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A suborbital spaceship owned by aspiring space tourism operator Virgin Galactic was airlifted into the skies over California’s Mojave Desert on Monday for its debut test flight. The sleek, six-passenger ship, called VSS Enterprise, remained attached to its carrier aircraft throughout the two-hour, 54-minute flight. Read more

About 23 percent of the universe is made up of mysterious ‘dark matter’ — invisible material only detected through its gravitational influence on its surroundings. Now two astronomers based at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have found a hint of the way it behaves near black holes. Read more

The fantasy took $34.5m (£23m) in its third weekend on release, swelling its overall US takings to $265.8m (£179m). Its nearest rival was family film Diary of a Wimpy Kid, which opened in second place with a $21.8m (£14.5m) tally.That put it ahead of comedy The Bounty Hunter, whose $21m (£14m) takings won it third spot in this week’s chart. Distributor Sony said it was happy with the performance of the film, which stars former Friends actress Jennifer Aniston and Scottish actor Gerard Butler. Rival studio Universal, however, is likely to be disappointed by the fourth place opening of its futuristic action thriller Repo Men. Read more

A volcano erupted in the south of Iceland overnight, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate the area and diverting flights after authorities declared a local state of emergency, officials said on Sunday. Shortly before midnight, the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, the island’s fifth largest, started to spew smoke and lava from several craters along a rift which is popular with hikers. Police declared a state of emergency and sent rescue teams to evacuate about 500 people living in the thinly populated area near the site. No injuries or damage to property were reported. Three Red Cross care centers were opened in nearby villages to assist the evacuated population.
source: washingtonpost.com

StrongDC++ is designed as an alternate DC++ which is based on the popular Direct Connect clone “DC++”.
Since DC++ is open source, you can download the source code and start modifying it. This is what I have done. To do this, you need to stick to GPL (GNU General Public License). That’s why I release my modifications as well. This client support separate downloading. Direct Connect allows you to share files over the internet without restrictions or limits. Because DC++ is a self contained C++ program it doesn’t need installing as such – simply download and unzip the zip file, copy the contents into a directory and double click the .exe application. Setup is simple too – once the application is running simply go to File>Settings… or click the icon on the Toolbar and you should see the settings pop-up. DC++ is very easy to use. File>Public Hubs (or CTRL+P) brings up the Public Hubs and Connection Window then all you do is simply wait for the hub list to appear and double click a hub to connect to it. Often the description next to a hub name in the hub list will contain a summary of the rules of the hub – some hubs are very much neo-modus only and will have the words NO DC++ in the description. Do not bother trying to connect to these hubs they will kick you out.
Download page StrongDC++