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Spaceweather.com always has the most interesting news. The site is run by Dr. Tony Phillips, a science writer for NASA and high school teacher in Bishop, California.

His students launch balloons to the edge of space to conduct research and to carry up trinkets that they sell to fund their missions. If you scroll down on the linked page, you'll see one of the silk roses they sent up on a recent mission.

More details in a discussion from last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372021

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Still renders correctly in Netscape Communicator 4.76.

http://www.w6rz.net/netscape.png

What a relief. I thought I was going to have to upgrade version 5.1 or something

Netscape 5 was never released. They skipped that version when they decided to focus on the Gecko engine (later used in Firefox).

Netscape 6 was released using the new Gecko engine.

Thus why upgrading is complicated. Requires writing the upgrade yourself

Almost spit out my coffee that was so funny.

If jwz had his way, 5.1 would have existed.

Do you keep a copy of old Netscape in a VM (solaris no less) just for moments like these?

I just happened to have that screenshot. If you look at the date over the picture of the Sun, it's 24 Jan 19.

The primary reason for the SPARC emulation is to run an old MPEG-2 bitstream analyzer from the 90's.

http://www.w6rz.net/motionvectors.png

What do you use the bitstream analyzer for? And how would you read the image it produces?

Back then, it was used to develop algorithms for real-time MPEG-2 encoder silicon. It can also be used to look at strategies used by other encoders (for example, ffmpeg). MPEG-2 video is still being used today, so it's still relevant.

Here's another screenshot showing the options available with the tool. You can switch between the picture (shown), macroblock type, macroblock quantization, number of bits per macroblock, motion vectors (shown in the previous screenshot) and coded block pattern.

http://www.w6rz.net/ss5.png

Is there a reason why you cannot switch to newer tools like StreamEye?

But not on mobile nor with a modern Firefox' reader mode ...

The Firefox mobile that I have installed on my android phone, not have any issues with this page.

Thats just amazing! Nice backwards compatibility !

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