3 for Windows XP and we will continue to provide
security updates and other critical updates for Windows XP until April, 2014.”
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12 must-have add-ons for Firefox 3
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Dr. Norm recommends to PRoComputing ==>

(click here for larger image)
then if using Firefox, press the F11 key
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Spotlight: Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore practices what he preached in his film AnInconvenient Truth, driving home the need to reduce harmful carbon emissions in our homes, cars and businesses. The former vice president and his wife, Tipper, recently refurbished their 80-year-old home in Tennessee, making some simple adjustments to increase energy efficiency. Among other changes, they installed a geothermal heating system, solar panels and a rainwater collection system, and replaced their light bulbs with compact fluorescent and diode bulbs. The renovation helped them achieve an 11 percent drop in home energy consumption at a time (in the summer) when most neighboring homes increased energy consumption by 25-30 percent.
Happy 60th birthday to environmental activist Al Gore.
Quote: "The first lesson is this: take it from me, every vote counts." — Al Gore
from ==> http://www.answers.com
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Google TiSP
(short for Toilet Internet Service Provider) is a free broadband service supposedly released by Google. This service would make use of a standard toilet and sewage lines to provide free Internet connectivity at a speed of 8 Mbit/s (2 Mbit/s upload) (or up to 32 Mbit/s with a paid plan). A user would drop a weighted end of a long, Google-supplied fiber-optic cable in their toilet and flush it. Around 60 minutes later, the end would be recovered and connected to the Internet by a “Plumbing Hardware Dispatcher (PHD).” The user would then connect their end to a Google-supplied wireless router and run the Google-supplied installation media on a Windows XP or Vista computer (“Mac and Linux support coming soon”). Alternatively, a user could request a professional installation, in which Google would deploy nanobots through the plumbing to complete the process.
The free service would be supported by "discreet DNA sequencing” of “personal bodily output” to display online ads that relate to culinary preferences and personal health. Google also referenced the cola-and-Mentos reaction in their FAQ: “If you're still experiencing problems, drop 8 mints into the bowl and add a 2-liter bottle of diet soda.”
Other Google-April-1st-Services
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ScienceDaily (Jun. 12, 2008) — Flying saucers may soon be more fact than mere science fiction. University of Florida mechanical and aerospace engineering associate professor Subrata Roy has submitted a patent application for a circular, spinning aircraft design reminiscent of the spaceships seen in countless Hollywood films. Roy, however, calls his design a “wingless electromagnetic air vehicle,” or WEAV.
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Mars lander completes first day on Red Planet
This photo provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona shows the surface of the northern polar region of Mars from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on Sunday May 25, 2008.
(AP) -- Fresh images sent back by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander during its first full day operating in the Martian northern polar region showed most of its science instruments in good health, mission scientists said.
Phoenix lander
sets up shop on Mars
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 Remember when that room was kept air-conditioned and food and drinks were not allowed inside? Well, that was before the personal computer changed the world. In 1977, Apple, Commodore and Radio Shaft all came out with versions of a home or office computer; they were usually called microcomputers. They held a maximum of 64K of memory and used floppy disks. On this date, 1981 August 12, IBM launched its first personal computer, the IBM 5150, operating under Microsoft's MS-DOS. It came with a one- or two-floppy-disk storage system. In today's terms, it would take 10 floppy disks to hold one MP3 song's worth of music.
Quote: "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." — Steve Wozniak |
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Fifty-five years ago, 13 April, Ian Fleming's first 007 novel, Casino Royale,
was published
by Jonathan Cape. In the book, James Bond does, in fact,
introduce himself as “Bond — James Bond.”
But the car was a Bentley, not an Aston Martin or a BMW;
and the drink was not a martini, shaken OR stirred;
it was 3 measures of Gordon's Gin, one of vodka and half a measure of
Kina Lillet (an apéritif wine). His game was baccarat.
There were no clever gadgets, no Q and very little humor or witty banter. In America, the book was released as You Asked For It, starring secret agent Jimmy Bond.
Quote: “Casino Royale is the definitive Bond story.” — Barbara Broccoli
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Google announced the launch on Monday night of its long-awaited, Web-based competitor to PowerPoint. Google Presentations, which is free,
is part of the company's online office suite, Google Docs.
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Google wants in on the Wikipedia game.
On Friday, the search engine announced the creation of “Knol,”
a project that allows users to create their own Wikipedia-like pages on specific subjects.
C|Net News article on Knol
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“w00t” was Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2007
“The origin of the term is widely disputed. Some claim that word originated in
competitive online gaming as an acronym for "we own other team".
Others trace the current usage of the word "w00t" to hackers in the
early to mid-'80s who used it as a term of celebration for gaining root access
in Unix systems; see leet. Still others attribute the term to players of
Dungeons and Dragons as being shorthand for "Wow, loot!"
