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Solar Flare Interference From 45k Lightyears Away

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the duck-the-flares-are-coming dept.

Wan2Be writes "Nasa has a story about a solar flare on Aug. 27 that affected our planet with radio bounces and blackouts - but it wasn't from old Sol, it was from SGR 1900+14, a neutron star about 45,000 light years away. "

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  1. Hmmm... by Sophrosyne · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Perhaps that's why my Rogers Highspeed Internet account kept disconnecting...
    Or perhaps the network was overloaded with users, and the company just really sucks.

  2. Welcome... by twoslice · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I for one would welcome our new Magnetar overlords.

    --

    From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
  3. Hard Times for *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    So why now? Why did *BSD fail? Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personalities?

    The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.

    1. Re:Hard Times for *BSD by Biff98 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I hate milking a flameware and offtopic shit, but y'know it's religious!

      Lessee -- *BSD is still taught at the university I went to. *BSD is being used in professional production environments (all 3 that I've worked at). And wouldn't you know it *BSD has *just* been installed on multiple servers for front-line services such as SMTP, NTP, FTP, SSH, among others, for a brand spankin new web presence with an OC3 pipe.

      And the kicker -- I would use *BSD -ANY DAY- over most any main-stream linux distributions. Installs can be performed with a floppy and a network connection (in under 20 minutes, FULL INSTALL) compared to about 3 or 4 hours with Red Hat CD's. The reason? First you have to go through that nasty GUI just to install the thing. Then you have to apply all the patches (because you didnt' get the latest distro over your net connection!). Then you have to go through and disable all the crap that you didn't want to run it with (Most things are disabled by default on *BSD, 30 second job on *BSD).

      Go troll somewhere else coward, I will keep my *BSD.