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Stories · 14

  1. Explosives Camp

    News · Education · · posted by samzenpus · from the if-you-love-something-blow-it-up dept. · 419 comments
    theodp writes "How about a summer camp where you get in trouble for not blowing things up? Students with a passion for all things explosive and proof of US citizenship pay a $450 fee to attend Summer Explosives Camp, 'We try to give them an absolute smorgasbord of explosives,' quipped a professor at the University of Missouri-Rolla, which offers a minor in explosives engineering. Here's the brochure (PDF), kids!"

  2. Explosives Camp

    News · Education · · posted by samzenpus · from the if-you-love-something-blow-it-up dept. · 419 comments
    theodp writes "How about a summer camp where you get in trouble for not blowing things up? Students with a passion for all things explosive and proof of US citizenship pay a $450 fee to attend Summer Explosives Camp, 'We try to give them an absolute smorgasbord of explosives,' quipped a professor at the University of Missouri-Rolla, which offers a minor in explosives engineering. Here's the brochure (PDF), kids!"

  3. Missouri Wins American Solar Challenge

    Usa · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the sunny-day-fun-time-contest dept. · 251 comments
    dagoalieman writes "The University of Missouri - Rolla won this year's 2300 mile American Solar Challenge. The roughly 339lb car (517lb with driver) with 1500 watts of power won by nearly 5 hours - here's the final results. UMR has now won two out of the past three races, finishing second in the last race, to Michigan. Congrats, and good luck to them in the World Solar Challenge!"

  4. A Unified Calculus?

    Science · Science · · posted by chrisd · from the limit-as-it-approaches-my-grades-in-school dept. · 31 comments
    DeAshcroft writes "Science Daily is reporting that one Martin Bohner's work, "Asymptotic Behavior of Dynamic Equations on Time Scales," has made significant waves (ahem) in the mathematical community. The work is "part of a fairly new and exciting effort to unify continuous and discrete calculus" I guess it's time to re-learn long division."

  5. Are Video Phones Back From The Dead?

    Tech · Technology · · posted by timothy · from the but-I-want-video-voips-instead dept. · 197 comments
    gwizah writes: "A company by the name of Vialta is peddling a new product all you future loving geek's can enjoy, A VideoPhone! Yes, Im sure you can all remember the many attempts to bring video-phonecall technology into the home or office, but unlike the flying car, you can pick up a pair at Fry's today! According to some reviews at USA Today and the WSJ, the product works as advertised. A new way to call Grandma? Or just another silly little toy to collect dust in that hall closet."

  6. World Solar Challenge Set To Begin

    Science · Science · · posted by timothy · from the solar-stormers dept. · 78 comments
    Mdog writes: "The world championship of solar car racing is about (Nov. 18...ok so I can't wait :) ) to begin Down Under. World Solar Challenge pits high school, university, and corporate teams against each other in a race across Australia's Outback, from Darwin to Adelaide." Mdog supplies some more (ahem) non-partisan information about the race below.

    "My Alma Mater's team (which took second in the American Solar Challenge...go UMR!) is looking to take sweet revenge on the evil (*g*) that is the U-Michigan Solar Car team (which won ASC.) Some other North American heavyweights will be Queen's University and U-Waterloo from the frigid north. I'll defer to Ozzies post links to their favoUrite college teams, which, along with the Japanese teams, are often very good. Lastly, watch out for team Solar Motions; out for blood after major technical problems two years ago. Their array is worth...how should I put this...a lot :)

    I went two years ago, and this year I'll just be looking forward to this article getting posted on /. *sigh* Good luck and good sun to all the teams. No worries!"

  7. World Solar Challenge Set To Begin

    Science · Science · · posted by timothy · from the solar-stormers dept. · 78 comments
    Mdog writes: "The world championship of solar car racing is about (Nov. 18...ok so I can't wait :) ) to begin Down Under. World Solar Challenge pits high school, university, and corporate teams against each other in a race across Australia's Outback, from Darwin to Adelaide." Mdog supplies some more (ahem) non-partisan information about the race below.

    "My Alma Mater's team (which took second in the American Solar Challenge...go UMR!) is looking to take sweet revenge on the evil (*g*) that is the U-Michigan Solar Car team (which won ASC.) Some other North American heavyweights will be Queen's University and U-Waterloo from the frigid north. I'll defer to Ozzies post links to their favoUrite college teams, which, along with the Japanese teams, are often very good. Lastly, watch out for team Solar Motions; out for blood after major technical problems two years ago. Their array is worth...how should I put this...a lot :)

    I went two years ago, and this year I'll just be looking forward to this article getting posted on /. *sigh* Good luck and good sun to all the teams. No worries!"

  8. Easter Eggs in Appliances?

    Ask · Hardware · · posted by Cliff · from the PCs-don't-have-a-monopoly-on-these dept. · 24 comments
    nneul asks: "A few weeks ago I bought and installed a new Kenmore Elite dishwasher from Sears. A couple days ago, it stopped working, all the buttons on the panel would just blink when pushed, and pressing "start" would run this weird mini-wash cycle. Disconnecting the power to the unit had no effect. Turns out (after having Sears come out for a warrantee repair on it), through some sequence of keypresses on the panel, I had enabled "store demo mode", which required a completely undocumented set of keypresses to turn off. (Even the sears guy had to call to get the code). My question - has anyone else ever seen other appliance "easter eggs" like this? In this case, it was pretty annoying, but I wonder what other sort of interesting secret key sequences there are on ordinary home appliances/tvs/etc." Makes you wonder. If you start pushing random buttons on your microwave, don't be surprised if it suddenly starts up with a rousing rendition of Devo's "Whip It!"

