Exactly. Building operators are not on site 24/7. You get an automated email/text message when a boiler is in alarm or a chiller goes down. Pull up the controls system from any browser on your PC or phone, use your login/password and see what is going on. You may even be able to fix the issue remotely. No need to run across campus when you get a phone call or come in at 3AM if all a piece of equipment needs is the reset button.

2 ZDNet stories on the front page of /. today... Did I miss the part where my PC got sucked through a temporal vortex and sent back to 1998?

I just recently started using the sync function anyway to view some of the same feeds at home/work. I'm running Windows 8 at home (don't ask), and haven't had any problems with FeedDemon so far.

I personally used FeedDemon for the better part of a decade, which had an option to synchronize with google reader. Unfortunately the author is also ending development of the software with the Google news being the last straw, effective today.

I just wish they would let diverted links (from outlook, RSS Readers, etc) open in chrome with the program itself remaining in the background. It is common for me to use an RSS reader, click on a dozen or so links, and then flip over to the browser and read them one by one. Now I have to flip back to the RSS reader after I click each link because chrome jumps to the foreground. It was even more annoying when these noisy tabs start talking in the background while reading other stuff before I installed flashblock. To me this is my biggest wish for chrome, especially since I could do this in FF probably 5+ years ago.

So anyone have an ETA for the Duke Nukem Forever source code?

Typical indoor HVAC design conditions: Summer - 75F / 50% RH, Winter - 70F / 30% RH. So indoors I would think the virus would survive well year round, just better during winter.

Outdoors the air temperature might swing 20-30F between the day and night. This is going to swing the RH levels in an even wider range - maybe between 20% and 80% depending on season, time of day, local climate etc.

I would think the virus survival would correlate better with time periods when there isn't much change in the outdoor air temperature/humidity levels for several days during winter, rather than anything with indoor conditions.

Try looking at a psychometric chart sometime. Heating does not change the amount of moisture in the air. Air can hold more moisture at higher temperatures, which is why air feels "dryer" when it is heated coming out of your furnace.

Or you could stick a bucket under your condensate drain off your AC/furnace and see how much water collects in the winter.

Recently picked up a couple 3TB Seagate drives and a Synology box for a new NAS at home. Since I was planning to move all my music, pictures, video, and general documents to the new box, I decided to download the manufacturer HDD tools and scan the drives first just in case. I think Seagate's is called SeaTools, I'm sure WD has a program as well. No errors reported on either drive, and no errors so far with the RAID array after a couple months of use.

It is cheap this time around. $40 to get an upgrade from a previous version of windows, and 98% of people already have a previous version.

I usually run the most current version of windows, but never actually purchased it (aside from when Win98 shipped on a HP machine I bought back in 2000). Typically I go through the cat and mouse game when MS occasionally catches up to the pirates and limits updates or other software (like media center) without extra activation checks. For $40 this time around I figured it was worth not having to fight with activation periodically for the next few years.

For what its worth, this "upgrade" key worked perfectly with a clean install.

It's a good thing Curiosity brought Surface to Air Missiles along on the trip to protect against an alien invasion of Mars.