It's 2029, and a lunar mission lands at Tranquillity Base. A crew of heroic young Indians - or Chinese - quietly folds and puts away America's 60-year-old flag. If the world saw that on television,
The US flag is a monument and tearing it down is not necessary when you can simply eclipse it. The crew could simply placing the alternate nation's flag in front of the US flag from the TV camera's perspective.
At least space doesn't have too much in the way of entrenched powers that prefer the status quo.
It's hard to not see China as an entrenched power prefering the status quo. I can only hope we get enough people up there ourselves to form an independent community with it's OWN interests.
If you want to imagine the Chinese space effort, check out their navy. They kill loads of people through neglignece, cheapness and downright incompetence. They might get there, but they are going to kill many doing it. Space is even less tollerant of incompetence than the deep sea.
Hmmm, it's doubtful that China will let it's possesions have key technologies needed for self sufficiency. It will be interesting to see if the planned collonies will get that way despite their masters.
Au Contrere, my silly AC frere. If you got stuck with some fancy device that only works in windblows, the least you can do for youreself is learn to use it's C interface. Almost anything that has a dumb VB interface also comes with one that works with C. While VB works for M$ and only M$, C is everywhere and a much better thing to learn. All VB can add for you is a dinky interface and loads of heartache and rewrites.
Lab view might be useful, but real labs don't hamper themselves with vendor lock in nighmares like VB.
The astro turfing around here is out of hand. Because I'm interested in an answer, I'm going to wade through all this shit from 6xx,xxx posters recomending XP, Internet Exploder, the equipment you hate and all that.
Cammel Pilot from the Navy Research lab sensibly recommends simpler interfaces such as Opto22 devices, GPIB, RS422, R485, and one-wire devices. This matches my expectations as 485 and other serial control devices usually come with full instruction set documentation and involve no facy hardware on the computer side.
Barf, that's all I can stand and I can't stand no more.
I feel your pain and I'm not laughing. It sucks that you are faced with such problems for something as simple as stepper motor control. You can at least avoid VB and learn C. If you can't get $2,000 bucks for labview, you can at least use the manufacturer's C code for control. Almost anything that has a VB thingy will also have DLLs and tell you how to link to them in C. Start with simple command line interfaces that read files to do your work and stick a VB face on it if you have to. On this project you are stuck with dinky hardware. Good luck and get going!
Is it really worth your time, your professor's time, or the government grant's time to spend your quantum research dollar in overhead costs as you bang your head away in frustration trying to cludge together some string of 0.2 beta versions of open source data collection programs?
It's got to be easier than learning VB and dealing with all the typical M$ monkeyshines. You have to ask yourself if the author's buddies already tried labview but found the device support under linux lacking.
By the way, I'll take one of those fancy $200/day grad jobs as most places pay about minimum wage + classes.
The main thing is you need to have specs for the card. Such things don't seem to exist outside of NI's vaults.
Ah, that's what my knee jerk reaction was all about. Discresion is the better part of valor. Use hardware that's got drivers already for new projects and use the old junk till it blows up. I presume someone will have sucess stories that I was only able to dream of four years ago.
I get ill thinking of VB. Learning C++ and the win95 API was easier for me. One week of happy brainwash VB training tape scarred me for life, "methods" twitch. I saved myself from that hell with a nice little "windows XX API how-to" book with examples and a watcom compiler. It made sense and offered greater control. MFC was required to talk to devices and it was a step in the wrong direction but control, display and communication modules were still seperate Others were lazy or stupid and spageti code VB was used on many other projects with horrid USB interfaces.
Good luck, you suffer a legacy of bad choices and are going to be forced onto VB. So you enter the downward spiral of the M$ maze, chasing mindless changes, befudled by tools that don't work the way they should and mysterious crashes, delays and poor data rates. You shall suffer nights of rebuilding win3.1 machines to take care of those old DA boards that don't have win2k much less XP drivers. If you can even read the poorly commented and ill disciplied spagetti code you have, you will suffer the pain of "porting" VB 4, 5, 6 to whatever is the current version, which might require complete re-writes to save time. Read letters to the editor in VBmagazine if you don't believe me. The more you learn, the worse it looks. Don't gripe too hard, the boss might have written some of that crap.
When it's all said and done, using a seperate machine listen to the device and learn how to talk to it might save you time. Selecting reasonable hardware for future project surely will save you time. Once you get aquisition working once you will be able to replace legacy stuff that breaks. The VB/disposable hardware route can hardly be called a success story.
