Penguins? In the Iditarod? Microsoft Gets Served, by Linux | Linux Today

Penguins? In the Iditarod? Microsoft Gets Served, by Linux

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Shawn Powers
Mar 5, 2008

“This year’s Iditarod race is a bit different from past seasons.
Oh sure, there are many of the same things going on, like dogs,
sleds, snow, and mushing–but this year there’s also GPS enabled
tracking.

“If you go to the Iditarod website, you’ll see a link on the
right hand side to live GPS musher tracking. After a mildly
annoying email login box (fake emails work, don’t tell them I told
you), you get to see a map of the race with live stats of the
racers. Or at least 18 of the 90 odd racers. (Not all racers are
participating in the trial run of the satellite tracking this
year…)”


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Shawn Powers

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