I have a Fujitso Laptop (with an "upgraded" battery) that can handle 8-10 hours on (wifi off most of the time) pretty well. Fujitso makes extremly small laptops, and most of them have low power chips (Centrino or Transmeta Crusoe).
They also use the same excuse to don't switch their Websever (win 2K with ISS, best uptime: 19 days w/o crashing), and their e-mail server (first class e-mail system: the worst sever-side product I ever saw!). Their file severs run windows, which are not the best in this situation (they have about 3,000 Mac 8.6 workstation).
But I still rather run Oracle in a UNIX-similar architecture than in a Windows machine. I know some people that have some serious problems with Oracle and Windows.
I just figured out that they blocked everything other than the.com,.net and.org domains... and any e-mail with cc: on it. They think that is the best way to block spam, and I will see if I can get a decent spam blocker there. They will probably not switch because "we already have something else" (they excuse for not switching their Oracle databases to Linux)
Thats what you get when you just use proprietary solutions.......
The school system of my county (MCPS) blacklisted all the.com.br domains as spammers, just because I was sending about 10 e-mails per week, talking to one of my teachers.
And they didn't even notify me. Can't they have some smart system such as spamassasin in a organization that has a traffic of about 1000 messages/day?
What a crappy system they have.....
Contact: Steve Bradt
bradt@pobox.upenn.edu
215-573-6604
University of Pennsylvania
Solar system 'fossils' discovered by Hubble Telescope
PHILADELPHIA -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. Each lump of ice and rock is roughly the size of Philadelphia and orbits just beyond Neptune and Pluto, where they may have rested since the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. The objects reside in a ring-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt, which houses a swarm of icy rocks that are leftover building blocks, or "planetesimals," from the solar system's creation.
The results of the search were announced by a group led by Gary Bernstein of the University of Pennsylvania at today's meeting of NASA's Division of Planetary Sciences in Monterey, Calif.
The study's big surprise is that so few Kuiper Belt members were discovered. With Hubble's exquisite resolution, Bernstein and his co-workers expected to find at least 60 Kuiper Belt members as small as 10 miles in diameter -- but only three were discovered.
"Discovering many fewer Kuiper Belt Objects than was predicted makes it difficult to understand how so many comets appear near Earth since many comets were thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt," said Bernstein, associate professor of physics and astronomy at Penn. "This is a sign that perhaps the smaller planetesimals have been shattered into dust by colliding with each other over the past few billion years."
Bernstein and his colleagues used Hubble to look for planetesimals that are much smaller and fainter than can be seen from ground-based telescopes. Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys was pointed at a region in the constellation Virgo over a 15-day period in January and February. A bank of 10 computers on the ground worked for six months searching for faint moving spots in the Hubble images.
The three small objects the astronomers spotted - given the prosaic names 2003 BF91, 2003 BG91 and 2003 BH91 - range in size from 15 to 28 miles and are the smallest objects ever found beyond Neptune. At their current locations, these objects are a billion times fainter than the dimmest objects visible to the naked eye. But an icy body of this size that escapes the Kuiper Belt to wander near the sun can become visible from Earth as a comet as the wandering body starts to evaporate and form a surrounding cloud.
Astronomers are probing the Kuiper Belt because the region offers a window on the early history of our solar system. The planets formed more than 4 billion years ago from a cloud of gas and dust that surrounded the infant sun. Microscopic bits of ice and dust stuck together to form lumps that grew from pebbles to boulders to city- or continent-sized planetesimals. The known planets and moons are the result of collisions between planetesimals. In most of the solar system, all of the planetesimals have either been absorbed into planets or ejected into interstellar space, destroying the traces of the early days of the solar system.
Around 1950, Gerard Kuiper and Kenneth Edgeworth proposed that in the region beyond Neptune there are no planets capable of ejecting the leftover planetesimals, so there should be a zone, now called the Kuiper Belt, filled with small, icy bodies. Despite many years of searching, the first was not discovered until 1992; nearly 1,000 have since been discovered from telescopes on the ground. Most astronomers now believe that Pluto, discovered in 1930, is in fact a member of the Kuiper Belt.
Astronomers now use the Kuiper Belt to learn about the history of the solar system, much as paleontologists use fossils to study early life. Each event that affected the outer solar system -- such as possible gravitational disturbances from passing stars or long-vanished planets -- is frozen into the properties of the Kuiper Belt members that we see today.
If the Hubble telescope could search the entire sky, it would find perhaps a half-million pla
They shouldn't block ports. There are many users that need those ports to make connections (such as me). ISP should distribute their own firewall/anti-virus software.... and blocking ports migh cause problems, too.
I hate ISP with firewalls.
I still don't get the point of software/hardware patent. Whats the point for all that? This will just increase the monopoly of some big companies, that will probably charge more for their services!
If you want to manage everything (or almost everything) in a pretty organized way, get a fully integraded enviroment, such as KDE or GNOME. Set up some filters for your e-mail so it gets automaticly to the wanted folder. Get your files in separated folders, too. Than set up a backup system so you don't lose everything. This system works pretty well for me and for most people that I know. If set it up properly, you can even get it to work with your PDA!
Don't power cells usually get too hot? I wouldn't want a latpot that burns me.... What about their sizes/weights? I wouldn't spend my extra $200 on something that is heavy and big.....
What about if you change your mouse type to something like a trackball or a laptop mouse? Your signature wouldn't work anymore, and you cannot access anything from other computer!!!
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I have a Fujitso Laptop (with an "upgraded" battery) that can handle 8-10 hours on (wifi off most of the time) pretty well. Fujitso makes extremly small laptops, and most of them have low power chips (Centrino or Transmeta Crusoe).