Comedi is awsome. The very first driver described leads to The 8255 driver. It's author, Daniel Franklin, recomends "Alessandro Rubini's excellent book Linux Device Drivers (another fine O'Reilly publication)" Ahh, knowledge, what could be finer. Free software, free info. Go get it and become the research tech God you want to be.
Forget the old stuff, concentrate on new projects, number crunching and data servers. Use the strengths of free software first, then move into areas you can. Old stuff is working, as well as any old M$ junk works, and you will only be frustrated working with equipment no one cares about. "Rebuild" it till it smokes. You are familiar with the superiority of free software available for networking, number crunching and programming. Take old computers no one wants and make them useful. Something as simple as databases, web servers and email servers are helpful. Take the hardware advice you get here and put it into your next proposal. The bottom line will speak for itself and you will have proven the dependability of free software on comodity hardware already.
It looks exactly like wire drawn models of WWI. This one's got it's own motive force a camera and better fire crackers. What more can you ask for? You want it to hover or something?
Dude, once we own the middle east, we are going to buy France or at least those services we want. It's not worth much if we have to flatten it and we sure don't need the administrative hastle of owning them.
AOL users never had digital rights, nor do Microsoft users, but both can be set free by free software. People are turning away from M$ on the server side for security, price and performance reasons. This will provide room for free clients to continue to thrive. As long as the net is free, M$ and AOL will die. The singerny (yeah, I spelled that way on purpose) between Time/Warner/McSoft was due to come along anyway.
The real horror will be when they bully hardware makers into DRM so that there are no free hardware platforms left. Free software can replace M$ garbage, but a gimped bios and bad laws can defeat that. My nightmare is pinging, DRM bios and the DMCA.
I'll be your best friend if you give me $750,000,000 all your software and licenses to use it as I see fit. I'll stick it to you again tomorrow, but we don't have to talk about that now.
Sadly, only SCO can tell if there has been any infringment on their closed source code. Novel might give you a copy of system V to play with, but only SCO has their newer code. When you conceal details of your work, no one but you can tell. It's one of those problems with the much less than honest aproach that closed source is.
Let them do it, if there is anything to find you would think they would be happy to display it. There is no valid reason for them to not tell what parts of the kernel are infringing, because Linux is publically published. Let them show us the wonderous efficiency of their closed source auditing system. Sure. Total Bullshit.
The only help this Armarni clad greaser needs is for a reduced roid perscription. That, and someone needs to slap that smirk off his face. It came from marketing. "Sontag has extensive experience in building exceptional corporate teams and lasting strategic alliances " I wonder if he considers sucking Bill Gates dick a strategic alliance?
"Cat out of the bag" refers to news escaping one's control, as it is wont to do.
The wont is refered to by members of my family as, "giving you a facelift". It's also mean and stupid to put a cat in a bag to begin with, so you get what you deserve when it gets out. Seems about right here.
From SCO's response, it appears they think that although they didn't buy the copyright, they did contract the exclusive distribution rights to the code.
Novel seems to think otherwise. If they are talking about a contract with IBM, they are out of their heads because they did not have the authority in the first place. That would be like me claiming to you can't distribute Winblows because I'm a licensor of Windblows. It's not their property.
Given the nature of their statements, claiming ownership of IP they don't own, we can simply disregard them as liars. They will get to court empty handed and leave in debt.
McBride gives some tips as to where IBM may have used their code.
Hints, horeshoes and hand granades are all useless in court. What wonders and marvels does he have that have yet to be expressed in any SCO product besides Caldera Linux? It's not there.
Why is it that they don't point to it explicitly? Surely it's not to protect publically publishes source code, nor can they care much about actual damages if they don't send specific cease and dissist orders. Anything they point to can be rewritten without trouble. The only reason is that it's not there.
It's not here, it's not there it's not anywhere. The whole case is some kind of weird sham for the M$ PR department.
Still want that $100 one time fee, McBitch? Yeah, that's what I thought. Why don't you go buy me a happy meal and we'll call it even.
This is seriously stupid, so it must have come from marketing, not the techies.
No, it came from the management people, the same morons who dreamed up the DMCA, yet another Stupid Ideas That Don't Work (TM), to protect Stupid Ideas That Don't Work (TM).
You have to go to jail now, sorry. We know that this won't make data any safer, but it will keep the sheep happy.
Creating a central authority will no more eliminate spam than FCC control of the airwaves provided educational, infomrative material. It will simply create the power to sell adverts much like radio and TV. Some dumb asses will then make the case that the only way for all this great content to be created is through adverts, especially the newer TIA emailed spam.
