You're absolutely correct. That's why I have to wonder about all the "$SOLARIS_FEATURE is not GPL'd" whining. Your good statement helps show that this is more-or-less sour grapes from a community (or a large subset of it) that thought they had it all, either politically or technically.
I'm reminded of a rather large company in Redmond, Washington that carried on similarly throughout the 90's and early 00's, eventually being zapped in the ass for their hubris.
If you want it in Linux, I'd say that the onus is on the Linux community to change to a more permissive license.
Everyone, including Sun, has the freedom to choose their own license. The Linux community, of all people, should respect that ideal. Unless, of course, you support having a Henry Ford mindset - "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."
Yeah, it's psychotic to want sodium cooled naval reactors.
The Soviets experimented with metal-cooled reactors in their Alpha class submarines. I believe the reactors in those boats employed bismuth, though. The problem with metals is that it was a maintenance nightmare. The ruskies had to build piers with steam plants on them just for the Alphas so the they could dock and shut down their reactors, less the liquid bismuth solidify in the coolant pipes and essentially writing off the entire boat. I do believe at least one Alpha was lost this way.
[daleg@home]~$./significant-other Reading configuration from ~/.sorc... Welcome to GNU Significant Other! It's Monday, January 21, 2008:
-- It is trash night. -- It is recycling night. -- Fault in dishwasher water supply was detected on 1/19/2008. Please address by 1/23/2008 -- "Poker Night" appointment in calendar observed. This conflicts with "Movie with kids" -- Snow is predicted tomorrow during the evening. Please ready sho ^Z [1]+ Stopped ./significant-other [daleg@home]~$
If you bothered to RTFBP at all, you'd see that they're taking advantage of Solaris features to meet the stated 2013 goal of 50% reduction in data center physical space used, power, and heat output. Who wouldn't want to save money and resources on such things?
Nice shot! If you're interested in planetary and lunar photography and high power terrestrial zoom, you might want to look at getting a 4 or 5 inch Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope with a T-ring adaptor for your Canon. Small and compact (as far as telephoto work is concerned). I've seen a few people use the 120mm Mak telescope and mount from Orion (telescope.com) for this.
It was right around this point that we created user accounts. For nearly a year all posts had no authentication... but now you could reserve your name I wonder if my UID was created on the Multia. Who cares how/low/ one's UID is. All that matters was if it was created on the Multia or not;)
Can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day, diggin' through their closets and attics, findin' somethin' that still works, and givin' it to someone who ain't got one? And friends, they may think it's a movement... It already exists. It's called Freecycle.
Seriously, you want to learn the sky and the gear before you try photography. That's a whole different world.
First, like the parent of this post, I would also suggest a 10" Dobsonian telescope, specifically an Orion Inteliscope XT10. This scope will run you about $700 on average.
Second, while the XT10 or whatever scope you get will come with an eyepiece or two, you'll still want to invest in more eyepieces. Eyepieces comprise half of the telescope. Initially with your scope purchase, if it's a dobsonian, I would recommend a Televue 7mm Nagler.
Third, go to Home Depot, get a metal tool case (not a box... you want one of those briefcase things made by Husky) and start making a parts box to keep your eyepieces and other things in.
Fourth, get a red flashlight, a Planisphere, and a sky atlas. These, especially the red-light flashlight, are indispensable.
Fith, for extra credit, get a Telerad. You really wan to learn the sky? Try star-hopping with a Telerad. Telerads also make zeroing in on stuff easier. You use it to get your scope pointed in the correct general area, zero in on the object with the finder scope, and view through the eye piece. For me, It realy cut down the time spent getting the scope pointed in the right direction so I can see what I want throught the finder scope.
The above should start you out quite well, and be around your $1k budget.
You may come across filters. Since we're coming up on the winter sky, there's only one filter I would suggest getting and that's a triple ionized oxygen filter (O-III filter). This will make the Orion nebula just pop out of the sky at you... but filters like these are expensive. The 2" O-III filter from Baader is typically around $250.
Oh, and one thing about filters - even if all you have right now are 1.25" eyepices, buy the 2" filters. There's a 2"-1.25" focuser adapter you can get from Astro Physics that is threaded on the inside for 2" filters. What does this mean? It means that you should only have to buy 2" filtes regardless of what kind of eyepiece you're using... ergo, you don't need to waste money buying separate 1.25" and 2" sizes of the same filter.
It's not going to take over anytime soon because Solaris dropped support for hardware that has been EOL'd for 10 and more years? The future is forward, not reverse. Solaris isn't looking to court the computer museum curators of the world.
I must say that I agree. TFA seems a bit scatterbrained... as if someone tried to take a summary and streach it into a two-pager. It never really touches on the meat of why Solaris could to x to Linux.
So what you're saying that you expected it to happen overnight?
