2/5     "Asteroid 2012 DA14 to sweep close on February 15, 2013"
        http://www.csua.org/u/z5p (earthsky.org)
        "It'll pass within the moon's distance from Earth - closer than the
        orbits of geosynchronous satellites."  What a close call!
        \_ (2/15) The meteor in Russia beated it.
        \_ (2/15) The meteor in Russia trumps it.
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9/3     While most of America is committing more and more resources to fight
        obesity by promoting healthy diets, NASA was spending tax dollars
        looking for sugar in space ......
        http://www.csua.org/u/xjv
        :-)
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9/18    The Space Shuttle Endeavour is doing a fly over of Nasa Ames on Friday:
        http://tinyurl.com/8ffrx5j [nasa.gov]
        \_ They have reached their cap on car passes!  Ahh!  I wish I heard
           about this earlier! :-(
        \_ I saw it above HW 101 in San Mateo this morning.  I wonder how many
           people in the Bay Area watched it (the real thing, not a broadcast.)
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6/26    WW2 brought us antibiotics, syringe, production capacity,
        excessive petroleum, radar, television, atomic energy,
        rocketry (HEIL VON BRAUN), synthetic rubber, microwave,
        computers (GAY TURING), jets.
        What did the Iraq war bring us?
        \_ HMMWV -> Hummer H1 the gas guzzler.
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12/17   Mission Accomplished!
        \_ The Honorable President of the United States George W. Bush has
           already told me this ...... years ago!
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3/5     "NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life"
        http://www.csua.org/u/sov (news.yahoo.com)
        WOW!
        \_ This was published in the Journal of Cosmology.  Here's a
           description of the very first paper they published, in 2009:
           http://csua.org/u/sp1
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7/20    For those who care btw, it looks like eclipse is now A Standard Tool
        at UCB ugrad cs, probably replaced emacs.  Furthermore, people get
        angry at seeing Makefiles, (since eclispe takes care of that).  I
        guess it's just a sign of the times.
        \_ The more people at my work use eclipse the less the code is
           managable in emacs.  I'm not sure which application's fault
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2/28    I'm looking for a recommendation of a compiler/IDE to use to
        develop C/C++ code under Linux. In school, we used jove/gcc and
        I still use emacs/vi and gcc to this day. However, it is really
        lacking. Under Windows I tried Visual Studio and there were some
        really nice things about it, although it was so overwhelming that
        after 6 months of occasional use I still didn't really know what I
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8/21    what is your favorite PHP ide?  Eclipse?  vim?
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2/20    Lunar eclipse poll:
        Totally magnificent:
        Worth seeing: ...
        Don't care, irrelevant to my life: .
        Lunar Eclipse?  What Lunar Eclipse?: .
        Cloudy, pretty much missed it: ...
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8/28    Did anyone watch the lunar eclipse last night?  I broke my $20
        binoculars while trying to focus to it.
        \_ How do you watch an eclipse at night... don't those happen
           when you can see the sun?
           \_ Ow ow ow....
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6/13    I'm new to Eclipse as an IDE.  Is there any way to tell it to
        automatically reload a file that's been externally edited--without
        brining up a confirmation dialog?
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8/23    I've been primarily developing Java in Eclipse, but I need to do a
        project with embedded C++, and I'd like a better IDE than Emacs.  MS
        Visual Studio is way too windows-centric.  All I really need is
        something that can do context-assists and autocompletes and flagging of
        illegal syntax.  Suggestions?
        \_ Have you tried this: http://www.eclipse.org/cdt --oj
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7/10    Any Eclipse experts here?  I was using 3.1 but had to reinstall and
        ended up with 3.2.  Formerly, if I would type something like
        "File foo;" a little error marker would offer to import java.io.File
        for me.  If I used a function illegally it would offer to change it to
        a legal set of arguments.  This install of Eclipse doesn't do these
        nice things.  Any ideas how to get that behavior back?
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5/18    I'm working with a developer who's used to C++/Java development
        environments that show you all the object relationships,
        inheritance, where functions are defined, where functions are
        used, etc.  We have a huge, painful application written in
        object oriented PHP that he's trying to figure out.  Do you
        guys know of and/or have you used any editors for PHP that have
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5/2     any eclipse users on soda? anyone know where I can find something
        like an icon legend? i'm learning eclipse. it seems great, but
        there are 50,000 icons sprinkled everywhere that are hard to get
        accustomed to. thanks.
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