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Scientists have done some re-analysis of the ground-breaking Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data which has been so important for cosmologists, and their re-assessment suggests that some of the interpretations of the data were off, thereby casting doubt on the entire standard cosmological model which includes the concept of dark energy.  In other words, this…

Imagine hearing your mother telling you this, or a school teacher.  Yet it may be the truth. I always knew this!  LOL Sitting straight ‘bad for backs’ On another note, I once heard somewhere that, in the time of Jesus, people used to eat laying on their sides, in a kind of lounging out position.…

Pronation, Explained: Info from Runner’s World Magazine.

Universal USB Installer by pendrivelinux.com is a really cool utility which automates the process of creating a live Linux USB key installation.  With this utility, you can easily transfer a Linux live CD image to a USB key.  It supports various versions of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu, Knoppix, GParted, and many others. All you have to do is…

I had actually looked to see what was going on with solar missions with NASA and ESA, yet in my searching I had not found anything that appeared to be replacing SOHO, but then stuff on SDO has been popping up in the media lately, so maybe I missed it.  Today I found the main…

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico As the nation’s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the Deepwater Horizon spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. …

I just installed an extremely useful utility which was mentioned in a thread over at the excellent SevenForums.com site.  It allows you to change the default links which show up in the left sidebar in the Open and Save dialog windows.  By default, the left sidebar for Open and Save dialogs contains the following five…

I’ve managed to come up with some useful scripts using RRDtool to pull data out of round-robin archives (rra’s) and to compute 95th percentile.  RRDtool is used as the database backend for multiple monitoring tools such as Cacti, Torrus, Zenoss, and MRTG (as option). In working this out I utilized the benefit of having my…

There is a big change coming to the Internet which has the potential to radically shift the nature of the Internet itself and how all of the nodes which participate in it collectively will be able to interact. If we were smart, we should be pushing for this change to occur, because the shift is…

I wonder how many millions of open-source developers’ and administrators’ unconscious minds have negative associations with sourceforge.net because it never lets you just download a .tar.gz file directly? Download links always go to a stupid download page which, when you’re just trying to wget the file, is a major PITA. You have to break out…