There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. -- Gore Vidal AMD and Sun Announce a Landmark Alliance Sun Microsystems has selected AMD Opteron? processors for a new line of x86 systems that the company plans to rollout in the first half of 2004. Scott McNealy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Sun, announced the plans during his keynote at COMDEX on November 17, 2003. Sun plans to rely on the AMD Opteron processors in support of its strategy to help customers "scale out" with high-performance horizontal computing solutions. With future plans to unveil a comprehensive set of products -- including servers, workstations, Solaris optimized for 64-bit x86, and other products and services -- Sun plans to offer its customers ultimate choice in high performing systems for their network computing needs. Telstra dumps its email TELSTRA is preparing a tender for a new email platform as part of its $100 million response to four months of serious system problems. Cisco going down market BUSINESS-grade network kit king Cisco will try to extend its market grip into Australia's lounge rooms, home offices and small businesses with its down market Linksys networking range. Apple stack officially number 3 SUPERCOMPUTING is moving into the commercial realm as nearly half the machines on this year's list of the fastest computers were built from clusters of cheaper, off-the-shelf processors, including the new No. 3, a supercomputer assembled with 1,100 Apple PCs. IBM wants top supercomputer spot IT'S only the size of a dishwasher, but it's crammed with 1,024 microprocessors, housed in an innovative slanted cabinet and can perform a whopping 2 trillion calculations per second, ranking it as one of the world's fastest supercomputers. Gates Unveils Spam Software Bill Gates came to Vegas touting new junk e-mail filtering technology called SmartScreen, which he described during his keynote address at the annual Comdex trade show. Uni virus writing course 'is madness' A PLAN to teach virus writing at university has come under severe criticism at a conference of the Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers. Now in Their Sights, the Hubble's Demise NASA Officials, Outside Scientists Debating How -- and When -- the Historic Telescope Should Fall Moon Seen as Astronomical Outpost The barren Moon could become an astronomer's paradise, an ideal spot for telescopes and other devices to scope out the heavens as never before. Hoping to Avoid Contamination, Japan Attempts to Fix Mars Probe Japan's space agency, hoping to prevent its first interplanetary probe from crashing into Mars, is scrambling to fix an on-board glitch before the spacecraft reaches the planet next month, an agency official said Friday. NASA Brings Back Plans To Fly X-37 Demonstrator In Orbit for 270 Days NASA has revived plans to fly its X-37 experimental space plane in orbit for 270 days, a requirement that originally was set by the U.S. Air Force as a way to begin proving the feasibility of orbiting Earth with camera- and bomb-laden space planes for months at a time. Delta-Like Fan on Mars Suggests Ancient Rivers Were Persistent A fan-shaped deposit imaged by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor provide evidence that some ancient rivers on Mars flowed for a long time, not just in brief, intense floods. NASA/JPL/MSSS image Newly seen details in a fan-shaped apron of debris on Mars may help settle a decades-long debate about whether the planet had long-lasting rivers instead of just brief, intense floods. Balloon Molecules - The Web Site Modelling balloons are known first of all as a toy or in form of balloon sculptures. But there are other possibilities….. On this web site we would like to show you how to use modelling balloons to build chemical molecules. Basically you only need balloons, a pump and some imagination. 'World Toilet Day' approaching AIM at the target and make sure the toilet seat is left gleaming -- that is the perfect remedy for a cleaner, happier world. Nazi plot to bomb Britain with peas SABOTEURS working for Nazi Germany plotted a World War II bombing campaign in Britain involving exploding cans of processed French peas, according to secret files recently made public. Swiss Army CyberTool 41 One please. Come on, it's a Swiss Army Knife with Torx bits and a wire stripper! Remembering Apollo 12's First Steps Toward the Moon (C) Shouting Red Goanna Inc. A wholly subsidiary of Screaming Blue Wombat Inc. / Avenging Green Seahorse Industries