I managed to program two parts of Bach's Fugue in C minor using the "[FREQ in Hz] [ DURATION in sec] BEEP" command and could, if I borrowed another student's 48, transfer part 2 via IR and run both mostly in sync through out the entire piece. Two devices beeping in lovely counterpoint oblivious to the unintended awesomeness they accomplished.

CI systems also provide a handy central location to track all SW dev activity for all projects. You can tie all different dev platforms (Linux, Mac, Win, etc) to Jenkins and see build stats for everything in real time. Build node fail overs are automatically handled if you have a cloud of connected build servers so hardware problems are removed from causing any interruption to your SW deployment. Even if the underlying tasks are accomplished on the individual machines by Ant, MSBuild, windows .bat, there is still a central location to track & assign everything. I used to build for a dozen different SW projects manually.... logging on to the build nodes, checking out from SVN, pulling in dependencies, and then manually calling all the VisualStudio build targets. Jenkins greatly simplifies and automates those manual tasks, even if under the hood the same tasks are performed.

Oracle is, as usual, too late. I operate a large Hudson cluster for a top 5 tech company (dozens of build nodes, quartets of backup servers, big SAN storage for all the artifacts) and we immediately jumped on Jenkins and have no plans of looking back at Hudson no matter who runs it. We are sticking with where ever Kawaguchi takes this project, as are most of Hudson's users. Given that some of our engineer's revisions and new features have been or are being rolled into Jenkins, we are not going to be wooed back by anything Oracle does (or doesn't do). I have a suspicion that a vast majority of Hudson's user base feels the same.

if fairness, /. isn't writing all these joke articles, just linking to them. So if nothing else, they just lack good editorial sense instead of lacking creativity.

Or both?

Hungary, beware of vender lock in!

May be you didn't read BBC reports that he DID order troops to open fire, but taht rank officers on the scene refused. Of course the BBC coudl be wrong, but that was one of the reports I watched.

Bold decisions such as awarding a no one, who had done nothing a prize that is supposed to celebrate renowned people for their actual accomplishments?

dngit... dont' remind me of that... :-(

Well for better or worse, I lose almost all my games in a folder-left-on-top-of-car incident back in er... somewhere around 2002-2004.

I only have Evil Genius, Starsiege:Tribes (from waaay back in 1998), Tribes2, and DeusX: Invisible war (aka DX2)

In 2014, I might still have an XP license on a system. lol.

How Long Till Colonoscopy Scanners Roll Out States Side?

PLACE BETS NOW!

I'll tell you who.... someone tired of his 8+ sata drives in a stack that wants a single storage location that can grow with time/tech/price advances.

yeah I've already consumed about 4TB of storage (non-redundant) so a DroBo (or other NAS) is looking pretty dang good.