Comment: For the love of God... (Score 4, Funny) 212
Please STOP IT!.
Manage your DNS with GitHub->
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Amiralul writes "Luadns service offers a new way to manage your DNS. Noisy Bind syntax has been replaced with a much friendlier syntax (Lua). You may store your DNS configurations on GitHub or Bitbucket, after each git push configurations are validated and deployed to Luadns servers. More information and examples can be found on Luadns' website. I've used it for a few months now and I can say that I'm glad I don't have to tinker /etc/named.conf anymore."
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Comment: VMware Image? (Score 4, Interesting) 162
Is there a way to test this new Chrome OS dev release in a virtual machine, like VMware?
HDD Pricewatch: How the Thai Floods Have Affected Prices-> 1
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jjslash writes "The hard disk drive supply chain was hit hard late last year when a series of floods struck Thailand. The Asian country accounts for about a quarter of the world's hard drive production, but thousands of factories had to close shop for weeks as facilities were under water, in what is considered the world's fourth costliest natural disaster according to World Bank estimates. That's on top of the human cost of over 800 lives. TechSpot has monitored a number of mobile and desktop HDDs to get a better overview of how the situation has developed in the last three months."
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Canonical pulls Kubuntu personnel funding->
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LinuxScribe writes "An announcement on the Kubuntu-devel mailing list tells the sad story: Canonical is pulling funding for in-house developers to work on the KDE-based Kubuntu flavor. Canonical now seems committed to its single vision of a GNOME-based Unity as a desktop and other Ubuntu flavors will now have to rely on community support and some infrastructure from Canonical."
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Comment: Re:A nice KDE implementation, but... (Score 4, Insightful) 117
c. choice of desktop manager, not just KDE
Wait, what?
Comment: I don't think so. (Score 3, Insightful) 330
Comment: He isn't dead (Score 0) 725
Dennis Ritchie didn't die, he just GOSUB without RETURN.
Comment: Re:What am I missing here... (Score 3, Insightful) 166
Ever played with LEGO? Ever built your own fort or tree house? Ever went on a beach and built up castles or simply dig holes?
Minecraft if the digital version of all of these activities and more (adventure, exploration, unusual landscapes, 3D viewer for models impossible to see otherwise - Star Trek ships for instance).
Comment: Free comic book (Score 1) 124
Comment: How about nuclear tests? (Score 4, Insightful) 964
I find it amusing how US media is worried about Fukushima nuclear contamination of Japan and surrounding arrea, including US territories or... Europe. They seem to forgot hundreds of nuclear tests made by the US both in Pacific and continental US. I wonder which event released more radioactive material in the atmosphere, a few hundreds nuclear test or the damaged reactors from Fukushima? (and I'm not even considering detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
Comment: Re:Debian: more relevant than Steven Vaughan-Nicho (Score 1) 345
So Debian is for Ubuntu what BSD is for OSX?
Comment: Private sector (Score 1) 244
This will never happen due to massive cost a Shuttle needs for operation. A private company will pursue financial profit and the Shuttle is anything but financially profitable. It would have been if the initial projection of 60 flights/year were a reality, but that never happened and never will. Ad this to decaying infrastructure (no more ET being build) and personnel layoffs. If the remaining Shuttle mission will be successful, their place should be in museums. They've done their job, bringing Man into orbit and building the ISS. Don't push their luck, a Shuttle is a very, very fragile system and only very skilled men a huge amount of luck made it possible to fly so many missions with only two total failures.
As for the plans for a new shuttle, it's futile as long as we don't have a clear destination for it. The STS program was intended for LEO, not GEO, not Moon flyby, no Mars landing. We've been to LEO, we already have a huge space station there, let's go further. Makes no sense to have a shuttle fly astronauts to asteroids or Mars.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Shuttle. It's a brilliant flying machine and she did a really good job. But it's time for a new vehicle.
Comment: Re:Retired for money, NOT a good reason (Score 1) 244
They were also designed for 60 flights/year. They were not even close.
Comment: Insane (Score 0) 760
For the love of God... This is the most stupid pledge of an environmentalist to date. Replace steaks with bugs or your planet will die! Farting cows, that's the problem with environment today.
Really. I mean... REALLY?