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The new race for space
Today, Britain's astronomers table plans for future missions, each vying for £450m from the European Space Agency. So will the quest for Earth's sister planet win? Or will it be the voyage to Jupiter's icy moon? Helen Brown profiles the top contenders
Wednesday 26 July 2006
Lead institution: The Open University
Aim: To find out if Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars are capable of sustaining life
Ready for launch: 2015-2020
We don't need to get especially close to other planets to find out if there may be life out there - it may soon be possible to spy on their atmospheres from afar. The Darwin project is a mission to analyse the reflected light from rocky, Earth-sized planets orbiting stars at roughly the same distance we are from the Sun. It has been under development by the European Space Agency since the late 1990s, and the team has an ambitious target list of 500 parent stars to search around. "The problem," says Professor Glenn White, "is that planets may be 10,000 million times fainter than direct light from the parent star - imagine standing 10ft in front of a car with its headlights on full beam in your face and trying to make out a feeble penlight being held beside the headlight. The challenge is to design a mission that enables us to study very faint things beside bright ones."
The proposed solution is to use four spacecraft flying in extremely close formation at 1.5million km from the Earth - the second "lagrangian point ", where the gravitational pull of the Sun, Earth and Moon cancel each other out. Each of these "interplanetary Red Arrows" will be equipped with a telescope 3.5m in diameter. White's team has developed a technique called "nulling interferometry" which combines the light from two telescopes (10-100m apart) pointed at the host star, cancelling it out and causing it to "wink", making the faint reflected light from the planet visible.
A spectrometer will then split the light reflected from the planet into wavelengths, allowing the team to search for signs of gases in the atmosphere (such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and ozone) which are associated with life processes on Earth. "If we see a gas associated with bacteria, like methane," says White, "then there's a fair chance that there's some kind of biogenic process occurring. The detection of life on another planet will have profound sociological, scientific and religious implications for mankind."
Lead institution: University of Leicester
Aim: To study black holes
Ready for launch: 2017-2020
Xeus is spelt with an X because it hopes to become the ultimate X-ray observatory. Professor Bob Warwick's team of X-ray astronomers study the rays emitted from celestial objects. Celestial X-rays (first discovered in 1962) are thought to be emitted from high-energy sources which contain exceptionally hot gases at temperatures from a million to one hundred million degrees Celsius, such as neutron stars and black holes. Since X-ray radiation is absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere, instruments designed to observe them must be taken to a high altitude or - preferably - into space itself.
There are currently four satellite observatories studying the X-ray emissions from celestial bodies - the key missions being the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and Nasa's Chandra - but Xeus will be 200 times more powerful than its predecessors. "Xeus is a bid to put 'the next generation' of X-ray observatory into space," says Warwick, who is particularly interested in black holes. "As matter is attracted to black holes - which are a source of intense gravity but not much else - it gains lots of energy and heat. So X-rays are the best way to study what happens to matter as is goes over the event horizon and down the plug - or 'gravitational well' as we call it. Black holes remind us that the Universe doesn't take any prisoners. They remind us that our own planet is a relatively serene place compared to such tempestuous regions."
Lead institution: Imperial College, London Aim: To discover if Jupiter's moon Europa is a potential habitat for life
Ready for launch: 2017
Discovered in 1610 by Galileo, Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter's many moons. It has an outer layer of water thought to be 100km thick, under a crust of ice. Recent data from Nasa's Galileo orbiter certainly suggests the presence of a salty liquid-water ocean beneath the ice. This ocean may contain life subsisting in an environment similar to that of Earth's deep-ocean hydrothermal vents. That's why Galileo was smashed into Jupiter in 2003 - to prevent the unsterilised craft from drifting into, and contaminating, potential life on the moon in the future. Professor Michele Dougherty explains that her team "wants to get the best understanding possible of how thick that icy surface is because in the longer term we want to send a probe below the surface, and we'll need to pick the thinnest part of the surface to penetrate".
Lead institution: University of Edinburgh
Aim: To measure the properties of "dark energy"
Ready for launch: 2015
"Dune is a satellite designed to take pictures of the whole sky," says Dr John Peacock. "If you're reaching to the limits you can discover all sorts of things. If you've seen the images from the Hubble telescope you'll know how wonderful they can be, but Hubble just covers a tiny area."
In particular, Peacock's team wants to "decipher the nature of dark energy" which, although it is invisible, can be spotted by the gravitational effects it causes. Only 5 per cent of our universe is composed of visible matter, with "dark matter" making up 25 per cent and the remaining 70 per cent being "dark energy".
"Dark matter clumps together," he says, "and it's probably some elementary particle that's left over from when the Universe was young, and hot and dense. It hasn't turned up in a particle accelerator yet, but it will do at some point. The mystery is the dark energy. Its gravitational properties are peculiar - it's making the expansion of the Universe speed up, pulling the Universe apart, whereas dark matter (with its clumping properties) pulls it together and slows expansion down. By getting huge quantities of astronomical data and taking pictures of most of the galaxies in the Universe, we should be able to work out how the nature of dark energy has changed over time."
The team will also revisit specific patches of sky, hunting for supernovae. "But you never know what we will find," says Peacock, "if you look at the history of surveying the sky, scientists have most often ended up discovering something completely different to the phenomenon they set out to study. But you can't stand up in front of a funding agency and ask for €300m and say 'you never know, something might happen!'"
Lead institution: University College London
Aim: To penetrate the moon's surface and discover more about the lunar core
Ready for launch: 2015
If you believe they put a man on the moon, then surely a 2-5kg drilling machine can't be too difficult to put up there. But such machines - called micro-penetrators or "penetrometers" - which are shot from an orbiter, have never been used before on the moon. As Dr Rob Gowen explains: "No penetrator has yet been deployed on an airless body. Only the Nasa Mars Polar Orbiter/DS2 has deployed penetrators, and neither DS2 nor the main lander were ever heard of again. The only other penetrators mission was the Russian Mars '96 which failed during the launch phase."
Such penetrators are an alternative to planetary soft-landers, which can deliver more elaborate payloads, but face significant restrictions on landing sites and are extremely expensive. Several penetrators can be launched for the price of a soft-landing, allowing for some to fail.
Gowen is ultimately interested in getting the penetrators to Europa and searching for life. But sending them to the Moon is the first step. The team are interested in discovering whether the Moon has a lunar core, and if so, what size it is. "This discovery would have profound impacts on our understanding of the Moon's residual magnetism and, in turn, the origin of the Moon and evolution of planetary magnetic fields," says Gowen. They also want to study the origin and location of the so-called "shallow moonquakes" which may result from tectonic processes occurring 20-30km beneath the moon's surface.
