I wonder if any mentors attending are interested in having a meetup that evening. A group of FOSS folks will already be in the same location. Might as well add to the party.:)
For those who care, the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) (http://rbsp.jhuapl.edu/spacecraft/instruments/instruments_emfisis.php) is running the free real-time OS RTEMS.
Are you saying that the technicians who used a left arrow as a backspace on the Therac-25 were not "honest, competent people"? Bad software and hardware design can kill. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Easy integration with Skydrive sounds really cool until you think about this inside any organization which doesn't want its files stored on a public cloud. Can this be disabled across an enterprise install easily? Can it be switched to an organization's private cloud?
We don't know what the contract said. We also don't know if HP subsidized the port of Oracle products to their Itanium line in exchange for some commitment.
$4bn is probably more money than HP thought it was worth but you have to have room to negotiate.
We can be pretty sure that dropping Oracle support did not help keep people using HP Itanium computers.
If Oracle violated a signed contract, then they deserve this. Otherwise, it is no more of a waste of court time than anything Apple has done.
I don't know what HP's plans were BEFORE Oracle dumped Itanium support but according to the HP-UX support maxtrix from February 2012, they will support some Itanium systems until 2018. I don't know if they killed any products early due to lack of Oracle software support but without Oracle support, I would bet there is every reason for many of the Itanium users to (1) cancel any planned Itanium purchases and (2) drop the existing ones. With them being taken out of service, HP loses revenue. It's a lot of money but it likely forced them to kill a product line early and encouraged existing more or less happy users to bail earlier than HP planned.
Iran is on the list of countries for which it is against the law for U.S. citizens or companies to do business with. Even the Google Summer of Code cannot accept students from these countries because it would involve commerce which is against export law. See http://www.bis.doc.gov/exportlicensingqanda.htm
From http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html: Web site owners use the/robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.
robots.txt is not a "forbidden list." It is simply a polite request to avoid a robot crawling things that should not be indexed. It is often used to avoid a bot pulling an ftp site published via http or crawling dynamically generated content.
Nothing illegal, immoral or fattening about manually accessing a file listed in a robots.txt file. It is rather normal and you likely do it every day without realizing it.
Shades of Sean Gorman Batman! Anyone remember the uproar over his dissertation on critical infrastructure based on analysis of publicly available information. Almost 10 years ago.
As the SCO history has demonstrated, the Linux kernel is not based on a commercial operating system. It is a implementation of a POSIX style operating system with a clean source history. POSIX itself is an open standard. The user space is a mix of many packages some based on POSIX standards (e.g. shell, file utils) others based on common application needs. Many of those are indeed based upon open industry standards.
Wikipedia material is not as well vetted IMHO and given the volume of material, there is a greater possibility of something being copied incorrectly. But much of the material we are discussing is basic scientific fact and could reasonably be based heavily on material available via sources like Project Gutenberg. Other material would be newer and likely could reference open sources.
As for organization, the courses follow standard outlines so university programs can receive accreditation. And building up material from basic to advanced concepts in a framework that could only allow 8-16 chapters per semester doesn't allow that much variation.
Have you taken the time to report this to Google? They are generally responsive to fixing things. I have reported problems covering pronunciation issues, new roads, interchange rebuilds, and misplaced pins. They always get fixed within about a month.
I had a cup of ice cream on a flight last earlier this month from Munich at Atlanta. Standard kind of cup with a flat wooden spatula/spoon/shovel many Americans will recall from grade school.
Few Delta domestic flights are long enough to hit their meal provided cutoff anymore.
Cards do have issues but it is because you have to remember who gave it to you and why. But that applies to electronic solutions as well. In the 80s, I did some work for Kodak and all of the people I dealt with had cards with a head shot on them. It was very useful for remembering them. I have never seen anyone else who did that.
I am from RTEMS and we printed a box of cards with project contact information and a QR-code. I can give them out at shows, to students, etc. and people have a small reminder of how to find out more. More like a tiny cheap brochure for a free software project.
Cards have a real place but they have limitations. If you NEVER meet someone cold, then you probably don't need them. But if you do, you need them.
And don't forget the personal calling card. Maybe it is her southern manners, but my wife has a personal calling card which is very nice in personal situations. It was very useful when dealing with parents of our kids. They got contact info with no electronics or need for pen and paper involved
I did a project for Kodak in the mid-80s to produce a device that could be inserted between a pre-press artwork system and its expensive color calibrated monitor. The device was a dedicated computer (called the Preview) that captured the image and could transmit it over leased lines to another Preview where it could be reviewed on an expensive Barco monitor. Prior to this you had to print review copies and ship them. It was a clever idea and maybe not a huge opportunity by itself but certainly a foot in the door and a chance to pursue an area that was not tied to the photo business.
When visiting Kodak, the electronic imaging group had an awesome Kodak photocopier that could collate and bind. Where's that business now?
Kodak could have leveraged their name to become an imaging company. The products above would have fit into an imaging company which addressed a wide variety of needs.
