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  1. Your Sig: Door into Summer on Update on Alan Cox's Sabbatical · · Score: 1

    >> "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash"
    corollary: "at the dogside might be Summer" adapted from Heinlein

  2. From SciFi on Robotics + Car = Hallucigenia · · Score: 1

    This looks like the exploration vehicle
    from Hal Clements "Mission of Gravity"
    from ~ 1955

  3. Re:China isn't the only threat on Next Major War in Space? · · Score: 0

    > Screw international relations
    You've allready done that!

  4. Re:Still have an old 486 running... on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 1

    Still got my first 486 since '91 running 24/7 with DRDOS and Win3.1 24/7
    cpu upgrade from 486DX33 to AM486dx5-133 with Socket Adapter to 3.3 Volts
    VGA upgrade to Cirrus Logic CL5420 with 1M in '93
    new 500MB HD at about the same time.
    Still running mostly for some dev programmes
    and WordStar ( in a DosBox ) and some other cruft.

    Deadparts: 1 Powersupply in '92

    G!
    MACC

  5. Re:OK, but what about engines? on Boeing Blended Wing Body Aircraft · · Score: 1

    There is movement there.(Again in Europe)
    Car Diesel Engines ( from Mercedes C-Model )
    are retrofittet for small aircraft with excelent
    results:
    http://www.awgnet.com/shownews/02fidae/power01.htm

  6. Hands on Experience on Segway Getting Real-Life Tests · · Score: 1

    Are there any "Dotty Slashers" that have real nonvirtual Hands on Experience with a SegWay and could give an account of their learnings?

  7. Re:Someone needs to design a linux advert.... on Microsoft's First Ad Targeting Linux · · Score: 2

    No, it should be based more on the BORG Theme.
    Someone sitting at a Win PC and then getting
    changed to something like the Slash BillofBorg.
    Or a couple of People( Private Home, Office personel ..) , judiciously borgified, with a fitting caption!
    Win3.11 user: about as far gone as 7of9 in her later appearances
    Win2k user: completely gone

  8. Re:Military Technology != Public Technology on Combining New/Old Approaches for Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    you are pretty uninformed aren't you?

  9. Re:Another AMD user.... on The Truth About SETI@Home · · Score: 1

    not realy:
    i run clients on 2 linux machines ( 4 years old 64M cpu changed from P133 to IDT C6-200 ) and they take about 40h each
    a new box still running win98 with 64M Celeron 466 takes about 65h per block with "graphic" client

  10. rosetta on Europe plans comet landing · · Score: 3

    have a look at :
    http://www.mpae.gwdg.de/mpae_projects/mpae_project s.html

  11. millibots on Micro-robots unveiled · · Score: 1

    Has anybody ever read Stanislav Lem's

    "The Invincible"

    where a spaceship crew in search for there sistership and its crew is defeated by miniature
    cooperative robots.

    Quite an educative read!

  12. moderation: score on Slashdot Moderation Phase 1.1 · · Score: 1

    What about some statistics on score distribution at the top of the page?
    either as numbers or a bargraph

  13. suse: yast source/license on SuSE 6.1 Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    i've just had a look at Yast and its source/Copyright notice:
    it's all the GNU stuff
    you can do whatever you want with it
    but you have to print out that this is a changed version.
    This ties in With Suse's free support!?