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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...

aaaand .... nothing? :-)

auto launch sequence did not start. restarting.

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?

it does not. it only has fuel to go 16 kilometers up and the area 
that it can fall in is rather large.

It's out :-)

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

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

cool

Testing Chromium: AddressSanitizer, a fast memory error detector.


http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/testing-chromium-addresssanitizer-fast.html

Interesting, I could use the same approach for a memory debug mode 
in Red/System.

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.

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/

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

http://www.osnews.com/story/25035/Ode_to_the_Command_Line

We can easily build a CLI dialect in REBOL to build a console:

<move, copy, delete, send, show-all> find <what-to-search> in <path-to-folder>

<copy-to-clipboard, print, send> find <what-to-search> in <file-name>
it would be a nice project :)

Yes, and the broader point is that it can also be integrated as snippets 
in GUI apps

With support for sending commands via something like arexx ports.

Sometimes you just want to type out what you want the computer to 
do......

> Tag all photos taken in Maui with "Maui"

Gregg: I was just thinking about the Arexx :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtb5EAG2gbc&NR=1

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO:


http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/24/steve_jobs_resigns_as_apple_ceo.html

The end of an era.

Probably the end of Apple as we know it

I don't think so. He still is going to be the head of the board of 
directors,no?

It means he's admitting that he's going downhill. And remember the 
organisation chart Doc found a while ago?

Yes, he is still the chairman.

What did the chart show?

A spider web, where everyone in the organisation is controlled by 
one head

That sounds like Steve Jobs.

Hopefully his health will improve over time.

I'm sure he was hoping for that in the past few years

I have heard that pancreas cancer is one of the worst cancer diagnosis, 
not curable. But of course, I wish him a recovery, who knows what's 
possible in terms of nowaday's medicine ...

I don't think he would have resigned unless doctors were now telling 
him to "get his affairs in order".

I agree - cancer can take you down really quickly sometimes. The 
federal leader of the opposition here in Canada went from winning 
second place in the election in May to succumbing to the disease 
earlier this week.

Raspberry Pi runs Quake 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mDuJuvZjI

a little lighter topic:  http://www.sublimetext.com/2

the best generic code editor ever and it's CROSS PLATFORM since the 
beginning of the year and it's beta already!

im using it for a day and no bugs so far. it costs 60 USD to get 
rid of the "buy me" dialog after every 50th save, but that's the 
only pain point, i think.

here is the list why i love it:
- knows save on focus lost

- have the intelligent filename search (with instant file preview!!!)
- can open full folders
(no need to create a project for it explicitely!!!...)
- handles proportional fonts
- handles double width characters (chinese for example)
- beautiful default color scheme with black background
- distraction free "zen" mode
- no stupid dialog box config
- cross platform; which is good because

    - i can remote control less advanced users no matter what is their 
    platform

    - i can use the same interface and shortcuts on every platform; no 
    annoyance on switching
- not extremely bloated yet...

textmate eats less memory and the initial load time is shorter, but 
it's mac only, doesnt handle double with characters and gets confused 
by the proportional font too.

+1 for Sublime Edit 2

AdrianS: do u have an updated version of the rebol syntax definition 
for it? the one i found in some article from last year doesnt seem 
to color it nicely. i can only see the strings, files colored but 
not any default words.


also what is the recommended way to prioretize the rebol syntax as 
the default over the R one?

btw, im using Verdana as the proportional font for source code. does 
anyone else have a better recommendation?

Can it do vertical/column selection?

no code folding...

but the minimap leftside looks like a nice feature. would like to 
have this with scite.