There is an agreement between ESA/EUMETSAT on the European side and NASA/NOAA on the American side that the burden of Earth observation is shared.
For operational polar satellites, Europe takes care of the morning orbits and the US does the afternoon orbits. Both sides share (or intend to share) all data in Near Real Time (NRT).
Also sensors/instruments are exchanged and mounted on platforms (read: satellites) from the other partner in the agreement. This can mean that a sensor built in the US can be flown on a European satellite.
Nowadays the aim at space agencies/operators is to avoid duplication of sensors and share what there already is. In this way a reduction in funding for Earth observation can be achieved. However, it should not drop below the minimum required to keep your end of the agreement and also needs to be enough to keep the knowledge 'current'.
If you interact with the developers and submit feature requests, or even better, pay someone to contribute to the project to implement your needs then FOSS actually is demand-driven.
The question everyone asks is: "will we be able to import
MS-Word and MS-Excel files?".
If OpenOffice does not support these file formats,
I predict that the market share in private homes
is going down fast.
And that is going to cut into the number of
people who will call for this app in the workplace.
On a brand new production box with an Athlon 1.4Ghz, 256Mb of RAM and a 60Gb Maxtor disk I installed Redhat 7.2 (Kernel 2.4.9-13) and chose to format my partitions in ext3 format.
As a test I copied the (+/- 650Mb) contents of the installation CD onto the disk and then did a cp -a of the resulting dir.
The kjournald and bdflush processes took 99% of the CPU for ages to get the stuff copied and the box was so slow that typing in an xterm showed one character each second. *ouch*
I must have done something wrong but could not find the cause. I dumped ext3 and reinstalled with ext2.
If one has to get an account first in order to only *read* the damned article in the link, then it is no surprise to get so little response from an audience of which each member already has an overflowing mailbox of so called 'opt-in' stuff.
(From sites like the NYT everyone accepts this, perhaps because we may revisit it some time in the future and it is known to have usefull information).
So, without having seen the info in the link, how can we comment sensibly?
It is not so much about not caring about Open Source, as more about "Well euh... dunno, can't tell, what is this about?"
The Gutenberg people are very strict in which texts they take in their archives. Copyrights have to be in the Public Domain. I cannot imagine that a viewing program can impose additional rights on the content presented.
"A method of using javascript or similar technology to produce a series of Web page-displayed images that, when "rolled over" by a customer's mouse..."
or other similar pointing devices
"...in a predetermined..."
or pre-recorded
"...order, either causes a purchase to be consummated or causes a series of preselected items to be placed in a single customer-accessible data file so that the customer can purchase all selected items at the same time instead of having to perform a series of separate transactions."
Then you would have effectively patented the online (handwritten) signature. If you further claim copyright of the prerecorded order then the signature of the customer is yours...;-)
Since major software vendors are looking after 'the masses' (read: x86) the lack of 3rd party software for a Linux on the PPC is sometimes disappointing.
I once asked Adobe on one of their forums why there was no port for their Acrobat PDF reader to Linux for the Macintosh PPC. The answer from the Adobe-man on the forum was: There isn't (a port).
This lack of support for Linux from companies who go to great lengths to make money on the x86 and MacOS platform just turns you down.
If it compiles on an x86, it may very well compile on a PPC version, and make a lot of users happy [Adobe (Acrobat), Sun (SO), are you listening?;-) )
The moment I read the headline, I recalled an article on slashdot some time ago, wherein was referred to an article on LinuxPlanet. The FSF had announced that there would be a lawsuit or a major softwarehouse would have to open up its software.
It is not about the content, but about the logs what connections your have made.
In my opinion, the ISP should log everything that it needs to ensure that their own system is not being hacked/attacked and a reasonable amount of information to help their customers track down hostile attackers, and keep this data for a reasonable amount of time. Let's say a week (or two).
After this period the data should be deleted (not retired on tape). If you haven't found out you have been attacked by someone after two weeks you deserve it.
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There is an agreement between ESA/EUMETSAT on the European side and NASA/NOAA on the American side that the burden of Earth observation is shared.
For operational polar satellites, Europe takes care of the morning orbits and the US does the afternoon orbits. Both sides share (or intend to share) all data in Near Real Time (NRT).
Also sensors/instruments are exchanged and mounted on platforms (read: satellites) from the other partner in the agreement. This can mean that a sensor built in the US can be flown on a European satellite.
