The team behind VectorLinux announced yesterday the release of VectorLinux Standard Edition 6.0, codenamed Voyager. The default installation runs the Xfce 4.4.3 desktop environment, with an option to install the lightweight LXDE. For a more extended user-base, the localization was much improved in this version, cover... |
23 February 2009
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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are two of the most important spacecrafts in the history of space and solar system exploration, and currently the only two man-made objects to go beyond the limits of the solar system. Voyager 1 crossed the termination shock, the area of space where solar wind and interstellar radiation collid... |
3 July 2008
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There are already several tens of spacecrafts wandering through the solar system, each one a possible carrier of microbes originating on Earth. It's no secret that some life forms on Earth are extremely resilient to space radiation and may possibly reach other planets and their moons to colonize them. In the cas... |
24 May 2008
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Exclusively available in the US from Verizon Wireless, the second largest mobile carrier in the US, LG Voyager could be soon offered by AT&T and Sprint too, the first and respectively the third largest North American operators. According to Electronic Times Korea, an "official of LG" said the South Korean company p... |
15 April 2008
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If SciFi movies haven't given a boost to science and technology, then I don't know what could have. Remember the Alcubierre warp drive? Yep, you guessed it, Star Trek warp drives were already working by the time Alcubierre calculated the physical theory on how to make such a devices work in 1994; not only t... |
12 February 2008
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Data collected by the Cassini spacecraft shows the presence of heavy negative ions in the upper regions of the second largest moon in the solar system, Saturn's Titan. Launched in 1997, the Cassini spacecraft reached Saturn in 2004; it had several missions, amongst which the study of the surface of Titan, and of... |
29 November 2007
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It seems that nothing is standing still in this Universe. Not even our solar system. The phrase "faster than a speeding bullet" appears to be characterizing very well our solar system.New data sent in by NASA's two Voyager spacecraft gave astronomers a whole new perspective. The two probes are now the most dist... |
11 May 2007
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The four "STAR" rocket stages are the boosters that made it possible for probes like Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and Pioneer 10 to defeat the Earth's gravity and lift into space. Now, the two Voyager spacecraft continue to operate, carrying with them a golden record that contains pictures and sounds of Earth, along w... |
9 May 2007
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One of the most famous series of products from Corsair is their Voyager series of flash-based portable memory. The commercial was probably the best reason to buy those memories, or at least it would have brought a smile to your face; I mean, it's not every day that you advertise a flash memory which can withstan... |
25 April 2007
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That's why, at the beginning of 2008, a crew of six will be sent on a 500 day simulated mission to Mars. In reality, the crew will remain in a special isolation facility in Russia. To investigate the psychological and medical aspects of a long-duration mission, such as to Mars, ESA (European Space Agency) is lo... |
2 April 2007
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