rgbecker - Slashdot User

Comment Advent 4211 (Score 0) 288

by rgbecker on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:59AM (#63419144) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Longest-Lived PC?

I have an Advent 4211 (I think it's a rebranded MSI Wind) netbook. Purchased in July 2008. It runs fine and has Arch linux 32 running. I use it for network tests etc etc.

Comment Re:Lameness (Score 0) 1613

by rgbecker on Thursday October 06, 2011 @04:40PM (#37631734) Attached to: Steve Jobs Dead At 56

So long as he doesn't re-appear in three days we'll be ok

Comment Rat One (Score 0) 133

by rgbecker on Wednesday April 02, 2008 @04:25PM (#22943908) Attached to: Microsoft's Vista Blogger Quits

First off the ship indicates what exactly?

Fuel Efficient Five-Gear Rocket Engine Designed 122

Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 24, 2007 @05:36AM from the next-they-need-to-make-a-death-ray-for-peaceful-purposes dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Georgia Tech researchers have had a brilliant idea. Rocket engines used today to launch satellites run at maximum exhaust velocity until they reach orbit. For a car, this would be analog to stay all the time in first gear. So they have designed a new space rocket which works as it has a five-gear transmission system. This rocket engine uses 40 percent less fuel than current ones by running on solar power while in space and by fine-tuning exhaust velocity. But as it was designed with funds from the U.S. Air Force, military applications will be ready before civilian ones. Here is how this new rocket engine works."

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