Porsche Unveils 911 Hybrid With Flywheel Booster 197

Posted by timothy on Friday February 12, 2010 @10:10PM from the yeah-well-I-get-better-mileage dept.

MikeChino writes "Porsche has just unveiled its 911 GT3 R Hybrid, a 480 horsepower track vehicle ready to rock the 24-hour Nurburgring race this May. Porsche's latest supercar will use the same 911 production platform available to consumers today, with a few race-ready features including front-wheel hybrid drive and an innovative flywheel system that stores kinetic energy from braking and then uses it to provide a 160 horsepower burst of speed. The setup is sure to offer an advantage when powering out of turns and passing by other racers."

Comment monkeysphere (Score 1) 307

by Jubilex on Thursday February 04, 2010 @09:44PM (#31029962) Attached to: Keep SSH Sessions Active, Or Reconnect?

The authenticity of host 'ssh.example.com (123.234.123.234)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 96:21:c3:32:3d:cc:18:d5:53:6a:d4:0d:0d:73:c6:1a.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

This initial message is what Monkeysphere is designed to fix.

Monkeysphere distributes GPG-signed SSH host keys. If you have the admin's trusted public key, and they sign their hosts' keys, you can trust the host key even if you haven't connected to it before.

http://web.monkeysphere.info/

Comment Re:From Lave (Score 1) 142

by Jubilex on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @08:07PM (#31017062) Attached to: "Tube Map" Created For the Milky Way

Fortunately, for those of us who are a few years younger, there's Oolite.

Comment pwsafe (was: Re:KeepassX) (Score 1) 414

by Jubilex on Friday January 22, 2010 @11:06AM (#30859510) Attached to: I keep track of my passwords ...

I have similar platform requirements (less the Blackberry), so a combination of PasswordSafe and pwsafe (which is a compatible command-line version) meets my needs.

The two "hoped for" features that you listed, command-line client and synchronization, are hard requirements for me, which pwsafe meets.

Comment Re:Yea. they are free. right. (Score 1) 160

by Jubilex on Monday June 29, 2009 @08:10PM (#28522135) Attached to: New Firefox Standard Aims to Combat Cross-Site Scripting

Speaking as an admin, I've seen way too many end users click through certificate warnings for self-signed certs without understanding what they are doing. Firefox is doing the right thing (and now that IE 8 is doing something similar, I'd say they aren't the only ones who think so.)

Comment Did anyone else pronounce 'geocities'... (Score 5, Funny) 267

by Jubilex on Monday April 27, 2009 @09:11PM (#27739899) Attached to: Archive Team Is Busy Saving Geocities

...to rhyme with 'atrocities' ?