rychean - Slashdot User

Comment contract it (Score 1) 554

by rychean on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @02:21PM (#24483631) Attached to: Effective Optical Disc Repair?

I own a professional resurfacing machine, and I use it for all optical media. I often resurface items for friends and co-workers at $3 per disc. Not alot when things are irreplaceable, or cost upwards of $400 for high end software. Maybe someone you know has the same type of connection.

Jatol.com Disappears, Stranding Customers 179

Posted by kdawson on Monday September 10, 2007 @09:27PM from the back-up-everything dept.

J Cardella writes "On August 31, Jatol.com — a hosting company that had operated for five years, providing excellent support and reasonable prices — disappeared, leaving hundreds, if not thousands of people without access to their Web content and email. There is speculation that Jatol may have stopped paying their host, Fastservers. The evidence is that Fastservers has been turning off the machines with Jatol's customers' content. Jatol had already collected September hosting fees from their customers (including myself). The story gets stranger. The owner of Jatol.com, Tim Tooley, has also disappeared. He was apparently very ill for some time, and speculation on the thread goes from his skipping the country to lying dead in his home. Fastservers apparently is unwilling to turn the machines back on, so people could get their content, without authorization from Tooley."

Mars Rovers Return to Exploration 145

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 06, 2007 @08:07AM from the kuato-approved dept.

inkslinger77 writes "The two Mars rovers that have been carefully conserving critical power supplies since June, when the summer dust-storm season began on the red planet, are now springing back to work as the storms subside. Typically, the solar panels on each rover produce about 700 watt-hours of electricity per day — enough to light a 100-watt bulb for seven hours, according to NASA. But this year's dust storms reduced that to as little as 128 watt hours per day. When daily power generation is down to less than 400 watt-hours, the rovers suspend their driving on the planet and stop using their robotic arms, cameras and other instruments. But they are back in action now!"

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