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Comment All those memories ... (Score 1) 1521

by rama on Thursday August 25, 2011 @11:02AM (#37206554) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

I remember in 97, when the site was called fish and chips, when I signed up to become a member. Over the years, this site has taken several turns. In 1997, it was one of the few sites that posted Linux news. So, all us linux heads used to gather here. Next up, internet culture itself, which /. pioneered -- not only as a reporter, but also as a participant.

Around 2005 or so, I lost interest. The site is no longer unique; most of the news it reported are already covered well in the main stream. It did not have the same kind of reader participation in the early days. Simply put, the site succeeded and most of the people have grown up and move on.

FBI and NYPD Officers Sent On Museum Field Trip 70

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @02:07PM from the warrantless-permission-slips dept.

In an attempt to "refresh their sense of inquiry" FBI agents, and NYPD officers are being sent to a course at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Art of Perception hopes to improve an officers' ability to accurately describe what they see during an investigation by studying art. From the article: "Amy Herman, the course leader, said: 'We're getting them off the streets and out of the precincts, and it refreshes their sense of inquiry. They're thinking, "Oh, how am I doing my job," and it forces them to think about how they communicate, and how they see the world around them.' Ms Herman, an art historian, originally developed the course for medical students, but successfully pitched it as a training course to the New York Police Academy."

FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux 206

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 06, 2009 @12:29PM from the changing-horses dept.

dnaumov writes "FreeNAS, a popular, free NAS solution, is moving away from using FreeBSD as its underlying core OS and switching to Debian Linux. Version 0.8 of FreeNAS as well as all further releases are going to be based on Linux, while the FreeBSD-based 0.7 branch of FreeNAS is going into maintenance-only mode, according to main developer Volker Theile. A discussion about the switch, including comments from the developers, can be found on the FreeNAS SourceForge discussion forum. Some users applaud the change, which promises improved hardware compatibility, while others voice concerns regarding the future of their existing setups and lack of ZFS support in Linux."

Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 26, 2009 @12:41PM from the four-out-of-five-ain't-bad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"

Comment Re:Where's Linus? (Score 3, Informative) 233

by rama on Sunday February 27, 2005 @11:23AM (#11793939) Attached to: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award

Not so. Specifically, since the fsf announcement excludes Linus and RMS. Here is from the announcement: "People such as Alan Cox, Miguel de Icaza, Donald Knuth, Larry Lessig, Brian Paul, Guido van Rossum, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Larry Wall who have already received this or other awards for their contributions, are not eligible for the Award for the Advancement of Free Software."

Basically, it is the past year winners + Linus + RMS + Knuth + Larry Lessig. Looks like an august company and no slight meant, certainly to Linus. Being in the same league as Knuth is pretty good, I would say, even for Linus.

[Just FYI, even after all these years, Knuth pays money if you find a bug in his TeX program, or in his Art of Programming books].

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