skurk - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:...really? (Score 1) 152

by skurk on Thursday June 10 2010, @03:11AM (#32521124) Attached to: Timberwolf (a.k.a. Firefox) Alpha 1 For AmigaOS

Because some of us just can't let go.

And, to be fair, OS4.1 and beyond is pretty good and is only available for new PPC hardware (like the Sam440, as well as the upcoming Sam460 and X1000). It comes with lots of GNU tools, gcc, a decent browser that actually works, good internet connectivity, and so on.

New Europe-Wide Radio Telescope To Look For ET 49

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 14 2010, @10:12PM
from the phone-011-then-home dept.

astroengine writes "A new radio telescope is under construction, consisting of 44 stations (each consisting of several antennae) spread across Europe. The pan-European Low Frequency Array is half built and already returning unprecedented observations of cosmic radio sources. The best thing is, when it's complete, SETI will be able to use the array to seek out transmitting extraterrestrial civilizations in these untapped low radio frequencies."

USU Freshman display home-made Fusion Reactor-> 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2007, @02:10AM

An anonymous reader writes "Deseret News is reporting that USU Freshman Craig Wallace has displayed his home-made Fusion Reactor to the physics faculty. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,510054502,00 .html"
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Amiga 500 Reincarnation: Minimig-> 0

Submitted by on Thursday July 26 2007, @01:49AM

An anonymous reader writes "A Dutch hardware engineer named Dennis recently announced his release of the Minimig, an FPGA re-implementation of the original Amiga 500. The sources are released under the GNU General Public License, and there's already an interest thread for pre-assembled boards on amiga.org suggesting a price around £40."
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Slashdot polls -- good idea, or useless? 0

Submitted by posterlogo on Thursday July 12 2007, @01:59AM

posterlogo writes "Do people find the tagging system to be useful? How frequently do you make use of it? Often I find stories tagged "haha", which doesn't seem to be all that useful for finding something specific, since more than half the stories get this tag. Worse, lately there's been a lot of politicizing — tags like "liberalpropaganda" or "republicansarefuckingfacists". These appear to be just another way to make an anonymous coward statement. Do you like the tagging system?"

javascript ASM goodness

Submitted by teknopurge on Tuesday April 10 2007, @09:26AM

teknopurge writes "A new breed of javascript asm emulators is emerging. Check out one for the 6502 and another for the x86. Not as slick as VHDL, but definitely scores high on the geek-meter. Could these be used for teaching? For hacking? For impressing women at parties? Judge."