John Hankok - Slashdot User

Comment Of course.. Been doing it for years! (Score 1) 273

by John Hankok on Friday December 29, 2006 @04:38PM (#17402454) Attached to: Lost Gmail Emails and the Future of Web Apps

It's called a shell account. Everything is right there, easily accessible via ssh. No files to be moved around. A single location to backup!

mutt for email.
apache/firefox for viewing attachments

What more could you want?

Why the Word 'Planet' Will Never Be Defined 141

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 21, 2006 @02:01PM from the i-do-know-a-sun-is-a-mass-of-incandescent-gas dept.

eldavojohn writes "What makes a planet a planet? Slashdot covered the great debate about whether or not Pluto qualified and Space.com now has up an article explaining why we'll never have the term 'planet' defined to a point that everyone can agree on. Divisions in the scientific community currently stand over whether or not it has to be in orbit around a star, the dynamics of the body in question and apparently the country you come from plays a part in it too. Some feel the United States is the dominant deciding factor on the definition but the IAU has not turned to democratizing the definition yet." From the article: "In the broadest terms, a planet could be thought of as anything from an 800-kilometer-wide (500-mile-wide) round rock orbiting a dead star to a colossal gas ball floating alone in space."

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