Links for 13th October 2008
Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs…
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Earth as Pixel: The Extrasolar Lesson
"As seen through the cameras aboard the spacecraft, the Earth spans less than a pixel, which is all we can expect to see when we get the technologies in place to isolate light from Earth-sized worlds elsewhere in the cosmos. We need to know how to interpret potential habitability, in other words, with precious little information, and Venus Express can help."
Tagged with: space • Earth • probes • extrasolar • planet • research •
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"Learn what |, >, >>, <, <<, [[ and ]], and many more symbols mean in UNIX and Linux® as well as how to get the most out of operators such as &&, ||, <, <=, and !=."
Tagged with: Linux • bash • shell • tutorial • commands • redirection • pipe • grep • operators •
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From a Semi to a Fully Automatic Border
"… it’s that bizarre architectural merger between gaming, robots, and warfare that continues to catch our attention, and this looming image of a war one day that could be fought by superpower from inside similar types of mobile military gaming cubicles."
Tagged with: military • war • border • outpost • remote • control • games • robots •
