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Astronomers found a new planet that is inhabitable to human!  They call it as Gliese 581g.  They say the planet has liquid and human friendly temperatures and it’s bigger than earth.  They think the planet’s movement is locked to the star in a way that one side of its surface will always face the star (always daylight), and the other side of its surface submerged in darkness.  Astronomers think that within the universe, perhaps there are countless of habitable planets for humans since the one that they’ve found only 20 light years away.  Source.

Sometimes, Pogoplug hiccups and your external hard drives won’t be recognized.  When this happens, your media files could not be streamed across your network and on the web.  Don’t sweat the small stuffs!  Here is a fix for you:  (Important: Don’t try this when your Pogoplug is only doing what it suppose to do such as scanning for media.  Sometimes, Pogoplug gets really slow in responding to you or streaming anything when it’s actually scanning for meta-data, indexing your external hard drives, and transcoding your media files.)

1)  Login to your my.pogoplug.com (that’s, your Pogoplug admin account), eject all problematic hard drive(s) (if this takes too long, be brave and disconnect your hard drives from Pogoplug physically)

2)  Disconnect your problematic hard drive from pogoplug physically

3)  Turn on your Windows 7 PC, connect the problematic hard drive(s) into your Windows 7 PC

4)  Allow the problematic hard drive to be discovered

5)  Click Fix (something of sort, I forgot the question Windows 7 asks)

6)  Let Windows 7 fixes and re-index the file system

7)  Shut down your Windows 7 PC to release the problematic hard drive from it (for some reason, Windows 7 PC cannot safely remove the external hard drive after it fixes, issue must be inherited from Pogoplug, I’m sure there is a way you can delete a certain file or force stopping a certain process on Windows 7 to allow the release of the problematic hard drive, but I was too lazy to find out, and did a quick dirty fix by shut down Windows 7 PC altogether)

8)  Reconnect the problematic hard drive which is now fixed into Pogoplug

9)  You should see a disconnected hard drive is now reconnected,

10)  On the web and in your my.pogoplug.com (that’s, your Pogoplug admin account), go into your settings > media settings and recheck the boxes that allow your hard drives to stream media files

11)  Your media should be OK for streaming after you have done the steps above

Additional tip!  In case you know you haven’t had anything that should be seeking on your external hard drives, and yet your external hard drives’ light(s) stays on (it signifies that it’s busied doing something), then you should use either your iPhone/iPod Touch or any other compatible device and check to see if the media files can be streamed from your Pogoplug’s external hard drives.  If not, then you know Pogoplug and the external hard drives have issues.  Try the steps above if nothing else works!

Update:  Sometimes, your firewall could block 4365 UDP port which prevents your external drives to be recognized by Pogoplug.  To fix this, open up the outgoing connection for 4365 UDP port.

Should humans let their cars be on autopilot?  Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt thinks so!  Mr. Eric Schmidt is incessantly promoting the idea of letting computers do what humans are bad at, and humans should only be concentrating only on what they’re good at!  For an example, driving cars should be driven by computers, and humans should tell the cars and its GPS system where to go (that is, feeding the instructions to the machines).

The idea of getting inside a car and just speak to the car in our everyday tone naturally as if we are speaking to another human is very futuristic — after the car digests the information in fraction of a second, it then drives the passengers to a correct destination according to the address which was fed to its processors.  Some people may argue that we humans can drive just fine.  What if the car’s system fails when it is on autopilot?  Any car system should fail at certain points as the system’s tear and wear parts erode away through the natural cycles of mechanics.  Will it be even more dangerous when the car system fails unexpectedly?  Engineers who manage to create these marvels may have already thought up the fail-safe mechanism which kicks in when the autopilot system goes down — humans safety is always the priority or else what’s the point?

The idea of a traffic that is harmonizing by vehicles that are on autopilots can be very attractive.  Imagine a system where accidents become the thing of the pasts, not even traffic lights are necessary as everything is on autopilot, getting stuck in heavy traffic could also be the thing of the pasts, and road-rages may see its days numbered — it’s probably what Mr. Eric Schmidt has in mind!  It’s certainly sound really good to me!  Then again, we humans have another excuse to be just a tad lazier than before — freeing our human tentacles for other things, who know?  Let not do away with everything, we humans love to override autopilot for sport! Source.