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No details by Michael+Woodhams · 2015-08-24 13:11 · Score: 4, Informative · on South Africans Revolutionize Concentrated Solar Power With Mini Heliostats

TFA is lacking in details about how this works, but if you follow the link you get to a Guardian article which is lacking in details, but links to the projects website which excessively uses gratuitous Javascript and is lacking in details.

They talk about "plonkability" - that the mirror structures can just be plonked on the ground and will 'just work'. This suggests to me that somewhere in their system is some intelligence or calibration which is able to notice where each mirror is relative to the target and adapt its pointing accordingly. Their photos show the target tower having two rectangular surfaces pointed towards the mirrors. I suspect the plane white surface is there to aid mirror pointing calibration in some way, but I don't know.

KDE Sys Admin by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-10 07:54 · Score: 0 · on Locking Down Linux Desktops In an Enterprise?

See: http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/KDE_System_Config as a possible solution if you use KDE only.

Re: mirror list by Quince+alPillan · 2005-06-28 09:50 · Score: 2, Informative · on Eclipse 3.1 Released

And of those, the ones that are updated as of now...

mirror list by thedude13 · 2005-06-28 09:18 · Score: 5, Informative · on Eclipse 3.1 Released

Re:For all the Attitude Jokes.... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-22 04:58 · Score: 1, Funny · on SpaceShipOne Flight Not as Perfect as it Seemed

My favourite is "flight plan? What flight plan? Nobody else flies this route!"

Better Toyota ads on the way... by Julz · 2004-06-12 21:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Dog Trained on 200-Word Vocabulary

Bugger! downloadable video available here. Be nice to that link as I just googled for it.

`urpmi nameofprogram' - gee, that was tough! by leonbrooks · 2003-03-24 14:08 · Score: 1 · on Ask Nicholas Petreley About Linux Usage Statistics

Mind you, Windows does install stuff without even asking. I guess - for a while - that's easier than typing a one-liner or clicking on items in a long list. (-:

And before you go on about lock-in to a single supplier (compared with Microsoft? Ahuk, ahuk...), you can add as many alternate package sources as you wish (GUI here, complete URPMI insructions here), some people have begun to notice how easy it is and even the putative lockers-in endorse it.

I dunno.. by Mtgman · 2001-01-26 08:40 · Score: 2 · on Beowulf For Dummies?

Those MSCE's can be pretty thick. I'd recommend Beowulf for Dummies but they'd probably just end up at Beowulf for Dummies

Steven

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