Comment 2 Ohm or 2 Megaohm? (Score 5, Informative) 280
The linked article at Connectify says they measured a resistance of 2 Ohm, but on the picture I read 2 MOhm!
Check yourself with the large version of the picture.
Comment Re:who knew? (Score 1) 379
I'd say it's nearly a Gi$ = 1,073,741,824 $.
Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 4, Informative) 355
No, it's not legal to copy the articles to Wikipedia, since they grant no other right than free view. See their copyright: basically the author retains the copyright, and grants Stanford the right to publish the article electronically.
Antarctic's First Plane, Found In Ice 110
Arvisp writes "In 1912 Australian explorer Douglas Mawson planned to fly over the southern pole. His lost plane has now been found. The plane – the first off the Vickers production line in Britain – was built in 1911, only eight years after the Wright brothers executed the first powered flight. For the past three years, a team of Australian explorers has been engaged in a fruitless search for the aircraft, last seen in 1975. Then on Friday, a carpenter with the team, Mark Farrell, struck gold: wandering along the icy shore near the team's camp, he noticed large fragments of metal sitting among the rocks, just a few inches beneath the water."
Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released 272
supersloshy writes Today Mozilla released Thunderbird 3.
Many new features are available, including Tabs and enhanced search features, a message archive for emails you don't want to delete but still want to keep, Firefox 3's improved Add-ons Manager, Personas support, and many other improvements. Download here."
Submission + - Munin 1.4.1 has been released (sourceforge.net)
SF:janl writes: I\'m happy to announce that Munin 1.4.1 has been released today.
Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and \"what just happened to kill our performance?\" problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work.
It is currently available in the project svn, please see http://munin-monitoring.org/ as well as on sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/munin/files/
Changelog is here: http://munin-monitoring.org/browser/tags/1.4.1/ChangeLog
Slightly more digested announce is here: http://munin-monitoring.org/browser/tags/1.4.1/Announce-1.4.0
If you\'re upgrading from the 1.2 series please see http://munin-monitoring.org/browser/tags/1.4.1/UPGRADING
Over 160 Tutorial Videos Created For Unreal Dev Kit 48
As a follow-up to Epic Games' release of a free version of the Unreal Engine last month, the company has now posted over 160 video tutorials which demonstrate the various uses of the Unreal Development Kit. Roughly 20 hours of footage were created by technical education company 3D Buzz, with topics ranging from user interface to game physics to cinematics.
Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331
Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."
Haskell 2010 Announced 173
paltemalte writes "Simon Marlow has posted an announcement of Haskell 2010, a new revision of the Haskell purely functional programming language. Good news for everyone interested in SMP and concurrency programming."
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 Re:silly (Score 2, Interesting) 200
I've actually not found a better enterprise solution to team development than the newest version of TFS. Especially in corporate environments.
Perforce still beats it as a pure source control manager, but that's FAR from free software, and the whole package isn't as nicely integrated as TFS.
Comment Re:Seems reasonable... (Score 1) 520
You think that's bad. My wife has a slider phone and for the first month she had it, she didn't have the key lock enabled. This means the 'up' directional is going to be pressed - often - while in a pocket or purse. And it will happen randomly. And it will be costly.
Comment Re:Funny First Hand Account (Score 1) 738
Hum. Out of curiosity, does the slashdot crowd think copying 30-40 games and "saving £600" is good? Wouldn't that actually be considered
Copyright infringement is not stealing.
Copyright infringement is not stealing.
Copyright infringement is not stealing.
Seriously, it is not, regardless of whatever your opinion of copyright infringement is, it is not stealing.
Comment Re:1,000 years? (Score 1) 416
I have no name CD-R's from more than 10 yrs back which are in perfect condition..
Comment Re:Flash security has always frightened me (Score 1) 355
``Browser vendors have the right incentives because users have a realistic choice of browsers. Flash is an all-or-nothing affair.''
And that is a real problem for users, and not just because of its effect on security. Only Adobe makes software that can handle all the Flash applets out there, and anytime there is only a single supplier, the incentives to make things better for customers aren't there. Adobe has been pretty nice with Flash, considering.
