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Fuel Problem Ends NASA Test Mission (AP)
Fuel Problem Ends NASA Test Mission (AP)04/16/2005 07:02 PM AP - A NASA robotic spacecraft located a Pentagon satellite in space
without any help from human controllers, but the mission ended early
when the computer-driven craft detected a fuel problem, the mission
manager said Saturday.
Genetronics and Merck Sign Licensing Agreement for MedPulser(R) DNA Delivery System to Support DNA Vaccine Delivery
basement burning09/19/2004 03:58 PM . . . the really good interviews are the ones where the journalist has
done his or her homework, is actually interested in what we're talking
about, and isn't afraid to throw the list of questions away if
something more interesting comes up in the course of the interview.
Body of boy, 8, found in basement06/26/2004 02:38 AM The death of a young boy in Glasgow is being treated as suspicious,
say police.
Joe Bussard's basement tapes
Joe Bussard's basement tapes05/11/2004 11:59 AM Joe Bussard has 20,000 vintage 78
rpm records from the 1920s and 1930s in his basement. For $15, Joe
will put together a custom cassette compilation for you of 20 tunes
from his collection, perhaps the largest of its kind in the world. I
wish Joe and his friends would rip all of his 78s so he could sell MP3
CDs of these ultra-rare recordings. Here's a great NPR All Things
Considered piece on Joe Bussard from last year.
"'The truest form you'll ever hear in American music is on
these records,' Joe says. 'It was put there, and it's remained there
for seventy years. It hasn't changed.'"
Don't be so quick to toss out your old PCs, fax machines or digital
cameras — office supply retailer Office Depot is offering to
recycle one electronic product a day for free all through the summer,
according to a published report Tuesday. [...]
The offer includes all brands of electronics, and products
including computer monitors, digital cameras, copiers, fax machines,
cellphones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and TVs that are 27
inches or smaller, the report said.
'One product a day' means one product per person per day." [Gadgetopia]
"Your
Joe Bussard entry reminded me of another, similar story that was
pretty big news in DC last summer: Leon Kagarise of Baltimore, who
recorded around 4,000 hours of artists like Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline,
Ernest Tubb, etc. during the late 50s through early 70s on a
reel-to-reel tape deck at the outdoor music festivals prevalent in the
vast rural area that previously surrounded Washington."
NPR's Morning Edition did a piece on Kagarise last summer. He's
working with Joe Lee, a friend and local record store owner, to sell
the recordings. Not surprisingly, the Library of Congress, the Country
Music Hall of Fame, and others are apparently interested.
"You know, these [performers] were people from the
mountains and from the rural South," Lee told NPR. "And once they were
put in a studio, and they had a producer looking down at their snoot
at the guy. And an engineer telling them, 'Well, if you make one
mistake, we have to stop and start all over again.' It lost the
atmosphere. It's like trying to play guitar in a straightjacket on...
It's sort of like being in the zone. When you're really at ease, when
there's no intimidation factor, then it really soars. And the proof is
in these tapes here."
Meet the AMD Sempron, AMD's bargain basement CPU06/07/2004 10:24 PM AMD has announced that they are bringing a new "value" class CPU
dubbed the AMD Sempron to the market in the second half of this year.
The Sempron name will cover CPUs aimed at both the laptop and the
desktop markets.
When is it Time for the Home Office To Move Out of the Basement?
Using current gasoline prices from AAA's daily,
online Fuel Gauge Report, as well as the latest highway fuel economy
ratings from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the AAA Fuel
Cost Calculator estimates the amount and cost of gasoline needed to
complete a vacation trip. Although the total number of miles driven
and prices paid for gasoline during your trip may vary from the
estimates provided, the AAA Fuel Cost Calculator is intended to help
you determine the cost of fuel needed to complete a vacation drive.
Accelerating the Delivery of Longhorn?09/07/2004 04:21 PM In an interview with ActiveWin, Microsoft Group VP Jim Allchin said:
"We recently announced that we're going to accelerate the delivery of
Longhorn by removing dependences on things like the new file system."
Just goes to show one man's delivery by the stated due date (2006) is
another man's "accelerated" delivery date.
Microsoft has revised its plans to deliver Windows XP SP2 through
the Automatic Updates (AU) delivery mechanism in Windows to give
customers more time to plan the rollout of this critical update, or
temporarily block the download of Windows XP SP2 to those machines
using AU. Here is the revised delivery schedule of Windows XP SP2:
8/16 - Release to Software Update Services. 8/18 - Release to
Automatic Update for users running Windows XP Home…
Netli bolsters application delivery05/07/2004 07:19 PM Netli this week enhanced its application delivery network services
with the addition of performance monitoring and business continuity
services.
EDS names head for service delivery
EDS names head for service delivery12/15/2003 12:52 PM The outsourcing services company taps the former CIO of ChevronTexaco
Information as its executive vice president in charge of service
delivery.
I bought a song and later an album off of the iTunes Music Store
today and two problems came to mind:
1) I bought a single song while I was doing a zillion other things
(other downloads, IM, ssh sessions on multiple servers, email checks)
and there's a two second bad chunk in the middle of the song that's
kind of like a CD skip but with more feedback. Maybe it was due to all
the other network traffic, where do I exchange the downloaded song for
a complete file? Can't iTunes check the download against a hash and
redownload it if there's a mismatch?
2) I bought a "greatest hits" album from the same group and
realized the single download I bought five minutes before is on it.
How can I return my single song purchase? Could the iTMS given me a
discount before I bought the same song twice?
Pizza delivery calls used to nab deadbeats04/27/2004 05:32 PM I love this: the state of Missouri is using pizza delivery lists to
track down people that owe court-imposed fines.
David
Coplen, the state office's budget director, said he discovered that
pizza delivery lists are one of the best sources such companies use to
locate people. "There are literally millions of dollars of
uncollected fines, fees and court costs out there," Coplen said.
[...] Databases compiled by private companies and government agencies
are a key tool for firms such as ACS, Coplen said, and "one of the
databases they find to be most helpful are pizza delivery databases."
"When you call to order a pizza, you usually give them your correct
name, your correct address and your correct phone number," he said.
Moral of the story: if you owe money to the court, use a
pseudonym when ordering pizza. Link(Via IP)
Delivery People Urged to Rat Out Minors (AP)05/27/2004 09:16 AM AP - The long arm of the law may be ringing your doorbell and holding
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