Friday, October 29, 2004

Chernobyl photos - a scenic drive through glowing Ukraine

Phenomenal. This is a good case for solar power right here.




This lady biker decides to take a pictoral tour through the Chernobyl wilderness.

600 years from now it will be safe to do this, but why wait...

Monday, October 25, 2004

Google Remote Desktop Search - uh oh...

Didn't take long for this one to come out.

If someone was to figure out a way to install this remotely, it could very easily give everyone in the world access to your search results remotely. Kinda freaky.

Time to remove Google desktop search for awhile... I can't wait until Cisco & Microsoft team up for their network detection tool. Would probably make it easier to hack both platforms in one exploit.

Monday, October 11, 2004

Gmail Drive Letter

This adds a 'Gmail Drive' to your My Computer section in Windows Explorer.

Can't get much better than this - though the filename is only 40 chars or less. Wonder how this works through proxies?

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Guess other people found World Wind too...

Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested directory.

The onearth WMS server has been restricted to NASA only due to overload. We are working on server improvements and will have the server open again for public access as soon as possible.

The other cause is that you tried to access a page accessible only by JPL personnel (for JPL business only).

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 403
onearth.jpl.nasa.gov
Wed Oct 6 04:10:14 2004
Apache

The World Is Yours

NASA's using .NET to build some amazing software.

I was blown away by Microsoft Mappoint's ability to zoom out to space and zoom into a thumbtack showing my address. NASA World Wind is better (when it works). I can see my house now. :) It's around a 250MB download, and it recommends 2GB disk space, but it pretty much gives you your own weather channel builder, satellite image browser, terrain mapper, etc.

Some guys I went to high school with were trying to map the world with C++ but it kept crashing the top computer in the school at the time - a 486/33 DX. Wonder if they're working for NASA now?