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Submission + - DMR Dead at 70 (boingboing.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, a true legend among the original computer programmers, died sometime earlier this week at his home. Ritchie was the R in the original K+R programming manuals. He left us with the legacy of the C language and the Unix operating system. It would be beyond imagination to think any other individual could transcend technology the way DMR did, and shared with us all. Godbless.
Oracle

Oracle To Bring Dtrace To Linux 155

Posted by timothy from the dplane-dplane-no-that's-fantasy-island dept.
mvar writes "Dtrace co-author Adam Leventhal writes on his blog about Dtrace for Linux: 'Yesterday (October 4, 2011) Oracle made the surprising announcement that they would be porting some key Solaris features, DTrace and Zones, to Oracle Enterprise Linux. As one of the original authors, the news about DTrace was particularly interesting to me, so I started digging. Even among Oracle employees, there's uncertainty about what was announced. Ed Screven gave us just a couple of bullet points in his keynote; Sergio Leunissen, the product manager for OEL, didn't have further details in his OpenWorld talk beyond it being a beta of limited functionality; and the entire Solaris team seemed completely taken by surprise. Leunissen stated that only the kernel components of DTrace are part of the port. It's unclear whether that means just fbt or includes sdt and the related providers. It sounds certain, though, that it won't pass the DTrace test suite which is the deciding criterion between a DTrace port and some sort of work in progress.'"

Submission + - How 'Star Wars' got made (theatlantic.com)

Submitted by El Puerco Loco
El Puerco Loco writes: 'The Atlantic' magazine revisits their revealing 1979 profile of George Lucas. Link to original 1979 article is at the end. (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1979/03/the-man-who-made-star-wars/6228/1/?single_page=true)
Government

United States Loses S&P AAA Credit Rating 1239

Posted by timothy from the don't-worry-the-next-19-generations-won't-mind dept.
oxide7 writes with this excerpt from the International Business Times: "The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's on Friday in an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the world's largest economy. S&P cut the long-term U.S. credit rating by one notch to AA-plus on concerns about the government's budget deficits and rising debt burden. The move is likely to raise borrowing costs eventually for the American government, companies and consumers."

Submission + - George Lucas believes world ending in 2012 (torontosun.com)

Submitted by quietlikeachurch
quietlikeachurch writes: Just when you thought George Lucas couldn't possibly look more like a crackpot, this tidbit shows up. Has old Georgie gone off the deep end or is this just a strange marketing ploy for more Star Wars re-releases?
Australia

Submission + - 'Glider' assesses marine damage from Aussie floods (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz
schliz writes: Australian research institute the CSIRO plans to deploy a two-metre-long "robotic glider" to investigate the impact of Queensland's recent floods on marine life. Researchers expect to see high sediment loads smothering and reducing light, which may have an adverse effect on plans like coral and seagrass, thus reducing the amount of food available to dugongs and turtles in Moreton Bay.

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