October 16, 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 Biogas fuel: cheap and environment friendly CATTLE dung plays a central part in everyday life in rural area of country. Dung is used primarily for three purposes — as building material and plasterwork undertaken by women, as... What to look for when buying a laptop LAPTOP computers are enticing fruits of the information age. Perhaps the most alluring aspect of a laptop is its portability and flexibility as it allows you to take your entire computer... Webwatch IDEAL for new or experienced programmers, this tutorial covers step-by-step development of J2EE components. All of the tools used in this tutorial can be downloaded free. If you want to learn everything about building Java 2 Platform... I-Terms PACKET BUFFER: Memory space that is set aside specifically for either storing a packet that is awaiting transmission over a network or storing a packet that has been received over a... What Pakistan can do in collaboration with CERN FIFTY years ago, in September 1954, CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, officially came into existence. Today, CERN, one of the outstanding high energy physics laboratories in the world, has... American and Israeli scientists win science Nobel prizes EIGHT sicentists — six of them from United States, and two from Israel — have won Nobel Prizes for Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine for the year 2004.... Role of animals in spread of CCHF THAT morning as he got up he had a strange feeling of dizziness. His muscles were aching too. He had slept well, but still the feeling of dizziness was there. He... Careers in mycology and plant pathology A PLANT pathologist is a scientist who specializes in plant health management. The task of keeping plants healthy needs a knowledge of organisms and agents that cause disease in plants... Suit filed against ‘Spyware’ THE US government has sued a man in its first attempt to crack down on internet “spyware” that seizes control of a user’s computer without permission.... Morning and evening body clocks identified FLIES have two ‘body clocks’ in their brain, which separately drive theirbursts of activity in the morning and evening, reveal two studies in this week’s Nature.... Rise in hepatitis MEDICAL experts last Sunday underlined the need for vaccinating the entire population against Hepatitis B, especially the newborns, to contain the disease from spreading.... PAEC asked to explore alternate sources of energy THE government has asked the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) to find “alternative sources of nuclear energy, other than uranium,” to meet the growing energy requirement of the country.... Blue phase of laser in HDTV WHEN data is written on a CD, the real laser power heats up a certain part of the cdrom surface, thus creating a physical 0 or 1 on the cdrom, which can later be read by a CD player. The smaller the wavelength of a laser is, the smaller the beam can be. If the beam is smaller . . . it can also read/write the same data using a smaller width (less than 1 micron). So, on the same amount of surface... Byteback Some queries I want to ask: 1. Is there any web hosting site which supports Free 100MB web space with FTP support? 2. I have 2 hard disk in which I have Windows XP on my second hard disk (slave) and nothing in first hard disk (primary), execpt a boot.ini file. When I open my computer... ITeaser THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure:... Cool gadgets A SONY employee displays the stylish new-concept digital camera, Cybershot DSC-M1. It is equipped with a 5.1 mega-pixel CCD on its image sensor and a 6.7-20.1mm/F3.5-4.4 Carl Zeiss vario-tessar zoom lens, which enables...

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