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Earthquake Bacolod City, Philippines

Cracks seen on walls of Bacolod-Silay airport after quake

But damage superficial–manager

By Carla Gomez
Visayas Bureau
First Posted 22:07:00 08/03/2008

An earthquake felt at intensity six in Sagay, Cadiz and Silay cities shook Negros Occidental at 2:14 a.m. Saturday, according to Ben Tanatan, science and research analyst of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). (An intensity 6 earthquake is felt by everybody in an area affected. Objects can be seen shaking and cracks may appear on walls.)

The quake’s epicenter was 26 kilometers south and 72 kilometers west of Cadiz City and its origin was tectonic, he said.

Philippine Earthquake – Bacolod City

Magnitude 5.5 – MINDORO, PHILIPPINES

2008 August 01 10:35:25 UTC

Earthquake Details

Magnitude	5.5
Date-Time	Friday, August 01, 2008 at 10:35:25 UTC Friday, August 01, 2008 at 06:35:25 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location	13.530°N, 120.854°E
Depth	144.2 km (89.6 miles)
Region	MINDORO, PHILIPPINES
Distances	30 km (20 miles) SW of Batangas, Luzon, Philippines 40 km (25 miles) WNW of Calapan, Mindoro, Philippines 120 km (75 miles) S of MANILA, Philippines 155 km (95 miles) SSE of Olongapo, Luzon, Philippines
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 9.1 km (5.7 miles); depth +/- 14 km (8.7 miles)
Parameters	NST= 43, Nph= 43, Dmin=971.8 km, Rmss=1.02 sec, Gp= 50°, M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=7
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	us2008vebb

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008vebb.php

Audio/Records Engineering Tools

Pro Tools is a Digital Audio Workstation platform for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows operating systems, developed and manufactured by Digidesign, a division of Avid Technology. It is widely used by professionals throughout the audio industries for recording and editing in music production, film scoring, television and post production. Pro Tools has three levels of software; HD, LE, and M-powered. HD is the premier package and is an integration of hardware and software. The hardware includes an external A/D converter and internal PCI or PCIe audio cards with onboard DSP.

Pro Tools LE 7.3 screenshot on Mac OS X
(screenshot)

Ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Tools
Official website:
http://www.digidesign.com/

 

Sony ACID Pro is a professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software program, originally published by Sonic Foundry, now owned and run by Sony. When it was first launched in 1998 as a loop-based music sequencer, Acid Pro was the first-ever automatic audio loop-based music software of its kind, where someone could simply drag-and-drop an Acid loop file (for example a Drum or Bass loop) onto a track in Acid, and that loop would automatically adjust itself to the tempo and key of the song, with virtually no sonic degradation.

ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID_Pro
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/acidfamily.asp

Cubase is a computer program for music production. The program offers recording, producing and mixing of sounds in order to make music production for distribution on CD`s or the internet. Most of the facilities in recording studios are now available for computer owners using Cubase or other similar products.

In order to illustrate this: If you have say guitar, piano, bass and vocal all played by the same person, Cubase can record a track with each instrument and mix the different instruments and sounds into a coherent production. This technique is known as overdubbing. The sound quality is pretty close to what a professional recording studio can offer.

Cubase is a series of MIDI, music sequencer and digital audio editing computer applications (commonly known as a DAW – Digital Audio Workstation), created by the German firm Steinberg. Its first version, which ran on the Atari ST computer, was released in 1989.

Ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubase
Official website:
http://www.steinberg.net/27_1.html

NASA’s Phoenix Spacecraft Lands at Martian Arctic Site

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander’s robotic arm.

Radio signals received at 4:53:44 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53:44 p.m. Eastern Time) confirmed the Phoenix Mars Lander had survived its difficult final descent and touchdown 15 minutes earlier. The signals took that long to travel from Mars to Earth at the speed of light.

Mission team members at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver; and the University of Arizona, Tucson, cheered confirmation of the landing and eagerly awaited further information from Phoenix later tonight.

Among those in the JPL control room was NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, who noted this was the first successful Mars landing without airbags since Viking 2 in 1976.

“For the first time in 32 years, and only the third time in history, a JPL team has carried out a soft landing on Mars,” Griffin said. “I couldn’t be happier to be here to witness this incredible achievement.”

