Cav's Place

With SETI@home currently running out of work units and, according to the following technical news posts, no hope for the situation to be solved this week, I had to look for another project to fill the gap and keep my computer busy. That meant I once again went through the list to see if any […]

Meant to write this yesterday, but couldn’t even get started, so here it is now. Admittedly, there are a few more things I can add to it because of this, one of them quite worrying, so it’ll end up bigger than the relatively quick post it was initially meant to be, but hoping not too […]

With politicians quite scared of what happened Sunday, those in top positions are rushing to figure out who or what to sacrifice to hold on to their own positions, meaning that some rather interesting decisions have been taken this week. As such, we must press this momentary advantage and various protests and other actions are […]

On November 2, 14 candidates entered the first round of presidential elections here. However, it was always obvious that vote would be rather pointless, as the top two, namely Victor Ponta, who’s the current Prime Minister and the candidate of the Social Democrats (PSD) and their Conservative (PC) and so-called Progressive (UNPR) allies, and Klaus […]

Last night, at 0:36 GMT, contact with Philae was lost, as the lander’s non-rechargeable battery drained and it entered hibernation. Considering the very low amount of sunlight available in the location it eventually ended up in at the end of the two jumps it made after first touching down on the surface, the odds of […]