It does not have to happen and if it does, we must create an alternate network. Want to kill spam? It's easy, just make sending unsolicited comercial email a finable offense. Comercial email will go the way of the comercial fax for two reasons. Anyone selling something will have a way to get in touch with you. Anyone selling something can't afford fines. Real spam never hides and no one will be paying for the services of a spammer after such a law happens. The internet was designed without fancy controls but people who saw what how Ma Bell abused those controls. We must NOT put controls back in.
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The US flag is a monument and tearing it down is not necessary when you can simply eclipse it. The crew could simply placing the alternate nation's flag in front of the US flag from the TV camera's perspective.
This very image should be broadcast NOW.
It's hard to not see China as an entrenched power prefering the status quo. I can only hope we get enough people up there ourselves to form an independent community with it's OWN interests.
If you want to imagine the Chinese space effort, check out their navy. They kill loads of people through neglignece, cheapness and downright incompetence. They might get there, but they are going to kill many doing it. Space is even less tollerant of incompetence than the deep sea.
Hmmm, it's doubtful that China will let it's possesions have key technologies needed for self sufficiency. It will be interesting to see if the planned collonies will get that way despite their masters.
Au Contrere, my silly AC frere. If you got stuck with some fancy device that only works in windblows, the least you can do for youreself is learn to use it's C interface. Almost anything that has a dumb VB interface also comes with one that works with C. While VB works for M$ and only M$, C is everywhere and a much better thing to learn. All VB can add for you is a dinky interface and loads of heartache and rewrites.
Lab view might be useful, but real labs don't hamper themselves with vendor lock in nighmares like VB.
The Navy Research Lab Sucess Story
Barf, that's all I can stand and I can't stand no more.
I feel your pain and I'm not laughing. It sucks that you are faced with such problems for something as simple as stepper motor control. You can at least avoid VB and learn C. If you can't get $2,000 bucks for labview, you can at least use the manufacturer's C code for control. Almost anything that has a VB thingy will also have DLLs and tell you how to link to them in C. Start with simple command line interfaces that read files to do your work and stick a VB face on it if you have to. On this project you are stuck with dinky hardware. Good luck and get going!
It's got to be easier than learning VB and dealing with all the typical M$ monkeyshines. You have to ask yourself if the author's buddies already tried labview but found the device support under linux lacking.
By the way, I'll take one of those fancy $200/day grad jobs as most places pay about minimum wage + classes.
Ah, that's what my knee jerk reaction was all about. Discresion is the better part of valor. Use hardware that's got drivers already for new projects and use the old junk till it blows up. I presume someone will have sucess stories that I was only able to dream of four years ago.
I get ill thinking of VB. Learning C++ and the win95 API was easier for me. One week of happy brainwash VB training tape scarred me for life, "methods" twitch. I saved myself from that hell with a nice little "windows XX API how-to" book with examples and a watcom compiler. It made sense and offered greater control. MFC was required to talk to devices and it was a step in the wrong direction but control, display and communication modules were still seperate Others were lazy or stupid and spageti code VB was used on many other projects with horrid USB interfaces.
Good luck, you suffer a legacy of bad choices and are going to be forced onto VB. So you enter the downward spiral of the M$ maze, chasing mindless changes, befudled by tools that don't work the way they should and mysterious crashes, delays and poor data rates. You shall suffer nights of rebuilding win3.1 machines to take care of those old DA boards that don't have win2k much less XP drivers. If you can even read the poorly commented and ill disciplied spagetti code you have, you will suffer the pain of "porting" VB 4, 5, 6 to whatever is the current version, which might require complete re-writes to save time. Read letters to the editor in VBmagazine if you don't believe me. The more you learn, the worse it looks. Don't gripe too hard, the boss might have written some of that crap.
When it's all said and done, using a seperate machine listen to the device and learn how to talk to it might save you time. Selecting reasonable hardware for future project surely will save you time. Once you get aquisition working once you will be able to replace legacy stuff that breaks. The VB/disposable hardware route can hardly be called a success story.
Comedi is awsome. The very first driver described leads to The 8255 driver. It's author, Daniel Franklin, recomends "Alessandro Rubini's excellent book Linux Device Drivers (another fine O'Reilly publication)" Ahh, knowledge, what could be finer. Free software, free info. Go get it and become the research tech God you want to be.
Forget the old stuff, concentrate on new projects, number crunching and data servers. Use the strengths of free software first, then move into areas you can. Old stuff is working, as well as any old M$ junk works, and you will only be frustrated working with equipment no one cares about. "Rebuild" it till it smokes. You are familiar with the superiority of free software available for networking, number crunching and programming. Take old computers no one wants and make them useful. Something as simple as databases, web servers and email servers are helpful. Take the hardware advice you get here and put it into your next proposal. The bottom line will speak for itself and you will have proven the dependability of free software on comodity hardware already.
