NASA Plans to Crash Two Spacecrafts into Moon's Surface on Friday

NASA has planned to crash two spacecrafts traveling with 5400 mph into the surface of moon on Friday morning October 9 at 4:31:19 a.m. PDT, to blow up some moon surface and find water.

As it races toward the moon, the Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will launch the still-attached upper stage of the Atlas V Centaur rocket to strike the moon first and create a cloud of debris that LCROSS will analyze for about four minutes before it gets cratered and creates its own cloud. Scientists are greatly hoping to discover water after the impact.

You won't be able to see the crash with naked eyes or binoculars from Earth, but it is expected to be visible with Earth- and space-based telescopes 10-to-12 inches and larger.

How to Prevent an e-Discovery Disaster

e-Discovery disasters can result in devastating consequences. Lost evidences can lead a company to be fined with multimillion-dollars or lose an otherwise court case which was otherwise winnable. Here are some best practices for IT Managers to stick to in order to prevent such situations.

Talk to your legal department on a regular basis. One benefit of meeting with in-house counsel regularly is that you'll get to know the key contacts so you'll be prepared to act fast if your company does face legal action. And the best part is that it greatly reduces the surprises you could face down the road.

Make your information-handling practices routine and consistent. It's critical to be able to prove in court that your standard operating procedures are maintained and followed by every individual in your company.

Keep a log, keep a log and keep a log. Backup logs, system and event logs, shipping receipts, help desk tickets, work requests, e-mail, meeting notes, journal entries, and yellow sticky notes can all be resources for you to resort to especially if  when you need to recall or prove what you did or didn't do in the course of a typical day.

Tame the mouse (and hold your horses) while the mouse is in your hands. Copying critical corporate files to irrelevant folder during an e-discovery project can not only compromise your chain of custody, but also mistakenly information to wrong people.

The most talked about term you'll hear after the e-discovery project starts is, chain of custody. Which simply means that you should be able to prove who had the data and when. Best practice is to start the chain long before the e-discovery matter begins, so you need to take steps now to ensure that you can track the chain of custody in the future.

Understand what spoliation is. Spoliation is the deliberate or negligent destruction, withholding or hiding of evidence when an investigation or litigation is under way. At the risk of stating the obvious, it's a big no-no.

The fact that you destroyed it means the law automatically assumes it was damaging.

Be ready to preserve or backup all data, immediately. If you have automatic cleanup or purging processes, you should suspend or discontinue them. If you don't know how much data is subject to the hold request, which is a typical scenario, you should stop all data destruction to be on the safe side.

Know what you have. Do you know where your data is? Do you think you have a handle on your data? Think again. I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone say, "They've found another server/drive/tape/flash drive."

Intel's Light Peak Technology Aims to Replace all Data Cables in a PC with One Fiber Cable

Intel has developed a new technology called Light Peak to replace the bunch of cables sprouting out of PCs with a single fiber-optic link. Intel's vision is one replacement for the cable to monitors, external drives, scanners, and any other device that plugs in to a computer.

Dadi Perlmutter, the newly promoted co-general manager of Intel's Architecture Group said the components for the technology will be ready in 2010. "We hope to see one single cable," Perlmutter added.

The cable can be as long as 100 meters and can carry data at 10 gigabits per second in both directions simultaneously, though Intel expects it will reach 100 gigabits per second in the next decade, said Jason Ziller, Intel's director of optical input-ouput program office.

"Sony is excited about the potential for Light Peak technology that Intel has been developing, and believe it could enable a new generation of high-speed device connectivity," said Ryosuke Akahane, vice president of Sony's Vaio Business Group.