Part of the deal included a provision that installs Monster as the exclusive provider of job ads on Yahoo’s home page for three years in the U.S. and Canada.

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Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to achieve a lunar soft landing and to transmit photographic data from the Moon’s surface to Earth, preceding the U.S. Surveyor 1 soft lander by about four months.

Learn more at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1966-006A

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Now it …

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During World War II, when rubber was in short supply, McIntire’s work focused on developing a rubber-like substance that could be used as a flexible insulator. The result was extruded polystyrene foam, or STYROFOAM®.

Learn more at http://www.invent.org/2008induction/1_3_08_induction_mcintire.asp

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The crew consisted of Shuttle Commander Rick D. Husband; Shuttle Pilot William C. McCool; Payload Commander Michael P. Anderson
; Mission Specialists David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla and Laurel Clark;
 and Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon.

Learn …

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Last week Google announced its revised Privacy Policy which subsequently caused quite a stir in technical circles. The new policy will not take effect until 1st March 2012 so, if you are not happy with the revised blueprint you still have a full month to seek out and organize alternative services.

First off I …

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Ham’s name was an acronym for H olloman A ero M ed. His sub-orbital flight aboard the Redstone Mercury rocket was very similar to the flight that Alan Shepard would take later that year.

Read more about Ham and other animals in space at http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html

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Continue reading »]]> http://www.davescomputertips.com/2012/01/benubird-pdf-nice-free-documents-manager/feed/ 0 http://www.davescomputertips.com/2012/01/geek-fact-for-january-30th/ http://www.davescomputertips.com/2012/01/geek-fact-for-january-30th/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:00:40 +0000 Judy Novotny http://www.davescomputertips.com/?p=5063 In 2007, Microsoft released Windows Vista.

For the most part, early Vista reviews were mostly favorable. However, consumers were slow to adopt Windows Vista due to some heavy-duty hardware requirements and effort involved in upgrading from XP to Windows. The corporate world did not rush to adopt the operating system either.

Learn more at …

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Earnest Kummer made major contributions to function theory. In addition, his work on number theory led to a major breakthrough on Fermat’s Last Theorem.

Learn more at http://fermatslasttheorem.blogspot.com/2006/01/ernst-eduard-kummer.html

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The crew of Space Shuttle Challenger consisted of Mission Commander Francis R. Scobee; Pilot Michael J. Smith; Payload Specialists Gregory B. Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe; Mission Specialists Judith A. Resnik, Ellison S. Onizuka and Ronald E. McNair.

Read …

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In one of the worst tragedies in the history of spaceflight, the crew members were killed in a fire in the Apollo Command Module during a preflight test at Cape Canaveral.

Learn more at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo1info.html

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If you’ve been in a cave for the last five years you’ve missed some amazing advances in Information Technology.  Yes, you are now an IT Cave Man!

Most IT people know about Moore’s Law (approximately every 18 …

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