The company I worked for also produced computers running 386/ix from Interactive Systems Corporation. They were the first vendor of UNIX outside AT&T. Kodak purchased them and over the course of a few years, destroyed it by selling off the pieces.
They have had non-photo business opportunities long enough ago where they could have been other lines of business. I don't have any insight except that for whatever reason, they just didn't do well with them. I suspect it was a matter of self-delusion and not broadening their product and customer base.
I was not as surprised by the first questions as I was that they wanted to know about traffic violations with a find greater than $35. How long has it been since any traffic violation cost less than $35?
Out of inertia, a music mailing list I subscribe to is still on AOL LISTSERV. Does anyone know of any magic scripts or howto's on converting from LISTSERV to anything else?
I would like to move the content and users over to GNU mailman on my server. I have the dump of all the messages which are not in mbox format so that appears to be the first challenge.:(
21 July 2011 - NASA ends manned space flight program.
And that's your talking point... There are so many sarcastic things to say about this and so little time.
Framing Camera Runs RTEMS
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The pictures that are being shown like this one (http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/dawn_vesta_image_070911.asp) are from the Framing Camera. It is using the free RTOS RTEMS (http://www.rtems.org) and using a space hardened SPARC V7. It was launched in September 2007.
Congratulations to all the people involved!!
RTEMS (http://www.rtems.org) is a 20+ year old project that most people here have never heard of. But you have seen the results of projects that use it. NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/) and Dawn (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/main/index.html) missions, ESA's Herschel (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Herschel/index.html) and Planck (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Planck/index.html) projects, JPL's Electra radio that circles Mars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter#Engineering_instruments). Physics labs including Stanford Linear Accelerator, Argonne, and Canadian Light Source have used RTEMS based instruments to make contributions to science. Commercial applications include engine control, building control and intercom systems, data logging, environmental monitoring, and medical devices.
RTEMS is out there in the real world in lots of things which you might have used but never knew free software was there.
My grandfather always used to tell me that he would die before he ever gave to the Red Cross. When he was in Korea, the Red Cross used to show up and sell soldiers coffee and donuts (at a profit, no less). No money meant no coffee and donuts for you, G.I.
My grandfather was in WWII and had the same feelings for the Red Cross for the reason. Never heard anyone else mention it.
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I wonder if any mentors attending are interested in having a meetup that evening. A group of FOSS folks will already be in the same location. Might as well add to the party. :)
For those who care, the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) (http://rbsp.jhuapl.edu/spacecraft/instruments/instruments_emfisis.php) is running the free real-time OS RTEMS.
Although not always the case, ssh is usually interactive. Lag in typing or editing across a slowed ssh connection is horrible.
Are you saying that the technicians who used a left arrow as a backspace on the Therac-25 were not "honest, competent people"? Bad software and hardware design can kill. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Easy integration with Skydrive sounds really cool until you think about this inside any organization which doesn't want its files stored on a public cloud. Can this be disabled across an enterprise install easily? Can it be switched to an organization's private cloud?
We don't know what the contract said. We also don't know if HP subsidized the port of Oracle products to their Itanium line in exchange for some commitment.
$4bn is probably more money than HP thought it was worth but you have to have room to negotiate.
We can be pretty sure that dropping Oracle support did not help keep people using HP Itanium computers.
If Oracle violated a signed contract, then they deserve this. Otherwise, it is no more of a waste of court time than anything Apple has done.
I don't know what HP's plans were BEFORE Oracle dumped Itanium support but according to the HP-UX support maxtrix from February 2012, they will support some Itanium systems until 2018. I don't know if they killed any products early due to lack of Oracle software support but without Oracle support, I would bet there is every reason for many of the Itanium users to (1) cancel any planned Itanium purchases and (2) drop the existing ones. With them being taken out of service, HP loses revenue. It's a lot of money but it likely forced them to kill a product line early and encouraged existing more or less happy users to bail earlier than HP planned.
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/downloads/public_hp-ux_systems_support.pdf?jumpid=ex_R1533_us/en/large/eb/go/hpuxservermatrix
Iran is on the list of countries for which it is against the law for U.S. citizens or companies to do business with. Even the Google Summer of Code cannot accept students from these countries because it would involve commerce which is against export law. See http://www.bis.doc.gov/exportlicensingqanda.htm
From http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html: Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.
robots.txt is not a "forbidden list." It is simply a polite request to avoid a robot crawling things that should not be indexed. It is often used to avoid a bot pulling an ftp site published via http or crawling dynamically generated content.
Nothing illegal, immoral or fattening about manually accessing a file listed in a robots.txt file. It is rather normal and you likely do it every day without realizing it.
Shades of Sean Gorman Batman! Anyone remember the uproar over his dissertation on critical infrastructure based on analysis of publicly available information. Almost 10 years ago.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/buzz/us-critical-infrastructure/3633190
It's from Sony.
