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ZFS Hits an Important Milestone, Version 0.6.1 Released 99

Posted by samzenpus on Friday March 29, 2013 @12:10PM from the brand-new dept.

sfcrazy writes "ZFS on Linux has reached what Brian Behlendorf calls an important milestone with the official 0.6.1 release. Version 0.6.1 not only brings the usual bug fixes but also introduces a new property called 'snapdev.' Brian explains, 'The snapdev property was introduced to control the visibility of zvol snapshot devices and may be set to either visible or hidden. When set to hidden, which is the default, zvol snapshot devices will not be created under /dev/. To gain access to these devices the property must be set to visible. This behavior is analogous to the existing snapdir property.'"

An Early Look At Halo: Reach 107

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @04:47AM from the go-go-gadget-arms? dept.

KatanAlpha writes "Based on all the information coming out about Halo: Reach, it seems that Bungie's basic philosophy has been: 'The sequels to the first Halo sucked. Let's fix that.' We've already seen a little bit of this with Halo: ODST, wherein Bungie returned to some of the core elements of Halo gameplay and ditched many of the changes introduced in Halo 2 and 3. Reach seems to continue this idea while trying to invigorate the franchise by introducing greatly improved graphics and additional gameplay mechanics."

Breaking the Squid Barrier 126

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 14, 2010 @09:33PM from the calimari-for-the-5000 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Dr. Steve O'Shea of Auckland, New Zealand is attempting to break the record for keeping deep sea squid alive in captivity, with the goal of being able to raise a giant squid one day. Right now, he's raising the broad squid, sepioteuthis australis, from egg masses found in seaweed. This is a lot harder than it sounds, because the squid he's studying grow rapidly and eat only live prey, making it hard for them to keep the squid from becoming prey themselves. If his research works out, you might one day be able to visit an aquarium and see giant squid."

NASA Contest To Name ISS Module 197

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 26, 2009 @08:57AM from the name-that-space dept.

Solarch writes "NASA is holding a contest to name ISS Node 3. Being a Browncoat myself, I should hope that the choice of names would be obvious. As of the 7:30 PM EST on 2/25, the name Serenity has over 80% of the vote. From the site: 'Node 3 will connect to the port side of the Unity Node and will provide room for many of the station's life support systems, in the form of eight refrigerator-sized racks. After Node 3 is installed, the station's crew will transfer over many of the Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) currently stored in various places around the station.'"

Comment Re:Hey guys, this might help: (Score 1) 256

by toddzilla on Monday May 02, 2005 @05:38PM (#12413016) Attached to: AOL Treats Florida Emergency Alerts Mail As Spam

(The NOAA alerts are all upper case for some reason. I bet the email they send out contains the raw NOAA alert, and that triggers the spam filter all by itself).

We do send out the straight ASCII all-caps advisories and it does tend to trigger spam warnings. The AOL spam issue was troublesome last year, easy to fix by getting whitelisted by AOL. More difficult is the single-click spam reporting by AOL users which is routed to us. Our standard policy is to drop anyone who labels our advisories as spam to AOL (that's AOL's suggestion, by the way).

A legacy of the teletype machines first used for widespread NWS alert bulletins, which only had uppercase letters.

Yes, and also current UN World Meteorological Organization agreements on international weather telecommunications mandate all-caps to accomodate the wide variety of comms gear in use, especially in nations that still use the older gear.

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