... The standard Solaris X server supports Xinerama, allowing me to create one big screen across two monitors, with a resolution of 2560x1024. ... So I thought I'd share the images I use as desktop images, (or wallpaper, or backdrops, or backgrounds, or whatever you want to call them) and let you know where you can obtain more like them. ... If the original images are in the public domain, then mine are too. ... Image Manipulation: Shrunk, and chopped top and bottom. ... Image Quality: Good . ...

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... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... Portable tmp directory creation inspired by the Autoconf team. set_cc_for_build=' trap exitcode=\$?; (rm -f \$tmpfiles 2 / dev / null ; rmdir \$tmp 2 / dev / null ) exit \$exitcode 0 ; trap rm -f \$tmpfiles 2 / dev / null ; rmdir \$tmp 2 / dev / null ; exit 1 1 2 13 15 ; : ${TMPDIR=/tmp} ; { tmp=`(umask 077 mktemp -d $TMPDIR/cgXXXXXX ) 2 / dev / UNAME_MACHINE=unknown UNAME_RELEASE=`(uname -r) 2>/dev/null` || UNAME_RELEASE=unknown UNAME_SYSTEM=`(uname -s) 2>/dev/null` || ...