Comment Dang! I was getting SUCH a good deal (Score 5, Funny) 145
Dang it! I was getting SUCH a good deal from the colocation facility in Yemen.
Submission + - Space station oxygen, water computers fail
An anonymous reader writes: HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and supply of oxygen and water have failed, potentially extending the space shuttle's mission — or cutting it short.
Russian engineers aren't sure why the computers stopped working. A failure of this type has never occurred before on the space station.
The station is operated primarily by the Russian and U.S. space agencies, with contributions from the Canadian, European and Japanese space agencies.
"We have plenty of resources, so we have plenty of time to sort this out," said Mike Suffredini, NASA manager of the space station program.
http://64.236.16.20/2007/TECH/space/06/14/space.sh uttle.ap/index.html
Russian engineers aren't sure why the computers stopped working. A failure of this type has never occurred before on the space station.
The station is operated primarily by the Russian and U.S. space agencies, with contributions from the Canadian, European and Japanese space agencies.
"We have plenty of resources, so we have plenty of time to sort this out," said Mike Suffredini, NASA manager of the space station program.
http://64.236.16.20/2007/TECH/space/06/14/space.s
Submission + - Oldest black hole ever found (abc.net.au)
Raver32 writes: An ongoing survey of the heavens has spotted the most distant, and therefore earliest, giant black hole in the universe.
The object, a quasar given the catchy name CFHQS J2329-0301, was found with three other extremely distant quasars in the Canada-France High-z Quasar Survey.
The survey uses an imaging instrument called the MegaCam on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT).
Submission + - SharePoint Server Becoming the Tool of Choice (networkworld.com)
MikeMyers writes: SharePoint Server Becoming the Tool of Choice for Collaboration
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nt/2007/06 04nt1.html
Submission + - Ubuntu/Gimp Vulnerability (net-security.org)
eldavojohn writes: "A security vulnerability has been detected (and fixed) regarding The Gimp used in Ubuntu. From the notice: "It was discovered that Gimp did not correctly handle RAS image format color tables. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted RAS file with Gimp, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges." This does affect 7.04 which is the release Dell is shipping. Thankfully, a simple update (and in Ubuntu, its as simple as clicking the square in the upper right corner) is all that is needed to correct this issue — just make sure to tell your tech inept friends how to do it!"
Journal Journal: Intel shows off 80-core processor 222
Intel has built its 80-core processor as part of a research project, but don't expect it to boost your Doom score just yet.
Chief Technical Officer Justin Rattner demonstrated the processor in San Francisco last week for a group of reporters, and the company will present a paper on the project during the International Solid State Circuits Conference in the city this week.
Submission + - Who's behind the anti-Goog Information-Revolution?
mstrom writes: Walk on the tube (metro) in London anytime now and you'll adverts plastered around asking "Who controls 75% of the worlds information?", "Who is controlling your information?" inviting you to join the "Information Revolution" by going to information-revolution.org. Trouble is, it doesn't say who's behind this revolution. This revolutions most recent trick was to laser-beam a huge advert onto the Houses Of Parliament. It's homepage provides the answer to choice — a search box that lets you choose which search engine to use (well, one of the big-4 anyway) — this is the information revolution!
The entries on their site use hip hand-scrawled or sidewalk-chalked messages to give it a viral buzz as though this is truly a community-sourced revolution. Slick it certainly is, too slick. Hundreds of feedback comments on the site are questioning who is behind it and expressing huge disappointment that a campaign that truly got them to think led them to what seems to be a very expensive anonymous attack on Google.
The culprit looks like non other than Ask.com — the domain name information-revolution.org is registered by Performo who list Ask and Yahoo among their clients. But the actual website is otherwise shrouded in secrecy. The biggest clue is the search links on their homepage — ask.com is the first link and choose Ask as your search provider and then search for Google or Yahoo and hey presto! you get an "Information Revolution" advert courtesy of Ask. So a valid question — why does Google own most of the worlds information — but a bad answer — use Ask. The real question remains — why the secrecy, why is the Information Revolution anonymous and was Ask trying to trick us into thinking their really is a revolution against Google?
The entries on their site use hip hand-scrawled or sidewalk-chalked messages to give it a viral buzz as though this is truly a community-sourced revolution. Slick it certainly is, too slick. Hundreds of feedback comments on the site are questioning who is behind it and expressing huge disappointment that a campaign that truly got them to think led them to what seems to be a very expensive anonymous attack on Google.
