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Archive for December, 2006

Solar cells reach 40% efficiency

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

From the article:

…a concentrator solar cell produced by Boeing-Spectrolab has recently achieved a world-record conversion efficiency of 40.7 percent, establishing a new milestone in sunlight-to-electricity performance. This breakthrough may lead to systems with an installation cost of only $3 per watt, producing electricity at a cost of 8-10 cents per kilowatt/hour, making solar electricity [...]

mail server ip changing

Friday, December 8th, 2006

mail.phauna.org, smtp.phauna.org, and imap.phauna.org are all changing from 208.68.209.89 to 208.68.209.90. This is so that I can get reverse DNS working for the mail server IP. Sorry for any inconvenience.

everydns getting pwnzd

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

everydns, our free DNS provider, seems to be getting pwnzd by a botnet. The attack started last Friday, and the guys at everydns thought they had it fixed by Sunday. They were down again this evening. It’s starting to look like maybe everydns is just flat going to lose, so I’m moving [...]

are you ready for peacecow?

Friday, December 1st, 2006

There will probably be some intermittent issues this weekend as I move things to a new virtual host I rented.
The major plus side is that after everything is moved, it will all be much faster.

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