Given the dangers inherent in manned space flight, NASA has been pretty lucky. Today, that luck runs out. Compiled by Tony Long.
A sad day in history and one that will never be forgotten, Baldy
Source: Jan. 28, 1986: Challenger
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It’s important to understand volunteer motivation to encourage further altruistic and mutually beneficial behavior. O’Reilly Editor Andy Oram has created a short survey for people to contribute to community documentation: “Do you answer questions on mailing lists about how to use a software tool or language? Do you write documentation, put up web pages, or [...]
The long-awaited next version of the Debian open-source operating system is most likely to be released in February, according to members of the Debian community.
Source: Debian tipped for February release
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We all benefit from Open Source and/or Free Software. Everyone. Even if you’re reading this blog from Internet Explorer on a Windows XP box, you benefit in some way from Open Source. There’s probably at least one open source program that you use on a regular basis on your system, and if not then somewhere [...]
KDevelop 3.4 has been released, bringing many new features to KDE’s Integrated Development Environment. The first major release in over a year closes more than 500 bugs. There is an impressive list of additional features including improved Qt 4 support, new debugging abilities, more attractive default user interface layout and improvements for C++, Ruby and [...]
