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  1. Re:ob on What Makes a Photograph Memorable? · · Score: 2

    Oh god... it haunts me to this day.

    Me too, and I have managed to avoid seeing it for years now. Once was enough!

  2. Re:Motor Law on Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way · · Score: 1

    If *ONLY* I could mod this +6

  3. Re:Gravitational hole in the Indian Ocean? on Earth's Gravitational Shape In Detail · · Score: 2
  4. 9/10 ??? on Book Review: The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After all the Foo for Dummies books that review on /. and rate a 10/10, Donald Knuth just gets a 9/10? Sad...

  5. Re:Improper illustration on Ants Build Cheapest Networks · · Score: 1

    The (flying wood) ant book is: Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices....

  6. 2 != 4 on Smallest Manned Electric Plane Flies · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, TFA mentions 4 engines grouped in pairs with counter-rotating props...not 2 engines.

  7. Re:SQLite database vacuum on Firefox 4 Will Be One Generation Ahead · · Score: 1

    The Crap Cleaner app can vacuum Firefox SQLite databases during its cleanup phase. It also works on Chrome databases too. It also does lots of nice Windows cleanup tasks; makes a nice addition to your standard toolkit.

  8. Database Design for Mere Mortals on Good Database Design Books? · · Score: 1

    I found "Database Design for Mere Mortals" (ISBN 0-201-69471-9) to be an good/easy entry point for good database design methodology.

  9. Blink on EyeDriver Lets Drivers Steer Car With Their Eyes · · Score: 1

    What happens when you blink? Or sneeze?

  10. Links to all drawings on Nuclear Reactors As Art · · Score: 5, Informative
  11. Yummm, Cake! on Peering Disputes Migrate To IPv6 · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Lame. on Google Brings SVG Support To IE · · Score: 1

    If this works out, it allows one to move away from static image rendering on server-side just so IE will "see" the SVG document. *THIS* is a big win!

  13. Free fast Public DNS Servers List on Bell Starts Hijacking NX Domain Queries · · Score: 1

    Free fast Public DNS Servers List

    Personally I use 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 due to them being easy to remember

  14. Re:Same platform different end-effectors on London's Robotic Fire Brigade · · Score: 1

    It is called Inverse Kinematics.

  15. All time best geek sig! on UK Police Want Plug-In Computer Crime Detectors · · Score: 1

    Someone's going to be (Mg,Fe)7Si8O22(OH)2

    All time best geek sig!

  16. Re:Okay... on Nintendo Slapped With Wiimote Strap Lawsuit Once Again · · Score: 1

    Sorry to you Americans who have to live amongst these people.

    ...sigh...

  17. Re:The origin of PERL on Higher-Order Perl Available For Free Download · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...and both are equally readable!

  18. Re:You mean physical memory right :-) on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: 1

    From Mark Russinovich's blog (SysInternals.com) -- an excellent description of Windows memory categories and their limitations; and tips on sizing the page file:

  19. !deadbeef on Hubble Stops Sending Data, Mission On Hold · · Score: 1
    Sounds like there are redundant systems in place. From the NASA release:

    The malfunctioning system is Hubble's Control Unit/Science Data Formatter - Side A. Shortly after 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, the telescope's spacecraft computer issued commands to safe the payload computer and science instruments when errors were detected within the Science Data Formatter. An attempt to reset the formatter and obtain a dump of the payload computer's memory was unsuccessful.

    Additional testing demonstrates Side A no longer supports the transfer of science data to the ground. A transition to the redundant Side B should restore full functionality to the science instruments and operations.

    The transition to Side B operations is complex. It requires that five other modules used in managing data also be switched to their B-side systems. The B-sides of these modules last were activated during ground tests in the late 1980's and/or early 1990, prior to launch. The Hubble operations team has begun work on the Side B transition and believes it will be ready to reconfigure Hubble later this week. The transition will happen after the team completes a readiness review.

    Hubble could return to science operations in the immediate future if the reconfiguration is successful. Even so, the agency is investigating the possibility of flying a back-up replacement system, which could be installed during the servicing mission.

  20. Re:Video much better than book... on "Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the proceeds of the book (maybe?) go to help Randy's family....

  21. OpenBSD? on Fast-Booting OS for Usually-Off Appliance PCs? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Depending on the intended use, a minimal install of OpenBSD might do the trick.

  22. Sat Stats on Tiny Satellite Set To Hunt Asteroids · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interesting maneuvering method: solar powered magnetic fields -- no fuel needed.

    NEOSSat

    Telescope: Able to look for objects near the sun - a task virtually impossible to do from Earth.

    Extends 30 centimetres.

    Weight: 65 kilograms

    Power: 45 watts with favourable orientation of solar panels

    Propulsion: Solar-powered magnetic "fingers" push against the Earth's magnetic field. It will never run out of propellant.

    Orbit: Sun synchronous, 800 km above the Earth, orbiting pole to pole

  23. Rhymes with "orange" on Zeppelins Over California · · Score: 1

    Yes...but what color is the word "orange"?

  24. OMG on Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade" · · Score: 1

    Wow! ...just wow...

  25. Links on Sun Snags Open Source Virtualization Company, Innotek · · Score: 4, Informative

    It would have been nice to have a link to Innotek and their product: VirtualBox. Which I am pretty sure is not associated with the dog training products that Google ranks at the top of its search.