[X] My Assistant

[slinted]

The Cornell University Department of Astronomy is now hosting a webpage dedicated to true color pancam images, with up-to-date individual frames and mosaics. It looks like these are relatively new pages, having hit counters in the low hundreds, though probably not for long!
Between this page and the dust devil page at LPL it looks like the team isn't relying as much on JPL for realtime content delivery as the mission progresses, probably because most of the science teams are working from their home institutions. Huge thanks to the team at Cornell for making these available to the general public.

[dvandorn]

Quick update on my connectivity issue -- I've narrowed it down to an issue with my cable modem. If I completely reboot my cable modem, the Pancam web page (and a whole lot of other pages out there) load instantly, no problem. I can even get Steve Squyres' updates at either the site that begins with athena or the one that begins with athena1 -- that's been an issue for me for quite a while.

After the cable modem has been running for a couple of days, several websites stop loading again, including this Pancam site. I'm not sure if there is some hidden problem with the cable modem's built-in firewall, or if my roommate's machine (connected in via a cable router) might not be bollixing up the cable modem with his copy of AOL and its attached utility, Port Magic (which manipulates the ports on your cable router and cable modem). I'm tempted to think Port Magic is closing random ports that some websites need to use to connect.

It's easy enough to check -- I'll just remove Port Magic from my roommate's machine and see if the cable modem still gets screwed up. (I used to Beta-test for AOL, and I know for a fact that this latest AOL client will run just fine with Port Magic removed from the system.)

So, at least I know where the problem actually resides. Now to see if I can find the actual trigger...

-the other Doug