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  1. Story from Science@NASA on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 1

    NASA's story on this here.

  2. Re:self-plagarism on Students Protest Turnitin.com · · Score: 1
    Similar rules at UNBC:
    Unless prior written and signed permission is obtained, submitting the same essay, paper or other term work for credit in more than one course constitutes self-plagiarism, a situation similar to complete plagiarism.
    And at SFU:
    [...] Submitting the same essay, presentation, or assignment more than once whether the earlier submission was at this or another institution, unless prior approval has been obtained.
  3. FioranoMQ on Open Source Message Queuing System · · Score: 1

    The company I work for uses FioranoMQ and it's such a pile of garbage. Their client-side RTL will not even reconnect to the message broker if it's down unless the connection is marked as durable, in which case it mindlessly queues all the messages on disk. The client application can't control any of this.

    As for their C++ API, it's hard to believe their developers even know how to code in C++. It leaks like a sieve and doesn't even do durable connections. If the connection to the broker is ever lost, you literally have to restart the entire C++ app.

    I guess this is what you get for software developed in India. The cost of other providers like Tibco/RV is grossly prohibitive.

    If JPMorgan Chase & Co's experiences are anything like this, it's no wonder they want to build their own system.

  4. Re:Life Without the Internet on Ask Kevin Mitnick · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm sure he hasn't dared touch the mouse directly.

    After all, those "internet usage urine tests" are almost as effective as drug screening now.

  5. Parrot on What Kind of Books do You Want? · · Score: 1

    Dead-tree books are a must - they provide an escape from staring at screens all day.

    I'd like to read something specifically on the Parrot VM planned (initially) for Perl 6.

  6. i can't wait for the download to finish.. on Slackware 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    slackware is great for me, and it does have a simple package mgmt system (yes, simpler is better). i've installed slackware-current dozens of times, and only once had a problem with doing so. compiling and installing your own software with slack is a breeze. the only comparible alternatives to it are in the bsd world. thanks to all involved for keeping it current!