Saturday, December 09, 2000

NASA Contacts Oldest Spacecraft on 35th Anniversary NASA successfully contacted Pioneer 6 on Friday, nearly 35 years to the day after the space agency’s oldest working spacecraft was launched into solar orbit on what was to have been a six-month mission.
'Free' Wireless Networks? (washingtonpost.com) The wireless Internet antennas sprouting everywhere suggest something else: Today's civilian community is home to a very unregimented attempt to build a homemade wireless Web that seeks to rival the expensive plans of telecommunication conglomerates and other corporations.
About a foot and a half long, the antennas rise from the rooftops of major buildings. The fire station. A white structure that houses a dot-com. A colonel's quarters. The Exploratorium science museum.
CNET.com - News - E-Business - Defunct ASPs leave customers in the lurch Red Gorilla, which handed off its clients to another ASP, is not the only company in the new and volatile ASP market to shut its doors. On Thursday, HotOffice.com announced that it would close down December 19 because of the harsh market conditions and referred customers to another ASP. In July, Pandesic, an older ASP formed between technology giants Intel and SAP, closed because it was not on a timely road to profitability
This is interesting taint it?