"Going to the moon used to be about rocks," says Gowen, "but now it's more about water, which with its presence, situation, and origin is a thread in the search for life. The most challenging aspect will be survival of the scientific instruments. In terms of technology this is exciting from the point of view of industrial spin-off because we are trying to develop some very light, advanced and tiny instruments. At the moment we're working with extremely sensitive micro-seismometers, trying to make them tougher."
The stars in August
In January 1610, when Galileo turned his astronomical telescope to the Milky Way, he was astonished. "I have observed the nature and material of the Milky Way... with the aid of a telescope, all the disputes that have vexed philosophers have been resolved, and we are at last free from wordy debates about it ... the Galaxy is in fact nothing but a congeries of innumerable stars grouped together in clusters."
Galileo's description was spot-on. The Milky Way is roughly circular, yet thin and flat, a pizza-shaped assemblage of 200,000 million stars, and - as a result of perspective - the more distant stars appear to congregate into a band. In August, that band arches overhead, and it's a glorious sight. The stars appear more densely packed in the constellations of Scorpius and Sagittarius, where you are looking towards the egg-shaped centre of the Galaxy.
Like the Sun, our Milky Way's gravity holds on to a family - in this case, several baby galaxies. The two biggest are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which lie about 170,000 light years away. If you're in the southern hemisphere, you'll spot them in the skies looking like detached portions of the Milky Way.
Now more tiny galaxies have been found. In Apache Point, New Mexico, an automated telescope works around the clock to survey the sky. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has turned up many firsts - including two new companions to our Milky Way. The research on these galaxies has been conducted by Cambridge scientists Daniel Zucker, Vasily Belokurov and Wyn Evans.
Zucker explains: "I was poring over a field of stars and noticed an overdensity in Canes Venatici. Looking further, it proved to be a previously unknown dwarf galaxy. It's about 640,000 light years from the Sun. This makes it one of the Milky Way's most remote companion galaxies."
Hours later, Zucker's colleague Belokurov e-mailed excitedly with his finding of another dwarf galaxy - this time, located in the background of the stars in the constellation of Bootes. Belokurov couldn't resist nicknaming it "Boo"! Boo is very distorted - a result of being pulled apart by our Galaxy's gravitational tides.
The brilliant planet Jupiter has dominated our summer skies, but it's now slipping away to the south-west. Above Jupiter you'll find orange Arcturus, and to the planet's left the red giant star Antares, which marks the heart of Scorpius (the scorpion).
High in the south lies the large Summer Triangle, composed of three brilliant stars in separate constellations. The jewel is pure-white Vega, the brightest star in the compact star-group of Lyra. To its left, Deneb marks the tail of the swan, Cygnus, which flies below Vega.
The third member of the great triangle is Altair, in another celestial bird, Aquila (the eagle). Two fainter stars, flanking Altair above and below, make this star recognisable.
If you're up before dawn, there's more planetary activity at hand. Venus is a brilliant Morning Star, rising around 4am. Below it you may spot elusive Mercury, which draws closest to Venus on the morning of 11 August. Saturn is gradually creeping upwards in the dawn sky, and passes very close to Venus on 27 August.
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- 5 Vogue under fire for 'Big Booty' article
Daniele Watts: Django Unchained actress detained by Los Angeles police after being mistaken for a prostitute
The political class is doing what Hitler couldn't – destroying Britain
Scottish independence: Nationalist leader Jim Sillars threatens pro-union companies with 'day of reckoning' after independence
Scottish independence: Yes campaign feels the heat as Alex Salmond's NHS claims come under furious attack
£23m Birmingham cycle scheme is attacked by Tory councillor for not catering to the elderly
Salmond accused of laughing off national debt with 'what are they going to do: invade?' joke
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Journo says Elon Musk apologized for Tesla battery fiasco
Uhm, yeah
So the whole NYT article is faked but they're still going to provide new chargers to close the gap ?
When someone starts telling a completely bogus story about something I build and I know its bogus; heck I can even prove it with logs and such, then there's no way I'm going to invest hundreds if not thousands of dollars to change stuff. Why should I when if I know that it simply works as it should?
Doesn't quite add up.
Ask Google this impossible question, get web filth as a reward
Calc is the wrong tool for the job. For formula's you'd really want to grab Microsoft Mathematics (download link) which can easily build and parse formula's. Then you'll get -1.4142135623731 as the answer (minus the square root of 2).
For a super cheesey movie (though I think its kinda funny) check this Youtube video on what Math 4.0 can do for schools. It'll also give you a good impression as to what Math 4 actually is.
Microsoft! Bing! must! make! Yahoo! more! money! moans! Mayer!
Too slow!
SO to help them out with their impressions I fired up Yahoo.com to see what kind of a search engine we're dealing with (which is basically the only aspect that might interest me).
The icon says it all.. First it loads a page filled with content; which also takes its sweet time. And before I can enter anything some flash-like bar sssllloowwwlly appears at the top and urges me to stay with Yahoo. Sure; we're not talking minutes here, but it feels slow and sluggish. I don't care for a ton of news items to lead; during my visit all I care for is a search query.
Google starts clean, the page loads in a second and I can start searching. Bing starts less clean yet IMO non-intrusive since their daily background easily loads, the name already suggests as much, in the background. And for me it somewhat adds to the overall experience too.
If I want news I'll go "news.google.com" or "news.bing.com" (though 'news.msn.com' makes more sense). I'm not going to a search engine to wait for a news page to load.
The fail should be obvious: I was using SeaMonkey which has both AdBlock Plus and NoScript. I can't imagine what kind of stuff I would have gotten without those two.
Coming soon: Open source JavaFX for iOS, Android
Too little, too late
First I once again get the feeling Oracle is looking for cheap labour but alas. They should have pushed FX years ago, in the mean time it has become completely redundant on both the desktop as well as the web.
IMO the whole project is a fail. It started off not that bad IMO; the demo's looked good and with only a few lines of code you could indeed make very interesting applications. Of course, as usual, in the beginning there were lots of nice words but hardly a decent editor which supported JavaFX (that was still Sun's doing back then mind you). Eventually Netbeans did support it but it also made one wonder; why would I use this (it was also pushed forward as a solid solution for easy desktop GUI's). Especially since NetBeans had already provided for that with the evergoing impressive 'Project Matisse' aka the Swing GUI builder, even now this sits firm in both NetBeans and the Java runtime.
Mobile? At that time mobile support was pretty much waning; lots of devices didn't support Java ME anymore and basically made room for something else. So all that was left was the web; but that part is covered by EE mostly (lets ignore applets shall we?) which comes with its own dose of limitations. Or put differently: I don't see anyone who wants to push out RIA's to opt with Java at first, its way too cumbersome on so many levels.. Don't forget that the GUI is but one thing, you'll also need to administer and regulate whatever data comes out of said GUI, and then you'll enter the depths of EE again.
