Oct
29
2009
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First full resolution photo of an Apollo landing site

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been orbiting the moon for months calibrating it’s instruments and lowering it’s orbit. It is now in a 50km polar orbit about the moon.

As with any optics, being closer normally results in a higher resolution, and with no atmosphere on the moon to distort images, the LROC (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera) is now taking the high resolution mapping photos it was designed to take.

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Written by John Burns in: Astronomy |
Oct
21
2009
5

IIS 6 FTP – When PassivePortRange doesn't work

I’ve been trying to enable the passive port range on an IIS6 FTP server. I did everything. I enabled direct metabase edit, set the range using ADSUTIL and then added the ports to the firewall.

It turns out that if you set the firewall to allow “FTP”, the passive port range will be ignored and the default passive port range will be used. To solve it, you’ll need to manually add port 21 and the ports defined in the passive port range… Strange but true.
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Written by John Burns in: PC Tips |