Posts by Earle M

NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets

Just a typo that's been corrected.

Falcon Heavy sends NASA probe to metal-rich asteroid Psyche

Re: D'oh!

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/04/space_shuttle_engine_test/

They are one step ahead of you and have already begun to test the new version of the SSE.

Mars helicopter to try for new speed record on Thursday

Re: I know my maths isn't great...

The linked article mentions a peak speed, not an average speed of 10m/sec.

I assume the total flight time also includes assent and decent, so the total duration seems reasonable for that distance.

Doctor Who's The Zygon Invasion shape-shifts Clara and brings yet more hybrids

True that Mexico is not part of the USA, but...

.. New Mexico is one of the 50 states, and Truth or Consequences NM is an actual city located in Southern New Mexico.

Peeking up the skirt of Microsoft's hardy ReFS

There are many NTFS features that will not be present on ReFS

There are many people that are not happy about the loss of named streams, hard-links, and compression.

From the Q&A at the end of the 'Building Windows 8' blog entry:

Q) What semantics or features of NTFS are no longer supported on ReFS?

The NTFS features we have chosen to not support in ReFS are: named streams, object IDs, short names, compression, file level encryption (EFS), user data transactions, sparse, hard-links, extended attributes, and quotas.