Regardless of the origin, the term has been adapted to mean a general expression of elation.”
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Last
year, the phone and cable companies convinced the Federal Communications
Commission and the Courts to change how the Internet is operated,
making a few unelected officials responsible for a decision with
billions of dollars of impact for millions of Internet consumers.
These decisions reversed the safeguards
that made the Internet so great – the freedom known as “Net
Neutrality,” which allows you to go anywhere you want to
go on the Internet. The Internet was designed by American universities,
and made available to the general public over an open platform
that required phone and cable companies to treat all traffic in
a neutral manner.
Now, however, the phone and cable
companies boast that they will create premium lanes on the Internet
for higher fees, and give preferential access to their own services
and those VIPs who can afford to “pay to play.” They
have already blocked certain services and have the power to block
or degrade any service that competes with them:
- Do
you want the phone and cable companies to block online movies
or cheaper phone service over the Internet?
- Do
you want the phone and cable companies to decide which blogs
or political sites you can access?
- Do
you want phone and cable companies to give preferential Internet
access to companies who pay more for “premium” delivery?
- Do
you want phone and cable companies to keep new innovations
off the Internet?
If
you answered no to any of these questions, then
Congress
needs to hear from you.
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The man behind the Commodore 64, Commodore founder Jack Tramiel gives a rare
interview at an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of his signature creation,
on which he still plays Pac-Man. Photos: The C64 celebration
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Leopard: Apple's new bloatware operating system on sale
“.Mac remote has firewall glitches”
“See through menus make no sense”
free Bootcamp is CRAP (compared to Parallels Desktop for Mac)
“eye-candy”, “a prettier .... ”, blah, blah, blah
“While Time Machine can perform backups over a network, the backup destination can only be a hard disk connected to a Mac running Leopard.”
“The Dock's new Stacks feature is a mess”
“way-cool arcing feature doesn't work - all you get is the grid of icons”
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Leopard: Apple's new bloatware operating system on sale
“.Mac remote has firewall glitches”
“See through menus make no sense”
free Bootcamp is CRAP (compared to Parallels Desktop for Mac)
“eye-candy”, “a prettier .... ”, blah, blah, blah
“While Time Machine can perform backups over a network, the backup destination can only be a hard disk connected to a Mac running Leopard.”
“The Dock's new Stacks feature is a mess”
“way-cool arcing feature doesn't work - all you get is the grid of icons”
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InformationWeek gPhone Slideshow
Inside The GPhone: What To Expect From Google's Android Alliance ==>
“ While the GPhone won't be revolutionary
-- the very existence of the Alliance implies it'll use currently available technologies
-- it will connect the pieces in pleasantly new ways.
Expect the GPhone to be a handset in Web 2.0 clothing,
with a friendlier and more integrated approach to mobile computing
than even Steve Jobs has envisioned.
Here then are the eight technologies we can expect to see in the GPhone (or phones) due sometime in 2008:
- A Chic Euro User Interface
- Call It The 'GPS' GPhone
- Really Lightweight Web Browser
- Deep Multimedia Capabilities, Via TI's OMAP
- Beyond Voice Dialing: Real Speech Recognition
- iPhone Imitation Department: Gliding Touch-Screen
- 'Push' Search, For VCAST-Like Music And Video
- Handheld-Gaming Quality Graphics
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5 — Google took its long-awaited plunge into the wireless world today, announcing that it is leading a broad industry alliance to transform mobile phones into powerful mobile computers that could accelerate the convergence of computing and communications.
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Voyager, the operator's new "iPhone killer," will be its first consumer handset to let users roam the Web freely.
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The Vanity Ring, a project by Markus Kison, is an update of the ring as a status symbol.
Basically it keeps a running tab on the number of Google hits your name gets.
You personalize the ring using some custom software,
and every night you plug the little sucker into its docking station
and it updates your hit count. Great idea, if you're famous and vain as hell.
But if you're anything like me, the counter will never pass the number you do yourself unless
you change your name to “nude pictures”, “free porn”, or “hot singles ready to have sex in my area”
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insect-sized flying spies. A number of people reported what appeared to be flying mechanical insects, larger than dragonflies, over an antiwar rally in Washington DC last month. The reporter got mostly no-comments from the agencies he called trying to pin down what it was they saw. Only the FBI said through a spokesman: "We don't have anything like that." The article describes work on insect cyborgs as well as purely mechanical flying spies, but quotes vice admiral Joe Dyer, former commander of the Naval Air Systems Command now at iRobot in Burlington, Mass., as follows:
"I'll be seriously dead before that program deploys." The article also mentions an International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, held in Switzerland in August, at which Japanese researchers demonstrated radio-controlled fliers with four-inch wingspans that resemble hawk moths
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Zamzar is a free online file conversion service. Supporting a huge number of file formats, you can make any file into just about any other type of file. Select your file, choose the type of file you would like it converted to, and pull the trigger. The source file is uploaded, and within several minutes, or an hour at most, you will get an email with a link to download the resulting file from Zamzar's server.
