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Download Windows 7 SP1 Restart / Hibernation Issue Fix

Some Windows 7 customers have experienced issues related to hibernation after installing Service Pack 1, Microsoft confirmed, with reports revealing that computers restart instead of hibernating.According to the Redmond company, users reported that either hibernation ends up not working at all, or a memory dump file...

25 May 2011
05:38 GMT

Young Cantabrian Bears and Their Moms Do Not Hibernate

A research carried out by Spanish scientists between 1998 and 2007, watching the brown bear population within the mountains of Cantabrian Cordillera and their hibernation habits, concluded that female bears with babies and independent young bears (under the age of 2) do not usually hibernate.Apparently, the hibernati...

6 October 2010
09:32 GMT

Hotfix Available for Windows 7 Hibernation Issues

A hotfix is available to users that have experienced problems waking up their Windows 7 machines from hibernation. According to the Redmond company, customers running the latest iteration of the Windows client have reported issues in which they are unable to resume activity after their computer goes into hibernation...

12 August 2010
06:45 GMT

Spirit Ceases Communications

The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit may have begun its month-long, low-power hibernation, researchers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce. The robot missed a scheduled check-in on March 30, which could mean that its power levels were inadequate to allow for the transmiss...

1 April 2010
14:01 GMT

How 'Sleeping' Animals Could Help Extra Large Ones

Cyclorana alboguttata (the burrowing frog) is one of the least known animals in the world. And certainly the fact that it's a frog doesn't help it all that much either. However, most of you would be surprised to learn that the vertebrate can do only what bacteria have been known to be capable of, which ...

29 June 2009
11:01 GMT

You Did Not Know All That About Hedgehogs

The oldest ancestor of the hedgehogs could be an 80 million years old mammal found in Mongolia (which lived during the dinosaur era). The oldest known hedgehogs lived in Europe, 45 million years ago. In Africa, the oldest hedgehogs remains are 30 million years old. 10 million years ago, there were hedgehogs in North ...

15 November 2007
17:18 GMT

Australian Skiers Are a Menace for Living Fossil Marsupials

When you hear about hibernation, you instantly think about the northern snowed plains and marmots, ground squirrels and hedgehogs. But in the generally snowless Australia, its highest mountains are the 'home' of the only hibernating marsupials. The mountain pygmy possum (Burramys parvus) was first discovere...

30 October 2007
06:16 GMT

Bears and Astronauts

Bears do not really hibernate. They can awake very quickly from their winter sleep and their temperature, heart beat and pulse do not drop significantly. Anyway, they pass the winter in an immobility stage and they go out of their dens in a very good shape. In northern regions, like Canada or Siberia, bears can spend...

7 May 2007
03:10 GMT

The Amazing Spring

Spring in the temperate areas is the time when a cycle interrupted by the winter is restarted. Many people are worried by the fact that the extremely warm winters - due to the current man made global warming - could make trees bloom in January or February. But this is not going to happen, as plants and most animals r...

17 April 2007
11:00 GMT

Windows Vista Can Lose Features When You're Not Looking

Imagine this scenario: you are busy working on your brand new Windows Vista powered laptop and just when you turn around for a minute, the operating system is short of a few features. Well, this is a tad exaggerated, to be honest. However, it does not mean that indeed you cannot find features missing from Windows Vis...

15 March 2007
07:34 GMT


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