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Mon Jan 23 at 4:00 UTC (or Sun Jan 22 at 8 PM Pacific), there was a pretty spectacular solar flare. For the next several days we’re going to see an upswing in support tickets at work. In the last 48 hours we’ve had a few systems go down, power & environmental problems, UPSs burn out. This evening I worked on a site where a VPN router went down for no apparent reason. (All signs point to the network, but everything else on the network was working and the VPN router is directly connected to the internet… It was very perplexing.)

Whenever I hear about a solar flare, I’m sure there’s going to be more tickets in the work queue. If you read the FCC guidelines carefully (read the label on the box of every piece of electronics sold in the US), it says that all electronic devices must accept interference (even if it may cause undesired operation).

This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference that may cause undesired operation.

via http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Documents/bulletins/oet61/oet61.pdf

And that’s what a solar flare puts out (large bursts of energy that can caused undesired operations.) In Sweden there were reports of the power grid being affected by the solar flare.

The picture is pretty, but it also means work.

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Enter Adobe DNG Converter.  Adobe DNG Converter is the Adobe Acrobat for camera raw files.  It converts the manufacturer specific raw formats to a “universal digital negative” format supported by Adobe.  And DNG is supported by CS3.

If you have Photoshop, download your own copy of DNG here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=106&platform=Windows

A friend of mine is working the Vancouver Olympics as part of the IT team managing the data network set up to support all of the media coverage of this historical event.

Q&A with Jerak, the creator of this Starcraft LEGO tribute.

Source: Digg

The universe we live in is such a beautiful place.  But then, just about everything is beautiful from 1 million LY away.

As promised, photos from Monterey/Pacific Grove have been uploaded to my flickr account. Here’s one of my favorite from that weekend. A frog caugh lounging with an iPod in his lap.

nuff said