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Windows XP SP2c Release to Add New Product Keys
More product keys are needed to support the continued availability
of Windows XP Professional through the scheduled system builder channel end-of-life date of January 31, 2009. Service Pack 2c (SP2c) will be released to provide system builders with a new, extended range of product keys. System builders who use imaging must create
new
Windows XP Professional images with SP2c when shipping product keys;
otherwise end users will not be able to complete installation.
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Google released a major update for its Earth application, introducing a spectacular view on the sky, allowing users to zoom into distant galaxies and stars – and learn about phenomenons such as red giants, supernovae and how stars are born.
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IBM: (8/12/1981) introduced its first PC, which contained an
Intel chip and Microsoft's DOS operating system (1981)
(from Answers.com “Today in History”)
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Laser Printers Emit Indoor Pollution
(Researchers See Potential Health Hazards If Particle Concentrations Are High)
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By Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
“Looks like the first reported iPhone vulnerability is a doozy, they said they can read the log of SMS messages, the address book, the call history and the voicemail data, and they can take control of the iPhone and dial phone numbers, send text messages, or record audio (as a bugging device) and transmit it over the network for later collection.
Three security researchers claimed Sunday that they have found the first exploitable vulnerability in Apple Inc.’s iPhone, a flaw that allows them to steal any data from the device or even turn it into a remote surveillance tool.
According to a paper posted by the three, they rooted out a vulnerability in the iPhone’s version of Safari using “fuzzing” tools and wrote a proof-of-concept exploit that can be delivered from a malicious Web site or using “man-in-the-middle” tactics to trick users into connecting to a malicious wireless access point. Source: ComputerWorld
We Say: The hackers gave Apple until August the 2nd to fix the vulnerability as they will release the vulnerability and exploit at the upcoming Black Hat 2007 security conference, that opens next Saturday, July 28, in Las Vegas.
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iPhone in depth: the Ars review
Another iPhone feature -- it crashes!
(Macs crash “(For examples, see here and here.) And iPods --
if you've never crashed your iPod, you've never used your iPod....”)

Activation problems plague iPhone debut
"I Take the iPhone Home" by Lev Grossman
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USPS Rate Change==>May 14, 2007
“ All large envelopes (flats) will be required to be rectangular in shape.
This includes square pieces.”

“A square is a degenerate rectangle with a==b”
—mathworld.wolfram.com
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Dell goes Ubuntu; "Windows tax" is $50 according to pricing
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N.Y. sues Dell over sales practices ==> Yahoo News
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Apple Wouldn't Repair It: The RIGHT Way to Handle MacBook Repairs ==>
YOUTUBE VIDEO
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One million complaint filed with FBI-run complaint center
Infoworld story
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Crave is a new CNet blog about “gorgeous gadgets and other crushworthy stuff.”
 
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“Spotlight: Twinkies! Can junk food get any sweeter?
Twinkies are comfort food; they're sweet and light and easy to eat.
They have about 145 calories apiece. Everyone makes fun of them.
Very few people will admit to it, but someone in the U.S. is eating an awful lot of them.
Hostess (owned by Interstate Bakeries Corporation) sold about ½ billion Twinkies last year.
First invented on this date in 1930, Twinkies became a lunch box favorite
and were a snack food of choice to satisfy the need for a mid-afternoon sugar fix.
In 1999, US President Bill Clinton chose a package of Twinkies as one of the "enduring American icons" to be preserved in the nation's millennium time capsule.”
from ==> http://www.answers.com/topic/friday-april-6-2007
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Do you want to develop computer games without spending countless hours
learning how to become a programmer? Then you've come to the right place.
Game Maker allows you to make exciting computer games,
without
the
need
to write a single line of code. Making games with Game Maker is a lot of fun.
Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions, you can create professional looking games within very little time. You can make games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music and sound effects, and even 3d games! And when you've become more experienced, there is a built-in programming language, which gives you the
full flexibility of creating games with Game Maker. What is best, is the fact that Game Maker can be used free of charge.
You can do anything you want with the games you produce, you can even sell them! Also, if you register your copy of Game Maker, you can unlock extra functions, which extend the capabilities of the program. Game Maker comes preloaded with a collection of freeware images and sounds to get you started.
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James
Gray, founder and manager of
Microsoft's
Bay Area Research Center
in San Francisco, won the A.M.
Turing Award — the "Nobel Prize of computer science" — in
1998, has been missing since Sunday (28 Jan), when he sailed from San
Francisco Bay with his mother's ashes aboard
the 40-foot vessel Tenacious,
intending to scatter the ashes
near the Farallon Islands.