Now, I'm not saying EE is bad; as a matter of a fact I kinda like working with it. But I don't think its the best tool for the job when talking RIA's. I'd be more tempted to look into Flash, Silverlight or perhaps get a dose of HTML5.
Its one of those classics too little, too late kind of things IMO.
DropBox seeks to woo IT admins with team data controls
Sounds quite a bit expensive. Granted; you get 1TB storage and an additional 200Gb for every new team member but something tells me that this isn't as feasible as they make it out to be. Because apart from the storage itself you'll also need ease of access. And while 1TB sounds awesome; are 5 people actually going to manage and use all that ?
$795/year divided by 5 people makes E 159,- per person per year, so approx. E 13,25 per person per month.
For $1,- more per month you could consider Office 365. Not merely storage (25Gb e-mail storage per user) but also an hosted website, online office apps. conferencing tools, options to seemingly store your Office desktop apps there and of course entitlement to Microsoft support.
But Microsoft isn't alone here; Google's enterprise apps. go as low as $ 10/month per user. Also 25Gb e-mail storage yet "only" 5Gb app. storage, so lets raise that to 25Gb as well (for an additional $4/month thus also going onto $14,-/month). Your own e-mail address, video chat, conferencing and document editing (which is also quite good, I speak from personal experience) as well as full support.
So apart from approx. 25Gb storage for your data both company plans also include extra business services and features such as video conferencing, easy office integration and also important: e-mail.
As mentioned earlier; 1Tb sounds awesome. But ask yourself just how much of that amount you're going to use (don't forget upload and possible download limitations) and if its only storage you need?
And that's not even mentioning their somewhat odd reputation, as mentioned by others. In this case I'd say you're better off with either Google or Microsoft.
Tesla vs Media AGAIN as Model S craps out on journo - on the highway
They desperately need new PR people
Because at this rate they'll soon have burned up all the credibility they may have left.
Going after Top Gear was very bad marketing, going after a website like El Reg is simply pathetic and as said; if they keep this up then it won't even matter any more if they eventually do manage to come up with a brilliant product. Because if the media covers it in a positive manner a lot of readers might wonder: "Are they positive because of the car or because they're being afraid to get sued if they reported otherwise?".
I guess Tesla never heard of the old saying "Don't shoot the messenger".
Not done yet: Oracle to ship revised Java fix on February 19
Basically you can tell the updater to check daily, weekly or monthly and warn you either before downloading or before installing.
Even so; its not the best kind of tool. I mean; every admin knows that there is a difference between applying minor or major version upgrades. Not Oracle; if you have SE6 and allow the updater to have its way you'll get SE7 in no time, even though that can break stuff.
Like they did with the previous patch which automatically removed SE6 from people's systems. Who cares that sometimes programs target a specific runtime directly; the allmighty hOrricle knows what's best for us.
Can it get any worse?
What's worse than not fixing critical flaws in your environment? Making people believe that you did, only to follow up with the news that you weren't fully done yet. These are the kind of jokes which aren't very well received within the Enterprise (commonly speaking) because usually implementing patches and updates takes quite a bit of preparation to make sure all works as expected.
So I wouldn't be surprised one bit if certain companies were quite on schedule with updating, only to discover that they can now start all over.
Oracle is playing a dangerous game IMO. Java has its strengths, sure, but one of those used to be its reputation of being a safe platform. Then what's left, ease of programming? Even that remains to be seen; although there have been quite some developments on the SE fronts, EE often remains as obscure as ever. Take for example a trivial issue of uploading a file; before EE6 ('servlet 3.0') this wasn't quite possible without the help of external libraries. It was doable without, but ugh... It sure wasn't easy.
This has changed with EE6 (released around 2010 IIRC), but can still be somewhat confusing, check this tutorial example (link to Oracle's Java EE6 tutorial). In short you define an input form, setup an annotation with extra information, write your code to setup an InputStream, FileOutputStream, obviously catch exceptions and you basically program most of it yourself though by far as difficult as it used to be.
Even so; it gets awkward I think when you find out that one of the competitors basically provides a "2 lines of code" kind of solution. Uploading a file in ASP for example is basically using an <asp:FileUpload> part which allows the user to specify the file to upload, then all you need is using its SaveAs method, as can be seen in this example (link to MSDN page with an ASP Fileupload example).
When looking at its API documentation (MSDN link) you'll notice it has been around since .NET 2.0. Which was released around 2005 (according to Wikipedia).
Now, not insinuating that ASP is so great here, though I think it sure has some key strengths, but its feature set is quite rich when compared to Java's Servlet specifications. File upload is one example, how about JaaS for user authentication ?
If Oracle keeps ticking people off with stunts like this then I don't think its all that unlikely that companies may consider a change. It seems that you certainly don't have to rewrite your entire codebase since many aspects are provided out of the box. This example addresses ASP but I'm pretty sure there are more to be found.
Is social networking good for anything more than cat pics?
In some cases the government disagrees; they really enjoy being able to keep some taps on some people.
Which I guess basically also proves your point ;-)
And its not only limited to that. Recently the Guardian reported on RIOT (Rapid Information Overlay Technology); a program solely aimed at grabbing information from social media websites in order to provide as much information about a certain person as you'd want.
You can find the original story here. I don't know how liable this whole story is (the movie page gives out a 404) but its still something to think about nonetheless IMO.
Clash of the Titans: Which of you has the GREATEST HOME LAB?
I'd turn it around
The greatest homelab is the one which gets you the results you need. And that is usually hardly dependent on the kind of hardware you're using, but more so on how smart you've set everything up.
Microsoft's Azure SQL Reporting FAIL
Haven't you read the stories regarding the release of the Surface Pro? Microsoft have changed their strategy; there are no bugs any more, only features.
This isn't a fail, its a sign of how extremely popular Azure really is and that everyone is using it. In fact; the outage alone is merely proof that we all should sign up because if it is so popular it has to be good, right? ;-)
Just like the Surface; customers weren't unhappy because Microsoft released too few devices; on the contrary. The device was so immense popular that Microsoft couldn't meet the demand..
Pope resigns months after launching social networking effort
A great man, in my opinion, wouldn't completely condemn others for their belief or what they stand for. Which is exactly what the pope has done regarding certain groups. Also the way he dealt with the whole pedophile incident was in my opinion hardly as great as it could have been.
When looking back I'd say that his predecessor has accomplished a whole lot more during his 'reign'.
Australian Parliament issues summons to Apple, Microsoft, Adobe
Its not merely Australia...
When you go to the Microsoft online store you can buy software packages. A version of Visual Studio 2012 Professional here in Holland costs E 615,-. In the US however people pay merely $499,- for a copy.
Its not Australia; its merely the way these companies work.
The Register Guide to Windows Server 2012
"It is as big a leap over 2008 R2 as 2008 R2 was over 2003."
