"16. Our engineers have reached the conclusion that parts of Linux have almost certainly been copied or derived from AIX or Dynix/ptx. In those cases, confirmation of this opinion would require access to more current versions of AIX and Dynix/ptx"
how can they come to that conclusion if they don't already have access to the code?
ok, well maybe it wasn't billions, but didn't SCOG say in their may/june PRs(stop laughing) that they had millions of users world wide. now they are down to 6000.
at this rate they will be in negative numbers by febuary.
a few points(are we geeks or not)
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1. who remembers a few months back when they thought they heard something "hit" the station?
i would start looking in that direction.
2. there are a number of posts about watching objects(insert with balloons, pepsi, dr peper,,,) float thru the station and use that for an indicator of air flow.
as with other manned space programs the ISS has CO2 scrubbers(remember apollo 13) that keep the air clean. i was under the impression that the air is circulated thru these and that a flow already exists because of this. i also recall reading that with skylab this flow effect caused lose items to commonly be found at one end of the station.
3. newtons laws of motion and inertial navagation. even though the ISS is in a fixed orbit, it still makes use of an inertial navagation system. it is required to keep the station from tossing and tumbling out of control when the astro/cosmo-nauts move around. each of their movements create a reaction which causes an equal and opposite reaction on the station. a computer is constatly making corrections to maintain pitch and attitude of the station. a log these corrections will show these reactions to be somewhat random with an almost noise quality.
with a contiuous leak of a known size in the iss, a constant known vector(except for location) is created. once the noise is removed the location should be able to be calculted from the log information.
allthough i'd like to see space elevators, La Grange space ports(but keep the aggies out), manned moon bases and maybe a mar mission. i think it would be far more realistic/economical to start with a robotic moon base. yea, i'd like to be out there, but more progress will be made by keeping the price down. environmental system(keeping a person alive) have always been the hard and expensive part of space exploration. let the 'bots build it. they build all the cars and computers here on earth. the same tech can then be used later for mars and the asteroids. as they move out we move in behind.
don't get me wrong, i like all the different ideas being proposed, and they will all happen in due time, but the questions is and has always been the order. asking if we send up a bot or a man is not that different from the question, "who goes first, the man or the monkey". which was chosen and why?
my last couple of jobs i'd been on AIX, uptime was 6-9 months. now i'm on windows and have to reboot twice a day. this is what they call user friendly?
Not only is the Three Click Rule correct for Web sites but also applications. if you embed the final page/function so deep that the user can't find it, you might as well go back to CLI or just google to the final page skipping all the intermediate menus/BS.
Yea, some people take TV too serious. ever listen to the people that watch daytime TV, talk about their shows, they're scary. FireFly was a break from all the flood of sitcoms. for that i will miss it. If they would bring it back i would definately watch it, but until then life moves on.
Re:casual desktop users may want to try Knoppix
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isn't that like an adrinaline freak?
i've never owned a Mac, but have always been empressed by them. I could just never afford one.
it looks like it is on the edge of a cliff looking out across the other side.
no, i meant the other way around.
i could not sit thru Jake2.0
it looked good, and some of the women are cute, but it was not worth it.
just when you thought it could not get anymore ironic. Darl opens his mouth and says what Kevin tells him too.
i realize that Enterprise is not doing as good as some would like, but don't compare it to Jake-2.0.
the trailers looked good, but i could not sit thru
the first episode. it was bad.
get a life!
where are my mod points when i need them?
"16. Our engineers have reached the conclusion that parts of Linux have almost certainly been copied or derived from AIX or Dynix/ptx. In those cases, confirmation of this opinion would require access to more current versions of AIX and Dynix/ptx"
how can they come to that conclusion if they don't already have access to the code?
Panic?
I knew you(SCO) could.
has anyone told steve yet?
Who remembers the San Jose earthquake back in the early 90s? who here knew that there was a conference on Seismology there that same day.
probably the same number of seismologist that knew an earth quake was coming.
BTW, the conference was cut short.
thank you, i had someone else straighten me out earlier.
even still. their total number of unix and linux customers are now down to 6000.
market leader: leading the way, out the door, down the alley, and into the dumpster.
next stop, Lindon Utah Municipal Land fill.
ok, well maybe it wasn't billions, but didn't SCOG say in their may/june PRs(stop laughing) that they had millions of users world wide. now they are down to 6000.
at this rate they will be in negative numbers by febuary.
1. who remembers a few months back when they thought they heard something "hit" the station?
i would start looking in that direction.
2. there are a number of posts about watching objects(insert with balloons, pepsi, dr peper,,,) float thru the station and use that for an indicator of air flow.
as with other manned space programs the ISS has CO2 scrubbers(remember apollo 13) that keep the air clean. i was under the impression that the air is circulated thru these and that a flow already exists because of this. i also recall reading that with skylab this flow effect caused lose items to commonly be found at one end of the station.
3. newtons laws of motion and inertial navagation.
even though the ISS is in a fixed orbit, it still makes use of an inertial navagation system. it is required to keep the station from tossing and tumbling out of control when the astro/cosmo-nauts move around. each of their movements create a reaction which causes an equal and opposite reaction on the station. a computer is constatly making corrections to maintain pitch and attitude of the station. a log these corrections will show these reactions to be somewhat random with an almost noise quality.
with a contiuous leak of a known size in the iss, a constant known vector(except for location) is created. once the noise is removed the location should be able to be calculted from the log information.
in short, break out the slide rules!
i vote for infringing code by SCOG
the curse of good scifi is and has always been it's cost and time required to produce. in time either the script or the effects will suffer over time.
allthough i'd like to see space elevators, La Grange space ports(but keep the aggies out), manned moon bases and maybe a mar mission. i think it would be far more realistic/economical to start with a robotic moon base. yea, i'd like to be out there, but more progress will be made by keeping the price down. environmental system(keeping a person alive) have always been the hard and expensive part of space exploration. let the 'bots build it. they build all the cars and computers here on earth.
the same tech can then be used later for mars and the asteroids. as they move out we move in behind.
don't get me wrong, i like all the different ideas being proposed, and they will all happen in due time, but the questions is and has always been the order. asking if we send up a bot or a man is not that different from the question, "who goes first, the man or the monkey".
which was chosen and why?
"And when it comes to fraud look at Enron"
"Welcome to Bush World."
wasn't Clinton president when enron was still taking everyones money?
my last couple of jobs i'd been on AIX, uptime was 6-9 months. now i'm on windows and have to reboot twice a day.
this is what they call user friendly?
Not only is the Three Click Rule correct for Web sites but also applications. if you embed the final page/function so deep that the user can't find it, you might as well go back to CLI or just google to the final page skipping all the intermediate menus/BS.
Yea, some people take TV too serious. ever listen to the people that watch daytime TV, talk about their shows, they're scary. FireFly was a break from all the flood of sitcoms. for that i will miss it. If they would bring it back i would definately watch it, but until then life moves on.
Ditto, Knoppix is sweet.
"Sorry, but I had to say it.... a Microsoft release has never been delayed because one of their servers were compromised.
Let's just remember that before we extoll the virtues of how great open source is."
could you clearify.
are you saying that it's the right thing for MS to do or the wrong thing?
but did they arrest Darl McBride yet?