Astronomy Buffs Schedule a Mars Meeting
Hi outside, the red planet will be just 69 million kilometers away this SundayEvery 26 months, Mars punctually goes to its meeting with the Earth. At 03:19 GMT this Sunday, both planets will be just to 69 million kilometers apart.
A great opportunity for astronomy lovers, they will be able to see the red planet using amateur telescopes, that is, if there are clear skies in their area.
Clouds at home may get in the way, but on the morning of Oct. 30 a possible Martian sand storm could also prevent views of the spectacular terrain. The planet will look like a bright, red ball bigger than normal due to its proximity to the Earth.
The last meeting of the planets was in August 2003, when both were just 56 million kilometers apart -- the closest distance in the last 60,000 years.
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Google Supports Open Source Initiatives
Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski announced a $350,000 USD contribution from Google to a joint open source technology initiative of Oregon State University and Portland State University in the US. With the grant, the universities will collaborate to encourage open source software and hardware development, develop academic curricula and provide computing infrastructure to open source projects worldwide."We're extremely excited about the Oregon university open source initiative and thankful for Google's generous support," said Governor Kulongoski. This initiative will help our universities build on their leadership role in fostering the next generation of open source technologies, projects and experts in Oregon and around the world."
For more information visit: http://code.google.com
IE7 - The demise of CSS hacks and broken pages
Call to action People:"We are starting to see the first round of sites and pages breaking due to the CSS fixes we have made. We would like to ask your help in cleaning up existing CSS hacks in your pages for IE7. It is has been our policy since IE6 that under quirks doctype we will not make any behavioral changes so that existing pages will continue to render unmodified, but under the strict doctype we want to change behavior to be as compliant as possible with the web standards. For IE7, we introduced new CSS functionality (see Chris blog post for the full list of new CSS functionality) and cleaned up our parser bugs. This leads now to several CSS hacks failing. If you are using IE7 (you are MSDN subscriber or received a copy at the PDC) you may notice major sites breaking due to the use of CSS hacks and the strict doctype. ..."
"We ask that you please update your pages to not use these CSS hacks. If you want to target IE or bypass IE, you can use conditional comments ."
Here is a simple example how you would use it in the Slashdot scenario:
Using the existing style block:
#footer .search
{
text-align: left;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 1em;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
In a new style block underneath
<!--[if IE]>
<style>
#footer .search
{
margin-top: -1.6em;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
"I would prefer a CSS solution too but currently there is not one in the CSS standard. Please help us spread the word so it is an easier decision for us in the future to make improvements to our standards implementation (even if it means breaking customers).Thanks, - Markus Mielke"
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PlanetLab - An open platform for developing and accessing network service
PlanetLab is a global research network that supports the development of new network services. Since the beginning of 2003, more than 1,000 researchers at top academic institutions and industrial research labs have used PlanetLab to develop new technologies for distributed storage, network mapping, peer-to-peer systems, distributed hash tables, and query processing.Several end-user services run continuously on PlanetLab, generating over 2TB of live network traffic and contacting over 1M unique IP addresses every day. Users at PlanetLab sites (and elsewhere) are encouraged to take advantage of these services.
Depeche Mode / John The Revelator
Ms Dynamite / Back Then
The Tree Degrees / I'll Be Around
Madonna / Confessions on a DanceFloor
Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Rage Hard (Young Person's Guide Into The 12-inch)
Crna macka, Beli macor or Black Cat, White Cat
Plot Summary by Mattias Thuresson on imdb.org."Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her. But none of the two care much for an arranged marriage: Zare is in love with Ida, Afrodita is waiting for the man of her dreams."
The Movie can be watched on arte-tv.com in europe on saturday, October 29, 2005 at 01.45a.m CET.
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Sunday Morning Music :: Little by Little
Hi guys, its sunday morning and while i am surfing on the web i found a good alternativ band called Harvey Danger; i didn�t know before. They had their latest album Little by Little released on September 13th and made it available for public download two weeks ago. Great stuff! If you like the songs, you can make a donation to them...About Little by Little:
"We are offering the entirety of our third album, Little by Little..., as a free download (if you're curious why we're doing this, you can read our reasons here)."
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How to use your laptop :: Wacky laptop tricks
Rich Anderson is an instructor at Dunwoody College. He loves teaching, digital photograph, canoeing, backpacking, and rock climbing.
He's also put together a gallery of humorous images showing a wild and crazy hacker utilizing his IBM laptop in weird ways.
CAUTION: Implementation of laptop tips may result in damage to laptop or user.
We assume no responsibility or liability for either case.
photo gallery of humorous images showing a wild and crazy hacker
Serious Hacker: Microsoft patch tricks