IIRC, the ATI All-In-Wonder cards don't work with MythTV under Linux.
Well, Microsoft is forcing everyone that wants tech support to pay another $500 to upgrade, and still get no source code....
They also use the same excuse to don't switch their Websever (win 2K with ISS, best uptime: 19 days w/o crashing), and their e-mail server (first class e-mail system: the worst sever-side product I ever saw!). Their file severs run windows, which are not the best in this situation (they have about 3,000 Mac 8.6 workstation). But I still rather run Oracle in a UNIX-similar architecture than in a Windows machine. I know some people that have some serious problems with Oracle and Windows.
I just figured out that they blocked everything other than the .com, .net and .org domains... and any e-mail with cc: on it. They think that is the best way to block spam, and I will see if I can get a decent spam blocker there. They will probably not switch because "we already have something else" (they excuse for not switching their Oracle databases to Linux)
Thats what you get when you just use proprietary solutions.......
The school system of my county (MCPS) blacklisted all the .com.br domains as spammers, just because I was sending about 10 e-mails per week, talking to one of my teachers.
And they didn't even notify me. Can't they have some smart system such as spamassasin in a organization that has a traffic of about 1000 messages/day?
What a crappy system they have.....
Well, I guess now the only thing that counts its the price and the selection of songs... But the P2P networks will still be up and running!
Contact: Steve Bradt bradt@pobox.upenn.edu 215-573-6604 University of Pennsylvania
Solar system 'fossils' discovered by Hubble Telescope
PHILADELPHIA -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. Each lump of ice and rock is roughly the size of Philadelphia and orbits just beyond Neptune and Pluto, where they may have rested since the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. The objects reside in a ring-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt, which houses a swarm of icy rocks that are leftover building blocks, or "planetesimals," from the solar system's creation.
The results of the search were announced by a group led by Gary Bernstein of the University of Pennsylvania at today's meeting of NASA's Division of Planetary Sciences in Monterey, Calif.
The study's big surprise is that so few Kuiper Belt members were discovered. With Hubble's exquisite resolution, Bernstein and his co-workers expected to find at least 60 Kuiper Belt members as small as 10 miles in diameter -- but only three were discovered. "Discovering many fewer Kuiper Belt Objects than was predicted makes it difficult to understand how so many comets appear near Earth since many comets were thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt," said Bernstein, associate professor of physics and astronomy at Penn. "This is a sign that perhaps the smaller planetesimals have been shattered into dust by colliding with each other over the past few billion years." Bernstein and his colleagues used Hubble to look for planetesimals that are much smaller and fainter than can be seen from ground-based telescopes. Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys was pointed at a region in the constellation Virgo over a 15-day period in January and February. A bank of 10 computers on the ground worked for six months searching for faint moving spots in the Hubble images. The three small objects the astronomers spotted - given the prosaic names 2003 BF91, 2003 BG91 and 2003 BH91 - range in size from 15 to 28 miles and are the smallest objects ever found beyond Neptune. At their current locations, these objects are a billion times fainter than the dimmest objects visible to the naked eye. But an icy body of this size that escapes the Kuiper Belt to wander near the sun can become visible from Earth as a comet as the wandering body starts to evaporate and form a surrounding cloud. Astronomers are probing the Kuiper Belt because the region offers a window on the early history of our solar system. The planets formed more than 4 billion years ago from a cloud of gas and dust that surrounded the infant sun. Microscopic bits of ice and dust stuck together to form lumps that grew from pebbles to boulders to city- or continent-sized planetesimals. The known planets and moons are the result of collisions between planetesimals. In most of the solar system, all of the planetesimals have either been absorbed into planets or ejected into interstellar space, destroying the traces of the early days of the solar system. Around 1950, Gerard Kuiper and Kenneth Edgeworth proposed that in the region beyond Neptune there are no planets capable of ejecting the leftover planetesimals, so there should be a zone, now called the Kuiper Belt, filled with small, icy bodies. Despite many years of searching, the first was not discovered until 1992; nearly 1,000 have since been discovered from telescopes on the ground. Most astronomers now believe that Pluto, discovered in 1930, is in fact a member of the Kuiper Belt. Astronomers now use the Kuiper Belt to learn about the history of the solar system, much as paleontologists use fossils to study early life. Each event that affected the outer solar system -- such as possible gravitational disturbances from passing stars or long-vanished planets -- is frozen into the properties of the Kuiper Belt members that we see today.
If the Hubble telescope could search the entire sky, it would find perhaps a half-million pla
They shouldn't block ports. There are many users that need those ports to make connections (such as me). ISP should distribute their own firewall/anti-virus software.... and blocking ports migh cause problems, too. I hate ISP with firewalls.
Is google that young? I remember I it was a big success back in 1998..... google is one of the reasons internet became so popular. What will be next?
I still don't get the point of software/hardware patent. Whats the point for all that? This will just increase the monopoly of some big companies, that will probably charge more for their services!
Why do poeple even bother testing those things? Most ./'s know that there are better alteratives out there.....
If you want to manage everything (or almost everything) in a pretty organized way, get a fully integraded enviroment, such as KDE or GNOME. Set up some filters for your e-mail so it gets automaticly to the wanted folder. Get your files in separated folders, too. Than set up a backup system so you don't lose everything. This system works pretty well for me and for most people that I know. If set it up properly, you can even get it to work with your PDA!
Don't power cells usually get too hot? I wouldn't want a latpot that burns me.... What about their sizes/weights? I wouldn't spend my extra $200 on something that is heavy and big.....
What about if you change your mouse type to something like a trackball or a laptop mouse? Your signature wouldn't work anymore, and you cannot access anything from other computer!!!