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Submission + - Tinkerer Invents iPhone Interface for Ham Radios (theepochtimes.com)

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jjp9999 writes: By using the same technology found in older modems, Thomas Tumino, vice president of the Hall of Science Amateur Radio Club, has invented an iPhone interface for ham radios. He told The Epoch Times, 'Today there are iPhone apps where you can use the systems in the phone—and its sound card, which is being used as a modem ... And then you connect that into your radio with an interface like this, that just isolates the telephone from the radio, and then you can do all sorts of things.'

Submission + - Big Buzz for EAA $60,000 Electric Flight Prize. (planenews.com)

Submitted by gilgsn
gilgsn writes: Electric Light Sport Aircrafts are sprouting up all over. Now that the Experimental Aircraft Association is offering a 60,000 prize for the best ones, manufacturers are gearing up for the last week of July competition, which will take place at AirVenture 2011 in Oshkosh, "The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration." Airplanes will be tested for endurance, speed and time-to-climb. Pilots, charge up your batteries..

Comment Re:Finally, we're moving into the future (Score 1) 135

by gilgsn (#33656560) Attached to: Orion Spacecraft On the Path To Future Flight

Hi, it is the right one... I added maxconnections to MySQL, but still having trouble... I am using a CDN, but there is a video on the page which I think is still pulled from the server, and I think that's what causing the overload. Last time I was slashdotted, that didn't happen... Sorry about that...

Gil.

Submission + - Orion Spacecraft on the Path to Future Flight.

Submitted by gilgsn
gilgsn writes: Preparations for Orion’s first mission in 2013 are well under way as a Lockheed Martin-led crew begins lean assembly pathfinding operations for the spacecraft. The crew is conducting simulated manufacturing and assembly operations with a full-scale Orion mockup to verify the tools, processes and spacecraft integration procedures work as expected.

Submission + - Taranis and Phantom Eye Unveiled Today.

Submitted by gilgsn
gilgsn writes: No, these are not super heroes, though "Taranis" is the Celtic god of thunder. The hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system, a demonstrator that will stay aloft at 65,000 feet for up to four days, was unveiled by Boeing today, while BAE Systems uncovered Taranis, a UAV that will test the possibility of developing the first ever autonomous stealthy Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) that would ultimately be capable of precisely striking targets at long range, even in another continent. The days of piloted aircraft are counted..
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Submission + - SPAM: NASA: Options dwindling for Mars Spirit rover

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: NASA says it is narrowing a short list of things its scientists can to extricate its stuck Mars Spirit rover. NASA said it exploring a couple remaining options, such as driving backwards and using Spirit's robotic arm to sculpt the ground directly in front of the left-front wheel, the only working wheel the arm can reach. The amount of energy that Spirit has each day however is declining as autumn days shorten on southern Mars, NASA stated. NASA said it is currently analyzing results of a Jan. 13th attempt to move the spacecraft that involved a very slow rotation of the wheels. Earlier drives in the past two weeks using wheel wiggles and slow wheel rotation produced only negligible progress toward extricating Spirit, NASA stated.
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Comment Why I still come here, not to the others.. (Score 1) 3

by gilgsn (#29479775) Attached to: News for Adults

Well, high or higher, I still read Slashdot, but I have just had enough with the others.. Not only because of the waste of time, but also the strong political bias. It seems like news making the front page of these sites also alway come from the same group of people.

Feed Apple's Mac OS X Leopard fully unveiled (engadget.com)

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var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Engadget_Leapord_Fully_Unve iled_Price_Announced'; No matter what rampant rumors have been tossed around, we always knew there was going to be one main attraction to WWDC 2007: a feature-complete version of Leopard. Steve Jobs and co. didn't disappoint, announcing 10 of the "300 new features of the OS."

1. New Desktop - First off is the new desktop, featuring a new menu bar, a snazzed up dock and "Stacks" to help you keep your desktop clean. For instance, there's a default Stack that collects all your downloads in one place on the dock.

2. New Finder - More on the aesthetics side, Apple is going with a unified look for apps, which nixes the brushed metal style and instead mimics the current iTunes theme -- surprise, surprise. In fact, the new Finder looks and performs almost exactly like iTunes, all the way down to integrated Cover Flow for shuffling through your files. You can also save smart searches in the "playlists" side of the interface. On the back end of things, Leopard includes "Back to my Mac," which keeps track of your home Mac's IP address through various (and secure!) magicks, letting you browse your files remotely as if they were on a local network. Spotlight search also works over networks now, as expected.

3. Quick Look - Another new Finder integrated function, Quick Look lets you open up previews of most common document types without opening the respective app, and unsupported doc types can be added through extensions.

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