Month: October 2024

Welcome to Edition 7.16 of the Rocket Report! Even several days later, it remains difficult to process the significance of what SpaceX achieved in South Texas last Sunday. The moment of seeing a rocket fall out of the sky and be captured by two arms felt historic to me, as historic as the company's first drone ship landing in April 2016. What a time to be alive.

As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.

Surprise! Rocket Lab adds a last-minute mission. After signing a launch contract less than two months ago, Rocket Lab says it will launch a customer as early as Saturday from New Zealand on board its Electron launch vehicle. Rocket Lab added that the customer for the expedited mission, to be named "Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes," is confidential. This is an impressive turnaround in launch times and will allow Rocket Lab to burnish its credentials for the US Space Force, which has prioritized "responsive" launch in recent years.

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Intel will Altera komplett oder teilweise verkaufen. Der Markt für FPGAs wächst derzeit stark. (Intel, TSMC)

A few months back, I put together a big fat guide on how to configure DNS and DHCP on your LAN the old-school way, with bind and dhcpd working together to seamlessly hand out addresses to hosts on your network and also register those hosts in your LAN's forward and reverse DNS lookup zones. The article did really well—thanks for reading it!—but one thing commenters pointed out was that my preferred dhcpd implementation, the venerable isc-dhcp-server, reached end-of-life in 2022. To replace it, ISC has for many years been working on the development of a new DHCP server named Kea.

Kea (which for this piece will refer mainly to the isc-kea-dhcp4 and isc-kea-dhcp-ddns applications) doesn't alter the end-user experience of receiving DHCP addresses—your devices won't much care if you're using isc-dhcp-server or isc-kea-dhcp4. Instead, what Kea brings to the table is a new codebase that jettisons the older dhcpd's multi-decade pile of often crufty code for a new pile of much less crufty code that will (hopefully) be easier to maintain and extend.

Many Ars readers are aware of the classic Joel on Software blog post about how rewriting your application from scratch is almost never a good idea, but something like isc-dhcp-server—whose redesign is being handled planfully by the Internet Systems Consortium—is the exception to the rule.

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Gute Vorsätze, steile Lernkurven, großer Frust - und eine Entscheidung: Wie ich Chef wurde und warum ich es nicht geblieben bin. Ein Erfahrungsbericht von Frank Heckel (IT-Führung, Softwareentwicklung)

Ein Bilderrahmen mit Frameo-App, 10,1-Zoll Touchscreen und 32 GByte internem Speicher ist bei Amazon aktuell zum Angebotspreis erhältlich. (Technik/Hardware)

In der EU müssen App-Entwickler ihre Kontaktdaten an die Store-Betreiber übermitteln - auch, wenn es sich dabei um die Privatadresse handelt. (App, Apple)

Der Dampfreiniger von Kärcher sorgt für hygienische Sauberkeit ohne Chemie und ist jetzt als Blitzangebot verfügbar. (Technik/Hardware)

Der Analogue 3D bringt die ikonische Nintendo-Konsole der 90er in die Gegenwart. Daran funktioniert alte und neue Hardware - ohne Emulation. (Nintendo, Spiele)

Erst ist nur von fehlenden Protokolldaten bis zum 19. September die Rede gewesen. Laut Microsoft reichen die Logging-Probleme aber bis in den Oktober. (Microsoft, Cloud Computing)

Globle Beleuchtung, ein optimiertes Animationssystem und KI-Charaktere: Unity hat Version 6 seiner Engine zum Download freigegeben. (Unity, Spiele)