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links for 2008-04-20

April 20th, 2008 by timelady

• Fifty Years of American Space Exploration [Slideshow]: Scientific American Slideshow
  NASA celebrates half a century of American spaceflight with a new collection of space exploration images. And this has made my year. So very very VERY cool:)
  (tags: cool science nasa astronomy space astronaut images spaceflight rocket shuttle)
• Will MySQL Keep Lighting up LAMP? - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
  the pro-Linux crowd of 200-plus were worried that now, with Sun in charge of MySQL, Sun’s focus would be on creating a SAMP (Solaris, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python) software ecosystem instead of supporting LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python)
  (tags: lamp samp mysql sun linux apache solaris perl php python server webserver)
• OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta? - OpenOffice.org Ninja
  The real OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta is due April 30. With any version, you are welcome and encouraged to test to find and report bugs and to discover new features. The stable OpenOffice.org 3.0 release is still due September 2008.
  (tags: openoffice beta software office productivity testing opensource)
• ESA Portal - Mars radar opens up a planet’s third dimension
  ESA’s Mars Express radar sounder, MARSIS, has looked beneath the martian surface and opened up the third dimension for planetary exploration.
  (tags: mars explorer nasa science astronomy geology)
• ‘Father of the internet’ presents inaugural lecture at City - City University London
  Vinton G Cerf, Vice-President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, delivered the Inaugural Information Technologists’ Lecture at City University London on Monday 14 April 2008.
  (tags: internet vintcerf google lecture it)

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