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Supermassive Black Hole Is Thrown Out of Galaxy 167

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @07:50PM from the moving-to-better-quarters dept.

DarkKnightRadick writes "An undergrad student at the University of Utrecht, Marianne Heida, has found evidence of a supermassive black hole being tossed out of its galaxy. According to the article, the black hole — which has a mass equivalent to one billion suns — is possibly the culmination of two galaxies merging (or colliding, depending on how you like to look at it) and their black holes merging, creating one supermassive beast. The black hole was found using the Chandra Source Catalog (from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory). The direction of the expulsion is also possibly indicative of the direction of rotation of the two black holes as they circled each other before merging."

RHN Bind Update Brings Down RHEL Named 312

Posted by kdawson on Friday July 18, 2008 @08:14AM from the remind-me-of-your-name-again dept.

alexs writes "Red Hat's response to update bind through RHN, patching the DNS hole, made a fatal error which will revert all name servers to caching only servers. This meant that anyone running their own DNS service promptly lost all of their DNS records for which they were acting as primary or secondary name servers. Expect quite a few services provided by servers running RHEL to, errr, die until their system administrators can restore their named.conf. Instead of installing etc/named.conf to etc/named.rpmnew, Red Hat moved the current etc/named.conf to etc/named.conf.rpmsave and replaced etc/named.conf with the default caching only configuration. The fix is easy enough, but this is a schoolboy error which I am surprised Red Hat made. Unfortunately we were hit and our servers went down overnight while RHN dropped its bomb and I am frankly surprised there has not been more of an uproar about this."

Comment H1B Visas Are your Best Bet (Score 1) 207

by sean_c on Tuesday October 03, 2000 @06:56AM (#736284) Attached to: What Options Exist When Student Visas Expire?

I've been struggling with the INS for years now, and finally went to a lawyer. His recommendation was to apply for the H1B. There are always certain vocations in demand, and the INS will give preference to these applications. One of the current hot ones is 'Computer Systems Analyst'. If you've got a 4 year degree that qualifies you as a systems analyst, you're ALMOST guaranteed a visa, as long as you send it in on time.

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