We switched to Check_MK for monitoring. It's basically a collection of software that sits on top of Nagios.

The default disk monitoring allows alerting based on trends (full in 24hours, etc.) or thresholds based on a "magic factor." Basically it scales the thresholds so that larger disks alert at a higher percentage, adjustable in quite a few different ways to suit your tastes.

This is exactly what I was thinking. It's the FAA's job to keep planes flying and keep the people on them safe. It sure as hell is not their job to promote internet usage.

Basically the article is saying: "When you arbitrarily assign a job to a government agency, they're not very effective." Wow, I'm so glad that got cleared up. I was about ready to tell the local water works that they need to get me faster internet speeds.

I decided to do exactly that. This is from their licensing website.

Emphasis mine. There's also a note on the page that former licensees can open source their code and no longer need a license. If you're making an open source implementation, OpenGL seems pretty open.

A huge portion of that 90% has either basic or extended basic cable. Those plans typically do not require a cable box. You can't equate subscribing to cable with not using a tuner.

I currently get basic cable, and my provider sends all the local stations in HD via Clear QAM. I don't have a cable box, and if my provider forced me into getting one (along with the rental fee and $50 increase in programming fees) I'd drop cable altogether and buy an antenna.

Depending on which device you have, and which version of the software it's running... Yes, you may very well be locked into iTunes for moving music onto your iPod.

There was a time when this was true, but for at least the last 5-10 years $0 liability agreements have become much more common. None of my cards require me to pay anything for fraud.

I think the controls are just fine, my mouse doesn't lag, and while you can't get any window size (which is annoying) you have many resolution options available as well as fullscreen.

I remember having a few problems back when the demo first came out, but the finished product has worked quite well for me.

You realize air is a fluid, right?

I have never used control + wheel to zoom. In fact I've never heard of it being used that way. In my experience, just scroll wheel to zoom is very common, in everything from 3D modeling applications to strategy games.

70kg with a 120hp engine certainly doesn't sound very impressive. A basic propeller driven light aircraft would probably have a payload closer to 300kg with that size engine. Even a helicopter in that power range should have a payload about double that.

Unless the cars were using diesel engines, I'm pretty sure jet fuel wasn't involved. I'm fairly sure F1 has generally used some form of high octane gasoline for racing fuel. Alcohol was more popular with other racing series. Methanol was a much more popular alcohol choice back then, replaced almost entirely by ethanol in recent years.

You've got to be kidding me. Density at 10k feet is more than 25% less than at sea level! I don't care what aircraft you're in, that's pretty significant.

This is one of the dumber comments I've seen in this article. ILS is made for bad weather, for various definitions of 'bad'. Why else would you need it?

No, you won't be using it in the middle of a severe thunderstorm, but in moderate rain or heavy fog, it's the only way to reliably land in that situation.