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It's was due to ADA

http://www.aviationtoday.com/a...
http://www.iaeng.org/publicati...
http://www.disca.upv.es/jorge/...

Not to be pedantic, but Airbus and Boeing are certified under FAR Part 25, not 23. Beyond that, when talking about not being able to engage manual override we're not talking about the autopilot but rather the flight control system which is only governed by 25.1309 as long as it maintains aircraft performance as outlined in 25.671 and 25.672. Autopilots are governed by 25.1329 and are required to have a quick release for manual override. As someone who's used both FAR 23/25 and the military version (MIL-HDBK-516), I can tell you it's really easy to design you way around the FARs to acheive both flight control systems used by Boeing and Airbus and still be well within the guidelines. There's a good article in the IEEE journal written in 1993 about the Airbus flight control system and outlines some of the requirements they used: http://personales.upv.es/juaruiga/teaching/TFC/Material/Trabajos/AIRBUS.PDF

Actually, there's up to four frequencies eye cones can be tuned to: the fourth one is tuned to orange (see here), and appears in about 32% of the population. If you add up the rods being tuned to yet another frequency (between blue and green), five frequencies would probably be needed to present colours that cover efficiently the eye range.

My University applied and was rejected. There were many students expecting the acceptance, including myself.

The worst of all is Google just says "Sorry, you are not being accepted" but they won't tell you why. That's discouraging.

Mozillux has a good Qt/KDE file dialog. Sure, it's not Enterprise quality and it has some minor problems (can't use anything but the file dialog while the dialog is open), but it's worth it for a home user (I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.1 with the Qt file dialog at home).

His "speech" was held on private grounds (the cafeteria) and against the wishes of the university.


No, his lecture was held on the grounds of a public university, according to this page describing the university.

Of course, I don't know what the conditions of free speech are in Spain, but the argument that it was on private grounds and therefore freedom of speech does not apply appears to be spurious.

Summary: It's lawful for users to share music one to one (P2P) because it's "copia privada" (roughly equivalent to 'fair use').

The talk was outside the cafeteria and without microphones, so people were quite packed around Jorge, sitting on the floor, in order to hear what he was saying (cafeterias tend to be noisy places).

You can see some photos of the people here .

I'm not an expert at sourceforge, but it would seem rather pointless to register an account there if you're not involved in a project. Ok, there are expired accounts, and disinterested accounts and whatnot...

But 1 million sourceforge users. You'd have to assume a lot of inactive accounts to even approach the "tens of thousands" figure, let along "hundreds". You'd have to assume that 10,000 people registered sourceforge accounts, for every person who contributed code, to even get near.

Just taking the current project of the month (ClamAV if you're interested), they mention 14 developers. And there are 29 projects of the month, and 95,000 other projects in various stages of development, (1110 Mature, 12375 Production/Stable, 14777 Beta etc.) with at least one person per project on anything that's "release quality"

That's just utilities mainly. Applications tend to have their own domains. KDE lists 501 people. OpenOffice have 3000 posts per week on their mailing list. Gnome list 84 people per year who donate money to the project (and can we forget the 10,000 who paid to promote Mozilla?) Linux itself of course, listed 369 people in the credits file at one time. Did you ever see a 'commercial' project with so many people working on it?

Okay, maybe you could look at the people preparing all this for shipping, the Mandrake people, the Debian people (Debbie and Ian?), the Gentoo people. But you don't just count the "packaging and shipping" group when you ask how many people programmed Windows do you? Maybe the person who wrote this article is getting very confused between writing software and distributing it...

At work (web development & financial software development) and at home I use the Mozilla Suite. The only time I will install FireFox is if I dont need email.

A 12 MB download is not bloated, even for me on a 52kbps connection. Installing IRC is optional on Windows and Linux.

Here are some of my reasons for sticking with the Mozilla Suite:

• I like being able to alter my program preferences (for the browser and email client from the one screen)
• I also believe that the browser can be configured with more options via Edit->Preferences. A lot of these options disappear in FireFox, and about:config is not the most ideal way of doing things.
• Thunderbird is a news reader as well. That doesn't make it bloated.
• There are also many extensions for Mozilla - Mozilla extensions came before FireFox extensions. The popular ones were 'ported' to FireFox.
• There are quite a few themes available for Mozilla. I like Mostly Crystal and Plastikzilla
• Installing and choosing a theme changes the way that both the browser and email client look.
• It is fast to load, and surf with. Even on a PIII 450 MHz box.
• The integration between browser and email client is second to none. They are the same program after all.
• Assumption: It's memory efficient. Shared memory for displaying the interface, rendering HTML, etc.
• Sidebars are easier to install in the Mozilla Suite. No need to add to bookmarks first.

I was a little annoyed when Fedora Core 3 came with FireFox/Thunderbird instead of the Mozilla Suite. But it was easy enough to find RPMs.

If development of the Mozilla Suite stops - I will switch. Hopefully FF and TB will be more mature by then. I have nothing against FF or TB. At work in the past two weeks I have converted the accountant and the head tester to FF.

Something similar for Mozilla and Linux:
The Mozilla integration project for Linux desktops

Montavista's approach just involves patching the standard kernel to try to improve its behavior. This gets you soft real-time, but getting provable hard real-time is tough via this route due to the complexity of the kernel.

RT-Linux (and RTAI which is roughly based on RT-Linux but offers a different API) is very different. It runs as a hard real-time micro-kernel which takes over your system and then runs all of Linux as a thread. When you run your hard real-time code it runs in that micro-kernel space rather than Linux user or kernel space. All of Linux gets preempted by your software.

Here is a great article covering this subject in more detail with tons of links.

You can already do that with the Mozilla KDE integration project: Mozillux.

Mozillux

Why would someone hire people to click banners when you could automate it?

You just need a bit of programming to parse webpages looking for Google (or other companies' ads).

Add some ip-spoofing (easy if the destination web server runs Windows) and make the program distribute clicks using some kind of probability distribution (for instance, a Gauss distribution), and it will look perfectly legal.

Indeed, if you find any ads company that still pays per click, and set some of those banners in a site of yours, you could earn a lot of money.

I described deeply this procedure in 1999 in a paper called Simulating hits to a HTTP server. Sadly, it is only in Catalan (if you have interest, e-mail me and I'll try to translate it for you).

DS2 is a Spanish company and is the WORLD leader in PLC technology.

One of the founders of the company was a teacher of mine! (he lectures at the Telecommunications School of Valencia, Polytechnic University of Valencia

DS2 is a Spanish company and is the WORLD leader in PLC technology.

One of the founders of the company was a teacher of mine! (he lectures at the Telecommunications School of Valencia, Polytechnic University of Valencia

yes! i definately want a mult-boot iso that i can pick apart. one resource that may be valuable:

maragda (http://www.iti.upv.es/~maragda/doc/index.html)

it is a linux on/from cd. just put it in your drive and you have a linux system. when i have time i want to make a multi-boot version that features multiple mini-distros.

there is a good page of related links here: running linux from cd-rom (http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/procedures/l inux-cd.html)