 

Team members celebrate Phoenix landing on Mars.
Larger view During its 422-million-mile flight from Earth to Mars after launching on Aug. 4, 2007, Phoenix relied on electricity from solar panels during the spacecraft’s cruise stage. The cruise stage was jettisoned seven minutes before the lander, encased in a protective shell, entered the Martian atmosphere. Batteries provide electricity until the lander’s own pair of solar arrays spread open.

“We’ve passed the hardest part and we’re breathing again, but we still need to see that Phoenix has opened its solar arrays and begun generating power,” said JPL’s Barry Goldstein, the Phoenix project manager. If all goes well, engineers will learn the status of the solar arrays between 7 and 7:30 p.m. Pacific Time (10 and 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time) from a Phoenix transmission relayed via NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter.

The team will also be watching for the Sunday night transmission to confirm that masts for the stereo camera and the weather station have swung to their vertical positions.

“What a thrilling landing! But the team is waiting impatiently for the next set of signals that will verify a healthy spacecraft,” said Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, principal investigator for the Phoenix mission. “I can hardly contain my enthusiasm. The first landed images of the Martian polar terrain will set the stage for our mission.”

Another critical deployment will be the first use of the 7.7-foot-long robotic arm on Phoenix, which will not be attempted for at least two days. Researchers will use the arm during future weeks to get samples of soil and ice into laboratory instruments on the lander deck.

The signal confirming that Phoenix had survived touchdown was relayed via Mars Odyssey and received on Earth at the Goldstone, Calif., antenna station of NASA’s Deep Space Network.

Phoenix uses hardware from a spacecraft built for a 2001 launch that was canceled in response to the loss of a similar Mars spacecraft during a 1999 landing attempt. Researchers who proposed the Phoenix mission in 2002 saw the unused spacecraft as a resource for pursuing a new science opportunity. Earlier in 2002, Mars Odyssey discovered that plentiful water ice lies just beneath the surface throughout much of high-latitude Mars. NASA chose the Phoenix proposal over 24 other proposals to become the first endeavor in the Mars Scout program of competitively selected missions.

The Phoenix mission is led by Smith at the University of Arizona with project management at JPL and development partnership at Lockheed Martin, Denver. International contributions come from the Canadian Space Agency; the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark; Max Planck Institute, Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. For more about Phoenix, visit http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix .

 

 

Media contacts: Guy Webster 818-354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov

Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726
NASA Headquarters, Washington
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov

Sara Hammond 520-626-1974
University of Arizona, Tucson
shammond@lpl.arizona.edu

2008-81

Ref:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080525b.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/05/25/mars.lander/index.html

Nokia N95 2007 Flagship

Specification sheet

Feature	Specification
Form factor	Two-way slider
Operating System	Symbian OS v9.2, S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1
Screen	QVGA Matrix, diagonal 2.6″, 16 million colours, 240×320 pixels (0.08 Megapixels)
CPU	2 x Texas Instruments OMAP 2420 (ARMv6 architecture 11 based) – 332 MHz, PowerVR features (2D/3D accelerator) and High Speed Peripheral Interconnect.
Internal Dynamic Memory (RAM)	64 MB
Internal Flash Memory	160 MB
Camera	Frontal CIF video call & Main rear 5 Megapixel camera with auto-focus, Carl Zeiss optics
Video recording	Yes, MPEG-4 VGA (640×480) video capture of up to 30 fps
Graphics	Fully HW accelerated 3D (OpenGL ES 1.1, HW accelerated Java 3D)
Memory card slot	Yes, microSD/microSDHC
Bluetooth	Yes, 2.0 + EDR
Wi-Fi	Yes, with wireless LAN (802.11 b/g) and UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
Infrared	Yes
Data cable support	Yes, USB 2.0 Full Speed via mini USB port
Email	Yes (ActiveSync, POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP, with SSL/TLS)
Music player	Yes, Stereo speakers with 3D audio
Radio	Yes, Stereo FM Radio and Visual Radio – headphones or hands-free required for aerial
Video Player	Yes
Polyphonic tones	Yes, 72 chords
Ringtones	Yes, MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA/M4A, RealAudio
HF speakerphone	Yes, with 3.5 mm audio jack and A2DP wireless stereo headphone support
Offline mode	Yes
Battery	BL-5F (950 mAh)
Talk time	up to 160 min (WCDMA), up to 240 min (GSM)
Standby time	up to 215 hours

