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Stories · 3

  1. Instrument on Mars Rover 'Spirit' Malfunctioning

    Science · Space · · posted by michael · from the get-out-and-fix-it dept. · 22 comments
    deglr6328 writes "During the first in-flight checkout of both mars rovers this week it was found that the Mossbauer spectrometer on the first launched "Spirit" Rover was not functioning properly. The instrument is intended to be used on the surface of Mars to examine the composition and magnetic properties of Iron containing minerals in rocks. Mission engineers think they may be able to partially fix the spectrometer before it arrives in January. All other cameras and instruments on both rovers checked out ok."

  2. The System Administrators Guild: SAGEwire

    Developers · Unix · · posted by michael · from the things-to-bookmark dept. · 10 comments
    Michael Neuffer writes "The System Administrators Guild has started SAGEwire which is now running in BETA mode. They could use some additional readers that help them to get the quirks out of their system, so head over there and give it a good shakeout."

  3. Who is Using X11's LBX and RX Features?

    Ask · X · · posted by Cliff · from the if-the-functionality-is-there-why-aren't-we-using-it dept. · 14 comments
    tjansen asks: "In 1998 Open Group released X11R6.4, which introduced two nifty features called LBX (Low Bandwidth X) and RX (Remote Execution). LBX reduced the bandwidth needed by the X protocol, and RX made it possible to embed a remote X11 application securely into a Netscape plugin. Since version 4.0 both are also included in XFree86. Together they look like a nice and platform-independent solution for Application Service Providers (there are Windows clients, of course) and I wonder why I have never seen anybody using this."