It’s snowing on Mars

1points
Posted 67 days, 15 hours ago by Bronwen

The NASA Phoenix Mars Lander has identified snow falling from Martian clouds. A Phoenix scientist says, “Nothing like this view has ever been seen on Mars.”

Installing Google Android SDK 1.0 On Ubuntu 8.04

1points
Posted 69 days, 8 hours ago by falko

This guide explains how you can install the Google Android SDK 1.0 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. With this stable release of the Android SDK, you can now develop applications for Android smartphones and offer them on the Android Market.

Judge orders new trial in online music piracy case

1points
Posted 70 days, 20 hours ago by Bronwen

A JUDGE has ordered a new trial for a woman convicted of pirating music on the internet and denounced the awarding of $US222,000 ($263,694) in damages to record companies as "wholly disproportionate" and "oppressive."

Rocketman flies into the record books

1points
Posted 70 days, 21 hours ago by Bronwen

SWISS adventurer Yves Rossy flew from France to England overnight propelled by a jetpack strapped to his back - the first person to cross the English Channnel in such a way.

VBoxHeadless - VirtualBox 2.0 On Ubuntu Server

1points
Posted 72 days, 8 hours ago by falko

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 on a headless Ubuntu 8.04 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment.

Planets collide... Could (or did) it happen to us?

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Posted 72 days, 13 hours ago by mikeyc7m

Three U.S. astronomers observed the resulting debris from the collision of Earth-like and Venus-like planets in a faraway galaxy... and speculate that our moon could have been formed from the grazing collision of two planetary embryos.

Install Lighttpd With PHP5 & MySQL On OpenSUSE 11

1points
Posted 74 days, 11 hours ago by falko

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 11 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Unlimited music for the price of a coffee

1points
Posted 75 days, 18 hours ago by Bronwen

Vodafone today launched Australia's first unlimited music download service, allowing customers to access as many songs as they like for $2.75 a week.

Large Hadron Collider helium leak

1points
Posted 76 days ago by Bronwen

A helium leak, which has disabled the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment on the French/Swiss border, is likely to take two months to repair.

Benchmark: Apache2 vs. Lighttpd (Static HTML File)

1points
Posted 76 days, 11 hours ago by falko

This benchmark shows how Apache2 (version 2.2.3) and lighttpd (version 1.4.13) perform compared to each other when delivering a static HTML file (about 50KB in size).

New lifeforms found in study of Australian reefs

1points
Posted 79 days, 1 hour ago by Bronwen

MARINE scientists may spend years learning all the secrets of hundreds of new lifeforms found by a huge study into what lurks in our sea waters.

Installing VirtualBox 2.0.0 On Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop

1points
Posted 79 days, 13 hours ago by falko

This tutorial shows how you can install Sun xVM VirtualBox on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems (virtual machines) such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system.

Warning sounded on web's future

1points
Posted 81 days, 2 hours ago by Bronwen

The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web.

Installing Joomla 1.5.6 On A Lighttpd Web Server

1points
Posted 81 days, 14 hours ago by falko

This guide explains how you can install Joomla 1.5.6 on a lighttpd web server on Debian Etch. Joomla comes with an .htaccess file with mod_rewrite rules (for Apache) (to enable search-engine friendly URLs) that do not work on lighttpd.

Hubble Finds a Mystery Object

1points
Posted 82 days, 3 hours ago by Bronwen

In a paper to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, astronomers working on the Supernova Cosmology Project report finding a new kind of something that they cannot make any sense of.

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