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  1. Submarine Patrol 105 Days on Six Men Endure 105-Day Mars Flight Simulator · · Score: 5, Informative

    When I was on a US Navy, FBM submarine, we typically spent 105 days submerged, with no contact from the outside world. It was not fun, but it was not that hard either.

  2. PostgreSQL gets my vote on To Whom Should I Donate? · · Score: 1

    How about PostgreSQL? http://www.postgresql.org/

  3. Re:I don't need no browser on Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released · · Score: 1

    xul, xbl, and svg are intrinsic to firefox and should replace all flash applications.

  4. Wireframe tray on Lap Desks · · Score: 1

    I have used a wireframe dish tray I got for around 5 USD from Meijer for the last year or so. I think working with the notebook on my lap is causing some shoulder pain, so I frequently work on a table instead. I have a Dell 640m and I have never had any heat issues with it, but it will warm my lap; the wireframe helps with good circulation and it keeps the notebook about 2cm off my lap.

  5. Schaum's Outlines on Best Way To Teach Oneself Math? · · Score: 1

    I recommend that you take a pencil and paper to a bookstore that has a large math selection and a large selection of Schaum's Outlines series. Then review several of the math Outlines and pick one that you think you can do. Then start doing it right there, starting with chapter 1. Solve, on paper, every problem (including the ones they solve for you). If you can finish chapter 1, buy the book and continue to solve every problem *on paper*.

  6. Ready To Start on What is the Best Way to Start a Paid GPL Project? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have developed a relatively successful, proprietary restaurant POS, based on an all open-source software stack. If someone had funds to support a very small team of developers for one year, I could create an entirely open-source version (complete rewrite, of course). The POS application suite is a large, complicated, and feature hungry piece of software and should not be thought of as anything less. Money is made with the software by running the main repository and configuration interface as an ASP service and charging a monthly fee to run the software there and in the stores. Something like 40 - 200 USD per month per store depending on what extras they want.

  7. Re:Great - BUT: Flash Player *still* not open-sour on Adobe Releases Flex Builder Linux Alpha · · Score: 1

    A complete open-source alternate is the mozilla xul and xbl.

  8. Re:I welcome... on The World's Languages Are Fast Becoming Extinct · · Score: 1

    I welcome the day when Esperanto becomes a universal second language.

  9. GPL on Selecting a Software Licence? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I vote for GPL.

  10. Re:Give Me The Desktop on People Don't Hate to Make Desktop Apps, Do They? · · Score: 1

    I think you should consider XUL and XBL.

  11. Unpopped will pop second time on Scientists Solve Riddle of Unpopped Popcorn · · Score: 1

    I have taken unpopped kernels from a microwave bag, place them back into the used microwave bag, and re-microwaved them, and almost all of them popped! I think a study is flawed.

  12. Schaum's Outline Series on Geek Books as Holiday Gifts · · Score: 1

    Any of the Schaum's Outline Series books. The are inexpensive and teach the subject in the best way possible: require the student to solve problems.

  13. Re:Pervasiveness of English on Tokyo Narita Airport Gets PDA Voice Translators · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Esperanto is a rich and beautiful language that is easy to learn. Esperanto should be everyone's second language.

  14. Re:Pervasiveness of English on Tokyo Narita Airport Gets PDA Voice Translators · · Score: 2, Informative

    Esperanto Rules!!!! It is a rich and beautiful language, that is easy to learn.

  15. Re:CVS cons? on Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS · · Score: 1

    Wow! you really need to buy and read this book--or you are not a *software* developer, so it just does not matter.

  16. Re:Quick Mind-Translation (Microsoftish, though) on Make More Mistakes · · Score: 1

    The article was a complete Microsoft advertisement aimed againt Linux and Open Source. I was hoping for some honesty, but what we got was just stupid marketing trying to be tactically clever.

  17. Re:They've gone elsewhere on OSNews Rates Fedora Core 1 Mild Disappointment · · Score: 1

    I have been using Fedora as my workstation for a month now and it is simply wonderful: support for dual monitors, free up2date, the latest Gnome software, prelinking, hyperthreading support, etc.