Opinions differ of course, but still using 2k3 and 2k8 myself I completely disagree with this. Because 2012 is basically nothing more but a continuance of already existing technology. Just take a look at the official featurelist yourself.
The main difference though is that it uses different jargon; where 2k8 provides Hyper-V 2k12 provides "cloud capabilities". But with everything else, see the official website yourself, you'll notice that its merely extending on the possibilities which 2k8 already has.
Server 2008 introduced PowerShell as well as the server core component for desktop-less installations. THAT was a major change, you're not seriously insinuating that the inclusion of that dinkey toy interface on 2k12 is as revolutionary as PowerShell ?
Microsoft needs to keep visible under waves of Blue
"Let's take MS Office. An enterprise switches to LibreOffice. Then it doesn't need outlook anymore. So it ditches Office. Then Sharepoint doesn't make sense anymore. So it ditches sharepoint (hell there are far better alternatives that DON'T SUCK DONKEYS BALLS."
Well, in Munich they actually tried this. And although the mayor claimed to have saved E 4 million the project was eventually deemed unsuccessful since the costs turned out to be a whole lot more than planned.
This project got in jeopardy around 2003 and only last year did the mayor proclaim his success. But that still means it has been an ongoing effort for over 9 years already. And in contrast to popular belief this project basically involved a switch to Open Source software on the Office front.
And speaking of which... your ignorance is showing once again; SharePoint does a whole lot more than merely serving Office based solutions.
"You don't have to buy it. It is available freely and called Linux where reboots are rarely required."
Unless of course a new kernel update is being installed. Which seems to happen more and more often as of late on my CentOS 5 & 6 servers.
Help us out here: What's the POINT of Microsoft Office 2013?
Word 2013 can also give me a headache by merely looking at an Office presentation on Youtube. I think I'll sit this one out.
Google exec defends search snooping, location tracking
"We're nice people as well as business people."
Business people, especially those representing multi-billion companies, are only interested in one simple, single goal: revenue.
They're not nice; they're nice as long as you're wallet isn't empty or as long as they still have other means to make some money by (ab)using you.
Reminds me of that Google Market forum where hundreds of developers complained about not getting their monthly payment and Google not responding to any e-mails. To which this nice company responded by locking down the entire thread and telling everyone that they should write an e-mail.
Companies, by definition, want your money or your efforts to earn money.
Curiosity photographs mysterious metal object on Martian rock
We'd better send another sattelite...
So it can photograph the area in high-res from above just before it nukes it from orbit. After all; we all know it's the only way to be sure.
Big Windows updates may ship this summer – and every summer
This could be the beginning of the end...
Now, I know I'm not the average (Windows) user because my approach is both private & business use alike. But even so; one of the reasons I ended up on Windows (after having used Linux on the desktop for years (personal use)) was because of the faster upgrade cycle which Ubuntu & Debian had. And although Ubuntu provided their LTS versions which would give you 3 years of continuous updates, the update which followed often turned into a disaster (meaning: you'd end up doing a clean re-install anyway).
Most of all for my business I don't want change to happen every year (or every 3 months or sooner). I want my programs to do what I require of them and when a new version comes out then sure; I'll evaluate to see if it suits my needs and if I like it.
I could live with such a scenario if Microsoft wouldn't have the reputation of both being quite the maintainer (13 years of XP is IMO impressive) but also quite the changer and ruiner (developers don't need colour in icons, that's only distracting; they need several vague forms looking almost the same).
This could be quite dangerous; its the same crap you get on the PS3. When an update arrives which changes quite a bit then sure; you don't /have/ to put up with it. But if you don't you'll automatically lose the option to take the PS3 online and play games with other people. Worse: you also won't be able to go online to use your PS3 like a chatter box (videochat with the PSEye, quite amazing) because the same limitations apply. You simply can't go online, period.
So you'll just have to go along with them because you don't have much of choice.
I don't really look forward to this same model being applied to Windows where you'd also have to pay for it.
"This subscription/yearly update stuff is crap. That's not what consumers want."
That depends on how you apply it. I'd be very happy to start a subscription with Microsoft if that would mean I can continue to use supported versions of Windows 7 & Office 2010 (on my desktop of course) well after their EOL at 2018.
LibreOffice 4.0 ships with new features, better looks
@Nick Ryan
I agree with your comment on Outlook (I use this on a daily basis, go figure) however there's more than that. Its not merely Outlook; its the interoperability between all the Office components which is the big issue IMO. That stuff (VBA) is so extensive that it can be mind boggling (IMO).
I do tech support on a Windows server for a small company. Within certain business hours people can ring me with questions, e-mail is obviously no problem, I do regular maintenance on the server and to top it off the director of said company gets a weekly report from me where I tell him how many phonecalls were received, how many e-mail inquiries were received and a summary on the maintenance on said server. This doesn't effect costs, but the director likes to be kept in the loop (its a small company, but bigger than mine is).
You don't really think I'm typing all of this ? ;-)
I click my Word template, which then checks the current date, contacts Outlook and starts checking the (dedicated) inbox for that company to see how many e-mails there are between that day and seven days back. Phonecalls are monitored by me through Business Contact Manager (free yet invaluable Outlook 2010 extension) and the same applies.
So all that's left to do for me is fill in what I've been doing on the server.
THAT is IMO one of the key assets of MS Office. With a few lines of VBA code you can make it do whatever you want, and it can save you hours and hours of work.
Every single Internet Explorer at risk of drive-by hacks until Patch Tuesday
Take a program like OpenSSL on Debian. Pretty high end in my opinion because it's basically the de-facto tool for SSL certificate maintenance and administration on a Linux environment (also runs fine on Windows btw).
And some day a or some Debian package maintainer(s) got it into his head that he knew better than the OpenSSL author and applied changes to the program to make it more, I dunno, Debian like? Only problem was that this patching of his inserted a major exploitable security flaw on each and every key made by this release of OpenSSL. To make matters worse: Debian knows a lot of forks, including an at that time highly popular distribution called Ubuntu.
Well; as a result all keys between January 2006 and May 2008 were affected.
That's 2 years of misery on a program which is heavily used, and not only that; also specifically used for security purposes.
You were saying ?
"How do you (generally) speaking get updates on Linux systems?"
People downvoting you for asking questions, doh.
Others have already explained some of the technical aspects; you get them either through the software repositories of the OS (distribution) itself or you start patching manually (whenever you installed something manually).
But here's another very important aspect: generally speaking you're basically installing a new version, not an update perse. It wouldn't be the first time where a program had some specific changes in the way it worked or behaved. Sometimes for the good, but also sometimes for the worst.
The main problem is basically that a lot of people maintain a lot of products and they all apply their own policies. Sure; to some end the same applies to Windows; you have your core OS and several programs you use on top of it. But the core environment will remain the same while still getting updates, and that's what I personally like.
