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The hundred gadget giveaway: round 3 {Engadget}
Sep 4th 2007 12:53PM int iPostIndex;
iPostIndex = (int)floor(rand(gettimeofday()) * (double)(iTotalPostCount-1));
printf("Winner is %s\n",pcPostEmail[iPostIndex]);
Output: Winner is jpl @ somewhere.com
Yaaay!
The hundred gadget giveaway: round 3 {Engadget}
Sep 4th 2007 12:53PM int iPostIndex;
iPostIndex = (int)floor(rand(gettimeofday()) * (double)(iTotalPostCount-1));
printf("Winner is %s\n",pcPostEmail[iPostIndex]);
Output: Winner is jpl @ somewhere.com
Yaaay!
The hundred gadget giveaway: round 2 {Engadget}
Sep 4th 2007 8:01AM Engadget is a great way to distract myself from debugging impossible to find bugs in my embedded projects.
I'll take anything, really.
Experimental space hotel hurtled into orbit {Engadget}
Jun 29th 2007 10:36PM The reason an inflatable costs less to launch, is because it requires a narrower launch vehicle. The mass of the outer 'flexible' shell may be a little less heavy than one machined out of aluminium, but I don't think it would be significant.
However, the cross-sectional area of the inflatable will be at least 1/4 (assuming expanded radius is twice uninflated). Most launch vehicles have very narrow payload fairings, and although it doesn't compare to the delta-V from gravity-loss and orbital velocity, air-drag can be fairly significant through the first 2 minutes of flight.
OLPC's Linux-based operating system available for download {Engadget}
Apr 10th 2007 6:11PM I've just booted the live CD on my P4 1.8GHz, 512MB box, and browsing the engadget web site to post this message was horrendously painful. I assume it is the lack of hard drive installation, but wow, I have less issues with my IPAQ 4150 when reading engadget.
It had a problem setting the wired LAN DHCP delivered address, but an 'Ctrl-Alt-F1' to a root shell, followed by ifdown/ifup and everything was sweet.
The switch to gnome is neat, but the terminal didn't work when I selected it.
Not bad, but now I have to find a sacrificial laptop on which to install it for real.
