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Project Shiva Star was a 1990 U.S. Air Force program that aimed to develop a weapon that could fire a 'donut-shaped ring of ionized gas' at 10,000 kilometers per second. Idea was to shoot down incoming nukes... From 'The Hunt for Zero Point' by Nick Cook... more about same TK... Comments 9:02:59 PM 
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 Now Bernie has a Typepad blog. Sheesh... I'm hanging tough with Radio, thanyouveddymuch...Comments 6:59:45 PM
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NFS: so I'm running NFS on both the Linux and Mac OS X machines. Both machines can see their own NFS share, but they can't see each other. I'm doing something wrong here... any thoughts appreciated... Comments 6:17:33 PM
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Is Linux becoming 'closed'? "Even though it's 'open,' if everybody starts writing to Red Hat, which is sort of happening, then there's a real danger that you won't see innovation and they'll start charging, which they've already done. And [then] Linux no longer matters." says Vinod Khosla, over at AlwayOn. Interesting... would have said that Linux has a lot left up its sleeve... Comments 5:25:20 PM
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Nutch is a project to build an Open Source search engine. Excellent idea... Comments 2:46:49 PM
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Dean Kamen's iBot, a wheel chair that can climb stairs and lift its occupants to eye-level, has been approved for sale by the FDA. Costs $29,000 will be marketed by Johnson & Johnson... Comments 2:26:06 PM
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Linux geek-for-a-week: day two went fine. I moved some .doc files over to the Linux machine and edited them with no problems in OpenOffice. Still want to get NFS on the Mac to show up on the Linux box - the Linux machine shows up on the Mac as an AppleShare IP share. This morning, for the first time, I went to the Linux machine first... I think the Ximian XD2 desktop really is ready for prime time among non-technical users... Comments 8:03:21 AM
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Many companies ground to a halt yesterday because of the Blaster Worm. The Chronicle has a front page story with photo of a guy who spent hours trying to install the patch over his infected system. Dave Winer says his XML-RPC site was being clobbered by people searching on 'RPC' to learn more about how to block the worm. Days like this I'm glad I'm a Mac and Linux fan... Comments 7:56:41 AM
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It's time for Freedom Software says Robin 'Roblimo' Miller. Heh... Comments 7:48:00 AM
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Updated 4/16/04; 12:53:23 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:53:23 PM
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