Author Archives: vorlon-MT

Elves whispering

By vorlon-MT | October 20, 2003

“Kero” just told me that an elf had said I should put more personal things on here… definately true. Content is missing here in any way for sure. I’m just a little busy lately with university and trying to set up a new server. Btw… it was this elf: www.stadtelfe.com

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Nobel Prize in Physics

By vorlon-MT | October 7, 2003

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2003 has just been awarded to Alexei A. Abrikosov (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA). Vitaly L. Ginzburg (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia) and Anthony J. Leggett (University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA) for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids. More information can be found [...]

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Next Space Shuttle Launch

By vorlon-MT | October 5, 2003

According to John F. Kennedy Space Center – Space Shuttle Launch Schedule the next Space Shuttle Flight (STS-114) will be launched no earlier than Steptember 12, 2004, which means another delay of about half a year. Related: article on SPACE.com article on spacetoday.net

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SMART-1 ion engine fired successfully

By vorlon-MT | October 2, 2003

Just a quick note, since I just got it in my mailbox: SMART-1 ion engine fired successfully

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Following some Gentoo security bugs

By vorlon-MT | October 1, 2003

Since I have been using pine-maildir and there was a security update for pine but not pine-maildir I am following Bug #28877, but it doesn’t really seem to interest anyone. Then yesterday this OpenSSL Security Advisory came out and I filed #29999, which was marked a duplicate of #30001 later. I just emerged the new [...]

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Richard Feynman

By vorlon-MT | September 28, 2003

Well after posting the quote I just found asite which actually has a lecture about QED (quantum electrodynamics) held by Feynman as streaming video. Actually there seems to be more interesting stuff on their site, The Vega Science Trust Homepage. A short biography can be found here at the Nobel e-Museum

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Quote: Richard Feynman

By vorlon-MT | September 28, 2003

“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” – Richard Feynman (Found at http://www.quotationspage.com/)

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CVS for configuration files, web pages, etc II

By vorlon-MT | September 23, 2003

Just wanted to list what helped understanding CVS: CVS-RCS-HOWTO Document for Linux (Source Code Control System) at The Linux Documentation Project MarkD’s Guide to CVS, unfortunately the chapter ‘Using CVS’ isn’t done yet the cvs info and man pages, the info pages actually have a quite good explanation of CVS

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CVS for configuration files, web pages, etc

By vorlon-MT | September 23, 2003

I just started using CVS to keep track of the changes I make to various configuration files and the templates for this blog etc. Hopefully i got the discipline to keep using it and hopefully it will make it easier for me to remember what I changed when. Btw, for this little purpose it actually [...]

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Finally got the mail set up with virtual user/domain support

By vorlon-MT | September 22, 2003

Finally got the mail system set up to support virtual users and domains. More on this later… since it took me way longer to get it to work than I thought

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