Comment CTRL Key (Score 1) 968
Please, please, please put the CTRL key back there, where it belongs.
I remap my capslock to CTRL on every machine I use.
Comment iPad all the way (Score 1) 202
I swapped out my carpc for an iPad. All I needed it for was music (mp3) and GPS. I love it. I modified a couple of cell phone mounts to hold the iPad, and it easily comes with me when I leave the car.
Comment Citrix XenServer (Score 1) 384
I run XenServer from Citrix. They have a free version, and it just works.
Comment Re:Same way you get your kids interested in gaming (Score 1) 704
If that's the 'one true brace', then it's time to abandon it!
Comment Re:Same way you get your kids interested in gaming (Score 1) 704
Oh boy. When amateurs program...
while(true)
{
printf("FUCK\n") ;
}
I'm sure you could put that into main().
Comment Re:This should be modded up (Score 2, Informative) 609
I got a Drobo as well, the 4 drive USB/Firewire version.
I had a RAID array die, and I needed something fast to save my data before the weekend was over. The Drobo worked.
I'm now back on a Linux RAID system, and the Drobo is relegated to backups. Why? It's slow. Way slow. I wouldn't recommend for daily use.
New Linux Petabyte-Scale Distributed File System 132
An anonymous reader writes "A recent addition to Linux's impressive selection of file systems is Ceph, a distributed file system that incorporates replication and fault tolerance while maintaining POSIX compatibility. Explore the architecture of Ceph and learn how it provides fault tolerance and simplifies the management of massive amounts of data."
NASA's Space Balloon Smashes Car In Australia
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Humunculus writes "Of more worldly issues, NASA's latest multimillion-dollar stratosphere-bound balloon launch has gone horribly wrong and crashed into a car, turning it over and narrowly missing two elderly people who were observing the launch. The payload fared worse, reportedly being smashed into a 'thousand pieces.'"
Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189
An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"
Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132
An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"
Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight
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Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."
Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115
feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."
Comment Zenith (Score 1) 277
Zenith (now owned by LG) also use Linux.
Phoronix Releases Linux Benchmarking Distribution 31
Bitnit writes "Phoronix has released a major update to their automated Linux benchmarking software, the Phoronix Test Suite, and more interestingly they have released their own distribution that's designed for hardware testing and benchmarking on Linux. With PTS Desktop Live they provide this Linux distribution that's to run only from a live environment off a DVD / USB key and then allows their benchmarking software to run — and only that — on this standardized software stack, which makes hardware comparisons a lot easier."
Comment Schools don't teach basics anymore (Score 1) 794
They should be taught SOMETHING. I recently saw a case where a new programmer was asked to add CR/LF to the end of his text strings. Well, when we saw the code, he had done exactly as asked. Each string had "CR/LF" (the string literal) added to the end.
