Sumatra has had another 4 sizeable earthquakes (5.8, 6.3, 5.5, 5.9) in the space of 90 minutes after the magnitude 6.8 one. This earthquake map is a good way of seeing them.
There is a BBC News story about the 6.8 quake here.
Monthly Archives: April 2005
Strong Earthquake (Initial Report Mag 6.8) Near Sumatra
USGS reporting a magnitude 6.8 quake 70 miles SW of Padang, Sumatra (population 721,000). See their 10 degree map for the location.
Spammer Jailed for 9 Years in the US
Wonderful news, the ABC is reporting that Jeremy Janes has been sentenced to 9 years in prison for breaking Virginia law. Spamhaus has more on the convictions for him & his sister as well as details of their spamming activities.
MG-Rover Deny Receivership Claims
The plot thickens, MG-Rover have denied going into receivership after a statement by the UK’s Trade Secretary saying that they had.
MG-Rover Calls in the Receivers
Just got a news email from the BBC saying that MG-Rover, the last big British car firm, has had to call in the receivers when a deal with a Chinese car company fell through due to uncertainty over a UK government bridging loan. Sad news, I hope something can be salvaged to keep it going.
The Morgan Motor Company in Malvern, where I used to work, still seems to be going strong with a waiting list of 12 months from ordering a car from them. They make lovely cars..
Large Aftershock (5.9) in Nias
I’ve just had an email from the USGS saying there has been a Magnitude 5.9 earthquake in the Nias region of Indonesia within the last hour.
It looks like yet another in a long series of hefty aftershocks that are happening as the faults in the area “unzip” after the massive quake nearby on Boxing Day.
Google Maps meets satellite photography
The ever-excellent Rich Boakes pointed me at his weblog story about the (almost) killer app from Google, where their existing Google Maps tech meets satellite photography from their purchase of Keyhole.
Here is a stunning example, a zoomed in image of Chicago Airport. Another is the fact that you can routeplan, although it’s interesting to note that they’ve decided to make certain government buildings stand out by censoring them from the imagery. You could probably find the interesting ones by scanning the imagery looking for the distinctive grey fill in. 🙂
Now what we want is imagery for the rest of the world!
Linux Beat Project Monterey to IA-64 by 8 months
One of the things that SCO keeps bringing up is how IBM did nasty things to them on Project Monterey. Thing is that Linux actually ran on one of the target architectures of Project Monterey, Intel’s Itanium (aka Merced, IA-64), 8 months prior to Monterey and the people who did this were not IBM, but HP!
When Monterey first booted on IA-64 in September 1999 HP
had already
had the
Linux kernel running in native 64-bit mode on the platform
according to this
technical report from HP, (direct link to PDF here).
There is also a paper
(PDF here)
& slides
(PDF here)
that David Mosberger from HP presented at Linux Expo ’99
documenting their work that includes a
very
interesting timeline that shows that they first got the
kernel to successfully boot and run Hello World on the 20th
January 1999, and they had that with CERNs glibc for IA64
running by the 9th April 1999.
So, if Linux was running on IA-64 8 months *before*
Monterey, could
we claim that they copied from Linux using SCO’s bent
logic ? 😉
Official: Water on Mars!
Via: Alec – the Astronomy Picture of the Day for 2005/04/01 has stunning proof that there really is water on mars.. 🙂
Credit & Copyright: Ellen Roper (GCC)
New Google Drink
Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes of your base pair genetic data in a fraction of a second, fine-tuning your individual hormonal cocktail in real time using our patented Auto-Drink™ technology, and slamming a truckload of electrolytic neurotransmitter smart-drug stimulants past the blood-brain barrier to achieve maximum optimization of your soon-to-be-grateful cerebral cortex. Plus, it’s low in carbs!
🙂