I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. -- Noel Coward Novell: Linux's move to the enterprise desktop imminent Linux could start to chip away at Microsoft's stronghold on the enterprise desktop within the next 12 months, says a senior executive from Novell. State pilots desktop open source OPEN-SOURCE pilots in the NSW government are gathering momentum, with the Department of Commerce the latest agency to kick the tyres of desktop applications. Shenzhou 6 To Spend Up To One Week In Orbit Shenzhou VI, China's second manned space flight to be launched next year, is scheduled to fly five to seven days Mars Theory Not Just Hot Air Astronomers have detected hydrogen peroxide, or H2O2, in the atmosphere of Mars, proving a 30-year-old theory about the planet's atmospheric chemistry. Carbon Found To Be Older Than The Solar Systems For the first time, researchers have identified organic material in interplanetary dust particles (IDPs), gathered from the Earth's stratosphere, that was made before the birth of our Solar System. First Robot Moved By Muscle Power A silicon microrobot just half the width of a human hair has begun to crawl around in a Los Angeles lab, using legs powered by the pulsing of living heart muscle reports New Scientist in this week's edition. Lockheed Martin Introduces New Paveway Dual Mode Guided Bomb Lockheed Martin introduced its new Paveway Dual Mode Guided Bomb at the Asian Aerospace exhibition in Singapore. GPS birds rolling off the production line at Lockheed Martin Most distant galaxy discovered Pushing back the boundaries of space observation, French and Swiss astronomers say they have detected the farthest galaxy ever seen. Abell 1835 IR1916 (shown in the white circle) is less than 3,000 light years across. In comparison, the Milky Way is at least ten times larger. What's Special About This Number? 2020m sausage 'a record-breaker' ORGANISERS of an annual sausage festival in the Serbian village of Turija today said they had made the world's longest sausage. Springsteen torture at Camp X-Ray A TERROR suspect freed from Guantanamo Bay has told of cruel and unusual punishment. Wild boar cause autobahn chaos A HERD of wild boar provoked a traffic jam that tailed back 18 kilometres after running onto a motorway in southwest Germany, police said today. (C) Shouting Red Goanna Inc. A wholly subsidiary of Screaming Blue Wombat Inc. / Avenging Green Seahorse Industries