Christian Liensberger

Thanks to you guys for doing this show each week. I hope that you are going to let me co-host again - it's so much fun - when I'm back in Redmond

Well... in Vista the "flash virus" doesn't get admin rights and I wouldn't grant them - even more IE is put in a sandbox and therefore the flash virus wouldn't even see the real file system. Why should I bother?

I never used an AV and never had a virus. AVs make the computer so slow... dunno why, but it seems that everything that comes from the disk is really a lot slower.

To achieve that I follow a few simple rules:
1) never open attachments in emails that end with .exe, .bat, .cmd, .com, etc.
2) never open downloaded files that you got from obscure sources
3) never give an application administrator rights on Vista

Worked for me for over 10 years now.

2 kbit/sec and 256 kbit/sec. wow that's really not that much. Can't be much data that is transferred then.

Yeah. I have read about that project. It's really cool - and makes complete sense.

I was thinking about the stuff that we discussed here yesterday in the evening. There must be quite a storage on the rovers. Imagine they do their work and are on the side of Mars that's not focusing to earth. They need to store the data until they get contact again. I know that there's a relay station in orbit - it might be that they buffer the data there but I'm not sure.

These projects are faced very interesting problems!

Didn't he only mention how long it takes to get in contact. It would be interesting to know how fat the pipe is. Like how much data they get each second? Also... they probably don't use TCP/IP. Imagine a packet gets lost The robot would wait forever to catch up again.

I wonder what an uplink these rovers have. It would be interesting to know how fast the data is transferred from Mars to Earth.

Sven is going to love this one Me too. Thanks Charles.

Man I love these bullets you could jump on them and they fall of the screen... time for some mario!

Wow!!! I hope that both guys recover fast from the accident. Dan's car doesn't look very good. It must have been quite an impact.

That's a really awesome tool!  Something like this might be even useful for game development ... like when doing prototypes of shaders.

That's awesome I wonder if he is having a "cup of t(ea)"