The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is a scientific effort seeking to determine if there is intelligent life outside Earth. SETI researchers use many methods. One popular method, radio SETI, listens for artificial radio signals coming from other stars. SETI@home is a radio SETI project that lets anyone with a computer and an Internet connection participate.
url of the same is
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
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Gmail increased attachment limit ==> 20 MB!
Check the following urls for more details.
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/bigger-attachments-in-gmail.html
Before the beginning of time, when the Internet was still very much under the spell of bare Unix shells and Gopher, before SLIP or PPP became widely used, an ambitious group of young scientists at CERN ( Switzerland )
The same place discussed in Dan Browns’s Angels and Demions] started working on what was to become the media revolution of the nineties: the World Wide Web, later to be known as WWW, or simply ‘the Web’. Their aim: to create a database infrastructure that offered open access to data in various formats: multi-media. The ultimate goal was clearly to create a protocol that would combine text and pictures and present it as one document, and allow linking to other such documents: hypertext.
Because these bright young minds were reluctant to reveal their progress (and setbacks) to the world, they started developing their protocol in a closed environment: CERN’s internal network. Many hours were spend on what later became the world-wide standard for multimedia documents. Using the physical lay-out of CERN’s network and buildings as a metaphor for the ‘real world’ they situated different functions of the protocol in different offices within CERN.
In an office on the fourth floor (Room 404), they placed the World Wide Web’s central database: any request for a file was routed to that office, where two or three people would manually locate the requested files and transfer them, over the network, to the person who made that request.
When the database started to grow, and the people at CERN realized that they were able to retrieve documents other than their own research-papers, not only the number of requests grew, but also the number of requests that could not be fulfilled, usually because the person who requested a file typed in the wrong name for that file. Soon these faulty requests were answered with a standard message: “Room 404: file not found”.
Later, when these processes were automated and people could directly query the database, the messageID’s for error messages remained linked to the physical location the process took place: “404: file not found”. The room numbers remained in the error codes in the official release of HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) when the Web left CERN to conquer the world, and are still displayed when a browser makes a faulty request to a Web server.
In memory of the heroic boys and girls that worked deep into the night for all those months, in those small and hot offices at CERN, Room 404 is preserved as a ‘place on the Web’. None of the other rooms are still used for the Web. Room 404 is the only and true monument to the beginning of the Web, a tribute to a place in the past, where the future was shaped.
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Blackle is nothing but a black version of google.
“A few months ago, TreeHugger Mark Ontkush wrote a post on his blog EcoIron titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year. The post lays out the following train of thought. “An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts.” Google, which has a white background and gets about “200 million queries a day” could reduce global energy use by 750 Megawatt-hours a year by simply changing the color of its homepage to black.
In response to this post a black version of Google emerged called Blackle.com. According to Blackle’s homepage at publication time, 4,408.917 Watt hours have been saved by. Nice ideas. But how does the search measure up? Very well indeed. Give it a whirl yourself and start saving energy one search at a time.
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Cancer cell in the body:
Cancer Cells Feed On:
Don’t freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins (cancer producing element) from the plastic. Instead, using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food.
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There’s no doubt that color affects mood. Warm colors, for example, make most people happy and energized… or angry and hostile, depending on which end of the spectrum we’re talking about.
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Simple layout
Centered orientation
Design the content, not the page
3D effects, used sparingly
Soft, neutral background colours
Strong colour, used sparingly
Cute icons, used sparingly
Plenty of whitespace
Nice big text
For more information on Web 2.0 design click here
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May 11, 1997… The day when Machine Bests Man, of course in Tournament-Level Chess Match.
Deep Blue defeats chess master Garry Kasparov.
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Epigrams on Programming is an article by Alan Perlis published in 1982, for ACM’s SIGPLAN journal. They are a series of short, programming language neutral, humorous statements about computers and programming.
It first appeared in SIGPLAN Notices 17(9), September 1982.
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As per About.com,
Following top 10 most useful web site.
http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/readerpicks/ss/useful_sites.htm
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Brain Storm 