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Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on June 15, 2005 at 3:33:41 PM
The MX1000 is awesome: »http://www.aselabs.com/articles.php?id=168
Napster and Ericsson team up.
LAMP threatens Microsoft.
Britney Spears is at the top of viruses.
Windows 2000 reigns king in companies. We use 2000 for servers, clients are all XP.
Mars Express deploys second boom.
Mars rovers hit 1000 Martian Days.
Napster and Ericsson team up.
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"With Napster we are uniquely positioned to deliver the easy to use, complete suite of music offerings our customers are asking for," said Ericsson Chief Executive Officer Carl-Henric Svanberg, calling Napster "the strongest digital music brand in the world."
LAMP threatens Microsoft.
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In particular, the company is focused on improving its alternatives to the so-called LAMP stack, the combination of the Linux operating system, Apache Web server, MySQL database, and scripting languages PHP, Perl or Python. Microsoft's anti-LAMP strategy is to heap features into its low-end products and to build a comprehensive set of tools--spanning development to management--in the hopes of making Windows Server more attractive.
Britney Spears is at the top of viruses.
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Researchers combed through the seven years of virus-laden messages stored in Panda's malware database to determine which celebrities most often had their names involuntarily used in association with malicious spam. Rounding out the top five in Panda's "celebrity virus ranking," were Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, and Osama Bin Laden.
Windows 2000 reigns king in companies. We use 2000 for servers, clients are all XP.
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Windows XP use surged to 38 percent by the first quarter of this year, up from 6.6 percent in the third quarter of 2003. However, the popularity of Windows 2000 has remained high, with the venerable operating system still in use in 48 percent of business PCs during the first quarter of 2005, down just four percentage points from the third quarter of 2003.
Mars Express deploys second boom.
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Mission managers in Darmstadt, Germany, deployed the 20-metre-long boom on 14 June at 1130 GMT. After a series of manoeuvres designed to warm the boom evenly in sunshine, the spacecraft reoriented itself towards Earth about two hours later and began beaming data to mission control.
Mars rovers hit 1000 Martian Days.
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On June 9, Opportunity hit 490 sols and Spirit attained 510 sols since their independent landings in January 2004. Reaching 1,000 sols “is a remarkable accomplishment,” said Steve Squyres, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) project at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He tipped his hat to friends, colleagues and comrades, engineer and scientist alike, on the MER uplink team.