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  1. And your current MacBook can handle it? on Rugged Linux Server For Rural, Tropical Environment? · · Score: 1
    > Increasingly a Linux VM on my MacBook Pro

    Wait a minute! You are telling us that the environment conditions are hard, but you MacBook Pro can handle/survive it? That's odd, I can tell you that.

    Stick with plain computer and create a good room for it (an air conditioner would solve temperature/moisture/dusty issues).

  2. Misinformation on Astronauts Pull Off Risky Spacewalk · · Score: 5, Informative

    The jet pack is great, but the astronauts don't put their lives entirely on them. Actually, what really make the EVA safe are two tethers, linking the astronauts to the ISS. The issue with the jet pack was that the danger of it becoming space debris, what could put the ISS in danger. Check it out at space.com or any really serious space news site.

  3. Re:Is there a subtle message here? on Hands on With the PSP Talkman Translator · · Score: 1

    couple: (1) two things related in some way which are not usually used separately. (2) two people who live or spend time together. (3) (informal) a few, several, a small number. Reference: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.

  4. Re:even though it's still free on Nessus 3.0 discussed · · Score: 1

    still free? No way, this kind of "free" is not the same as before.

  5. Re:even though it's still free on Nessus 3.0 discussed · · Score: 1

    Or maybe the author simply didn't accept any contribution, couldn't create a good structure to foster the community around the software development and so on.

    I do not believe that no one has never ever contributed to Nessus.

  6. Re:Seems simple enough... on Nessus 3.0 discussed · · Score: 1

    > Imagine that you are a code contributor who in **good faith**
    > contributed a patch or entire modules under the assumption that such
    > contributions were going to be under that open source license. Now
    > that the company pulls the source and closes it down, does that mean
    > they took your work and will use it for their closed source purposes
    > without your consent?

    Absolutely not. If you contributed a whole module or file, you own the copyright for it (unless you transfered the copyright to the copy). So, if they want to change the license they must (1) make up your mind so you change the license of your contribution or (2) Remove your contribution from the product.

    > 3. How long until we see OpenNessus or (insert clever derivative
    > name here)?

    IIRC, in the same week they announced that Nessus would be turned in closed source, someone else created a fork.

  7. Re:Seems simple enough... on Nessus 3.0 discussed · · Score: 1

    > Imagine that you are a code contributor who in **good faith** > contributed a patch or entire modules under the assumption that such > contributions were going to be under that open source license. Now > that the company pulls the source and closes it down, does that mean > they took your work and will use it for their closed source purposes > without your consent? Absolutely not. If you contributed a whole module or file, you own the copyright for it (unless you transfered the copyright to the copy). So, if they want to change the license they must: 1) Make up your mind so you change the license of your contribution. 2) Remove your contribution from the product. > 3. How long until we see OpenNessus or (insert clever derivative > name here)? IIRC, in the same week they announced that Nessus would be turned in closed source, someone else created a fork.

  8. Not the first launch on First Launch of new heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket · · Score: 3, Informative

    This isn't the _first_ launch of the Ariane 5 ECA. The first was on december 2002. Unfortunately, the vehicle was self-destroyed after three minutes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5) due to a software bug.

  9. Brazilian's rockets on Brazil Successfully Launches Its First Rocket To Space · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but this isn't the first successful Brazilian's rocket launch. Brazil has already developed several rockets, the one reported today being just a more advanced model that will be exported to ESA in the future. You may access the following URL (in portuguese, use Google's translator): http://www.aeb.gov.br/comunicacao/textos/default.a sp?cod_tipo=1&cod_texto=420

  10. Re:its a hardware problem on Fedora Core Doesn't Like to Dual Boot? · · Score: 1

    Conectiva 10 (still under development, Release Candidade 2 released some days ago) had some problems about this too. Fortunately, they were properly fixed. Well, actually fortunately isn't a good word. They just have done what anyone would expect from a serious Linux distribution: fix a serious bug before releasing the a new product. Sad Fedora haven't the same high level criteria.

  11. Re:Graffiti on Xerox Patent Ruled Invalid, palmOne Exonerated · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They could offer both options, Graffiti and Graffiti2, so you could select the one that best fit you. I'd love that, Graffiti works much better for me.

  12. Re:interesting on Large Scale Collaborative Editing · · Score: 1

    Yes, the DAV means that but its not currently implemented. WebDAV just control concurrent access (emplying locks). If you dont believe this, check SubVersion (http://subversion.tigris.org), it implements the DeltaV, that does versioning above WebDAV (that would be the V missing in real WebDAV).

  13. Re:In that case on NASA To Try To Resume Flights By Fall · · Score: 1

    The solution is quite simple: every new STS mission will go to the ISS. Oh, and what about the science experiments like those done at Columbia? Simple: hold them for a while! The ISS is a much better environment for science experiments than a space shuttle. As far as I know, the ISS is being constructed mainly for this: a high tech lab that, after an expensive construction cost, can be easyly mainteined with new experiments brought by cheap carrier spaceships like Progress and the one Europa's countries are building.

  14. Re:Purify on IBM Buys Rational Software · · Score: 1

    Now we have valgrind, it does a quiet good job on memory debugging. And hey, it's free!

  15. Re:I hope they don't gut it.... on IBM Buys Rational Software · · Score: 1

    UML will always evolve, with or without Rational Rose. Remember, it's an official OMG standard and many, many people are involved with it. But RUP is Rational's product, this one is IBM task to keep improving.

  16. This isn't the biggest pi! on A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi · · Score: 1
    Look at http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/pihex/index.html, that effort is resposible for the biggest Pi ever ccalculated! The head news, from 2000 I think, is:

    The Quadrillionth Bit of Pi is '0'!

    I'm sure that this is much more than this pity 1 trillion digits... pihex has got more than 1 trillion bits before 1999, for God sake.

  17. Re:Anyone surprised? on Music Companies Convicted of Price Fixing Again · · Score: 1

    Ok, so the people's work of ten years ago worths less than Britney Spears, BSB or anything else recorded nowadays? Come on, somebody is clearly taking some extra money from this business chain...