Microsoft techies bust data centres, pull plug on Bamital botnet
Microsoft should change their policies a little bit IMO...
"More than eight million Windows-powered computers have been attacked by Bamital over the last two years, according to security researchers at Microsoft and Symantec."
What is the first thing someone who uses an illegal (unlicensed) version of Windows will do? Turn off the automatic updates because there's (usually) nothing coming in and when it does (and the illegal copy is identified) an update will quite likely render the box unusable. Thus; turn it off.
Now, I can understand that Microsoft wants to target piracy, after all, it's basically going after extra money like any company would try to do. However; the downside to all of that is that a lot of PC's out there will remain unpatched and thus form potential targets for people trying to abuse those boxes. And with abuse I'm of course talking about (more) real abuse; the likes which hinders quite a lot of people.
To that end I think Microsoft should consider pushing out security updates no matter what kind of OS is getting them, then perhaps try to get the "baddies" by luring them into downloading "free" software which then ends up only usable on a genuine copy of Windows.
Of course there are also plenty of downsides to that scenario as well, sure, but IMO the whole issue of unlicensed Window copies where the owner stops updating his PC is a huge problem on its own. In fact; its the kind of problem which basically causes raids like this to happen.
So why not try and take this somewhat higher in the food chain ?
Why you need a home lab to keep your job
That was a tad obvious, no ?
""The days of being sent on training courses is gone," he told the user groups. "The burden is now on you to get the skills and knowledge you need. It is assumed you will learn as you go."
Talk about open doors. I mean this has been an issue forever already which is also heavily depending on the company you work for and/or are involved with. The reason I consider this an open door is simple; most of the more skilled people I either know or have met have mostly gained their experience on their own. Sure; sometimes a training course can give you a good foundation to work on, but to really get into the subject you'll want to dive in on your own.
Hmm, could this be the reason why schools in the old days used to give us these tasks to do called "homework" ?
Naaah ;-)
Review: Living with Microsoft's new Surface Pro
"Is it a tablet? Is it an Ultrabook?"
No, it's Superflop!
When open-source eats itself, we win
"What I found with IIS and Apache running on a fairly dated home PC was that they were both pretty poor to respond. I admit a lot of this was from connecting via my homoe network. but it was taking a few seconds to load each webpage. and these were pretty basic."
Which raises the question how you used them? Did you install them and used them "as is" or did you tune the critters? Because speaking from personal experience I can say that both server can easily run on older hardware (depending on the version) where obviously Apache tends to be lighter by default because it doesn't have appserver functionality embedded.
I've been running both on a 2k3 server, 2Gh AMD Athlon with 1Gb memory and it pretty much works as expected. No noticeable issues wrt. response time (IF you tune them).
Kickstarter project says open source can blast Death Star costs
Open source would be dangerous
Because then you'd risk that everyone could find out about the exposed exhaust pipe.
GNOME project picks JavaScript as sole app dev language
"Our networking people basically told him to go up to the roof deck, and jump off (for being that fucking stupid).
WTF are the schools teaching these ID10Ts?????"
How best to deal with people who tell you that you don't know sh!t, you know; anger management, social training, gymnastics and when time permits they also try to include a bit of PFY study. Priorities, priorities...
@Captain TickTock
"Erm, isn't that what they had been doing for the last 10 years with Mono?"
Well spotted. I wrote that with .NET in mind but the same applies to Mono as well. Although basically Mono seems to mainly focus itself on C#, afaik there aren't any other compilers available as of yet.
Even so; if Canonical really wants to follow the Microsoft example as they claim then Mono would have made a lot more sense to me. Not too sure how good of a choice that would be though.
@Captain TickTock
It's critical that everyone understands this decision as a plan to elevate the language, bindings, tools, and documentation to a level of quality we have not yet achieved.
Looks a lot more rational than it's being made out to be.
Quite the contrary IMO. Because what he's saying there is that choosing a specific programming language will allow them to "elevate the language, bindings, tools and documentation". How on earth would the choice for a programming language effect your documentation for example ?
That makes absolutely 0 sense to me.
Also; a language alone doesn't bring in better tools; that's the programmers job. So if they feel their current batch of programmers isn't up to making tools of their desired quality (IMO that is what he's saying there) then how would changing the language effect this?
So I don't quite agree with you; all I'm reading is a lot of talk without any meaning.
Another doo-doo ?
"He also points out that web apps galore use JavaScript and that Microsoft is comfortable with JavaScript for Windows 8 apps."
Now, please keep in mind that I'm not a professional developer, but even I can see something really out of place here... Sure; Microsoft is comfortable with HTML5 & JavaScript for Windows (8) Store apps.
Lets look at some of the highlights of what a Windows Store App is all about (as can be read on the MSDN page here):
- They run in a single window that fills the entire screen by default.
- They automatically work with a variety of input sources, including touch, pen, mouse, and keyboard.
- They install easily and uninstall cleanly.
- Instead of static icons, they use live tiles that can display notifications.
- You can write Windows Store apps in a variety of languages, such as C# and Visual Basic with XAML, C++ with XAML or DirectX, and JavaScript with HTML/CSS.
I wouldn't quite compare that to the default programs which you normally get on a desktop-like environment such as Gnome (or KDE). These programs are meant to be light weight (sort of) because they run in a closed and locked down environment (the void we once knew as Metro).
Another thing which the "Gnome Guys" seem to completely ignore is while Microsoft may have been comfortable with this; hundreds if not thousands of Window-based programmers weren't so enthusiast about the idea (in all fairness; that was also fuelled by the rumours that MS would drop .NET).
If you want to use Microsoft as an example; then why not use their .NET framework model as well? You know: a common runtime combined with a specific language specification and then stack several languages on top of that so that the programmers can choose what they like best while still complying to whatever standards you want to use, no matter what language they prefer ?
Crooks, think your Trojan looks legit? This one has a DIGITAL CERTIFICATE
Its just a cert; wise up!
People really should get over their fascination (or is it ignorance?) when it comes to certificates. A "real" certificate means absolutely nothing more than that it'll be easier to recognize by other parties. Yet that won't make it any safer or more insecure.
In fact; I can come up with scenario's where you might actually benefit a whole lot more from picking up & setting up OpenSSL yourself and then simply using your own SSL hierarchy. And yes; OpenSSL can easily run on Windows as well (and does a fine job too!).
Sure; it may take you some RTFM before you setup a whole CA structure, but I speak from personal experience when I say that OpenSSL can cope. It supports Root (CA), EmailCerts, AuthCerts, CodeSigning and ServerCerts with ease. An sometimes such a setup may even be much more beneficial too. You can be pretty sure that 'bad guys' won't really care much about your little 'CA enterprise', thus minimizing risks.
