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  1. Re:Excellent Choice on Ridley Scott Loves Hugh Howey's Wool · · Score: 1

    This is one of the best Sci Fi books I have read. Get the whole series not the single stories in the WOOL OMNIBUS I'm looking forward to reading the new prequel

  2. DimDim? on Affordable and Usable Video Conferencing? · · Score: 1

    Has anyone suggested DimDim? http://www.dimdim.com
    It's free for up to 20 people, available for Windows, Linux and Mac.

  3. Nothing but praise here on A Mixed Review For Google Chrome On Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have installed both Chrome and Chromium on about 15 machines and 3 flavors of Linux. In each case the UI responsiveness is amazing. Huge improvement over Firefox. So far everything has worked beautifully on each of these machines. No problems with Flash. I'm surprised that the link review complained about the lack of extensions. There are plenty of extensions. Kinda made the rest of the review look poorly researched.

  4. No rover on this mission. on Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Chandrayaan-2 mission will be the first rover mission and is scheduled for 2011.
    Great info about the mission here

  5. Rocket Shop on A Home Lab/Shop For Kids? · · Score: 1

    I grew up with rockets. Building them gave me experience in science and construction methods.
    Back then Estes ruled but today Estes although widely available is not the best place to buy rockets. Semroc and Fliskits rule today. They shy away from plastic and still use balsa wood and classic materials.
    Or an even more interesting twist in Estes-style rockets is printing them from your computer. Cardstock rockets fly great and are perfectly safe.
    You can dowload dozens at the Rocketry Blog site

  6. Re:FIRST POST! on American Space Age Reaches Fifty Years · · Score: 1
  7. 10 Ways to Commemorate Sputnik on 50 Years Ago, Sputnik Was an Improvised Triumph · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sputnik was a wonderful achievement and deserves to be commemorated. Read here 10 ways you can commemorate Sputnik:
    http://rocketry.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/all-things-sputnik/

  8. Re:My favorite feature on OpenOffice.org Hits 1.1 · · Score: 1

    I've been using OO for about 6 months and absolutely love it. I am a IT Manager and would like to convince my enterprise to switch and save on the enormous office licenses. Having the ability to export to PDFs is huge and I may be able to get a leg in this time. Any other arguments that could help me to convince the big wigs? centrifugalforce

  9. Re:There's a star man.... on Diamandis Predicts X-Prize Winner Within One Year · · Score: 1

    It's amazing how many people would be willing to take the risk. I would also be happy to take the flight. Centrifugalforce

  10. Re:The straw that broke the PHB's back? on Microsoft Prepares Office Lock-in · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been using OpenOffice on my home machine now for about 4 months and I love it. I am starting the push (since I'm an IT Manager) for our company to look at it as an alternative to upgrading Office. It will be difficult to convince those in management away from their precious Excel. centrifugalforce

  11. Re:God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... on Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo · · Score: 1

    or maybe the Chinese will start a new human/rabbit army. They will be able to breed faster than we can kill them. We are doomed.
    Set out the traps now!
    centrifugalforce

  12. Smaller, Faster ,Cheaper and Linux on Computer Expectations of Today, and a Decade Hence? · · Score: 1

    Things will get smaller in our pre-quantum computer world and processing speeds will increase. The price of the computer will continue to become more affordable partly because Linux will dominate both the Server and desktop market.
    It's a far cry from the days on my old Tandy Color computer when we had to put the code in before we ran the program - I remember buying books of Basic code, rushing home and typing in the code for a program only to find out I had a Syntax error (I mistyped something). OH those were the days.
    centrifugalforce

  13. Re:blogs.google.com? on Google To Create "Blog" Search; Potentially Remove From Main · · Score: 1

    I have found quite a bit of useful information on Blogs. Some of the most useful sites I know , I found out about through reading Blogs. It inspired me enough to do my own blog. Breaking them out will give users who need a clean search better results while at the same time providing Bloggers with their own index.

    Centrifugalforce

  14. More info on howstuffworks.com on The Dot in .mars · · Score: 1

    check out this article on how an interplanetary internet would work: http://www.howstuffworks.com/interplanetary-intern et.htm