Nowadays the aim at space agencies/operators is to avoid duplication of sensors and share what there already is. In this way a reduction in funding for Earth observation can be achieved. However, it should not drop below the minimum required to keep your end of the agreement and also needs to be enough to keep the knowledge 'current'.
FOSS is not demand-driven unfortunately, ...
If you interact with the developers and submit feature requests, or even better, pay someone to contribute to the project to implement your needs then FOSS actually is demand-driven.
If you go to their website, you can read that it has a tank of 2000 gallons.
Can someone please explain to me why *one* project needs 1/256 of all available IPV4 addresses?
Good news for missile manufacturers...
The new type of missile they will have to make is one that homes in on all the 802.11b signals.
The ship itself takes care of steering the missile right to its destination after launch.
The more signals the better (the bigger the ship).
Even smarter missiles home in on the signal that broadcasts " I am the main engine, I am the main engine, happily running at 250rpm. "
If OpenOffice does not support these file formats, I predict that the market share in private homes is going down fast. And that is going to cut into the number of people who will call for this app in the workplace.
My encounter with ext3 did not go well.
On a brand new production box with an Athlon 1.4Ghz, 256Mb of RAM and a 60Gb Maxtor disk I installed Redhat 7.2 (Kernel 2.4.9-13) and chose to format my partitions in ext3 format.
As a test I copied the (+/- 650Mb) contents of the installation CD onto the disk and then did a cp -a of the resulting dir.
The kjournald and bdflush processes took 99% of the CPU for ages to get the stuff copied and the box was so slow that typing in an xterm showed one character each second. *ouch*
I must have done something wrong but could not find the cause. I dumped ext3 and reinstalled with ext2.
If one has to get an account first in order to only *read* the damned article in the link, then it is no surprise to get so little response from an audience of which each member already has an overflowing mailbox of so called 'opt-in' stuff.
(From sites like the NYT everyone accepts this, perhaps because we may revisit it some time in the future and it is known to have usefull information).
So, without having seen the info in the link, how can we comment sensibly?
It is not so much about not caring about Open Source, as more about "Well euh... dunno, can't tell, what is this about?"
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See: http://promo.net/pg/vol/pd.html
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So, which OS's are classified as what?
What OS has an A or B?
I heared NT4 was classified for C2, but I never heared about the others out there.
Any URL's/links?
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The vibrations will range from 100Hz and higher for voices I would think.
I don't know, but how much vibrations can your bones stand before it starts to become a (medical) problem?
Is this another fast way to get RSI?
If you would change Rob's proposal a little:
"A method of using javascript or similar technology to produce a series of Web page-displayed images that, when "rolled over" by a customer's mouse ..."
or other similar pointing devices"...in a predetermined ..."
or pre-recorded"...order, either causes a purchase to be consummated or causes a series of preselected items to be placed in a single customer-accessible data file so that the customer can purchase all selected items at the same time instead of having to perform a series of separate transactions."
Then you would have effectively patented the online (handwritten) signature. If you further claim copyright of the prerecorded order then the signature of the customer is yours... ;-)
It doesn't have the features that the official Adobe Acrobat Reader has.
So xpdf is not enough.
Since major software vendors are looking after 'the masses' (read: x86) the lack of 3rd party software for a Linux on the PPC is sometimes disappointing.
I once asked Adobe on one of their forums why there was no port for their Acrobat PDF reader to Linux for the Macintosh PPC. The answer from the Adobe-man on the forum was: There isn't (a port).
This lack of support for Linux from companies who go to great lengths to make money on the x86 and MacOS platform just turns you down.
If it compiles on an x86, it may very well compile on a PPC version, and make a lot of users happy [Adobe (Acrobat), Sun (SO), are you listening? ;-) )
Onet.
The moment I read the headline, I recalled an article on slashdot some time ago, wherein was referred to an article on LinuxPlanet. The FSF had announced that there would be a lawsuit or a major softwarehouse would have to open up its software.
Could this be it?
It is not about the content, but about the logs what connections your have made.
In my opinion, the ISP should log everything that it needs to ensure that their own system is not being hacked/attacked and a reasonable amount of information to help their customers track down hostile attackers, and keep this data for a reasonable amount of time. Let's say a week (or two).
After this period the data should be deleted (not retired on tape). If you haven't found out you have been attacked by someone after two weeks you deserve it.
According to this press release, BAAN may be bought by Invensys (a company from the UK)
But please, *do* pick the _right_ name from the list!
The dutch phone directory: http://www.telefoongids.ptt-telecom.nl/
"Naam" = Name, "Plaats" = City, "evt. straat" = Street (can be left open!).