Worldwidetelescope.org Microsoft WorldWide Telescope a copy of google sky
Microsofts WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that stitches together images from some of the best ground- and space-based telescopes. Microsoft says the “final frontier got a bit closer” as the software giant officially launches the public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, which is now available at http://www.worldwidetelescope.org.
Very similar to Google Sky, WorldWide Telescope is a web app that brings together imagery from ground- and space-based observatories across the world to allow people to explore the night sky through their computers.
Collections include pictures from the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes, as well as the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
The web-based tool also allows users to pan and zoom around the planets, and trace their locations in the night sky.
The application itself is a blend of software and Web 2.0 services created with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine, which claims to allow “seamless panning and zooming around the heavens with rich image environments”.
WorldWide Telescope stitches together terabytes of high-resolution images of celestial bodies and displays them in a way that relates to their actual position in the sky.
WorldWide Telescope Software minimum system requirements
* Microsoft XP SP2 (minimum), Windows Vista
* 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM; 2 GB RAM recommended
* 3D accelerated card with 128 megabytes (MB) RAM; discrete graphics card with dedicated 256-MB VRAM recommended for higher performance
* 1 GB of available hard disk space; 10 GB recommended for off-line features and higher performance browsing
* XGA (1024 x 768) or higher resolution monitor
* Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing and scrolling device
* Microsoft DirectX version 9.0c and .NET Framework 2.0
* Required for some features; Internet connection at 56 Kbps or higher
worldwidetelescope.org Microsoft WorldWide Telescope a copy of google sky but still compare to Google sky worldwidetelescope is Mind blowing.
Best Tips to Protect your Web Sites from Hackers and Malicious contents
The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.These Web-based attacks become much more common in recent years as firewalls and better security practices by Microsoft have made it harder for worms and viruses to directly attack computers. Nowadays about 1.3 percent of all Google search queries list malicious results somewhere on the first few pages.
Criminals are getting better at this kind of work. They have built very successful automated tools that poke and prod Web sites, looking for programming errors and then exploit these flaws to install the drive-by download software. Often this code opens an invisible iFrame page on the victim’s browser that redirects it to a malicious Web server. That server then tries to install code on the victim’s PC. “The bad guys are getting exceptionally good at automating those attacks,”
Following are some tips to get rid of this hackers or hijackers activity.
- Keep you password and username safe change it frequently only with strong password check your password with Microsoft
- Keep your PC clean from viruses and spy-wares because there are chances to hijack your PC contents and login cookies etc. Scan your PC for viruses now with NOD32 Online Antivirus Scanner
- Keep all folders and files permissions proper in your web hosting accounts/server. Never give full permission for the folders and files, that means read write and execute permission. If you are hosting sites in Linux platform never give 777 permission (read write and execute permission) to all members even for net users of file and folders. The preferred maximum permission is 755. This means write permission for root user and only read and execute permission for others.
- There are many techniques used to hack/hijack the website
Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
SQL injection flaws
Site reconnaissance
Session hijacking
Application denial of service
Cookie/session tampering
To withstand from this you need “professionally well designed websites” and also powerful web sitefirewall at server end.
- You need to choose good web hosting platform or company which provides good firewalls and Security. If you are going for Linux platform better to choose Grsecurity enabled kernel Servers; especially for shared hosting.
- But not the least the best way to find the flow in website is by checking the web site stats all the day. By this you can find the links/URL which are not related to your website so that you can delete it before it spreads through search engines.
- If some one reports your site having virus then its 99% sure your site home pages are having masked IFrames at the beginning or last lines of the page, which actually downloads virus file form some other server/site. You can fix it your self by editing your home page and removing the contents which looks like as shown bellow.
These are some of the tips which really helps to protect yourself from Hackers and Malicious contents
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