It looks exactly like wire drawn models of WWI. This one's got it's own motive force a camera and better fire crackers. What more can you ask for? You want it to hover or something?
Dude, once we own the middle east, we are going to buy France or at least those services we want. It's not worth much if we have to flatten it and we sure don't need the administrative hastle of owning them.
It's for package management, a very important part of force protection.
We've got a long way to go before terminator or robocop. Can't they at leaste put some plexiglass up infront of that camera?
You don't have kevlar undies yet? Huevos on teflon, it's all the rage.
The real horror will be when they bully hardware makers into DRM so that there are no free hardware platforms left. Free software can replace M$ garbage, but a gimped bios and bad laws can defeat that. My nightmare is pinging, DRM bios and the DMCA.
I'll be your best friend if you give me $750,000,000 all your software and licenses to use it as I see fit. I'll stick it to you again tomorrow, but we don't have to talk about that now.
Sure, we licensed them to look at an image once.
TNANR, Twitter is not a NASA rep. until NASA pays his retainer fee.
Sadly, only SCO can tell if there has been any infringment on their closed source code. Novel might give you a copy of system V to play with, but only SCO has their newer code. When you conceal details of your work, no one but you can tell. It's one of those problems with the much less than honest aproach that closed source is.
Let them do it, if there is anything to find you would think they would be happy to display it. There is no valid reason for them to not tell what parts of the kernel are infringing, because Linux is publically published. Let them show us the wonderous efficiency of their closed source auditing system. Sure. Total Bullshit.
The only help this Armarni clad greaser needs is for a reduced roid perscription. That, and someone needs to slap that smirk off his face. It came from marketing. "Sontag has extensive experience in building exceptional corporate teams and lasting strategic alliances " I wonder if he considers sucking Bill Gates dick a strategic alliance?
Distributed Lack of Purchasing. It's deadly and legal. Santa Cruz Out-a-business, no need to DDoS.
Does this mean that 95 cents of each MS $ of it's undisclosed "Unix" licensing fees are going to Novell? Does M$ know this?
The wont is refered to by members of my family as, "giving you a facelift". It's also mean and stupid to put a cat in a bag to begin with, so you get what you deserve when it gets out. Seems about right here.
Nice work with Novel.
Was there ever one to begin with? Will they adopt the tone of their greasy client? "McBitch, billions and billions served warrents."
Novel seems to think otherwise. If they are talking about a contract with IBM, they are out of their heads because they did not have the authority in the first place. That would be like me claiming to you can't distribute Winblows because I'm a licensor of Windblows. It's not their property.
Given the nature of their statements, claiming ownership of IP they don't own, we can simply disregard them as liars. They will get to court empty handed and leave in debt.
Hints, horeshoes and hand granades are all useless in court. What wonders and marvels does he have that have yet to be expressed in any SCO product besides Caldera Linux? It's not there.
Why is it that they don't point to it explicitly? Surely it's not to protect publically publishes source code, nor can they care much about actual damages if they don't send specific cease and dissist orders. Anything they point to can be rewritten without trouble. The only reason is that it's not there.
It's not here, it's not there it's not anywhere. The whole case is some kind of weird sham for the M$ PR department.
Still want that $100 one time fee, McBitch? Yeah, that's what I thought. Why don't you go buy me a happy meal and we'll call it even.
No, it came from the management people, the same morons who dreamed up the DMCA, yet another Stupid Ideas That Don't Work (TM), to protect Stupid Ideas That Don't Work (TM).
You have to go to jail now, sorry. We know that this won't make data any safer, but it will keep the sheep happy.
Creating a central authority will no more eliminate spam than FCC control of the airwaves provided educational, infomrative material. It will simply create the power to sell adverts much like radio and TV. Some dumb asses will then make the case that the only way for all this great content to be created is through adverts, especially the newer TIA emailed spam.
It does not have to happen and if it does, we must create an alternate network. Want to kill spam? It's easy, just make sending unsolicited comercial email a finable offense. Comercial email will go the way of the comercial fax for two reasons. Anyone selling something will have a way to get in touch with you. Anyone selling something can't afford fines. Real spam never hides and no one will be paying for the services of a spammer after such a law happens. The internet was designed without fancy controls but people who saw what how Ma Bell abused those controls. We must NOT put controls back in.