Comment Rar (Score 1) 321

by rava on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @12:41PM (#45652281) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Practical Bitrot Detection For Backups?

I'm glad you're bringing this up. I haven't seen any backup software that addresses bitrot. And bitrot does happen, I lost a few pics to it. What I do: I have a monthly script that makes a RAR archive from my pictures directory. RAR checks file integrity but also has "recovery" options that allow you to recover files from a damaged archive (to a point)

Comment landing site missing (Score 1) 269

by rava on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @03:05PM (#37319898) Attached to: NASA Reveals New Images of Apollo Landing Sites

Nice, nice, but I don't see any trace of the Apollo 18 landing...

PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles 361

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 17, 2009 @02:18PM from the load-photon-torpedoes dept.

darthvader100 writes "Gizmodo has run an article with some predictions on what future space battles will be like. The author brings up several theories on propulsion (and orbits), weapons (explosives, kinetic and laser), and design. Sounds like the ideal shape for spaceships will be spherical, like the one in the Hitchhiker's Guide movie."

Zune HD Twitter App Censors Tweets For You! 155

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 17, 2009 @11:29AM from the now-that's-service dept.

SharpFang writes "The new Zune HD Twitter app censors naughty words out of tweets in your timeline. Sure, it's a free app, but this kind of active content censorship just rubs me the wrong way."

Comment Early interview still more interesting (Score 4, Funny) 589

by rava on Thursday August 21, 2008 @11:23AM (#24690963) Attached to: Interview Update With Bjarne Stroustrup On C++0x

There's only one interview with Stroustrup that's worth reading: http://www.nsbasic.com/desktop/info/interview.shtml

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