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Mars Rover Spirit Back Online
Skyshadow writes "Just in time for the arrival of its twin, the Spirit Mars Rover is back in working order. Programmers at the JPL have traced the problem to the rover's flash RAM, which it uses to maintain its filesystems. They are using a ramdisk in the rover's RAM to bypass the bad flash memory, and are working on a workaround for the bad flash. Good news, but the rover is still potentially weeks away from full operational status."
Being "TEH SUX0RZ". What is it all about?
Is it good, or is it whack?
17 0WNZ J00.
Savior of the Universe!
I found this rather funny.
Just because it's humor from another story doesn't mean it's a troll.
http://www.fsckin.com/
I'm glad someone read it as intended :-) Clearly the moderators haven't been reading the front page carefully enough. Oh well, I have karma to burn...
"'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'"
- JRR Tolkien.
thank you, mod, for modding this new repeated "in soviet russia" type-joke down.
Yeah, he's not cool like us studs spending our Saturday nights here on Slashdot.
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
Has anybody ever told you that you're stupid?
I think this site is his day job.
And the funny thing, as you noted, is that your original post got modded as "Informative" which means our beloved moderators don't even RTFA before modding.
Go ahead. Mod me down as "off topic". I've got karma to burn. But only if *YOU* RTFA.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
Brown
By Robert Peston, City Editor
(Filed: 25/01/2004)
Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and the world's wealthiest man, is to receive an honorary knighthood for "services to global enterprise".
The recommendation that he receive the honour was made by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown. Buckingham Palace is expected to announce it tomorrow, when Mr Gates will speak at a conference on "Advancing Enterprise" organised by Mr Brown.
Bill Gates, who is to receive an honorary knighthood
The controversial software company creator - whose commercial success has led to hatred of him among his competitors - is worth an estimated $40 billion (22 billion). Microsoft is described as the "Evil Empire" by those who resent its grip on the computer industry.
Other Americans to have received the KBE include George Bush, the former president, Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, Steven Spielberg, the film director, and Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank.
Mr Greenspan is another speaker at tomorrow's conference. The event has prompted resentment in the Prime Minister's close circle, who knew nothing about it until a fortnight ago.
They are annoyed that the conference - which gathers together luminaries from the business and political worlds including Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, Sir Terry Leahy, chief executive of Tesco, and Lord Browne, chief executive of BP - is taking place in Tony Blair's most difficult week since he became Prime Minister in 1997.
"On the eve of Hutton and the university fees vote, this is Brown saying, 'Look at all my powerful friends'," said a Downing Street adviser.
Mr Gates has been a notable donor to charities and good causes. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was created in 2000 to improve "equity in global health and learning". He has donated nearly $26 billion to the foundation.
The foundation set up a 139 million scholarship scheme three years ago to attract the brightest students to Cambridge University. It has also invested millions of dollars in research for an Aids vaccine.
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