As the SCO history has demonstrated, the Linux kernel is not based on a commercial operating system. It is a implementation of a POSIX style operating system with a clean source history. POSIX itself is an open standard. The user space is a mix of many packages some based on POSIX standards (e.g. shell, file utils) others based on common application needs. Many of those are indeed based upon open industry standards. Wikipedia material is not as well vetted IMHO and given the volume of material, there is a greater possibility of something being copied incorrectly. But much of the material we are discussing is basic scientific fact and could reasonably be based heavily on material available via sources like Project Gutenberg. Other material would be newer and likely could reference open sources. As for organization, the courses follow standard outlines so university programs can receive accreditation. And building up material from basic to advanced concepts in a framework that could only allow 8-16 chapters per semester doesn't allow that much variation.
Have you taken the time to report this to Google? They are generally responsive to fixing things. I have reported problems covering pronunciation issues, new roads, interchange rebuilds, and misplaced pins. They always get fixed within about a month.
I had a cup of ice cream on a flight last earlier this month from Munich at Atlanta. Standard kind of cup with a flat wooden spatula/spoon/shovel many Americans will recall from grade school. Few Delta domestic flights are long enough to hit their meal provided cutoff anymore.
Cards do have issues but it is because you have to remember who gave it to you and why. But that applies to electronic solutions as well. In the 80s, I did some work for Kodak and all of the people I dealt with had cards with a head shot on them. It was very useful for remembering them. I have never seen anyone else who did that. I am from RTEMS and we printed a box of cards with project contact information and a QR-code. I can give them out at shows, to students, etc. and people have a small reminder of how to find out more. More like a tiny cheap brochure for a free software project. Cards have a real place but they have limitations. If you NEVER meet someone cold, then you probably don't need them. But if you do, you need them. And don't forget the personal calling card. Maybe it is her southern manners, but my wife has a personal calling card which is very nice in personal situations. It was very useful when dealing with parents of our kids. They got contact info with no electronics or need for pen and paper involved
I did a project for Kodak in the mid-80s to produce a device that could be inserted between a pre-press artwork system and its expensive color calibrated monitor. The device was a dedicated computer (called the Preview) that captured the image and could transmit it over leased lines to another Preview where it could be reviewed on an expensive Barco monitor. Prior to this you had to print review copies and ship them. It was a clever idea and maybe not a huge opportunity by itself but certainly a foot in the door and a chance to pursue an area that was not tied to the photo business. When visiting Kodak, the electronic imaging group had an awesome Kodak photocopier that could collate and bind. Where's that business now? Kodak could have leveraged their name to become an imaging company. The products above would have fit into an imaging company which addressed a wide variety of needs. The company I worked for also produced computers running 386/ix from Interactive Systems Corporation. They were the first vendor of UNIX outside AT&T. Kodak purchased them and over the course of a few years, destroyed it by selling off the pieces. They have had non-photo business opportunities long enough ago where they could have been other lines of business. I don't have any insight except that for whatever reason, they just didn't do well with them. I suspect it was a matter of self-delusion and not broadening their product and customer base.
I was not as surprised by the first questions as I was that they wanted to know about traffic violations with a find greater than $35. How long has it been since any traffic violation cost less than $35?
Out of inertia, a music mailing list I subscribe to is still on AOL LISTSERV. Does anyone know of any magic scripts or howto's on converting from LISTSERV to anything else? I would like to move the content and users over to GNU mailman on my server. I have the dump of all the messages which are not in mbox format so that appears to be the first challenge. :(
With all the existing trouble with space debris, the idea of putting more probably untrackable small items in space seems scary.
21 July 2011 - NASA ends manned space flight program. And that's your talking point... There are so many sarcastic things to say about this and so little time.
The pictures that are being shown like this one (http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/dawn_vesta_image_070911.asp) are from the Framing Camera. It is using the free RTOS RTEMS (http://www.rtems.org) and using a space hardened SPARC V7. It was launched in September 2007. Congratulations to all the people involved!!
RTEMS (http://www.rtems.org) is a 20+ year old project that most people here have never heard of. But you have seen the results of projects that use it. NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/) and Dawn (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/main/index.html) missions, ESA's Herschel (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Herschel/index.html) and Planck (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Planck/index.html) projects, JPL's Electra radio that circles Mars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter#Engineering_instruments). Physics labs including Stanford Linear Accelerator, Argonne, and Canadian Light Source have used RTEMS based instruments to make contributions to science. Commercial applications include engine control, building control and intercom systems, data logging, environmental monitoring, and medical devices. RTEMS is out there in the real world in lots of things which you might have used but never knew free software was there.
I am curious if anyone here knows that microprocessors and OSes they are using on the craft and its instruments.
Ender's Game?
My grandfather always used to tell me that he would die before he ever gave to the Red Cross. When he was in Korea, the Red Cross used to show up and sell soldiers coffee and donuts (at a profit, no less). No money meant no coffee and donuts for you, G.I.
My grandfather was in WWII and had the same feelings for the Red Cross for the reason. Never heard anyone else mention it.