The culprit looks like non other than Ask.com — the domain name information-revolution.org is registered by Performo who list Ask and Yahoo among their clients. But the actual website is otherwise shrouded in secrecy. The biggest clue is the search links on their homepage — ask.com is the first link and choose Ask as your search provider and then search for Google or Yahoo and hey presto! you get an "Information Revolution" advert courtesy of Ask. So a valid question — why does Google own most of the worlds information — but a bad answer — use Ask. The real question remains — why the secrecy, why is the Information Revolution anonymous and was Ask trying to trick us into thinking their really is a revolution against Google?
Submission + - NIST says No to Vista
sglafata writes: "Information Week is running a story on how NIST has banned Microsoft's new operating system from their internal computing networks.
"Word of NIST's Windows Vista ban comes a week after InformationWeek revealed that the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration have both imposed similar blackouts on the operating system, as well as on Microsoft Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7."
However, the National Security Agency (NSA) assisted in editing the Microsoft Windows Vista Security Guide based on this CNet article and covered on Slashdot."
"Word of NIST's Windows Vista ban comes a week after InformationWeek revealed that the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration have both imposed similar blackouts on the operating system, as well as on Microsoft Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7."
However, the National Security Agency (NSA) assisted in editing the Microsoft Windows Vista Security Guide based on this CNet article and covered on Slashdot."
Submission + - Sun NetBeans phones home
aunt edna writes: The Register reports that Sun seems to have caught a Microsoft infection:
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/03/13/netbeans_ phone_home/
It's not clear whether or not users are prompted to allow such internet access back to Sun. Given the typical user of NetBeans would be a bit savvy (uh-oh), firewall alerts should have been noticed — or does it just look like Java's going off to check for an update?
Submission + - New Hydrogen Storage Technique
pwp writes: Researchers at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton have made a breakthrough in hydrogen storage. They have successfully condensed hydrogen gas into a usable solid under mild conditions.
http://www.unb.ca/news/view.cgi?id=1223
http://www.unb.ca/news/view.cgi?id=1223
Submission + - March 14 (3.14) is Pi Day!
starexplorer writes: Another year, another Pi Day. From a geeks-gone-wild semi-holiday, to now being a featured AP story, it seems Pi Day is becoming part of our popular culture! More on How Pi Works, and some activities you can do on this glorious day.
Submission + - Congress still wants to force bloggers to register
stry_cat writes: It has already been reported (here and here) that some in Congress want to force bloggers to be licensed before they can start blogging. Now there is yet another attempt.
Once again it is under the guise of stopping astroturfing. However as is explained by grassrootsfreedom.com , "The grassroots legislation, simply stated, is unconstitutional. It is nothing more than some with vested financial and political interests trying to violate the First Amendment rights of others."
Another group, DownsizeDC.org, is also working against this dangerous legislation. They have set up an e-mail your Congressman tool.
Once again it is under the guise of stopping astroturfing. However as is explained by grassrootsfreedom.com , "The grassroots legislation, simply stated, is unconstitutional. It is nothing more than some with vested financial and political interests trying to violate the First Amendment rights of others."
Another group, DownsizeDC.org, is also working against this dangerous legislation. They have set up an e-mail your Congressman tool.
Submission + - Microsoft releases SP2 final for Server 2003
methamorph writes: Microsoft has just released the final version of Server 2003 SP2 final.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyID=95ac1610-c232-4644-b828-c55eec605d55&Displa yLang=en
Submission + - Remote into One Application on your Windows Box fr
warcriminal writes: "Cendio recently announced another contribution to the Open Source Community: SeamlessRDP, a seamless windows implementation for rdesktop. SeamlessRDP makes it possible to run individual applications rather than a full desktop reducing the overhead. In this mode, rdesktop creates a X11 window for each window on the server side. The remote applications can be moved, resized and restacked.
http://www.goitexpert.com/entry.cfm?entry=Remote-i nto-One-Application-on-your-Windows-Box-from-any-L inux-Box"
http://www.goitexpert.com/entry.cfm?entry=Remote-
3D Martian Flyover Movies 69
Matthew Sparkes writes "NASA has created two virtual flyovers of the Mars rover landing sites using 3D imagery from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (New Scientist story here). The images were made using the most powerful camera ever sent to another planet, MRO's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE). The three-dimensional information is obtained by taking pairs of images from slightly different vantage points as the spacecraft orbits the Red Planet."
