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Touchdown - 7 Days - Mars Science Laboratory

Submitted by Hashy on Mon, 30/07/2012 - 16:01

Morning,

So we have just about 7 days left until the landing on Mars.

MSL Mission page – http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

The landing process – http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/667454main_MSL%20EDL%20rev-1900.jpg

Real nail biting moment with this landing.. The sky crane is something that to my knowledge, has never been done before! It’s nuts! One little thing goes wrong, we lose a billion dollar rover!

Live coverage will be available on NASA TV. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Should be starting a couple of hours before planned landing.. Don’t forget there is a delay in transmission time between Mars and Earth. So when we see the landing has been successful on NASA TV, it really took place maybe 10-20 minutes earlier. That’s the nail biter! It will have all happened, we will just be waiting for it to come in

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Popular Content Creation?

Submitted by Hashy on Mon, 23/07/2012 - 19:09

m0rning,

So I was just thinking, and taking a look at things on the left, about how we create “Popular Content”.

A couple of years ago I think, n0mad made a very successful post in regards to Borderlands. That racked up something like 20,000 page views in a reasonably short amount of time.
I just took note of one of my older lunar eclipse posts has been getting a fair few hits each day lately. Over the course of the life of the blog post, 2 years, its brought up 5,000 page views.
Okay now sure, that’s barely a drop in the bucket floating in the ocean that is the interwebz, but for a small site like ours, potentially 5,000 viewers to our site could only be good advertising for Team IPX. I ain’t talkin about $$$ revenue here, just simply exposure.

So what is it that gets us these pageviews? The way I see it, it simply has to be the keywords we use .That’s how search engines do their trick. n0mad hit the nail on the head SOMEHOW. Linking I suspect plays a part in it as well?

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Higg's Boson Revealed! Hawking Loses $100

Submitted by Hashy on Thu, 05/07/2012 - 07:51

Morning,

So the final piece to the puzzle seems to have revealed itself.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/bday-for-higgs-20120705-21hy6....

So like, all I gotta do is figure out how to block out the Higgs field, and then I can fly right? Or would that make me become totally massless, and therefore non existent?

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IPX Folding @ Home Team Surpasses 1 MILLION!!

Submitted by Hashy on Thu, 21/06/2012 - 13:31

Well we did it!

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=136356

Just wanna say a big thanks to those who have participated over the years. Couldn’t have come this far without the help of non IPX contributors as well.

Here’s hoping to another few years of Folding, and more millions to come!

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Watchin Planes, Going to Saturn, Folding @ Home Approaches 1,000,000!!! & Family Stuff

Submitted by Hashy on Tue, 19/06/2012 - 09:57

Edit: reposted from test site.

m0rning all,

First off I would just like to say sorry for my absence in the short time since I have rejoined. There were some family matters that needed to be attended to. Sister and brother in law to be had to fly back from their European road trip early for a short period of time. It was unexpected but it was really good to see them nonetheless regardless of the unfortunate circumstances.
They are on their way back to Spain now as we speak, via Singapore and Frankfurt. We actually had Flight Radar up and were trying to watch the plane as it took off. In this instance, it was rather “inconsistent”. However a brief catchup of the websites data feed, we saw their plane was just about to pass over us. We we’re able to wave them a final goodbye until Christmas.
Its pretty cool to be able to see the planes that are coming, know what speed they’re doing, how high they are, and their destination(s).

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SOPA and PIPA Shelved!

Submitted by Hashy on Sat, 21/01/2012 - 12:36

Mornin,

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399166,00.asp

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage

So it appears we have won this round. SOPA and PIPA have been shelved… For now..

A big thank you to all those who spoke up against these silly anti privacy laws disguised as anti piracy laws.

I would also like to thank Anonymous for hitting them where it hurts. While we do not condone computer cracking, I personally do support these hostile attacks against establishment databases. I had no part in any of it, I am simply in agreement that sometimes aggressive destruction of social and human rights requires an equal measure of resistance.

Breathe easy, for now fellas. But don’t go back to sleep. They will try to do this again while were all busy with the 2012 London Olympics or some sh!t. Be aware, be awake, be prepared. Tyranny knows no bounds, nor does justice, freedom, and liberties.

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English Wikipedia 24 Hour Blackout!

Submitted by Hashy on Tue, 17/01/2012 - 23:52

Mornin,

So Wikipedia is blacking out their english database in protest of some new anti piracy laws being introduced in the United States.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-17/wikipedia-plans-24-hour-blac...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Begins in less then 17 hours from now. Just giving you all a heads up in case you don’t know

I don’t know the details of the piracy laws, but it’s probably bad in my opinion….

I’ll give a sh!t about piracy the day I see Michael Bay homeless and begging on the street.

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Minecraft 1.1 DO NOT UPDATE!!

Submitted by Hashy on Mon, 16/01/2012 - 18:16

Mornin,

So I just found out that theres been a new update for Minecraft, version 1.1.0 ( I presume the .0)

DO NOT UPDATE YOUR CLIENT YET. We will not be updating the IPX Server until the mods we used have been updated accordingly.

Minecraft 1.1

  • Bow Enchantments
  • New language translations.
  • Sheep eat grass and regain their wool
  • Added spawn eggs to creative (the colors of the eggs even look like the mobs)
  • Added world type options (currently only super-flat and default)
  • Golden Apple recipe
  • Slightly smoothed color transitions between biomes
  • Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds
  • Removed collision box from ladders
  • Bug fixing

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Prepare to be Blown Away..

Submitted by Hashy on Fri, 13/01/2012 - 00:19

If you ever thought that Asians could not sing, prepare to be eating them words…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUPZm2QtGQw&feature=g-like&context=G2f5ec...

Sounds better then the original to my ears. The original doesn’t send shivers down my spine, but the way this girl sings it is just nothing short of astounding.

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GON 2012 Most Wanted List

Submitted by Hashy on Thu, 05/01/2012 - 05:17

games.on.net have posted up their 2012 most wanted games list. Looks like a few alright ones on there to try. Gonna have to try Counter Strike: Global Offensive for sure myself. I reckon the founders might be pretty happy with the idea of Carmageddon: Reincarnation too.

I just don’t think I’m going to have the time or motivation to play them all, honestly a bit more concerned and busy with real life at the moment. But still, should be some gems on the way.

Heres the link to the list:

http://games.on.net/article/14565/2012s_Most_Wanted

n0mad, what you think of Diablo III? Ive told you before and I tell you again; I just don’t like the genre, TES is pretty much my only exception. =p

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