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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.
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...
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.
You are thinking of Asia Carrera. And don't ask me why I know that.
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.
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?
He uses RedHat and Suse. One at home and one at the office. His net worth in Red Hat stock is something like $20 million and Suse isn't quite as much but its up there. The founder of Suse is a god parent (perhaps some other relation but I think thats it) of one of his children, but that happened before Suse was Suse.He has good connections with all the distros but these are his two main ones, which makes sense considering one of these will most likely be the defacto standard in the business world one day.
Regards,
Steve
Some people only learn well visually.
Some people only learn well verbally.
Most people can learn well both ways, usually with a slight preference either way.
If the preference goes far enough, it's classified as a learning disability, or 'alternate learning style'.
Given the trouble Bush has with a teleprompter, it's pretty clear he has trouble with visual learning, most likely a visual processing delay. Moore's claims would support his preference for a verbal learning style.
But what I want to know is when did it become OK to make fun of people for their learning disabilites? I thought Hollywood Liberals were sensitive and caring? I guess it's OK to pick on disabled people if they're conservatives.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
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.