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Google Solar Panel Project

In the last 24 hours, Google produced 6,055 kilowatt-hours of electricity from the sun.

In October 2006, Google announced a commitment to solar energy production and launched the largest solar panel installation to date on a corporate campus in the United States. Google has installed over 90% of the 9,212 solar panels that comprise the 1,600 kilowatt project. Panels cover the rooftops of eight buildings and two newly constructed solar carports at the Googleplex

Poll of 100 million votes names new Seven Wonders of the World | Afrique en ligne

Poll of 100 million votes names new Seven Wonders of the World In 1999, Bernard Weber started the New7Wonders foundation, and eight years, 200 candidates and 100 million votes later, seven man-made structures now have something in common - they all hold the title of ‘Wonder’. Weber claims he started the foundation to ensure that “everybody can decide what the new seven wonders should be and not some government, not some individuals, not some institutions.”

And what is the new list?

• Great Wall of China, in northern China.
• Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Machu Picchu, above the Urubamba Valley, Peru.
• Petra, in Jordan.
• Chichen Itza, on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
• Taj Mahal, in Agra, India.
• Colosseum, in Rome, Italy.

I was just as surprised as they were that the great pyramids are off the list too.
however, when you take into account that this great world wide voting was held via three means –

1. online through their web page
2. over the telephone
3. SMS text messaging

Maybe, just maybe — the results will be skewed?

Magic has always enchanted me …

Showdown persists over ‘100% undetectable’ rootkit | The Register

Ptacek went on in today’s entry to call on Microsoft and other big guns to run virtualization by default in their operating systems. That would allow the ideas Matasano has implemented into its detection software to become an industry standard and, they say, debunk the 100-percent undetectable claims once and for all.

Interesting. Solaris 10 ships virtualized from day one.
All that remains is to create a zone for any non-secured work to be performed in.
a quick run of psrinfo proves it:

# psrinfo -v
Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 07/05/2007 22:30:04
on-line since 07/02/2007 09:37:51.
The sparcv9 processor operates at 450 MHz,
and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 07/05/2007 22:30:04
on-line since 07/02/2007 09:37:52.
The sparcv9 processor operates at 450 MHz,
and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 2 as of: 07/05/2007 22:30:04
on-line since 07/02/2007 09:37:52.
The sparcv9 processor operates at 450 MHz,
and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 3 as of: 07/05/2007 22:30:04
on-line since 07/02/2007 09:37:52.
The sparcv9 processor operates at 450 MHz,
and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
# zoneadm list -v
ID NAME STATUS PATH
0 global running /
#

I suppose the next desirable step would be to configure a non-global zone at install time.