  9. Network And Automated OS Installation?

    Ask · News · · posted by Cliff · from the automagically-while-I-wait-in-the-other-room dept. · 14 comments
    nneul asks: "What options are there for automated network O/S installation? It seems like very few Linux distributions have reasonable facilities for this, whereas many other commercial unices and O/S's do. Does anyone have information or other approaches to doing automated network installations?" Automated install options for most OSes is described in detail, in the full article.

    "As far as overall, I've seen:

    • Solaris: JumpStart, no floppy, just 'boot net', works on any NFS server, but does have to have a machine on same subnet as installed machine.
    • HP-UX: Either NetInstall or Ignite-UX, both are boot off network as well, requires an HP to use as install server
    • IRIX: Also has a network boot/configure. Slightly more pre-configuration when you initially boot, but once it's started, pretty much proceeds automatically, any nfs server.
    • AIX: Haven't used in ages, but even the old 3.2 had a way of installing a system image for installs, and the 4.x has some sort of network install utility.
    • NT/Win2k: You can automate most of the base O/S install for these, but will require either using old DOS lanman boot disks or netware boot disks.
    • Red Hat: KickStart, one standard floppy, everything configured on network, well documented, any NFS or FTP server can be used.
    • Mandrake: Apparently includes kickstart since RH based, but has no documentation, and I sure wouldn't trust them to not break it, given that they make no mention of it anywhere.
    • Debian: Doesn't appear to have anything other other than the base install, and very little to no automation
    • Ghosted/Disk image/etc: Yeah, this works, but you gotta have pretty equivalent hardware and partitioning. Forget it if you want to be able to autoinstall to lots of different boxes."

  10. Next, The Copier Will Reproduce Popsicles

    Tech · Technology · · posted by Hemos · from the fun-with-toys dept. · 86 comments
    4/3PI*R^3 writes "At my fellow UM System University, the University of Missouri Rolla Dr. Ming Leu, Wei Zhang, and their fellow mechanical engineers invented a device that constructs a 3-D model out of ice in a matter of hours, using a technique they call rapid-freeze prototyping. Article in Discover. At last we can finally make strawberry-banana swirl popsicles!!!!"

  11. Brian Hook joins Verant Interactive

    Games · Games · · posted by Hemos · from the the-eagle-has-landed dept. · 41 comments
    Keeper wrote in with the report on Everquest Stratics web site, that Brian Hook, who lately left Id, has officially relocated to Verant Interactive. Click below to read the full release.

    BRIAN HOOK JOINS VERANT INTERACTIVE'S POOL OF PROGRAMMING TALENT.

    - Highly regarded programmer to work on next generation technology San Diego, June 3rd, 1999 - Hook, formerly of Id Software and programmer on both Quake 2 and Quake 3, is a veteran of the games industry. His credits also include being one of the chief architects of the Glide API during his tenure at 3DFX; development work on the OpenGL code base at Silicon Graphics; and he has written numerous articles for magazines such as Dr. Dobb's Journals and Game Developer. He brings with him seasoned talent and an immense knowledge base.

    "Verant is committed to both massively multiplayer gaming as well as cutting-edge 3D technology," said President and CEO of Verant Interactive, John Smedley. "Insuring that we have the talent and expertise to lead the way in both of these fields is critical to our company's goals, and adding someone of Brian's caliber to our already strong programming team is going to help us make the best games out there."

    "I'm very excited to have Brian on board," said Brad McQuaid, Verant Vice President . "I believe successful games are made from both great technology and great design, and Brian brings us a lot of talent in both of those areas."

    "Verant is the perfect place for me. I'm a huge fan of their games, and the opportunity to work on Verant's future titles is just too good to pass up," said Brian Hook. "I strongly believe in Verant's commitment to making the best Massively Multiplayer games out there, and I'm excited to be able to contribute to a product line that will be the benchmark against which all other Massive Multiplayer games are judged. People are going to be blown away when they see what Verant is working on."

    Hook will be involved with programming and technology in both current and future Verant projects. Verant Interactive is an independent development studio that develops cutting-edge online games. Based in San Diego, California, Verant Interactive has a staff of over 70 employees who consist of the development teams responsible for the online games Tanarus and EverQuest. "

  12. Realtime Gaming Patent...

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the runs-on-Linux-but-may-not-be-cool dept. · 91 comments
    Whizard wrote in about a new patent on realtime synchronous actions over the Internet that could applied either to games or to medical operations over the Net. The description makes it look like another exercise in patenting the obvious, but would anybody care to analyse it and give us a rundown on what is now prohibited without a license? They do happen to have a client and a server running on Linux.

  13. ALS Keynote Speakers

    Linux · Linux · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the who-says-what dept. · 0 comments
    Ian Downard writes "According to ALS's web page, there will now be two keynote addresses. Allen Miner from Oracle will present a keynote on Friday, and Dr. Michael Cowpland from Corel will give a keynote on Saturday. "

  14. Article on Intellectual Property

    News · News · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the stuff-to-read dept. · 0 comments
    Chad Slaughter writes " An excellent article for anyone interested in intellectual property appears in the Atlantic Monthly(Sept 1998). The article is a comprehensive review of all issues surrounding intellectual property. It includes contemporary legal issues, complete historical overview of copyright, electronic paper, digital books, software piracy, music, free software and software licenses."