CERN Confirm two possible causes for faster than light speeds.

UPDATE 23 February 2012
OPERA experiment reports anomaly in flight time of neutrinos from CERN to Gran Sasso.

The OPERA collaboration has informed its funding agencies and host laboratories that it has identified two possible effects that could have an influence on its neutrino timing measurement. These both require further tests with a short pulsed beam. If confirmed, one would increase the size of the measured effect, the other would diminish it. The first possible effect concerns an oscillator used to provide the time stamps for GPS synchronizations. It could have led to an overestimate of the neutrino's time of flight. The second concerns the optical fibre connector that brings the external GPS signal to the OPERA master clock, which may not have been functioning correctly when the measurements were taken. If this is the case, it could have led to an underestimate of the time of flight of the neutrinos. The potential extent of these two effects is being studied by the OPERA collaboration. New measurements with short pulsed beams are scheduled for May.

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New apple CPU, iPad3 chip ?

Is this a picture of a quad core cpu as offered on the forth coming
iPad3 tablet.
Looks like the new A6 S5L8945X system on a chip.

Rasberry Pi first file system avalible for download here Now !

Downloads

This page contains links to SD card images for various Linux distributions. For each distribution, we provide both a direct HTTP download, a torrent file and a SHA-1 hash; the total number of concurrent direct downloads is limited, so we encourage you to use the torrent file if at all possible.

To use an image file, you will need to unzip it and write it to a suitable SD card using the UNIX tool dd. Windows users may find Chrysocome’s windd port to be a suitable alternative.

Thanks to Webfusion for providing hosting and bandwidth for this service.

Debian “squeeze”

Reference root filesystem from Gray and Dom, containing LXDE, Midori, development tools and example source code for multimedia functions.

Above is from the official downloads page I have decided to help by offering the official torrent which would be the best way to spread the software.

I am currently seeding with a good 9Mb up. See the links below to get the torrent file, please use the official torrent link, but if its down for some reason please use the other link below from one of our drop box accounts.

Here is the official link to the torrent file

Here is a link to the torrent file from one of our dropbox public folders

Direct Link from one of our dropbox public folders (Not currently live pls check back) 18:50 GMT
Direct Link now up and working 21:35 GMT


 

Samsung confirms Galaxy S3, "still reviewing" release

http://www.t3.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s3-delayed-beyond-mwc-2012-unveiling

Nasa spacecraft orbits moon on New Year's Eve as part of $500m mission to scan Earth¿s nearest neighbour from crust to core | Mail Online

New Year's Mission: One of the two twin Grail probes entered orbit on New Year's Eve

Grail is expected to help researchers better understand why the moon is asymmetrical and how it formed by mapping the uneven lunar gravity field. The mission will cost nearly $500million. Previous lunar missions have attempted to study the moon's gravity -which is about one-sixth Earth's pull - with mixed results. Grail is the first mission devoted to this goal.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080881/Nasa-spacecraft-orbits-moon-New-Years-Eve-500m-mission-scan-Earth-s-nearest-neighbour-crust-core.html

Nokia Lumia :(

It would apear that @Nokia_uk & @microsoft have a big problem with
their new flagship Lumia handsets.
Problems apear to be centred around the battery or power management.
Customers report their phone will not power up, some have to
disconnect the charger a few times and press the power button
intermitantly.

Forum link here

http://bit.ly/vhf1cl

Three SIM card Template / Cutter update iPhone / iPad

Standard SIM card

Please see my past entry re a the template for cutting your standard SIM card to fit a micro SIM ( MicroSim ) card slot.

Military Wives shoot for the number one spot.

It has been revealed that Military Wives and Gareth Malone’s Wherever You Are has become record-breaking as the most pre-ordered music item ever on Amazon ahead of its official release by Decca on December 18.

It looks like X Factor winners Little Mix’s chances of hitting the topspot are getting slimmer by the day as phenomenal pre-order figures have been reported for the Military Wives single.

Amazon UK’s music manager, Roger Greensmith, revealed: “Pre-orders for the single have been so strong they have outstripped those achieved by Take That’s 2010 album Progress almost three times over.”

“This is a tremendous achievement when you consider that Take That’s album marked Robbie’s return and was one of the most highly anticipated music releases ever. With a week of pre-orders still to go, this puts the Military Wives choir in a great position to be Christmas number one.”
   

Get your order in today !!

Music Week

Kevin D. Mitnick has been globe trotting publishing his new book.

Kevin Mitnick (@kevinmitnick) has been doing the rounds of late apearing on verious podcasts including techzilla and Hak.5
He has a new book out called Ghost in the wires, well worth a read, definitely on my Christmas list.
kindle version here :-

There is also a paper back version and an audio book too.

Check out some of the other books Kevin has published on Amazon here Other titles

The Register launched its 1st Kindle book, “The Life and Times of Steve Jobs”

Rik Myslewski has followed Apple since the beginning, as a member of the Homebrew Computer Club, editor of MacAddict, and as San Francisco editor for The Register. In this Reg book he plots Jobs' career from Silicon Valley Hellion to Apple Mk 1, NeXTS, Pixar, Apple Mk II, the iPhone and Cancer. Dick? Prick? Nasty? Mercurial? The world's greatest salesman? Rik considers all these Jobs and more in "The Life and Times of Steve Jobs".