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Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See?
An anonymous reader writes "Have you ever been curious about what someone else's computing environment looks like? Would you like to see what tools and products someone like Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates, George Bush, or Steve Jobs uses on a daily basis? What percentage of time is spent browsing the web, working in spreadsheets, programming, debugging, designing, or writing documents? How many monitors or devices do they have attached to their PC? What kind of security or anonymizers do they have in place?" For good or ill, open source developers' desktops at least are often visible in screenshots of their pet projects.
He used to use SuSe at home and Red Hat at work... at least in 1999 according to the Linux kernel mailing list. :-)
As a front-end to a Plan 9 machine :)
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
They are using Wind River's vxWorks.
The swedish site Unix.se has screenshots from several famous computeers (hey, it could be a word!) desktops here. The site is in swedish, but you'll most likely at least understand the names.
And here it is...
This question is moot. In April 2001, Bush gave up email to protect his privacy. See CNN's Report.
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I'd really love to see what tools they were using/are using still, when coding the vehicles.
I asked them this when I was at JPL last week. The rover software is coded in C, and most of the rover drivers use Red Hat. Julie Townsend told me that she uses Windows, and there's a fairly even mix of Mac, *nix, and Windows users across the whole project.
* Jr. himself stated that he doesn't read the newspaper.
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* In his book "Stupid White Men," Michael Moore claims that Bush has cabinet members read their reports to him.
* Moore also claims that Jr's parents heavily favor illiteracy foundations in their charitable contributions.
If you can find a link to that report that says Jr doesn't "trust" e-mail, I'd really like to check it out. Googling hasn't turned it up for me.
You are thinking of Asia Carrera. And don't ask me why I know that.
Try here.
Interesting that you threatended to use FOIA before actually trying to find out what's already on the web. To sum: they're using VxWorks with a radiation-hardened RAD6000 32-bit RISC chip from BAE systems. I've seen information on the RAM configuration, especially since they began having trouble with the Flash RAM; essentially, they use EEPROM, some Flash, some regular ECC RAM.
Even more here.
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Actually, according to this article, RMS rarely uses X. He uses mostly emacs on the console.
... here (linus torvalds playing frozen bubble at linux.conf.au). and you can get a glimpse of his desktop.
The british Beagle team use SuSE/KDE on the desktops a lot. The beagle probe itself use(d) an ADA run-time kernel. Read all about it.
Any sufficiently advanced libertarian utopia is indistinguishable from government.
I've seen it, it's Emacs. He only uses X to play FreeCiv (really)
The missing W key story is one of the best debunked lies of this administration. Which is an impressive feat.
Check this story out. Yes, the place was a mess, but the General Services Administration determined that "The condition of the real property was consistent with what we would expect to encounter when tenants vacate office space after an extended occupancy."
If you read the story, you'll also see that the GAO and the GSA have both said that there is no documented evidence of vandalism.
But then again, who needs documentation when your support base never looks any further than innuendo?
Wil was talking about the engineers' and scientists' desktops & development environment. As noted elsewhere, the platform on the rovers is VxWorks (a realtime embedded OS).
From what I've seen on NASA TV, it looks like the communications software at JPL mostly runs on Solaris, or at least something running CDE. If it is Solaris, I'd bet they're thinking of switching to linux due to the enormous cost savings. I work on a fairly large physics experiment (several thousand CPUs) where the analysis farms were originally about 60% Solaris, 40% linux, and now is more like 5% Solaris, 95% linux.
ADA is much more of a Department of Defense thing, so it's a little hard to know how much DoD uses it. A lot of details of the projects where they might use it are surely secret.
The Rovers are using vxworks... But the engineers could be using anything on their desktops.
He uses RedHat and Suse. One at home and one at the office. His net worth in Red Hat stock is something like $20 million and Suse isn't quite as much but its up there. The founder of Suse is a god parent (perhaps some other relation but I think thats it) of one of his children, but that happened before Suse was Suse.He has good connections with all the distros but these are his two main ones, which makes sense considering one of these will most likely be the defacto standard in the business world one day.
Regards,
Steve
He's had tendinitis in his wrists for years (repetitive strain injury). More recently he fell and hurt his arm, but hopefully that's better by now.
Some people only learn well visually.
Some people only learn well verbally.
Most people can learn well both ways, usually with a slight preference either way.
If the preference goes far enough, it's classified as a learning disability, or 'alternate learning style'.
Given the trouble Bush has with a teleprompter, it's pretty clear he has trouble with visual learning, most likely a visual processing delay. Moore's claims would support his preference for a verbal learning style.
But what I want to know is when did it become OK to make fun of people for their learning disabilites? I thought Hollywood Liberals were sensitive and caring? I guess it's OK to pick on disabled people if they're conservatives.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
You can use Emacs editing commands in Safari :) and most Cocoa-based apps.
oil from orange peel can remove permanent markers!
It was an apparently vanilla Fedora Cora 1.
Linux uses different distributions just to be independent (IIRC he wrote that down in his book "Just for Fun"). He used SuSe at work and Red Hat at home (or the other way around).
You can see Donald knuth's fvwm desktop and also his fvwm2rc on the bottom of this page
-Brendan
She plays UT and occasionally hosts LAN parties. A LAN party with a porn start. What could be better ?
No GNU has been Hurd during the making of this comment.
wow, that took all of .45 seconds to google:
.19 seconds gets us:
...and, as others have pointed out, FDR was physically sick.
longest presidential vacation in 32 years
let's see what another
Bush has taken 250 days off as of August 2003. That's 27% of his presidency spent on vacation.
I haven't read the whole discussion, so I'm not sure if it has been said already. Once I found a webpage for a Swedish LUG, I think, that hosted some 15 screenshots of famous Linux persons' desktops, including Brian Kernighan and Richard Stallman as far as I remember. If anyone can find it, please post it here.
"Until you do what you believe in, how do you know whether you believe in it or not?" -- Leo Tolstoy