I recall people saying similar things, only about Linux, back in the 90s. "Linux is the next big thing", Pundits and advocates trumpeted "Corporations will move to Linux as their preferred server/service platform", and so on. That pretty much did happen, but it took the better part of a decade to realize it. It took the one thing that a not even the most talented coders can't create during an all-night coding binge: Time.
OpenSolaris is a hair over 2 years old now. If you think about it, most decently sized shops change out comodity infrastructure every 3-4 years, a time frame pimarily goverened by hardware warranties. If an organization says "Let's try another OS the next time around... lets try Solaris" then the proper time to do that would be consumate with normal upgrade cycles. In other words, no one can reasonably expect one thing (Solaris in this case) to massively gain meaningful, measurable share instantly. It takes time. Just like it did with Linux.
I made two video simulations of the eclipse - on as it would be seen from Burning Man (which is happening next week, 2 hours northeast of Reno, Nevada) and one with the vantage point being the moon itself. Videos were made using Starry Night Pro (on a Mac, of course!)
Go ahead and try to enforce your own notion of Free. You'll only look like the RIAA and MPAA as they enforce their notion of Fair Use. Perhaps you'll demand to inspect the innards of the iPhone... perhaps not unlike obtaining a search warrant regarding music or movie files on someone's PC?
Irony... yeah. All in the name of "protection", I bet. Go BSD.
If your systems's zoneinfo files are up to date, you'll get output showing DST changes on March 11 and November 4, eg:
$ zdump -v EST5EDT | grep 2007 EST5EDT Tue Mar 6 13:59:24 2007 UTC = Tue Mar 6 08:59:24 2007 EST isdst=0 EST5EDT Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 EST5EDT Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 EST5EDT Sun Nov 4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 EST5EDT Sun Nov 4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0
That same command has worked for me on Solaris, Linux systems, and MacOS X.
I've seen and heard a lot of people say "I run NTP, I'm immune to this". Sadly, they're just showing that they don't know how NTP works, even on a basic level.
NTP as a protocol tracks the number of seconds elapsed since 1 January, 1900 UTC. It has absolutely zero knowledge of timezones or what they mean. Your NTP daemon of choise just sits there keeping your system clock reasonably accurate with UTC time and it's the relevant libc C time functions that read that UTC time, then read in the set zoneinfo data, and combine the two to give you and your apps local time.
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You're absolutely correct. That's why I have to wonder about all the "$SOLARIS_FEATURE is not GPL'd" whining. Your good statement helps show that this is more-or-less sour grapes from a community (or a large subset of it) that thought they had it all, either politically or technically.
I'm reminded of a rather large company in Redmond, Washington that carried on similarly throughout the 90's and early 00's, eventually being zapped in the ass for their hubris.
If you want it in Linux, I'd say that the onus is on the Linux community to change to a more permissive license.
Everyone, including Sun, has the freedom to choose their own license. The Linux community, of all people, should respect that ideal. Unless, of course, you support having a Henry Ford mindset - "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."
I've got the perfect protection from their mind control lights!
http://elektronkind.org/localimg/laserprotection.jpg
(no, don't worry... it's not goatse bait)
The "Robert Bruce Banner Gamma Telescope" would make sense.
Yeah, it's psychotic to want sodium cooled naval reactors.
The Soviets experimented with metal-cooled reactors in their Alpha class submarines. I believe the reactors in those boats employed bismuth, though. The problem with metals is that it was a maintenance nightmare. The ruskies had to build piers with steam plants on them just for the Alphas so the they could dock and shut down their reactors, less the liquid bismuth solidify in the coolant pipes and essentially writing off the entire boat. I do believe at least one Alpha was lost this way.
[daleg@home]~$ ./significant-other
Reading configuration from ~/.sorc...
Welcome to GNU Significant Other! It's Monday, January 21, 2008:
-- It is trash night.
-- It is recycling night.
-- Fault in dishwasher water supply was detected on 1/19/2008. Please address by 1/23/2008
-- "Poker Night" appointment in calendar observed. This conflicts with "Movie with kids"
-- Snow is predicted tomorrow during the evening. Please ready sho
^Z
[1]+ Stopped ./significant-other
[daleg@home]~$
If you bothered to RTFBP at all, you'd see that they're taking advantage of Solaris features to meet the stated 2013 goal of 50% reduction in data center physical space used, power, and heat output. Who wouldn't want to save money and resources on such things?
The main scope is a 11.3 inch aperture, solid tube Ritchey-Chretien type.
If you're serious, then I might suggest to you a pair of Fujinon 7x50's.
Nice shot! If you're interested in planetary and lunar photography and high power terrestrial zoom, you might want to look at getting a 4 or 5 inch Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope with a T-ring adaptor for your Canon. Small and compact (as far as telephoto work is concerned). I've seen a few people use the 120mm Mak telescope and mount from Orion (telescope.com) for this.
