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NASA Updates Us on Curiosity's Progress

NASA Updates Us on Curiosity's Progress By  Christina DesMarais ,  PCWorld     Aug 14, 2012 3:30 PM It's been more than a week since  NASA's Mars rover , dubbed "Curiosity,"  landed on the red planet . In that time, mission controllers at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., have been checking Curiosity's 10 instruments and updating software for its two-year mission to look for evidence of microbial life on the planet. NASA held a news conference Tuesday to talk about Curiosity's progress  so far. Incredible Photos Mars mission leaders showed  magnificent images that have come in from Curiosity  so far. For instance, in this photo taken from one of the Rover's navigation cameras, you can see part of Curiosity's deck and power supply on the left, as well as both its low-gain and high-gain antennas which allow for communications between Curiosity, orbiting spacecraft and Earth. Farther out yo...

Over 270 govt websites hacked till July this year

Over 270 govt websites hacked till July this year New Delhi: Over 270 government websites have been hacked by cyber criminals between January and July this year. As per information tracked and made available to Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), 201, 303, 308 and 273 government websites were hacked during the year 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 (till July) respectively, an official statement today said. Based on the threat assessment, CERT-In regularly issues alerts for internet users and operators on vulnerabilities. Five alerts were issued during May and June, 2012 to prominent organisations in the government and private sector about targetting websites for carrying out cyber attacks by the hacker groups, the statement said. CERT-In also issued advisory providing counter measures to safeguard the websites and network infrastructure against such attacks, it added. All the organisations were advised to report such incidents to CERT-In along with network logs ...

Unix and Linux shortcut keys

Keyboard shortcut keys CTRL + B Moves the cursor backward one character. CTRL + C Cancels the currently running command. CTRL + D Logs out of the current session. CTRL + F Moves the cursor forward one character. CTRL + H Erase one character. Similar to pressing backspace. CTRL + P Paste previous line(s). CTRL + S Stops all output on screen (XOFF). CTRL + Q Turns all output stopped on screen back on (XON). CTRL + U Erases the complete line. CTRL + W Deletes the last word typed in. For example, if you typed 'mv file1 file2' this shortcut would delete file2. CTRL + Z Cancels current operation, moves back a directory or takes the current operation and moves it to the background. See  bg command  for additional information about background. Command line shortcuts In addition to the below command line shortcuts, it is also helpful to use the  alias command  that allows you to specify a keyword for frequently used commands or mistakes. ~ Moves to...

Keyboard shortcuts - Perform common Firefox tasks quickly

Table of Contents Navigation Current Page Editing Search Windows & Tabs History Bookmarks Tools Miscellaneous Media shortcuts (Ogg and WebM Videos Only) Navigation Command Shortcut Back Alt  +  ← Backspace Forward Alt  +  → Shift  +  Backspace Home Alt  +  Home Open File Ctrl  +  O Reload F5 Ctrl  +  R Reload (override cache) Ctrl  +  F5 Ctrl  +  Shift  +  R Stop Esc Current Page Command Shortcut Go to Bottom of Page End Go to Top of Page Home Move to Next Frame F6 Move to Previous Frame Shift  +  F6 Print Ctrl  +  P Save Page As Ctrl  +  S Zoom In Ctrl  +  + Zoom Out Ctrl  +  - Zoom Reset Ctrl  +  0 Editing Command Shortcut Copy Ctrl  +  C Cut Ctrl  +  X Delete Del Paste Ctrl  +  V Redo Ctrl  +  Y Select All Ctrl  +  A Undo Ctrl...