What Does Chupacabra Mean?

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The Chupacabra (El Chupacabras in Spanish) is nothing but an urban legend. It was first reported in Puerto Rico. The Chupacabra literally means goat sucker. It is derived from the Spanish words chupar, meaning “to suck”, and cabra, meaning “goat”.

  1. Data First reported – March 1995.
  2. Last sighted – 2009.
  3. Country – Mexico, Puerto Rico, and United States.
  4. Region – Central and North America
  5. Status – Unconfirmed.

See wikipedia Chupacabra article for further details.

Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan Engaged

World’s most beautiful woman, queen of bollywood and Miss world 94 Aishwarya Rai finally getting engaged with superstar Abhishek Bachchan.

She began dating Salman Khan. They breakup a few years later generated a substantial amount of press attention. For a time, Rai was frequently seen in public with her co-star Vivek Oberoi.

Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan Engaged

Now, Amitab Bachan confirmed that Abhishek got engaged to Actress Aishwarya Rai at Mumbai residence. However no date has been fixed for marriage yet.

They are going to be hot bollywood couple ;)

THOUSANDS of Wattlebirds have fallen from the skies in Australia

Yes, THOUSANDS of birds have fallen from the skies over Esperance and no one knows why.

Wattlebirds are members of the Honeyeater family, and native to Australia. Species of wattlebird include the Little Wattlebird, the Red Wattlebird, the Western Wattlebird, and the Yellow Wattlebird.

According to wikipedia:
Wattlebirds are characterized by their wattles. These are bare fleshy appendages, usually wrinkled and often brightly coloured, hanging from the cheeks, neck or throat, and presumably serving for display. The exception is the Little Wattlebird, which lacks wattles.

Wildlife officers are baffled by the “catastrophic” event, which the Department of Environment and Conservation said began well before last week’s freak storm.

On Monday, Esperance, 725km southeast of Perth, was declared a natural disaster zone.

According to story
It was like a moonscape, just horrible. But the frightening thing for us, we didn’t find any more birds after that. We literally didn’t have any birds left to die.
THOUSANDS of Wattlebirds have fallen from the skies in Australia
(Picture Credit: Geoff McLachlan | Click image to get more information about wattlebirds)
Truly a sad story :(

Improved method of searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life

Improved method of searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life is life that exists and originates outside our planet Earth, the only place in the universe currently known by humans to support life.

This is the artist’s rendering shows a hypothetical distant world inhabited by intelligent aliens. The Mileura Wide-Field Array will be able to “eavesdrop” for unintentional signals from any such worlds within 30 light-years of Earth. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)

Now, astronomers have proposed an improved method of searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life using instruments like one now under construction in Australia. The Low Frequency Demonstrator (LFD) of the Mileura Wide-Field Array (MWA), a facility for radio astronomy, theoretically could detect Earth-like civilizations around any of the 1,000 nearest stars.

From the article:
The question of whether intelligent life exists elsewhere is one of the fundamental unknowns about our Universe. Over the past decade more than 200 extra-solar planets have been discovered, providing new urgency for addressing this question in these or other planetary systems. Independently of this perspective, new radio observatories for cosmology are currently being constructed with the goal of detecting 21cm emission from cosmic hydrogen in the redshift range 6http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610377 and more info at Eavesdropping on the Universe

Get FREE copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007

Yes you can get FREE copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 for UK developers.

…all you have to do is attend the Vista/Office launch event for developers were such leading visionaries in the world of technology like Mike Taulty, Martin Parry, Daniel Moth, Mike Ormond and lesser known ones like me will be presenting.

Microsoft will be giving 1000 copies of Windows Vista Ultimate, and 1000 copies of Office Professional 2007 to developers who take part in thier online launch event.

Only thing is you need to have a UK address for us to ship the product to, and we’ll only ship the product when we have it, which could be some time after January (ie it won’t be immediate). Other fairly standard T&Cs apply.

More information is available here

Server Computer Configuration for an Internet Service Provider (ISP)

Here is a quick question from one of our reader:

What sort of computer should you buy for an ISP? We need a computer for mailing, hosting customer sites and running games like Quake. We are small startup ISP.

For mailing and webhosting need you need to purchase a dedicated server. You can build one for yourself (a whitebox) or order from Dell and other vendors. A minimum suggested configuration:

Web server
=> Dual Intel XEON or AMD Dual core processor

=> RAID 5 1/2 TB disk space

=> 4 GB Ecc RAM

=> Linux or FreeBSD UNIX operating system
This web server can handle shared hosting load. You can use same configuration computer for mailing with anti spam and anti virus software.

For gaming you can get a Dual core Intel / AMD CPU with lods of RAM and fast hard disks.

Remember an ISP server mean lots of services such as a Firewall, Web, FTP, RADIUS server etc. You should also consider operating system and your own level of handling the same. You can also purchase 3rd party game and management control panel. Basically you need to do good research before making a final decision.

Windows command line download, file transfer tool

How do you transfer files asynchronously between a client and a server using command line tool?

There is a nice tool called BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) for this job.

BITSAdmin is a command-line tool that you can use to create download or upload jobs and monitor their progress.

From BITS page:
A download job downloads files to the client, an upload job uploads a file to the server, and an upload-reply job uploads a file to the server and receives a reply file from the server application.

BITS continues to transfer files after an application exits if the user who initiated the transfer remains logged on and a network connection is maintained. BITS will not force a connection.

BITS suspends the transfer if a connection is lost or if the user logs off. BITS persists transfer information while the user is logged off, across network disconnects, and during computer restarts.

A must have tool for admins. For example download xyz.pdf from http://foo.com web site:

bitsadmin /transfer xnase http://foo.com/xyz.pdf downloaded.pdf

More examples available at MSDN web site.