Cassini Orbit entry Burn happening on Nasa TV
Cassini space probe is in the process of being put into orbit around Saturn with a 90 minute burn of it's primary engine. For full coverage tune into NASA TV [NASA'a Cassini Home Page]
From the archive
June 2004
81 posts
ISS Repair Successful
The repairs to the power module on the ISS was succesfull and the Astronauts finshed nearly 1 hour ahead of schedule. Everyone is real happy with the repair. [NASA]
Dell has put bounty on iPod’s
The publicity stunt that Dell announced today where they are offering a $100.00 discount for a 15gb Digital Jukebox to any person that sends in a iPod broken or working. As a iPod owner this is very funny as I think we are a pretty loyal group. I guess if I had a broken on I might think about it
ISS Space Walk in Progess
NASA TV has live coverage of the spacewalk to replace a circuit breaker for one of the Gyro that keep the space station in alignment to the sun. If you want to tune in go here. [Nasa TV]
Patent Busting Project by EFF heats up
The EFF has a pretty huge list of Patents that they feel need to be squashed or redefined. Companies have been taking advantage of loose patenting laws and taking advantage of small companies that cannot defend themselves. Well they are now going after the first 10 and will ask the US Patent office to re-examine. [Wired] [EFF Patent Busting Project]
People don’t think they should be sued for downloading
Stole that headline from Techdirt there is no other way to say it. Actually I can think of another headline but it would probably get my syndication pulled from some other sites. Honestly though do you think the majority of people are going to say it's ok for the RIAA to Extort thousands of dollars of cash. They use a
International Space Station Crew to retry Space Walk
The 2 Crewmembers of the ISS will attempt for a second time to repair a circuit breaker to a broken gyroscope. If everything goes as planned and no further spacesuit problems they will spend approx 6 hours replacing the circuit breaker. [NASA]
Visit the iPodLounge for all the latest iPod gouge
I have had my iPod about a year and a half and uploaded a big bunch of music on it when I first bought it. Since then I have not really added anything to it except a few songs I have purchased. Well being I have all this time on my hands I decided to see what kind of cool
Microsoft Express line of Tools available Today
I was mistaken last night in thinking that the Microsoft 2005 Express product line which is made up of releases of Visual Basic 2005, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, Visual Web Dev, SQl Server. would be available later, they have been released as Beta's and can be downloaded today. I am not sure how I missed that but the
Is Microsoft gonna get smacked down by Apple
One thing for sure the boys at Microsoft had better get busy as the boys over at Apple are going to start putting the hurt-locker on Microsoft. The announced features to MAC OS X Tiger are not due to be out until 2005 but I even had to say wow. One thing I find very intriguing is the Apple's big
MIcrosoft to release suite of lightweight stripped down programming tools
Microsoft apparently is going after the developers that are what they are classifying as nonprofessional programmers. Personally I didn't realize there was such a category of programmers and hopefully they change there wording. Anyway it looks like they are going to releasing a stripped down version of many of their mainstream tools. Also very interestingly they are going to be
Looks like the gang at Konfabulator are pissed!
No real surprise that Apple pulled a Microsoft stunt in making an announcement that will probably cause a competitor to go belly up. You will have to check out the Konfabulator website. After you do that then you have to take a look at the posters Apple had hung up that suggested Microsoft would be chasing Apple. Seems Apple is
Page 1 of 7