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Submission + - Beyond military drones – the future of unmanned flight (gizmag.com)

Submitted by cylonlover on Saturday June 29, 2013 @10:28PM

cylonlover writes: In April of this year, a BAE Systems Jetstream research aircraft flew from Preston in Lancashire, England, to Inverness, Scotland and back. This 500-mile (805 km) journey wouldn't be worth noting if it weren't for the small detail that its pilot was not on board, but sitting on the ground in Warton, Lancashire and that the plane did most of the flying itself. Even this alteration of a standard commercial prop plane into an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) seems a back page item until you realize that this may herald the biggest revolution in civil aviation since Wilbur Wright won the coin toss at Kitty Hawk in 1903.

Submission + - XenServer 6.2 is now fully open source!

Submitted by Jagungal on Saturday June 29, 2013 @08:08PM

Jagungal writes: Although the core Xen hypervisor has always been opensource from the start, Citrix have now released the next version of their XenServer including all features and tools under an open source license. This includes also introducing a new XenServer.org community portal. The major change for users is that they now get all features from the licensed version for free but unless they pay for support, they have to do all security updates manually.

Change logs for the new version 6.2 can be found here: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX137826

Comment They should have just strapped a Pig to it ... (Score 1) 123

by Jagungal on Saturday June 15, 2013 @02:02AM (#44013515) Attached to: Flying Bicycle Is Real, Takes First Flight

Would have made just a good of a story.

Comment Re:Too bad (Score 1) 90

by Jagungal on Friday May 17, 2013 @06:48PM (#43758337) Attached to: Australian Government Backdoor Internet Filter Shuts Down 1,000 Websites

Nobody actually drinks fosters ... but the rest is kinda accurate.

Most are worried about the recent budget and the up coming election in September to even notice this.

At least we have a decent electoral system.

Researchers Are Developing Ad Hoc Networks For Car-To-Car Data Exchange 126

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 10, 2013 @01:42PM from the hey-buddy-your-blinker-is-on dept.

Lucas123 writes "Researchers are developing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication technology that allows cars to exchange data with each other, enabling vehicles to know what the cars all around them are doing, and perhaps, where they're going. Intel is working with National Taiwan University on M2M connectivity, an idea came from caravanning — an available, but-not-yet-deployed technology that uses direct line of site infrared (IR) and a range finder in order to automatically adjust the speed of cars so they can travel at a measured distance from each other. In other words, they're electronically tethered to one another. Now, imagine a group of cars traveling down the road together as an ad hoc network, each one aware of the location, any sudden actions or even the travel route of other vehicles as uploaded to the cloud from a GPS device. 'We're even imagining in the future cars would be able to ask other cars, "Hey, can I cut into your lane?" Then the other car would let you in,' said Jennifer Healey, a research scientist with Intel."

One Bitcoin By the Numbers: Is There Still Profit To Be Made? 239

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @02:03PM from the nature-of-money dept.

massivepanic writes with an article that "runs through the logistics of mining a Bitcoin on everyday gaming computers while keeping an eye on power consumption, time spent, and return on investment. From the article: 'I have mined a Bitcoin. This was not much of an accomplishment a year or two ago, but in 2013, after the infamous early-April peak at $260, unearthing a Bitcoin is no easy task. Competition is on the rise and we are getting close to the end of the good ol' days of Bitcoin; the time when a desktop computer or two have any real mining capabilities.'"

Comment Dinosaurs closer to Birds (Score 3, Insightful) 98

by Jagungal on Sunday April 28, 2013 @06:23PM (#43576593) Attached to: Experiment Will Determine Dinosaur's Skin Color

In the past many think that Dinosaurs were most closely related to reptiles but we now know that Dinosaurs are most closely related to birds and thus may have the colour variations that one sees in birds rather than the colour variation seen in Lizards.

