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My estimate? perhaps the turn was 15 years ago.

I think a bit more than that. White Dwarf used to be a great magazine, carrying articles on classic games like AD&D, Traveller and Runequest.

It took from 1986 (Warhammer announced) to 1987 (last AD&D article) for them to turn it around from probably the best games magazine around to a house catalogue.

Timeline.

My old ISP switched to FreeBSD from SunOS Sys V I believe, quite some years ago. Many others did as well.

Try looking up widomaker.com on any of the nmap spoof sites out there. Betcha you'll smile... they're running FreeBSD AND they are a significantly sizeable Hampton Roads ISP. I believe the MAJOR ISP in HR also uses BSD, but I'm not sure since I've not telnetted in for ages upon centuries (1997 :) the place is VISINET

I am too lazy at the moment and too drowsy to check it myself. But I know for a fact wilma.widomaker.com is STILL running some version of free_bsd (unless they changed again VERY recently).

BSD's a capable OS, I'm not much of a user because I do a lot more hacked together work often, and BSD only ran my old file server/ httpd rig. My home boxen ran a mix of ... uhmm... red hat, debian and mandrake. Oh and as usual LinuxPPC/YellowDog 2.x on the mac.

I'm going to ask?? Why are all you folks having such a Unix vs *nix vs BSD JIHAD?! If we are to compare ourselves to the arab world... Isn't microsoft our "evil west" and Bill Gates our "great satan" type figure?!? Jeez people, we're fighting each other so to speak, while Billy boy makes a killing and leaves us hanging. And I'll take my own advice here since I recently forgot it and got into a long argument (I hate getting sucked into politics). But, if we all coded more and flamed each other less, and if we helped out the newbies, I bet we'd start stealing from the REAL big user base out there... MICROSOFT's. If BSD dies its only ONE more corpse microsoft can have strewn over their Gates of Mordor. Linux didn't win that one. Gates did, and will. And who do you think is next?! Damn straight. Billy's gonna take us down one at a time. First the weaker ones... then the strong ones. And yes Linux is at the top of the OS food chain under Bill Gates own pet. We're all supposed to have a purpose. OSS. So get back to coding, thinking or designing something cool and stop flaming each other. I know its tempting, I couldn't resist it once or twice but I caught myself. If you do flame or troll, at least post some info, some resource links so we can check, and then get back to doing something fun or useful that doesn't piss off half the damn messageboard just for the sake of pissing them off. That's just immature and stupid. That IS why nobody pays attention to us. We're all a bunch of immature little kids in the bodies of adults screaming bloody murder upon Bill gates, george bush, osama bin laden and whoever wants to hear us. Too bad we're in a cave all of our own and they locked us in.

If BSD dies... let it die on its own. Gloating doesn't help anyone. Some people put a lot of effort in that project, and if you haven't you've no right to harp on them. If you never even USED BSD, then lay off until you have, and given it a very legitimate attempt to at least get the installer completed. Show some respect, just like Linux and even parts of windows, whether the ideas were stolen, litigated or created, they were STILL worked on by someone, usually someone brilliant. And until we each can surpass those people... whether in coding or marketing or design or even legalese, we need to shut the fuck up and show some respect. If you can't show some respect to those who gave us the nice toys we now use all the time and harp about, then perhaps you'd like to still be using punch cards!

So speaking of this, I'm getting back to my work. Try to do the same. And as for the individual who modded down that post describing the disillusionment with BSD, it makes much sense. Let it stand up, replace BSD with OSS and get on with it, because the problem facing BSD has nothing to do with good code or bad code. It has to do with the george bushes and saddam husseins of the OSS community Once they finish with BSD they'll move onto another project and tear that one apart as well. Just like slashdotte

Arado was working on this too; they built a couple of prototypes, but I'm not sure wether they flew them.

Of course, the Nazi's had everyone beat with their ME-262 Komet - a rocket powered blended wing fighter-interceptor

Me-262: jet-fighter

Me-163: rocket fighter, unbelivably dangerous to fly (hydrazine hydrate and methanol with hydrogen-peroxid as an oxidizer)

From "Hoagan's Heros" to numerous "Star Trek" episodes, America has had a love affair with NAZIS . And who wouldn't, with their advanced technology and friends in high places.

Make no mistake about it, those NAZIS didn't pussyfoot around -- they got things done. But if you were on the side of right, you too could take a place in the NAZI technilogical utopia.


(And don't even get me started on the gay SM scene's infatuation with the NAZI dream!)

From "Hoagan's Heros" to numerous "Star Trek" episodes, America has had a love affair with NAZIS . And who wouldn't, with their advanced technology and friends in high places.

Make no mistake about it, those NAZIS didn't pussyfoot around -- they got things done. But if you were on the side of right, you too could take a place in the NAZI technilogical utopia.


(And don't even get me started on the gay SM scene's infatuation with the NAZI dream!)

Another one with a half-baked grasp of history 8-(

the plutonium bombs (Little Boy and Trinity) were implosion devices

I assume "Little Boy" was just a typo, and to nit-pick, "Trinity" was the name of a test of a device called "Gadget".

because they were initially afraid they couldn't scare up enough plutonium

Your logic escapes me. They were worried about Pu shortage, so chose implosion ?

There was no shortage of Pu, and there was no real concern over this past the very early days. Once a production reactor was on-line (i.e. not just the early Chicago pile), Pu was more readily available than HEU. After all, Pu extraction is relatively simple. Under war conditions, where operator safety goes out of the window, it's almost easy. There was continued concern over HEU production, and this led to the implosion designs being continued with

explain Project Urchin?

I can't. I've never heard of "Project Urchin". "Urchins" were developed in the Manhattan project, but not under a project of that name. Is Urchin something else ?

Why is an Urchin significant to a Pu shortage anyway ? You need an initiator as a neutron source, but they're not a specific component that's only required by one particular configuration. The Urchin concept isn't revolutionary (although making a workable one is hard). It's even too obvious to be patentable (although not by the USPTO's standards). India used them (called "Flower") in their early '70s tests. If you believe the kooks (I don't), even the German bomb design (sic) used a Po/Be urchin.

Anyone looking for information on the Sanger spaceplane (which both Dyna-Soar and its Soviet equivalent were influenced by) should try here.

Actually, anyone interested in aerospace "what if"s might find the site that's on kinda interesting - lots of information on what Nazi Germany had waiting in the wings towards the end of the war - had the war gone on longer and Germany's industry not been pretty much reduced to rubble by that point. Simultaneously fascinating and frightening.

anyone interested should be able to watch the eclipse tonight on the internet at eclipse.visi.net because a local isp and museum are setting up a web cam.

They were freaking amazing...just look at what one nation was doing in the 1930s, at this site. Hello X-33, X-34? And this was 60 years ago.

At the end of the paper there is a reference to T-Cube. It sounds pretty similiar, but I wasn't able to find an online copy of the T-Cube paper. There's an implementation for Newtons (with a short description) here