It's easy -- you ask people you've never asked before: "Hey, do you have any data centers?". In other words, no one was keeping track before. Missions/projects setup data centers as-needed, but were not required to report them as a new "data center" to anyone.

I don't think it's surprising to find that the estimate was wrong. I know that where I work, funding plays a huge part in the creation of "islands" of IT resources. Every project pays for their own resources, and no one wants to share. Until this data center consolidation effort, there was no real impetus for creating pooled data centers.

So, the population must have cultured this brew to generate enough tetracycline. Whether it was deliberate (because they knew it had health benefits) or just a happy accident that they kept using the right culture is unanswered.

That "Wizard" is practically useless -- the updates for it lag so far behind the Reader releases that half of the functions (like removing the icon from the desktop) stop working. For example, the function to prevent the creation of the desktop icon no longer works.

I've found it more reliable to script the installation, removing the desktop icon using the script (%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\Adobe Reader 9.lnk or %PUBLIC%\Desktop\Adobe Reader 9.lnk)

I had a horrible experience with a AutoIT GUI program because their API changed quite a bit between releases. I don't recommend it to anyone anymore because of that.

See my comment above:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1666054&cid=32360238

AutoIt is nice -- the first time. That's how they hook you.

Then, a year later, you decide to update your program. And hey, why not update to the latest version of AutoIt while you're at it? There was this one bug that always annoyed you, and you hope the devs fixed it.

Well, guess what? While you had your back turned, all the APIs for the GUI changed. All those calls you made to AwesomeFunction() now require 4 arguments instead of 3. Oh, and one of them is now an object instead of string.

That was my personal experience, anyway. After wroting a GUI program with perhaps 3000 lines of code, I updated to the new version of AutoIt. It seemed I had to practically rewrite the entire thing. Since then, I haven't recommended AutoIt to anyone that I like.

Seriously.. what kind of web security lab forces users to enable javascript to view content?

IMO, this site gives Stanford security researchers a bad image.

That's why I downloaded everything at home, and am seeding from there. Of course it's only a measly FIOS connection. Downloading from the NASA and LMSAL sites is probably going to be faster in any case.

http://aia.lmsal.com/public/firstlight.html

In the "Movies" section.

I am seeding! I imagine until we get a lot of peers direct download from the websites will be better

So, if you download from the web, please seed them :)

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/firstlight/
http://aia.lmsal.com/public/firstlight.html

Depends on the flight path. Flights that go to high latitudes (great cirle routes over the north pole) sometimes lose communications due to (currently unpredicted) solar events. They are not allowed to fly without communications, so they have to divert to more southerly routes to restore comm. Of course this takes more time and fuel -- perhaps even forcing a landing at a closer airport.

Accurate predictions of solar events would allow the airline industry to plan better.

Well, this is my first attempt at a torrent; hope this works

http://www.seedpeer.com/details/3024437/SDO.html