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  1. No Wikipedia link on Self Contained Power Source? · · Score: 1

    This article has no link to a Wikipedia article about "Parallel Path" and I'm a little bit proud of it, see:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_fo r_deletion/Parallel_Path

  2. PDF link of Rathke's paper on New Discovery Disproves Quantum Theory? · · Score: 1
    Andreas Rathke's article "A critical analysis of the hydrino model" in New Journal of Physics: The "New Journal of Physics" is a peer reviewed open access online journal:
  3. Ruby, get a Unicode clue! on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: 1

    Unlike Perl and Python, Ruby hasn't accepted yet, that it is important to have good, integrated Unicode support.

    This is the single point stopping me to switch over to Ruby.

  4. Change bus or train schedule using Wi-Fi? on CNN Notices that WiFi is Insecure · · Score: 1

    In the Italian province Alto Adige, the public transit company SAD uses Wi-Fi at some bus stops to get diagnostics from the busses and send timetable and bypass updates to the bus.

    So, when you are in hurry, perhaps you can tell the bus to go straight to your destination, skipping all intervening stops?

    SAD will operate a local train using the same Wi-Fi communications, later this year.

  5. Re:Support Bletchley Park on Colossus has been Rebuilt · · Score: 4, Informative

    Often forgotten (outside Poland):

    The work on breaking Enigma started at the Polish Cipher Bureau with three Polish mathematicans Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Rozycki developing a mathematical model of its operation.

    At Bletchley Park, there is plaque commemorating this contribution.

    And the knowledge used was obtained by French intelligence, but only the Poles thought it possible to gain something out of it.

    Googling for Poland Enigma will give you a lot of sources.

    Or start here:
    http://www.paiz.gov.pl/oldpai/newsletter/an gielski /NR20.htm#Conquerors%20of%20Enigma
    http://www.awm .gov.au/news/codes.htm
    http://wings.buffalo.edu/i nfo-poland/web/history/W WII/enigma/U-571.shtml

  6. "Miguel, I brought an employment application. ..." on Miguel de Icaza on Mono, Ximian/Novell, XAML · · Score: 1

    More Miguel/MSFT stories...
    Google for: miguel "don box"
    Or even: miguel "don box" "your ass"

    I assume, he turned down the offer.

  7. Re:*Proprietary* Qt is Dangerous to Linux!!! on Novell Desktop To Standardize On Qt [updated] · · Score: 1

    The moderator option sadly missing is:
    +1, Paranoid

  8. Re:Remember folks, on DOJ Calls EU Microsoft Decision "Unfortunate" · · Score: 1

    The second article you cite, gave as an example for one of these bad EU practises:

    > L"ubeck marzipan must come from L"ubeck.

    Sorry, am I the brain-dead here? Of course L"ubeck marzipan must come from L"ubeck. If it comes from Bad Ass, Texas, it should be named Bad Ass marzipan.

    Or do you think it's equally unfair that an product named "orange juice" must be orange juice (and not colored, sweetened water)?

    Regards,
    Peter Jacobi
    Hamburg (not far from L"ubeck)

  9. Re:if (SVG = Flash) .... on SVG And The Free Desktop(s) · · Score: 1

    If SVG replaces PDF, it should better have all possibilities Postscript has.

    So, can anybody please teach me, how I get dimensions of a rendered text string? E.g. for
    drawing a reasonably matching ellipse around it?

    I know how to do this in Postscript. AFAIK I can't do it in SVG.

    Peter

  10. This was actually done mostly by the Hawai Keck on Hubble Snaps Farthest / Oldest Galaxy · · Score: 3, Insightful
    From BBC:
    "The Hubble data suggested a redshift of 6.6, but follow-up observations with the 10-metre Keck telescopes on Hawaii indicated the new object probably has a redshift closer to 7.0 - a record."
    You see, this work can be done from orbit or from earth. There are perfectly valid arguments for keeping Hubble, and even more valid arguments for space telescopes in general, but this particular observation isn't decisive.
  11. Build your own EEG (read the warnings)! on Neural Feedback Training as Therapy for ADHD? · · Score: 1

    http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html

  12. Single Message Queue on OS/2 Going, Going... Gone · · Score: 1

    Apart from the tons of the non-technical issues for failure, my favorite technical issue is "Single Message Queue".

    This 'feature' made the fine pre-emptive multitasking rather useless in most situation, as one GUI thread hanging did stop all other GUI threads.

    AFAIK there were workarounds and changes to this, but at that time, nobody bothered.

  13. road upkeep on Toyota to Move to All Hybrid Vehicles By 2012 · · Score: 1

    You should ask someone working in the field
    for a definite answer, but out of memory
    the load on the road rises with the fourth
    power of weight per axle.
    I remember this from the discussions where the
    Swiss tried to keep the heavy trucks out of
    their country.

    Peter