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Kaj
17-May-2011
[6191]
ERROR: your browser is too old to run JS/Linux.
Dockimbel
17-May-2011
[6192]
It requires FF4 or Chrome 11 (for the Typed Arrays HTML5 support): 
http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
Kaj
17-May-2011
[6193]
Yeah, just a bit disappointing ;-)
Andreas
17-May-2011
[6194x2]
hehe, boots in <7 secs here :)
obviously not counting the time to boot the whole host os :)
Oldes
24-May-2011
[6196]
Depixelizing Pixel Art: Upscaling Retro 8-bit Games http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2385811,00.asp

(unfortunately, original pages and also mirros seems to be down at 
this moment)
Geomol
24-May-2011
[6197x3]
I can see the page, and it looks like a really cool algorithm!
Imagine Mario and all the other cool 8-bit games, but with this kind 
of graphics. Makes you wanna play them again. Or is the nostalgic 
factor removed, so it is dull?
Oh sorry, the original page, johanneskopf.de, seems to be down.
Rebolek
26-May-2011
[6200]
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2385811,00.asp
Jerry
26-May-2011
[6201]
WOW!!!
Oldes
26-May-2011
[6202x2]
http://web.archive.org/web/20080208215126/http://www.hiend3d.com/hq3x.html
here is the original Depixelizing Pixel Art document - http://www.mediafire.com/?1yagc72uz7lx8u2
(the web page where it was available is still down)
Geomol
26-May-2011
[6204x2]
Thanks!
Really nice results in that document. Better than hq?x.
Oldes
26-May-2011
[6206]
Hm... I was just thinking that I would prefere hq4x result.
Geomol
26-May-2011
[6207]
I think, the fish on the first page looks better than the hq4x (middle) 
fish on the second. Don't you?
Oldes
26-May-2011
[6208]
I was comparing the figure 10. But the true is, that hq*x is only 
for bitmap results where the new algo is able to create any size 
as the output can be vectors.
Henrik
3-Jun-2011
[6209x4]
Danish rocket launch is being attempted again today.
It can be followed here, among other places:

http://raketvenner.dk/launch/
mms://itv02.digizuite.dk/tv2b

TV stream here, which should work in VLC.
http://sputnik.tv2.dk/play/event/820/

This is a much better stream, but requires Silverlight.
Geomol
3-Jun-2011
[6213]
thanks
onetom
3-Jun-2011
[6214]
any text view? hashtag for it for example?
im on mobile connection now
Henrik
3-Jun-2011
[6215x2]
don't know. there is a live chat here:

http://ing.dk/live

but this is mostly in Danish.
The infamous hair dryer from last year has been replaced by a heating 
resistor. They got a lot of laughs for using the hair dryer to heat 
a supercooled valve and the valve failed, because the power to the 
hair dryer was lost.
Geomol
3-Jun-2011
[6217]
Also:

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23raket OR %22copenhagen suborbitals%22
Henrik
3-Jun-2011
[6218x5]
Of other things, the liquid oxygen is no longer time critical (there 
is much more of it and the vaporization system is different) and 
radar control has fewer people running around. The launch platform 
itself no longer needs to be towed by a separate boat, but is powered 
by two diesel engines. Generally it seems a lot calmer and quieter 
than last year.
The quality of the reporting is atrocious, and is in no way scientific. 
I'm embarrassed that there is not a reporter on site, who actually 
knows what he's talking about.
Yet another stream here:


http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/03/amateur-copenhagen-suborbitals-team-about-to-send-a-dummy-into-s/
looks like the only problem now is to get remaining ships out of 
the area.
launch in a few seconds...
Pekr
3-Jun-2011
[6223]
aaaand .... nothing? :-)
Henrik
3-Jun-2011
[6224]
auto launch sequence did not start. restarting.
Pekr
3-Jun-2011
[6225]
I wonder how difficult it is to get an agreement, to do such a thing. 
What if the rocket fails, and falls to some crowded town area?
Henrik
3-Jun-2011
[6226]
it does not. it only has fuel to go 16 kilometers up and the area 
that it can fall in is rather large.
Pekr
3-Jun-2011
[6227]
It's out :-)
Henrik
3-Jun-2011
[6228x5]
stream is behind here... still launch trouble.
but it did lift off and is now coming down again.
parachute did not work properly
http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-40443611%3Alive-raket-sendt-af-sted-med-succes.html

Launch footage here.
A couple of pics from the launch pad:


http://ing.dk/artikel/119783-se-de-foerste-billeder-af-raketaffyring-taget-fra-sputnik#0
Pekr
6-Jun-2011
[6233]
Henrik - the project got publicity on our Technet site, which is 
part of the biggest online Czech News server ( http://www.idnes.cz
) -


http://technet.idnes.cz/do-vesmiru-na-stojaka-odstartovala-raketa-ve-ktere-pilot-stoji-p79-/tec_vesmir.aspx?c=A110606_102935_tec_vesmir_mla
Henrik
6-Jun-2011
[6234]
cool
Gregg
16-Jun-2011
[6235]
Testing Chromium: AddressSanitizer, a fast memory error detector.


http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/testing-chromium-addresssanitizer-fast.html
Dockimbel
18-Jun-2011
[6236]
Interesting, I could use the same approach for a memory debug mode 
in Red/System.
Gabriele
19-Jun-2011
[6237]
i think REBOL does similar things (eg. the end! datatype), that's 
why you usually get an internal error rather than a crash when there 
is a GC bug.
Henrik
21-Jun-2011
[6238]
Sony has been hacked 20 times in the past 2 months:


http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/06/20/in-sonys-20th-breach-in-two-months-hacker-claims-177000-sony-emails-compromised/
ddharing
21-Jun-2011
[6239]
Commodore USA has released a new video showing their office, production 
area and the progress of both the new Commodore 64 and the VIC-Slim. 

Here's the link: http://commodoreusa.net/CUSA_FacilityVideo.aspx
Kaj
6-Aug-2011
[6240]
http://www.osnews.com/story/25035/Ode_to_the_Command_Line