But most of all you'll get the exact same results, but IMO better: On a very select amount of PC's (which is entirely to your discretion) you can deploy (test?) code where it'll run without warnings or such. And if you're working with computer illiterates it could even help prevent them grabbing your code to try it out somewhere else; because that's bound to generate errors, errors which may very well intimidate those people.
And if you plan this right you'll even know that you can simply setup a structure which will only be valid during the course of the project. The moment $date passes all certs can simply be rendered useless; and all without having to do anything special but some proper planning.
No, BPC's certificate was signed by DigiCert so that it became valid (recognizable) by the rest of the world.
But whatever you sign with a CodeSign certificate will bear your name (CN), not that of the CA.
Google, Mozilla, show off in-browser video chat
Interesting development, however...
"that allows browser-to-browser chat without the need for plugins but with permission required to activate cameras and microphones."
Maybe I'm a bit too cynical here, but I can't help wonder how long it'll take before this development gets teens and other computer illiterates into problems because 3rd parties were spying on them without their knowledge or permission ?
The reason for my cynicism should be obvious: quite some people already had to get used to Messenger(-like) programs which didn't fully close down after you clicked the X button. So imagine their approach to a common browser...
Oracle blocks security hole with quick, hot 'n' premature Java update
I think the damage has already been done
First the most obvious part; reputation. Back in the Sun days Java had a reputation of being secure, you could also see some "proof" of this due to several banks and financial institutions building their solutions based on Java SE and EE. Deserved or not is something I can't tell, it does strike me as odd that some current exploits also manage to target SE5 and the likes (which, in all honesty, was EOL'd before the Oracle invasion) but the fanboy in me (I'll be honest here) can't help wonder; most of those SE5 exploits target the latest 5u22 update. Is that still a pristine Sun release or has Oracle added some of their "cosmetic only" changes into it ?
I'd check this for myself weren't it for the fact that you can't download these versions any longer without an Oracle account. Needless to say; I don't have one, even demanded that they'd remove it (I did used to have a Sun / SunSolve account).
Now that reputation took a blow, which shouldn't be underestimated IMO. For many people in my surroundings Java used to be somewhat of a "vague environment" which "obviously was robust". Those opinions will clearly have shifted with Java exploits hitting global media.
But the second part could be much more dire: competition.
When taking a look at some of the competitors in the field you'll quickly notice that in some cases competitors provide solutions which can do the same by using far less code. Less code by definition also means quicker results, whether for good or worse. But which could very well make it suddenly much more appealing to jump ships.
Sure; this development has been going on for quite some time now, people even used to criticize Sun because they were very reluctant with adding specific new developments to the Java core engines.
But back then Java wasn't openly criticized in the media for being insecure and something people should be careful with. Would you tell your customers that "Our website was build on Java, robust as it can get!" in these days ? Not sure, but I don't think it'll have the positive effects you may have hoped for.
Introducing the Open Source Rookie of the Year... Whoa, it's Microsoft
Most likely not. Which is why I ended my response with the warning that all things aside we should never forget that in the end Microsoft is still a company. And hopefully we all know what those want first...
Some care adviced, but even so...
I have to concur that Microsoft as a company seems to be very friendly towards smaller companies, private developers and well; the public in general.
To be honest I only discovered their CodePlex website only last week and I was quite surprised. Especially since they allow you to put anything you want up there, you're not limited to Microsoft products alone. I quote: "projects can use any technology (e.g. any operating system or programming language).". Or what about the license, surely you need a Microsoft approved license here, right? Yes, and no... The accepted licenses are limited, as you can see here but still include the Apache License, GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT and even Microsoft Public Licenses. And if you have something that isn't listed you can always contact them.
What also strikes me as solid are their licensing terms. All sites of this sort have many licensing terms to protect their own interests. Its a common. SourceForge: "All information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, or any other materials whatsoever (collectively, "Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. This means that the user, and not Dice, is entirely responsible for all Content that he or she uploads, posts, emails or otherwise transmits via the Sites.".
But please picture my surprise to find this amongst the Codeplex licenses: "Microsoft does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Microsoft (including feedback and suggestions regarding Codeplex or other Microsoft material posted on the site) or post, upload, input or submit to any Services or its associated services for review by the general public, or by the members of any public or private community, (each a "Submission" and collectively "Submissions")." (see here for the full document.
Most of these websites solely focus on relaying responsibility and making sure they can't be hold liable for actions taken by their users. Very few of them are so open and clear about who eventually owns the contents. Make no mistake here; in some situations this could be a big deal...
Of course there's more... We have the freely available Visual Studio products, their Express versions. I've been playing with the 2010 variants myself and although I'm no professional developer it surprises me how deep you could go. I made several PowerShell extensions by merely using C# Express 2010. You don't get as much "hand holding" (examples and such) as with the full version, but you can get things done.
Because I don't quite represent a big company I have to work with rather limited resources. As an example; my company "sits" on Server 2k3, due to hardware and cost restrictions. Even so; 2k3 performs perfectly for what I need it to do.
And what I then grew to respect and enjoy is that Microsoft still keeps full documentation for Server 2003 available. Most companies throw all the old stuff away because who needs them? People should stop whining and simply cough up and get with the program; only their latest stuff is supported. Not here.
Well, finally.. All good things aside I think the most important thing here is not to get carried away all of a sudden. Always remember that Microsoft is in the end still a company, and a company by definition wants your money over anything else. Also keep in mind where Microsoft currently stands on the global market. I'm pretty sure they're doing quite fine, but they still need all the happy customers they can get, because in some parts interest is fading, if not drastically declining.
Most of all they need to wise up here and there IMO, but that's a different story alltogether.
Microsoft Dell deal would restore PC makers' confidence
Slightly related...
IMO the biggest mistake which Microsoft is making is to deprecate older software bundles, even if they're still being maintained. Now, this isn't something new; people have been saying this for over the years now. When Vista came out people wanted to buy into XP until that ran out; Windows 7 had a somewhat different approach but you also see this happening on other platforms.
Visual Studio 2012 for example. Now, so far it pretty much works for me (evaluating the Professional version) but only after I made some serious changes to the layout. I've seen (in forums) plenty of people who would be very happy if they could still buy VS2010 somewhere.
I think that's the kind of strategy Microsoft should be considering here. Don't call it "giving in", nah, they should think of this as a soft of exit strategy. If sales of Server 2012 aren't going as well as planned, maybe you can fill in the gaps by selling Server 2010 as well. If Windows 8 doesn't sell; keep Windows 7 around as well.
Something tells me that if you sell Server 2010 with a little discount (because its no longer maintained, only supported) you're likely to attract new customers. Don't underestimate the amount of people who buy this stuff second hand due to price concerns and lack of availability.
Oracle loses appeal in HP row over Itanium
As a Java freak I can only say...
HA HAaaa HA HAAAA!!!!
No, I don't like Oracle as a company at all, what gave that away ?
Alas; back to the regular schedule.
