chateauxtech - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Supply and Demand (Score 1) 1322

by chateauxtech on Sunday May 03, 2009 @05:54PM (#27809521) Attached to: Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers?

How much would be an acceptable salary be? $30,000 would $60,000 be acceptable or would it cost $120,000 for a good teacher. I have a feeling that no matter what you pay it will never be enough.

Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support 425

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 05, 2009 @06:39PM from the types-like-this-kept-me-out-of-good-schools dept.

mu22le writes "Today Debian gets one step closer to really becoming 'the universal operating system' by adding two architectures based on the FreeBSD kernel to the unstable archive. This does not mean that the Debian project is ditching the Linux kernel; Debian users will be able to choose which kernel they want to install (at least on on the i386 and amd64 architectures) and get more or less the same Debian operating system they are used to. This makes Debian the first distribution, and probably the first large OS, to support two completely different kernels at the same time."

Comment Re:Printing (Score 1) 571

by chateauxtech on Sunday March 29, 2009 @08:34AM (#27378285) Attached to: RIP the Campus Computer Lab, 1960-2009

I hear things like this a lot. I'm currently a student and my job and the money it pays me and the bills I pay with that money seem pretty real. I'm not sure what you point is other than just being condescending. Whats is a "real job" and what is a "fake job" what is a "real apartment" and what is a "fake apartment" what is "real money" and what is "fake money"?

US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles 922

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 09, 2009 @10:46AM from the i-forget-how-to-spell-feal dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The US and the UK are trying to refurbish the aging W76 warheads that tip Trident missiles to prolong their life and ensure they are safe and reliable but plans have been put on hold because US scientists have forgotten how to manufacture a mysterious but very hazardous component of the warhead codenamed Fogbank. 'NNSA had lost knowledge of how to manufacture the material because it had kept few records of the process when the material was made in the 1980s, and almost all staff with expertise on production had retired or left the agency,' says the report by a US congressional committee. Fogbank is thought by some weapons experts to be a foam used between the fission and fusion stages of the thermonuclear bomb on the Trident Missile and US officials say that manufacturing Fogbank requires a solvent cleaning agent which is 'extremely flammable' and 'explosive,' and that the process involves dealing with 'toxic materials' hazardous to workers. 'This is like James Bond destroying his instructions as soon as he has read them,' says John Ainslie, the co-ordinator of the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, adding that 'perhaps the plans for making Fogbank were so secret that no copies were kept.' Thomas D'Agostino, administrator or the US National Nuclear Security Administration, told a congressional committee that the administration was spending 'a lot of money' trying to make 'Fogbank' at Y-12, but 'we're not out of the woods yet.'"

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