March 6, 2004 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 Tilling the World Wide Web CULTIVATION is one of the oldest human activities. It started millenniums ago when early farmers began to raise plants for food. It is evolving ever since. The last century saw the... Tips that make troubleshooting child’s play TROUBLESHOOTING is perhaps the most difficult task that computer professionals face. Added to the need to get to the bottom of a problem afflicting the network is the pressure to do... Webwatch Here is a website which uses fine art of ballon knot to demonstrate different-sized models of molecules. You will learn important knot techniques that are shown to make you... Terms for computer junkies PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Clock cycle: In a computer, the clock cycle is the time between two adjacent pulses of the oscillator that... Bionic mini-stimulator for weak muscles THE world’s first clinical application of a “bionic” miniature neuromuscular stimulator implanted into the muscles of the arm is being developed by a team of researchers.... All about the planet Earth PLANET Earth never looked as spectacular in a book as in this large-format encyclopaedic compendium. Divided into five major sections for reader''s convenience: Planet Earth, Land, Ocean, Atmosphere and Tectonic Earth.... Niche construction and the process of evolution ALL life has a common ancestor, a cornerstone, that is, biology. And all the fields of biology are united under one theoretical umbrella. And this umbrella is Evolution. It’s not... Judging a jukebox THE great popularity of MP3 files has resulted in a boon for the audio playing, ripping and burning, encoding and organizational software selection. While there is a huge and constantly growing... Residing on the Moon AS scientific knowledge and observation techniques have improved, we have learnt much about our lonely celestial companion — the moon. From a safe distance, it helps “the world go round”. But... Windows XP ‘Reloaded’ MICROSOFT will make an effort to promote and update Windows XP before the arrival of the next major update to its flagship operating system, code-named Longhorn, it said last week.... Shortest time interval measured SCIENTISTS claim they have measured the shortest interval of time ever. Researchers used short pulses of laser light to produce images of electrons leaving atoms and recorded what happened to within... Haleji lake eco-system threatened DIVERSION of water for irrigation from the Jam branch is the key cause of the degradation of the Haleji lake. This 6.5-square-mile, 10-billion-gallon water reservoir has degenerated substantially. Over the past... Suparco briefs Musharraf, Jamali on Pakistan’s space programme PRESIDENT General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali attended a briefing last week on Pakistan’s space programme.... Creating synergies in telecom markets SOME sensible decisions from the top echelons in the last few years have made Pakistan’s telecom markets incredible, contrary to the situations in rest of the developed world. The calling-party-pays-regime (CPP)... Byteback Assorted queries I Need solutions to these problems that I have been facing: 1. On starting PC, I get these messages: (i) “Registry Editor: Cannot import sys.reg: Error opening the file. There may be... Cool gadgets Print without a PC SONY presented the new thermal printer DPP-EX50 which makes it possible to edit and print out digital photo images from digital camera directly without a PC, and the new 5 mega-pixel digicam...

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