Windows Server 2012 kicks ass: discuss
When reading my comment again (nice to be addressed) I do think I should check on the length of my posts. I have to admit that I sometimes allow myself to get carried away a bit ;-)
Even so, not much to discuss here IMO; all has been said already, I do wish to stress out that I don't dislike PowerShell in any way, quite the opposite in fact. IMO PowerShell is one of the best admin tools Microsoft has come up with in the past few years. My main gripe sits with 3.0 (WinRM).
But I finally came to my senses and realized that it came with an update, an optional one at that. So; after uninstalling KB2506143 from Windows 7 all is right with my PowerShell again and I can finally get some decent work done once more.
When I check my 3 Windows boxes (Win7 & 2 Win2k3 servers) for errors in the eventlog I merely use:
gel -ComputerName win7,magi,macron -LogName system -EntryType Error -Newest 10
(that's -com<tab>, -lo<tab>, -en<tab> and -new<tab>)
And the best thing about PowerShell aliases; they are aliases in every way.
SO using help (get-help, man, whatever) on that 'gel' alias will also get you the full help for the command it symbolizes. In this case Get-EventLog.
...on my box that is. If you want the same: "New-Alias -Name gel -Value Get-EventLog".
"notepad $profile" and put it in there ;-)
"Why does 94% of the Top 500 most powerful super computers in the world (meaning 220 plus countries) - see www.top500.org info - run Linux and/or UNIX?".
Most likely because these platforms provide those companies with the source code to the OS itself thus allowing them to tweak the OS any way they deem required so that it'll be capable to run as efficient as possible on those supercomputers.
Who knows; maybe to get virtualization more optimized so that it can run several Windows VPS's.
However, I think you're comparing apples and oranges. Because in general the goals for Windows Server lie on a completely different level. Sure, raw computing power counts too, but here there's more. When looking at the TechNet page of 2k8 (because its homepage has been replaced with 2012) you'll see traces of this: "With these operating systems you can develop, deliver, and manage rich user experiences and applications, provide a highly secure network infrastructure, and increase technological efficiency and value within your organization.".
There's more than raw computing power alone; management, efficiency, networking...
Now, whether they do or don't do a good job on those terrains is a bit irrelevant here; point is that Windows Server targets a lot more besides computing power. Most of all it doesn't provide features which allow a company to completely re-define the OS. You can tune and tweak it, sure, but all within the confines of the OS environment itself.
All of those are elements which you won't find addressed in top 500 lists such as these. So basically it doesn't really tell us anything about how great or bad an OS is. IMO it simply tells us that Linux and Unix variants allow for much more indepth tweaking.
Which I doubt anyone would deny.
Symantec: Don't blame us for New York Times hack
What goes around comes around...
Now, obviously I tend to agree with comments above that the statement from NYT sure sounds naive to say the least.
However.. Its also fair to note that these days you don't get "virus scanners" anymore; no, you get whole "Internet protection suites", just check the product page of Symantec's Antivirus 2013: "Harness global power – only Norton™ can bring you the ultra-fast Network Defense Layer to block a multitude of threats before they can even touch your PC.
Or what to think about: "Protection from the future, available today – our exclusive reputation and behavior antivirus technology are so advanced that they can stop online threats that bad guys haven't even created yet.".
If you boast like that and something does go wrong, you're bound to tick someone off who's not going to sit quiet and simply blames himself.
Microsoft teases IE10 for Win7 with Blocker Toolkit
Which IE10 would it be?
Don't forget; there are 2 versions on Win8. The one running on the desktop and the (sandboxed) version in TIFKAM.
Oh dear; could the delay have been caused because they're actually trying to port the whole TIFKAM crap over to Win7 (with optional bonus: the start menu removal kit (SMRK)) ?!
I watched Excel meet 1-2-3, and beat it fair and square
"Now that .Net is has been deprecated by MS, does that mean VSTA also becomes redundant?"
Deprecated according to who ?
The latest version of Visual Studio, 2012, has recently been introduced as the de-facto platform to use for Windows 8 development. When installing it first makes sure that you have the latest .NET framework (4.5 at the time of writing) and then proceeds, providing full access to both C#.NET, VB.NET as well as ASP.NET.
Microsoft even provides .NET framework targeting packs specifically for Visual Studio 2012, you can get an overview of those here (link to MSDN site).
Sure, maybe MS prefers that people use HTML5 and Javascript to develop stuff for their new Microsoft Store (which can only be done on Windows 8 itself) but that doesn't mean they stopped caring for .NET.
I don't think people have forgotten, I think that we simply started to realize that its not only Microsoft who's been doing this.
Microsoft: Old Internet Explorer is terrible and 'we want to help'
Re-inventing the wheel again ?
Microsoft has developed and maintained a website design environment called Expression Web for quite some time now. It basically allows you to administer several websites and creates a separation between coding (whether that's in HTML, Javascript, CSS, etc..) or a crude form of 'wysiwyg'; it allows to drag and drop components from a palet right into the code window or webpage preview.
One of the reasons their version 4 product immediately appealed to me was because of the "Expression Web SuperPreview" program. It sounds grand, but in a way it also is IMVHO; because this program allows you to use the browser engine of several available browsers and render the page you're making using that engine.
Better yet: it can render a page using multiple engines and show the preview side by side, even indicating where the pages differ wrt. the placement of several components.
By default it obviously supports several Explorer engines (MSIE 6 up to 9, even the compatibility view in 8 is supported), but it can also utilize the Mozilla engine (not sure about modern Firefox browsers, I stopped using FF around version 4, so version 3.6 is all I can mention as example) and it even utilizes Safari for Windows if you want to.
There is also an online service to provide support for more browsers, though I never bothered to test that.
Now, the reason I'm going "reinventing the wheel" is because Expression Web has recently been EOL'd. You can now download it for free (which includes this preview program) and the reason Microsoft gave is that it has focussed its attention on Visual Studio 2012 which should basically supersede Expression Web 4 and provide all its functionality.
Obvious question: If Visual Studio "supersedes" Expression Web then why do we need a separate tool for this when this functionality is basically part of Expression Web ?
There are many features in Expression Web which you won't find in VS 2012, that's for sure. For starters; I've become very fond of my "site manager" where I can basically point Expression Web to several websites after which it can make sure my local contents is synchronized with the remote site (either using FTP, FTPS or other means).
SO, I get the feeling that Microsoft is at its best here: they had a very decent tool, threw it away and are now re-inventing what they already had.
Customer service rep fired for writing game that mocks callers
Worse yet: they also seem to have no clue, what so ever, what's living amongst their own employee's. Which I think is really bad; running a business also means that you have at least >some< touch into what the employee's are up to.
I come to that conclusion because those idiots (my impression) learned about this stuff later. Not because one of David's co-workers thought it was offensive, not funny or totally misplaced (otherwise I'd assume they would have taken it up with management).