Tech’s 10 worst entry-level jobs (USA)

• Tech’s ten worst entry-level jobs
• Online sales and operations account manager, Google
• Support engineer, Washington-Seattle, Amazon.com
• Content Acquisition Intern, IODA
• Customer support specialist, Fox Interactive, MySpace division
• Database administrator (temporary), Google, contracted through WorkforceLogic
• Support professional, product: Windows, Microsoft
• Executive admin to Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore
• Analyst, user operations, Facebook
• Operations finance, analyst intern, Yahoo
• Part-time guide, Mahalo

  Soon America’s most bright-eyed graduates will enter the workforce and make their workaday homes in cubes at Google, MySpace, or Amazon.com. And they will suffer not just the indignity of having to work for a living, but also the dispiriting realization that a job at a cool company isn’t always that hot. These employers, and the others hiring for tech’s 10 worst entry-level jobs, listed below, will look spiffy on a resume someday, but for now the only good these jobs promise the world is the pleasant feeling you and I can share knowing we’re not the ones stuck in them.In the spirit of full disclosure, I should note that I wouldn’t have been able to get any of these jobs out of college. I didn’t finish with a 3.8, do a year of service in Nicaragua or file any patents during my sophomore year. But the worst part of this list is the fact that the people taking these jobs did. To paraphrase Dan Lyons, there’s something distinctly evil about the way Google and the other companies listed below hoard the world’s best and brightest and put them to work on creating more efficient text ads or, worse, tasking them with taking phone calls from angry customers.

  Follow the link for each job to see a picture of their locations, a list of key responsibilities, first hand accounts of why each job is so bad and how much they pay.

  ref:
  http://valleywag.com/389746/techs-10-worst-entry+level-jobs

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Enabling Remote Desktop in XP Home

(This is a rather technical post so feel free to skip this if the title means nothing to you)

I had a dilemma last night. I was linked to this great article by someone in ArsTechnica’s #linux on setting up SeamlessRDP to my VMWare Windows XP installation to achieve an effect similar to VMware Fusion’s Unity on Mac OS X. The problem is that I soon found out that Remote Desktop is disabled in XP Home Edition, only to be enabled in XP Professional.

It took a lot of digging around but I was eventually able to figure out how to get this enabled. So here is my guide on how to enable Remote Desktop in Windows XP Home Edition. Just a heads up that this was important to me because of RDP’s ability to launch specific applications for seamless integration into my Linux desktop, if you don’t need this and just want a full desktop window, one of the free VNC solutions might be better for you (TightVNC seems popular).

The first thing is to trick the installation into thinking that it’s actually XP Pro. I found this information here. Before doing this it might be best to make sure your install is already set up with Service Pack 2, etc.

1. Navigate the Windows registry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet00X/Control/ProductOptions (where ControlSet00X is the one with the highest number) and delete the “ProductSuite” key.
2. Create a new DWORD key in this same folder called “Brand” and set it’s value to 0.
3. Reboot Windows. At startup mash F8 to bring up the boot options and choose “Last Known Good Configuration”.

After some hard disk churning you will be back to your welcome screen or desktop. You can then go to the System control panel and see that you now have a Professional Edition setup. This is great so far but unfortunately doesn’t actually install all those professional features.

Now I needed to get Remote Desktop to accept incoming connections.

I found this batch file on a forum post. It’s easy to follow; it basically creates a .reg file with the required keys, merges it, and does a reinstall of terminal services. After a reboot you should now see Terminal Services alive and well in the Services Administrative Tool. A “netstat -a” in the Command Prompt should show port 3389 as listening. At this point I was able to connect to my server but was getting disconnected immediately. After some more digging I found a replacement termsrv.dll that was actually from a Service Pack 2 beta but did the trick for me. Follow the instructions there or here (it must be replaced in safe mode). You might be interested in the registry edits mentioned in those posts as well for concurrent users.

I don’t know how much of this was necessary but after all this tinkering last night I am now able to Remote Desktop with success to my XP Home installation. Yay! One more thing… make sure you have a password associated with your Windows user!

ref:
http://www.geekport.com/2007/08/15/enabling-remote-desktop-in-xp-home/