Friday, December 17, 2010
Firefox Addons
Friday, December 03, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
New Approach to the Big Bang theory
Thoughts about Peppermint Linux
Friday, September 24, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
RUF Automobile GmbH - CTR 3
Monday, April 26, 2010
Mounting the pendrive � slackware: the hacker’s linux
mount -rw -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/pendrive
-rw: readable and writable
-t auto: filetype detected automatically
/dev/sda1: seems that this is the type of device for pendrives
/mnt/pendrive: i had to create the “pendrive” folder in the “/mnt” directory
after having done this, open the “/mnt/pendrive” folder to access its contents. After you are finished with it, close all related “/mnt/pendrive” folders and konsoles, and unmount it with the command:
umount /mnt/pendrive
if it gives an error message saying that it is busy, then give the command:
umount -l /mnt/pendrive
-l: “lazy” unmount which means, it will unmount as soon as the device stops being busy
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy - space - 14 April 2010 - New Scientist
There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before.
"We don't know what it is," says co-discoverer Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics near Macclesfield, UK.
The thing appeared in May last year, while Muxlow and his colleagues were monitoring an unrelated stellar explosion in M82 using the MERLIN network of radio telescopes in the UK. A bright spot of radio emission emerged over only a few days, quite rapidly in astronomical terms. Since then it has done very little except baffle astrophysicists.
It certainly does not fit the pattern of radio emissions from supernovae: they usually get brighter over a few weeks and then fade away over months, with the spectrum of the radiation changing all the while. The new source has hardly changed in brightness over the course of a year, and its spectrum is steady.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Scientists capture 'terrifying' Tolkien-like eclipse (w/ Video)
Friday, April 02, 2010
Forget about Greece: What about the US, Japan, and the UK? | Forex Blog
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Our world may be a giant hologram - space - 15 January 2009 - New Scientist
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
My Nintendo Wii wish list
1 Punch Out
2 EA SPORTS Grand Slam Tennis
3 MotoGP 08
4 Metroid Collection
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Distant Early Warning: Asteroid to "hit" Earth in 2036?
An unusual space body with parameters similar to a man-made object will approach Earth on Wednesday at a distance about three times less than the moon's orbit.
The object, named 2010 AL30, will fly by Earth at a distance of at least 128,000 km (about 80,000 miles) at 12:48 GMT. As it is some 10-15 meters long, there is no chance it will directly impact the planet.
According to Italian scientists Ernesto Guido and Giovanni Sostero of the Remanzacco Observatory, it has an orbital period of almost exactly one year and might be a man-made object such as a spent rocket booster.
Alan Harris, senior researcher at the U.S. Space Science Institute said, however, the object had a "perfectly ordinary Earth-crossing orbit."
"Unlikely to be artificial, its orbit doesn't resemble any useful spacecraft trajectory, and its encounter velocity with Earth is not unusually low," he said.
Astronomers will be able to observe 2010 AL30 as a 14th magnitude star in the constellations of Orion, Taurus, and Pisces.
MOSCOW, January 12 (RIA Novosti)
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Faster-than-light pulsar radio waves found
Astrophysicists working out of the University of Texas at Brownsville have been studying an interesting pulsar about 10,000 light years away from us (a pulsar is a highly magnetic, spinning corpse of a dead star). Over the course of three days of monitoring, radio waves emitted from the pulsar seem to have been traveling faster than the speed of light.
