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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."

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  1. SUCKY SUCK SUCK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    IT IS TEH SUX0RZ!

  2. Narly Dude by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just ejaculated on my mom.

  3. Re:They found the problem by Ever+Dubious · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't quit your day job; you suck as a comic.

  4. Damn, who do they have working for them? by ericdano · · Score: 0, Troll

    Damn, it sounds like freaking Microsoft. Say they know about a bug or a problem, and weeks LATER they fix it......

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  5. COMANDER TACO THEME SONG! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    (Spoken)
    Folks, I'd like to sing a song about the American dream.
    About me, about you, about the way our American hearts beat way down
    in the bottom of our chests. About the special feeling we get in the
    cockles of our hearts, maybe below the cockles, maybe in the subcockle
    area. Maybe in the liver. Maybe in the kidneys. Maybe even in the
    colon, we don't know.
    (Sung)
    I'm just a regular Joe with a regular job.
    I'm your average white suburbanite slob.
    I like football and porno and books about war.
    I've got an average house with a nice hardwood floor.
    My wife and my job, my kids and my car.
    My feet on my table and a cuban cigar.
    But sometimes that just ain't enough to keep a man like me interested
    (oh no) no way (uh-uh)
    No, I've gotta go out and have fun at someone else's expense
    (oh yeah) Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
    I drive really slow in the ultra-fast lane,
    While people behind me are going insane.
    I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, such an asshole)
    I use public toilets and piss on the seat,
    I walk around in the summertime saying "How about this heat?"
    I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)
    Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces,
    While handicapped people make handicapped faces.
    I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (He's a real fucking asshole)
    Maybe I shouldn't be singing this song
    Ranting and raving and carrying on
    Maybe they're right when they tell me I'm wrong
    NAAAAH!
    I'm an asshole (he's an asshole, what an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (he's the world's biggest asshole)
    (Spoken)
    Know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac El Dorado,
    hot-fuckin'-pink, with whaleskin hubcaps and all-leather cow interior and big
    brown baby seal eyes for headlights... yeah! And I'm gonna drive around in
    that baby doing 115 miles an hour, getting 1 mile per gallon, suckin' down
    quarter pound cheeseburgers from McDonald's in the old-fashioned non-
    biodegradable styrofoam containers... yeah! And when I'm done suckin' down
    those greaseball burgers I'm gonna toss the styrofoam containers right out the
    side, and there ain't a goddamn thing anybody can do about it. You know why?
    Because we got the bombs, that's why... yeah! Two words--nuclear fuckin'
    weapons, OK? Russia, Czechoslovakia, Romania, they can have all the democracy
    they want...they can have a democracy cakewalk right through the middle of
    Tienamen Square and it won't make a lick of fuckin' difference, because we got
    the bombs, OK? John Wayne's not dead--he's frozen! And when we find a cure for
    cancer, we're gonna thaw out the Duke and he's gonna be pretty pissed off. You
    know why? You ever taken a cold shower? Well, multiply that by 15 million
    times--that's how pissed off the Duke's gonna be. I'm gonna get the Duke and
    John Casavetti and Sam Peckinpaw and a case of fuckin' whisky and drive...
    (Hey, hey, hey, hey, you know you really are an asshole?)
    Why don't you shut up and sing the song, Chris. I thought I was the
    asshole... all the time it was him... what an asshole!
    (Sung)
    I'm an asshole (I'm an asshole, he's an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)
    A S-S H-O L-E
    Everybody, A S-S H-O L-E
    Ay Ay-Ay Ay-Ay Ay-Ay
    A-thoom A-thoom-thoom A-thoom-thoom A-thoom-thoom
    Oooooooo
    (Spoken)
    I'm an asshole and I'm proud of it!

  6. Re:last photo from Spirit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I believe you have made a mistake entering the URL. The correct image is here.