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City-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This Fall
FiniteLoop sends a collection of links about a city-sized asteroid named Toutatis which will approach - but miss - Earth this September. MSNBC also has a story, and JPL and the Near Earth Object program have more information.
Rose Bud! I used to live in Searcy near there. What an exciting time.
Stargate is a great show!
What happened to my robot, I was promised a robot.
Allchin reiterated that Longhorn Beta 1 will ship in 2005, and demonstrated some exciting Longhorn capabilities using recent builds (4067 and 4069) of the alpha version operating system, highlighting capabilities such as the Avalon 3D subsystem and the Indigo communications subsystem. Longhorn, Allchin said will integrate the "three magic ingredients" of fundamentals, scenarios, and people. "That's what Longhorn is all about," he added. During a demo, he showed Longhorn playing 6 high-resolution videos simultaneously while playing Quake III Arena in the background; a comparable XP system was unable to play four of the videos simultaneously. Allchin also demonstrated an interesting migration tool that can optionally use an upcoming smart USB cable to transfer personal data from an existing PC to a new Longhorn-based PC.
Haha, Linux can't do this, and there's no way to expect that KDE or GNOME will be able to do it in the next 10 years. Fucking hell, an ALPHA version of Longhorn can run six hi-res videos and play Quake 3 at the same time?! I can't even get xmms to run without skipping and dragged windows not to have visual tearing.
Good luck as a webserver, Linux...
It's dumbell-shaped and looks just like an Arnie Bobblehead Doll.
Someone get Hollywood on the phone!
Ihbt. Ihl. Iwhand.
From his weekly takes:
"Microsoft's April Super Patch Has Problems
This is what happens when you patch a gajillion problems at once. Microsoft, if you want to see how your credibility goes down the drain when you screw up, pay attention now. WinInfo Daily UPDATE readers might recall that in early April Microsoft released a massive security patch that addressed 20 security vulnerabilities in various Windows versions. The release caused a bit of controversy because it clearly showed that Microsoft had been sitting on some of those fixes for several months, leading security researchers to wonder why the company hadn't released separate patches earlier. Now we have another reason to wonder: The massive security patch is now causing problems with some Windows 2000 systems, and they're the lovely kind of problems that prevent you from logging on to the system, booting the system, or actually using the system because the CPU meter is pegged at 100 percent. But at least you're secure, right?
Virulent Windows Exploit Code
And speaking of Windows security fun, hackers have turned recently released exploit code for two of the security flaws Microsoft detailed in the April security patch into real-world worms--virulent computer code that can spread across the Internet and look for infected systems. So here's an interesting little catch-22 for you Win2K users: Which would you prefer--a nonbooting, nonworking system or a worm-laden disaster? Pick your poison, thanks to the world's largest software company, which, by the way, can't ship XP SP2 any time soon. We love Microsoft to death, don't we?"
How can Linux weenies continue to lie about this man's bias when he clearly is not? Slashdot is biased.