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In 2006, The Planetary Society sponsored a worldwide contest, in conjunction with the New Horizons mission, to choose images for the New Horizons Digital Time Capsule -- a message sent from those who saw the spacecraft launch 13 months ago, to those who will inhabit Earth when the spacecraft arrives at Pluto. Fifty images submitted by people in 17 countries have been selected for that capsule, and New Horizons' encounter with Jupiter on February 27-28, 2007, will mark a countdown to its closing for the next eight years.
Was fun looking through the entries. Made me laugh that in the Peoples section they have a picture of a Dog. Martians will double look this and wonder if we are HumaDogs!
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They say that the images will be removed from the website on March 31st and kept offline until 2015. At which point the capsule will have arrived at Pluto and the archive will be opened on earth to show the population. Is 8 years really long enough for a time capsule? Sounds like a kindergarden exercise not a space exploration programme!
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Handy KB article reference for the x64 version of the SMS2003 Advanced Client, for where it resides in the registry and the file system.
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SMS V4 Beta 2 has been released for public review.
You can bring down this 768MB bundle of joy via Connect:
Download the build here:
https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=16&DownloadID=5509
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It's already old news, most technical blogs are spamming about this but as you all know, theres never enough spam to go around, thus i reproduce.
SQL 2005 SP2 released
Virtual PC 2007 goes RTM
Credit where credit is due, i first noticed this info on Ken Schaefer's website. He has a lot of good postings on there so i'm going to add him to my blog links.
Me thinks i'll play with Virtual Server 2007 tomorrow. Have you noticed that you cannot shorten this one in to acronym city as it could be mistaken for Visual Studio?
VS, VS, can you tell the difference?
Ok ok, Visual Studio 2007 hasn't been released (yet) dummy!
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Amazing pictures of the martian landscape, detailing what seems to be evidence of fluid erosion. The scientists continue to unearth evidence that fluids once flowed across the surface of this planet.
My ten cents worth ... of course it did! How on earth do you think the martian race of mutant sea monsters kept cool, and how would they have mixed their Margaritas if they didn't have water! Gosh those scientists sure can be dumb sometimes.
It's a shame that the world governments don't put the same amount of money in to exploring this red planet, as they do in to their pointless wars (crusades). I think any politician or state official that wants to go to war should be put on Quake-Island, and given a rail gun so they can indulge their passion for shooting and smashing things. Who's with me on this one? LOL.
Disclaimer: Of course, Quake-Island doesn't really exist, so don't start googling for the sign-me-up-now-sarge page ok ![Wink [;)]](/emoticons/emotion-5.gif)
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Check out these free web-based games from MySpizzle.NET
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This comes from the MVP RSS feed, so i've directly linked to the publishers blog, Stefan Krueger links to an article (by the Wndows Vista Blog team) about Vista's UAC dialog prompts.
Whats interesting is that it gives you an insight in to how Vista manages UAC interactions with the user, and provides a method for automating these UAC interactions.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/installsite/archive/2007/02/07/551426.aspx
And here is a link to a Microsoft document on describing UAC in detail.
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/0d75f774-8514-4c9e-ac08-4c21f5c6c2d91033.mspx?mfr=true
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Some interesting info (and a fundamental change) on the boot process in Vista
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/85cd5efe-c349-427c-b035-c2719d4af7781033.mspx?mfr=true