Give this blog entry a read:
:)
http://blogs.sun.com/elowe/entry/zfs_saves_the_day_ta
And you'll understand
This man speaks the truth.
Seriously, you want to learn the sky and the gear before you try photography. That's a whole different world.
First, like the parent of this post, I would also suggest a 10" Dobsonian telescope, specifically an Orion Inteliscope XT10. This scope will run you about $700 on average.
Second, while the XT10 or whatever scope you get will come with an eyepiece or two, you'll still want to invest in more eyepieces. Eyepieces comprise half of the telescope. Initially with your scope purchase, if it's a dobsonian, I would recommend a Televue 7mm Nagler.
Third, go to Home Depot, get a metal tool case (not a box... you want one of those briefcase things made by Husky) and start making a parts box to keep your eyepieces and other things in.
Fourth, get a red flashlight, a Planisphere, and a sky atlas. These, especially the red-light flashlight, are indispensable.
Fith, for extra credit, get a Telerad. You really wan to learn the sky? Try star-hopping with a Telerad. Telerads also make zeroing in on stuff easier. You use it to get your scope pointed in the correct general area, zero in on the object with the finder scope, and view through the eye piece. For me, It realy cut down the time spent getting the scope pointed in the right direction so I can see what I want throught the finder scope.
The above should start you out quite well, and be around your $1k budget.
You may come across filters. Since we're coming up on the winter sky, there's only one filter I would suggest getting and that's a triple ionized oxygen filter (O-III filter). This will make the Orion nebula just pop out of the sky at you... but filters like these are expensive. The 2" O-III filter from Baader is typically around $250.
Oh, and one thing about filters - even if all you have right now are 1.25" eyepices, buy the 2" filters. There's a 2"-1.25" focuser adapter you can get from Astro Physics that is threaded on the inside for 2" filters. What does this mean? It means that you should only have to buy 2" filtes regardless of what kind of eyepiece you're using... ergo, you don't need to waste money buying separate 1.25" and 2" sizes of the same filter.
It's not going to take over anytime soon because Solaris dropped support for hardware that has been EOL'd for 10 and more years? The future is forward, not reverse. Solaris isn't looking to court the computer museum curators of the world.
I must say that I agree. TFA seems a bit scatterbrained... as if someone tried to take a summary and streach it into a two-pager. It never really touches on the meat of why Solaris could to x to Linux.
In that case, you may want to bookmark the following and check in on it regularly: Xen at OpenSolaris.org
So what you're saying that you expected it to happen overnight?
I recall people saying similar things, only about Linux, back in the 90s. "Linux is the next big thing", Pundits and advocates trumpeted "Corporations will move to Linux as their preferred server/service platform", and so on. That pretty much did happen, but it took the better part of a decade to realize it. It took the one thing that a not even the most talented coders can't create during an all-night coding binge: Time.
OpenSolaris is a hair over 2 years old now. If you think about it, most decently sized shops change out comodity infrastructure every 3-4 years, a time frame pimarily goverened by hardware warranties. If an organization says "Let's try another OS the next time around... lets try Solaris" then the proper time to do that would be consumate with normal upgrade cycles. In other words, no one can reasonably expect one thing (Solaris in this case) to massively gain meaningful, measurable share instantly. It takes time. Just like it did with Linux.
The reddish glow comes from the sunlight being diffracted through earth's atmosphere.
I made two video simulations of the eclipse - on as it would be seen from Burning Man (which is happening next week, 2 hours northeast of Reno, Nevada) and one with the vantage point being the moon itself. Videos were made using Starry Night Pro (on a Mac, of course!)
Video 1: As it will be from Burning Man
Video 2: If you were on the moon
Both are H264, no sound.
Go ahead and try to enforce your own notion of Free. You'll only look like the RIAA and MPAA as they enforce their notion of Fair Use. Perhaps you'll demand to inspect the innards of the iPhone... perhaps not unlike obtaining a search warrant regarding music or movie files on someone's PC?
Irony... yeah. All in the name of "protection", I bet. Go BSD.
So what you're saying is that all those hard drives, computers and routers you speak of wouldn't be on and working otherwise?
I've seen and heard a lot of people say "I run NTP, I'm immune to this". Sadly, they're just showing that they don't know how NTP works, even on a basic level.
NTP as a protocol tracks the number of seconds elapsed since 1 January, 1900 UTC. It has absolutely zero knowledge of timezones or what they mean. Your NTP daemon of choise just sits there keeping your system clock reasonably accurate with UTC time and it's the relevant libc C time functions that read that UTC time, then read in the set zoneinfo data, and combine the two to give you and your apps local time.
You guys are pretty close...
Watch this video and just imagine the security prompts if the book in that video were running Vista (ink and quill edition).