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Two of Saturn’s rings have been found by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to contain orderly lines of densely grouped, boulder-size icy particles that extend outward across the rings like ripples from a rock dropped in a calm pond.
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About Hyperic HQ
Software that reduces the workload for operations teams at the world’s biggest web companies, including CNET Networks, hi5 Networks, eHarmony.com, Rackspace’s Mosso, and more. Its award-winning Hyperic HQ software auto-discovers and updates asset inventory and allows operations teams to perform cross-platform monitoring, diagnostics and control from a remote, web-based console, helping them more quickly pinpoint, correct, and prevent problems at every major layer—including hardware, networks, virtualization and applications. Hyperic’s technology-neutral approach enables manageability across 65+ technologies in the market today as well as those of tomorrow.
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About SimpleTeX4ht
A Mac OS X GUI for TeX4ht that converts LATEX files to HTML/XHTML or OpenOffice document.
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About PrinterSetup
A flexible, open-source printer setup system. Released for the benefit of system administrators and unix savvy users using CUPS, on OS X. An addition to Bonjour print queue management. Use a combination of location, user, time to control printer queues.
There is limited documentation. Software is in prototyping phase. Input is welcome. You can access additional information about PrinterSetup from the presentation availible now at the officail website. It is hoped the system will develop and become cross platform print queue setup tool.
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About Liten
A deduplication command line tool and library. A relatively efficient algorithm based on filtering like sized bytes, and then performing a full md5 checksum, is used to determine duplicate files/file objects.
Example CLI Usage:
- liten.py -s 1 /mnt/raid is equal to liten.py -s 1MB /mnt/raid
- liten.py -s 1bytes /mnt/raid
- liten.py -s 1KB /mnt/raid
- liten.py -s 1MB /mnt/raid
- liten.py -s 1GB /mnt/raid
- liten.py -s 1TB /mnt/raid
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The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express has returned striking scenes of the Terby crater on Mars. The region is of great scientific interest as it holds information on the role of water in the history of the planet.
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Ocean surface currents have long been the focus of research due to the role they play in weather, climate and transportation of pollutants, yet essential aspects of these currents remain unknown.
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Until now, Mars has generally been regarded as a desert world, where a visiting astronaut would be surprised to see clouds scudding across the orange sky. However, new results show that the arid planet possesses high-level clouds that are sufficiently dense to cast a shadow on the surface.
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The shape of the mysterious cloud of antimatter in the central regions of the Milky Way has been revealed by ESA’s orbiting gamma-ray observatory Integral. The unexpectedly lopsided shape is a new clue to the origin of the antimatter.
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Despite more than a decade of winter darkness, Saturn’s north pole is home to an unexpected hot-spot, remarkably similar to the one at the planet’s sunny south pole. Now, the first detailed views of the gas giant’s high latitudes from the Cassini spacecraft reveal a matched set of hot cyclonic vortices, one at each pole.
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Comet 8P/Tuttle shines in the southwestern sky.
Additional resources (external links):
StarDate Online Sky Almanac (University of Texas McDonald Observatory)
Sky Maps and Notes (BBC: Science & Nature)
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