Scientists end search for friend
A high-technology search of waters off Northern California for engineer Jim Gray,
a highly respected Microsoft Corp. scientist, has been called off by Gray's friends,
the Associated Press reported Saturday 2/17/2007.
Computer scientists from Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.,
Microsoft and the University of California at Berkeley and other universities created custom
software, assembled satellite imagery, collected weather
conditions
data to search waters as far away as Oregon and Mexico.
Missing
scientist's contributions are legendary
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Astronomy
Picture of the Day
“Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating
universe is featured,
along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.”
Archive
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"I can spend as much time as I can doing what I like to do,
which is to work with computers and schools and kids."
from ==>
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 After first
saying they'll charge $4.99 for the 802.11n update to Core 2
Duo MacBook & MacBook Pros and then changing that to $1.99
it is now FREE!
The download patch is available today
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 Scientific American magazine presents their'Ask the Experts'page
arranged by topic: astronomy, biology, chemistry, computers,
environment, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics.
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“A
fragment of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism,
believed to be the earliest surviving mechanical computing
device,
is seen at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.”
— by
NICHOLAS PAPHITIS/The Associated Press
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Bill Gates (2006
Dec 15): “People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are
legal then.”
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“Al
Shugart--the man who founded Seagate Technology, convinced his
pet dog to run for public office, and favored Hawaiian shirts
over business suits--has died at age 76.
The California
native passed away at a hospital from heart failure Tuesday, a
Seagate representative said.
Al Shugart Shugart
played an integral role in the development of the hard-drive industry.
He was part of the original team of engineers at IBM that developed
the first hard-drive storage system, which came out 50 years ago
this year.”
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Many
last-minute shoppers procrastinate because they aren't sure
what to get their loved ones. For the undecided, this site
is a godsend. It offers an eclectic array of gift ideas
compiled from hundreds of Web sites and broken down by personality
type (Dreamer, Likes to Talk Politics), style (Works Too Much,
Aspires to Savoir Faire), hobbies (Quilter, Spacenik), occasion,
and more. Each item's description comes with links to
online stores where you can make a purchase. Innovative
categories like Has Everything Already (wall-mounted aquarium)
or Lives in a Small Apartment (zero gravity spice rack) make
finding a gift for even the hard-to-buy-for a breeze. Categories
serve everyone from the single moms (babysitting service) to
gadgeteers (James Bond stealth camera).
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Doctors
using Google to diagnose illnesses
“Misdiagnosis is still a common occurrence in the medical profession
despite all the tools available such as the blood tests and state
of the art scanning equipment. Studies
of autopsies have shown doctors seriously misdiagnose fatal illnesses
about 20 per cent of the time. So
millions of patients are being treated for the wrong disease. And
the more astonishing fact may be that the rate has not really changed
since the 1930s.”
CNet
Article
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I want a Freeware Utility to ... 450+ common problems solved.
Extremely useful free utilities that do specific jobs really well
and save time and money.
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Second
Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by
its residents.
Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and
today is inhabited
by a total of 1,517,472 people from around the globe.
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thx
to [TAa]
http://thefairest.info/top.html

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NASA will send a team of astronauts to repair the
orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, extending its life to 2013 and ensuring
more discoveries about distant galaxies.
(story)
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Satellites Launched To Spy On Sun
Twin Spacecraft Will Record Videos Of
Solar Explosions In 3D
“(AP) Twin spacecraft blasted off on a mission to study huge
eruptions from the sun that can damage satellites, disrupt electrical
and communications systems on Earth
and endanger spacewalking astronauts.
The two observatories will provide scientists with the first-ever
three-dimensional
view of the sun by working in tandem, like a set of eyes, in different
orbits.”(story)
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Firefox
2.0 released 2006 October 24
Still
unable to show test link ==>
http://procomputing.org/tools.htm#internet
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“Wikipedia
represents one of the closest expressions ever seen of genuine anarchy
-- a "self-regulating cooperative of free thinkers acting voluntarily
for a greater common good." Their motto is "out of
mediocrity, excellence."
Wikipedia
has been around since 2001, which gives it whiskers in Internet terms.
It is now the largest encyclopedia in the world with articles on more
than 5 million subjects in 229 languages -- and an average of 1,515
new articles posted every day this month. It's also one of the
most popular research tools on the Web; last month 33 million people
used it.
Not bad for an organization with just one staff member. The
rest of the work is done by thousands of nerdy anorak devotees --
self-confessed wiki-maniacs -- dedicated to the hubristic project
of trying to assemble "the sum of all human knowledge."
”
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/NyFHST90nnbQ4h/Wikipedia-and-the-Trust-Factor.xhtml
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