October 4, 2003 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World. This page is updated every Saturday. For current issue Click here Who runs the internet? WHO runs the internet and who can break it? The technical answer to this question is simple: no one and every one! Because unlike most organizations with defined chain of command... Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight FOR more than twenty years Microsoft has brought the thrill of flight right to the desktop. Launched a couple decades back as a simple DOS-based simulator, the Microsoft Flight simulator has... Webwatch This National Institute on Drug Abuse provides the scientific facts and personal testimonies of young addicts to underscore the need to resist temptation. It tells how drugs affect brain, and about the risks of steroid use.... Terms for computer junkies PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Lights out server room: Also called a lights out datacenter, a room that contains a number of servers under lock and key and kept in the dark that under normal operation is not entered by human... E-farming sows the seeds of change TRADITIONALLY suspicious of change down the centuries, United Kingdom farmers are now increasingly eager to grasp every chance for improvement — and many are turning to 21st-century technology to bring better... Asteroids: the clear and present danger EVERY now and then, we are presented with a warning of the possibility of a dangerous and deadly impact by an asteroid. These large and small rocky pieces that roam our... WSIS: still time to prevent another “lost opportunity” EVER wondered why governments, civil society, the private sector, media and the public are always at loggerheads with one another? There is a credibility problem: about hidden motives; vested interests; withheld,... ProQuest 2003 held at KU KEEPING last year’s tradition alive, this year too the ACM chapter of the Department of Computer Science, Karachi University arranged a nationwide quiz, programming and software competition on Sept 22-23. It... Red Hat releases high-end Linux beta LINUX seller Red Hat has begun beta testing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, its next high-end product due to ship this fall with support for several new servers. Red Hat released the test version, called Taroon, last week, and the Linux company plans to release the final product this fall... Scientists succeed in cloning the rat THE researchers from China and France claim they managed to create several rodent copies, both male and female. The rat joins a lengthening list of animals that have been cloned... First spacecraft of the future SMART-1 (Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology), is the first of a series of missions designed to test key technologies for future spacecraft. With SMART-1, the two main new technologies... Softcom-2003 held at GIK PAKISTAN Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Pervez Butt has said that national progress and prosperity is linked with the dedicated and brilliant work of its engineers and scientists.... Managing projects effectively with AIM WITH the increasing emphasis on implementation methodology in business, it is crucial that project managers have the knowledge and skills (competencies) necessary to achieve desired outcomes, and to ensure that appropriate... Byteback Yahoo alias for nicks This is in response to the answer, published in ScienceDotcom (Sept 27) for Yahoo! nick changing problem. The reply read that Yahoo! doesn’t offer nick changing facility and that.... ITeaser THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure:... Cool gadgets TOSHIBA unveils a prototype model of a portable digital video viewer, “MPEG4 Mobile Viewer”, equipped with a 4.0-inch high-resolution LCD to play MPEG4 compressed video content recorded on a stamp sized SD memory card...

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