Management is simply totally clueless and are now playing their "political correct" part.
Java open-source frameworks 'pose risk' to biz - report
"Next: Activities of bears in woods."
And we all know they're going to check out Yellowstone park first to see if the takeoff is real :-)
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Aussie slang for Young Offensive Bloke. Generally uncouth, prone to swearing and constant use of Aussie vernacular. A Yobbo is a heavy drinker, who places mateship above all else and lives for those wild memorable moments that are unforgettable. Global counterparts are English Chavs and American Rednecks. A breed unto themselves.
"Take a look at the guy in the ute, doin' burnouts and carryin' on like a pork chop. What a fuckin' Yobbo...!"
by AERO_HDT September 27, 2012
a stereotypical aussie. beer in one hand, meat pie in the other.generally drive crappy old holdens and have a dozen mullet clad kids following them. by-products of alcoholic fathers.
"i'm a bloke, im a yobbo, me best mates name is robbo, winfield is me cigarette, i dress in flanalette"
by brokenfridgehinge May 02, 2006
A loud, inconsiderate person, usually found in groups for self preservation. Sometimes prone to violence,always found with beer and cheap smokes. Usually smell.
The "hill" at any football match of any code is the usual haunt of the Yobbo.
by jamesbrown April 22, 2003
A true-blue bloody australian. One who sits on his arse and drinks a stubby while watching the footy and eating a beef pie (eg. four n twenty) Also a close relative of the "westy" or "wu-tanger", although more proud of their aussie heritage
"oi bruz, look at that cunt walking round in his nike tracks and his trademark hat, there's a bloody yobbo"
by mc_sayn May 18, 2006
An Australian lout, the close cousin of the bogan. Much like American white trash or lummox. Their habitats usually are with female yobbos, known as Shelias and large canines usually a bull terrier breed. Often has autmated transport of a ute kind
"Here is a good example of a Yobbo"
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Trail Closure: Gorge Path weekdays, 7 am - 4 pm
The section of the Gorge Path between the Hemlock Path intersection and the A. Murray Young Trail intersection is closed until rehabilitation work is completed. The closure will be in effect Mondays through Fridays only, from 7 am to 4 pm.
Bubble Pond Carriage Road closure
Bubble Pond Carriage Road will be closed to all traffic Monday 9/15- Wednesday 9/17 from the parking lot to Triad-Day Mountain Bridge. More »
2007 Acadia National Park Visitation Increases
Contact: Charlie Jacobi, 207-288-8727
Last year Acadia National Park visitation increased 5.7% over 2006, to 2.2 million visitors. This represents 120,000 more visitors enjoying the park. The largest increases came in June, August and September, but numbers were down from 2006 for July. Visitation had been falling in the park since 1995, with the steepest declines between 2002 and 2005. Last year was the second year in a row that visitation had risen, with numbers returning to the 2004 level.
Park camping in 2007 increased 3.1% over 2006 as well, and the number of commercial bus passengers increased 7% (5,000 visitors) to nearly 80,000 visitors. The Island Explorer shuttle bus system continued to be popular, with an increase in ridership of 6.0% (18,358) to 351,378 passengers.
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We had a beautiful snow white kitty named Winter on the show today. She's a lap cat who loves to cuddle. Winter is spayed, microchipped, and vaccinated.
Winter's Story from Animal Allies:
Winter is a gentle 8 1/2 year old cat. She has a beautiful snow white coat just like her friend Mirom, who came with her to Animal Allies.
She is from a previous home that could no longer keep her due to her prior owners medical issues. She is now looking for the loving home that she deserves.
Winter can be playful and enjoys string toys and laser lights. She is reported to get along well with cats and dogs.
Winter would love a comforting home with her friend for life Mirom. They both get along so great and would appreciate to have each others companionship.
Winter has been spayed microchipped and is vaccinated.
If you would like to get to know Winter and Mirom better, come and see her at Animal Allies Duluth at 4006 Airport Road
You can also call Animal Allies at 218-722-2110, or visit animalallies.net
You're working on the computer? Let me press the keys. Reading the paper? I'll hold the pages down for you. Watching TV? I'll just plop in your lap so you can pet me.
I love an orderly household don't you? I'll help you with all your chores and I'll help you relax when we're done. You'll wonder how you ever managed without me.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Miss America Mallory Hagan says she made it to the inauguration on Monday despite the chilly weather.
In an interview Saturday, Hagan had said she wasn't sure if she would attend President Barack Obama's public swearing-in ceremony Monday even though she had a ticket because "it's going to be freezing."
But on Monday she tweeted a photo of herself from the inauguration wrapped in a blue scarf with the words "bundled up!" She later tweeted that she was "proud to be an American."
Hagan, a 23-year-old Alabama native who lives in New York, won the Miss America title earlier this month.
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This woman is clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed as they say. However, a "good" peace officer could have easily diffused this situation and it would have ended with only a citation and maybe some learnin' for the "lady". Instead, he loses his patience and his temper and ends up bullying an old lady. Not his proudest moment.
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Martian Bashir thinks he's the reincarnation of Larry King or something. What an intellectually dishonest and moronic individual.
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Pitchforks and torches time.
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Maybe you should stick with Huff Po then?
March 3, 2012 at 12:43pm
The commissioner gig is a part-time political appointment. I doubt he gives a crap what the legislature or Mr. Steinburg decide to "do" about him. He's out next year anyway and he could have a lot fun publicly poking them in the eye until then. BTW…nice kill Dan. There are a few wayward mountain lions in the Oakland hill that needs killin'. Can you take care of that for us commissioner? ;-)
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May 7, 2014, 11:36 AM EDT
It took an 11th – or 13th – hour adjustment to get Jeff Gordon into the 2013 NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup, but given he and the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports' team's success this season, it's only a matter of time before he eventually breaks through for his first win of the year.
The series points leader has starred throughout most of the year, but late-race bad luck has cost him shots at at least two races.
Heading into Kansas this weekend, where Gordon won the track's first two races in 2001 and 2002, Gordon's optimistic.
"I'm excited to get there and see what the track has to offer, as well as how the new ride heights and downforce will play out this year," he said in a Wednesday teleconference. "We've excelled at a lot of tracks. Kansas has always been one of my favorites, although it moved further down on the repave, but it ages, go through the winter and gets back to the Kansas. The transitions are still there. The variable banking is always a plus."
Gordon, who continues to search for his elusive fifth championship, added that this has been one of the best starts he's ever had to a season.
"I know that time is running short, but I'm not concerned about it," he said. "I have accomplished more than I ever thought. We have such a great race car and race team this year. We're off to a great start. We're healthy, and in good shape."
"What I'm excited about is that we have such a great race team. We've had such competitive cars. Some we unload and we're fast, others we really have to work at it."
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