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Inside the World's Most Advanced Planetarium 133

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @10:21PM from the laser-floyd-will-never-be-the-same dept.

notthatwillsmith writes "Earlier this month, the most technologically-advanced digital planetarium in the world opened in San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences. The new Morrison Planetarium's 75-foot screen replaces the traditional Zeiss projector with an array of 6 high-resolution DLP projectors arrayed around the edge of the theater, which are powered by three very different, but interesting computing clusters. The three clusters allow for projection of traditional planetarium shows, playback of ultra-high resolution movies, and display of anything from current atmospheric conditions on Earth to a (greatly accelerated) trip to the farthest reaches of the universe, all rendered in real-time on an 8800 sq. ft. dome. Maximum PC went on a behind the scenes tour with the engineers who built the systems that do everything from run the planetarium lights to the sound systems to the tech behind the screen to show you how it works and what it's like to drive, well ... the universe."

Comment Re:Oblig. (Score 1) 410

by sexistentialist on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @10:21AM (#17723026) Attached to: Fight Spam With Nolisting

I can also confirm this behavior. Many sites have less anti-spam protection on their secondary (or tertiary, even), using it only to queue mail in the event that the primary is unreachable. Because it will likely accept mail without question, the secondary is the obvious target. Dump all the mail on to it as quickly as possible, and let it flounder about with struggling to deliver it, or bounce it, or double bounce it, and so on. Forcing spammers to deliver to the secondary by making the primary unreachable (making the secondary, in fact, the primary), will only slow the overall delivery of mail and make an already unmanageable situation even more convoluted.

Planning Dapper +1, The Edgy Eft 320

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday April 19, 2006 @06:32PM from the score-one-for-creative-names dept.

Christian Jensen writes "On the ubuntu-announce mailing list, Mark Shuttleworth announced the plans for the next Ubuntu release - 'The Edgy Eft', the successor to Dapper Drake." This release is being touted as both cutting edge (edgy) and containing several comparatively "young" software additions ('Eft' being a 'youthful newt, going through its first exploration of the rocky territory just outside the stream.') like Xen, XGL/AIGLX, and others.

Comment Alternative PHP Cache (Score 1) 101

by Karamchand on Tuesday March 14, 2006 @09:13AM (#14914957) Attached to: PHP 6 and What to Expect

It's a pity they decided in favor of APC and not eAccelerator (the successor of turck mmcache), which is a lot faster in my experience.

Mark Shuttleworth Proposes Delaying next Ubuntu 382

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 11, 2006 @05:41PM from the waiting-on-the-duck dept.

Beuno writes "Mark Shuttleworth has proposed on the ubuntu-art mailing list to postpone the 'Dapper Drake' release by 6 weeks. He lays out the reasons pretty clearly: the delay should make the release a more user-friendly distro. He has also called up a community meeting in April 14th on IRC for community input. Is it really worth delaying the release for more then a month just to polish it out a little bit?" Commentary on this also available from the Tectonic site.

Laptop Fuel Cells Coming Soon 181

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 11, 2006 @03:45PM from the whacking-people-over-the-head dept.

tomsastroblog writes "Soon laptop batteries could last all day and be recharged from a cartridge. BBC News has a piece on fuel cells as laptop batteries, and what their adoption could mean for laptop usage." From the article: "At the Cebit technology fair in Hanover, Taiwanese hi-tech firm Antig said its fuel cells should be on the shelves of computer shops by early 2007. The first versions of the methanol-using units should keep a laptop going for up to nine hours. Fuel cell technology got a boost recently when international air flight regulators changed rules that banned passengers from carrying flammable methanol onto aircraft."

Cancer Survival for Software Developers 263

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday March 08, 2006 @05:10PM from the humanity-and-understanding-from-a-corporation dept.

Paul Pareti writes "Doug Reilly has published an affecting, personal piece about Surviving Cancer if you're a Programmer. You don't have to be a sufferer to benefit from reading it, especially his conclusions, including the perspective-lengthening advice: 'Make sure you are not indispensable!'"

The Simpsons Come to Life 539

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 05, 2006 @11:53AM from the worth-a-look dept.

musicon writes "Makers of the hit cartoon The Simpsons have a filmed the show's opening titles using real actors. In the hit viral going around the world we get to see what Bart, Homer, Marg, Lisa and Maggie would look like if they were humans. Simpson's maker Matt Groening has approved the human version of the show's opening credits to promote the brand new series." Amazing attention to detail.

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