Comment Hopefully it fixed a lot of bugs .... (Score 4, Interesting) 95

by Jagungal on Monday April 08, 2013 @05:14AM (#43389307) Attached to: Video Editor Kdenlive 0.9.6 Released

.. and didn't introduce new ones.

Having used it in the past it was a very nice product but I did find it a bit frustrating at times with it's crashes and bugs right in the middle of a project.

Might have to fire it up again and have a look.

4-Billion-Pixel Panorama View From Curiosity Rover 101

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 28, 2013 @07:59PM from the take-a-look dept.

A reader points out that there is a great new panorama made from shots from the Curiosity Rover. "Sweep your gaze around Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring, with this 4-billion-pixel panorama stitched together from 295 images. ...The entire image stretches 90,000 by 45,000 pixels and uses pictures taken by the rover's two MastCams. The best way to enjoy it is to go into fullscreen mode and slowly soak up the scenery — from the distant high edges of the crater to the enormous and looming Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual destination."

GNOME 3.8 Released Featuring New "Classic" Mode 267

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday March 28, 2013 @06:32PM from the extend-freely dept.

Hot on the heels of the Gtk+ 3.8 release comes GNOME 3.8. There are a few general UI improvements, but the highlight for many is the new Classic mode that replaces fallback. Instead of using code based on the old GNOME panel, Classic emulates the feel of GNOME 2 through Shell extensions (just like Linux Mint's Cinnamon interface). From the release notes: "Classic mode is a new feature for those people who prefer a more traditional desktop experience. Built entirely from GNOME 3 technologies, it adds a number of features such as an application menu, a places menu and a window switcher along the bottom of the screen. Each of these features can be used individually or in combination with other GNOME extensions."

Comment Re:Our Experience (Score 1) 269

by Jagungal on Thursday November 29, 2012 @07:01PM (#42135795) Attached to: NPD Group Analysts Say Windows 8 Sales Sluggish

It's clear over the next few years that Microsoft is aiming to design a single UI across all of it's platforms from Phone, to Desktops, to tablets, to TV. They want it to all be the same experience.

Microsoft is delusional, in the past Microsoft tried to force a desktop interface onto a mobile device and it was painful, now they are trying to put a mobile device interface onto a desktop computer and that is painful again.

Will they ever learn?

I have been using Windows 8 as an experiment for a few months now. It is workable if you put classic shell on but if I had Windows 7 I would just stick with that.

Comment Still Hidden (Score 0) 189

by Jagungal on Thursday November 08, 2012 @03:22PM (#41922587) Attached to: Apple Stops Hiding Samsung Apology On Its UK Site

Even though they removed the Javascript, It is still effectively hidden on most monitors.

Comment What a waste of time .... (Score 2) 184

by Jagungal on Sunday July 10, 2011 @08:57PM (#36715900) Attached to: CentOS Linux 6.0 Released

Considering 6.1 has been out for some time this is a bit of a non event, most people using CentOs have moved on.

What I saw was a bunch of developers spending a lot of time being defensive of why it was taking so long, promising it was just around the corner and letting the dates constantly slip.

CentOS is basically a dead project to the majority of people who have moved on to more responsive distributions.

I still have to wonder when some of these developers didn't get paid off for doing what they did - the way it happened just didn't seem right, there is a pretty fishy smell about this one.

Comment Darwin Awards (Score 1) 200

by Jagungal on Friday June 10, 2011 @04:48PM (#36405568) Attached to: Australian-Built Hoverbike Prepares For Takeoff

When I look at the design, its lack of stability and a rider sitting above the fan, only one thing comes to mind - what a perfect candidate for the darwin awards.

Comment Not that indispensable ... (Score 1) 349

by Jagungal on Monday May 23, 2011 @08:30PM (#36223588) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Ask For Equity In a Startup?

But if you are then the company is doing itself a dis service if it is allowing you into a position where you think you are indispensible. Many information hiding IT people do try to do it though - or at least get into their heads that they are.

The people who put forward the ideas and the risk get the equity, you just get your contract rates no matter how the company goes good or bad.

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