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NASA

Shuttle Reentry Over the Continental US 139

Posted by kdawson from the boom-boom dept.
TheOtherChimeraTwin notes that the shuttle Discovery will land at Kennedy Space Center on Monday morning at 8:48 EDT. The craft will make a rare "descending node" overflight of the continental US en route to landing in Florida. Here are maps of the shuttle's path if is lands on orbit 222 as planned, or on the next orbit. Spaceweather.com says: "...it takes the shuttle about 35 minutes to traverse the path shown... Observers in the northwestern USA will see the shuttle shortly after 5 am PDT blazing like a meteoric fireball through the dawn sky. As Discovery makes its way east, it will enter daylight and fade into the bright blue background. If you can't see the shuttle, however, you might be able to hear it. The shuttle produces a sonic double-boom that reaches the ground about a minute and a half after passing overhead."
Supercomputing

Red Hat HPC Linux Cometh 34

Posted by timothy from the oh-doeth-it? dept.
Slatterz writes "Red Hat will announce its first high-performance computing optimised distro, Red Hat HPC, on 7 October. The distro is a step forward from the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Nodes. A part of the new distro is, by the way, created by a small Project Kusu team in Singapore. Kusu is the foundation for Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) which is an integral feature of Red Hat HPC. It might be sign of things to come, as more of hardware and software development moves to the Far East — even top-of-the-line computing performance."

Comment Re:DRM is that big of a deal, but the other way (Score 1) 634

by DaveTheLorax (#22160906) Attached to: DRM-Free Music Spells Trouble?
Here! Here! I have not bought music on-line to this point because of the restrictions that I perceive are still part of the process. I have many many older CDs, but I worry about the new ones and their crap made to keep me from playing the music that I paid for. It seems clear to everyone except the music industry, and perhaps the government, that when you buy a piece of recorded music, then you own it ... forever. All of these machinations about DRM are about another American industry that wants to keep ramping up profits without actually producing anything new. You see, I remember vinyl albums (33s and 45s), 8-track tapes, reel-to-reel, cassettes, and CD's. Every format incompatible with the next. Don't fool yourselves, DRM was just the next format made to force you to buy your music again, and again.

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