... You can boot Linux either from a floppy or from the hard disk. ... When booting Linux from a floppy disk, the boot sector contains code that just reads the first few hundred blocks (depending on the actual kernel size, of course) to a predetermined place in memory. On a Linux boot floppy, there is no filesystem, the kernel is just stored in consecutive sectors, since this simplifies the boot process. ... For example, when I boot, I it looks like this: љ љ љ љ LILO boot: Loading linux. ...

... It might feel like you are sitting still, but right this very second, you are zooming through space at speeds that make the fastest rocket look like its moving at a snail's pace! ... The Earth is also moving along its orbit around the Sun, and the Solar System itself is orbiting around the core of our galaxy, the Milky Way. ... For many years, astronomers have suspected that this rotation is propelled by gas being pulled onto the galaxy from a surrounding envelope of material. ...

... How much energy is there in a 20 mph wind? . 20 mph wind =10 m/s .0006 * 10 3 = .0006 * 1000 = .6 KILO watts per square meter . ... In your back yard the average wind speed is 10 mph which yields 100 watts per square meter. ... 4 3 = 64 if a 10 mph wind gives you 100 watts per square meter then a 40 mph wind gives you 64 times more power per square meter 6400 watts per square meter . total power = 6400 watts per square meter * 2 square meters = 12800 watts = 12.8 Kilowatts this is a lot! ...

One of the nice things about graphics programs like Adobe Photoshop and The GIMP, is that you can do many cool things with images, text, and textures. ... This is a tutorial on how to get a shadow effect under a picture. ... Figure 1: Our picture with a white border. ... Figure 2: Our black mask of the picture. ... This is our shadow image. ... The First Image is our original picture (Figure 1), our Second Image is the shadow (Figure 3.1), and the Mask Image is our black mask (Figure 2). ...

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... Skalnatґ Pleso 43, 1 ­ 2, (2014) e Mini-MegaTORTORA ­ multichannel system for wide-field optical monitoring with high temp oral resolution V. Sasyuk1 , G. Beskin2 , S. Karp ov2 , S. Bondar3 , A. Perkov3 , E. Ivanov3 , E. Katkova3 and A. Shearer4 2 Kazan Federal University, Russia Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia 3 Insttitute for Precise Instrumentation, Russia 4 National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Received: November 4, 2013; Accepted: ?? ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... 27.02.2012 . ... All news ...

Theory of filtering and time series processing L. Zotov Laboratory work ?2 Purpose: Studying Fourier analysis of signals with random components. ... Study the calculation of the autocovariance function. ... 2) Make yourself the following a) Change the periods of harmonics b) Increase the order of autoregression c) Make the normalization of the autocovariance function. d) Change the unbiased estimation of ACF to biased e) Use another window for Blackman-Tukey method ...

... The software systems are described following the forward and backward data flow to/from the satellite: starting from the Observation Proposal reception and archiving, the long term observation scheduling up to the detailed weekly planning and telecommands sequence uplinking, and vice versa the scientific and housekeeping raw telemetry acquisition and archiving, quick look data analysis, data reformatting and distribution as a Final Observation Tape to the Observation Proposal PI. ...

... Research areas . ... Events The Second All-Russian Research and Practical Conference 'Actual problems in Avionics Research: Theory, Service, Developments' . ... The Second All-Russian Research and Practical Conference 'Actual problems in Avionics Research: Theory, Service, Developments' "(AVIATOR) will take place at the Faculty of Aviation Equipment of the Military Educational and Scientific Centre of Air Force 'Air Force Academy named after Professor N. E. Zhukovskiy and Yu. ...

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... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Images . ... Crew 43/44 . ... conducting on-board the space station a work package under the program of the visit: experiments under "Russian program" - "Uragan" , "Diatomeya" , "Plazma Cristal " ; research program "Andromeda" under a contract with French national center for space research (CNES); contractual work with "Globus Space" company ( "Vzglyad" project); . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

International conference . ... 2009 . Second announcement . Conference page | ... The Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Saint Petersburg Scientific Center of RAS, the Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS invite you to participate in the International scientific conference Asteroid-Comet Hazard-2009 which will be held 21-25 September 2009 in St. Petersburg. ... Top of page . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, Russia . ... The Conference ACH-2009 . ...

Underdetermined sets is a new type of data structures (terms) developed in Actor Prolog . ... The point is that an underdetermined set can include some indefinite rest (a tail) like a list in usual Prolog . At the same time, the order of elements of an underdetermined set can be arbitrary one and it does not affect results of unification of underdetermined sets. Moreover, Actor Prolog guarantees that a rest of an underdetermined set never contains elements that are explicitly given in the set. ...

A Brief History of the Discovery of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts - draft april 17, 1995 - J.Bonnell In October of 1963 the US Air Force launched the first in a series of satellites inspired by a recently signed nuclear test ban treaty. ... The event appeared to be a cosmic gamma-ray burst but at the time the constellation of satellites did not have sufficient timing resolution at the trigger to make a good determination of direction to the burst source. ...

... Space flight . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Have you ever seen the Space Vehicle Launch? ... Only Mig-25 can fly you to boundary of space. ... The company "ATLAS aerospace" is offering the services of testing yourself and your physical abilities: participate in survival training and self-saving - in mountains, in desert and in water together with space crews! ... The first cosmonaut of Brazil has left for ISS. ... Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

SDSS Host Computer Repair: February 25, 2000 . ... The Silicon Graphics crew arrived around 10am and had everything on the floor by noon. Craig was pulling double duty: SDSS Host and installing the visiting instrument for the 3.5m--or maybe he was just hiding his head in the proverbial sand. A quick look at the segmented monitor showing three live shots of the 2.5m--this is located in the Computer Room. As we leave our SG friends at 3:30pm, the hope is to have it back up with 50% capacity. ...