Point 10...
"However, it lacks bluetooth support and GPS navigation packages for it suck."
I think the authors of the bluez stack would take issue with this comment, along with the authors of all the other stacks and applications for bluetooth on Linux.
I don't suppose you've tried gpsdrive either?
Sorry, I hit reply as there were no other replies at that point:-p
There's some good stuff at http://www.gcn.com/22_24/news/23246-1.html if you like. #maestro on irc.freenode.net is also a good source of technical info.
Nothing runs Windows in this respect. The Rover runs custom code for the Rad 6000 chip they use in the vxworks RTOS, and the mission control systems use Java to run a live version of Meastro.
Also, the chip they use, a radiation hardened 6000 CPU comes from the days before Java was even thought of. Read up on the facts first.
In case you didn't get it, it's called an analogy. I'll explain for those at the back of the class...
It could be used to watch for asteroids or other items in space that could collide with us and have the same effect on us as it did on the dinosaurs.
Take a look at the videos NASA provide of Spirit opening itself up from the lander, whilst on Earth. Now, consider trying to fit all the crap that you suggest into the package it's in. It ain't gonna happen, and I for one am damned impressed at what they _have_ managed to squeeze into such a tight space.
Yeah, hold on why I put my lab coat on. Did I say 'perfect'? No. See that bit that at the end, 'imho', it means 'in my humble opinion' and consequently that it's just my experience and my opinion. I don't say anywhere that you should go out and try it, nor do I say that it should no longer be 'experimental'. All I'm doing is relating my experiences of NTFS write support, which may provide others with a bit of incentive to try it... or not.
I took my life in my hands, and tried writing to an XP NTFS volume about 3 months ago. The write operation completed successfully, yet ntfsfix said the volume was irrepairable. I booted into XP anyway, which didn't even blink an eye at this new data, and it all worked fine. No idea what ntfsfix was trying to do then, and a manually run scandisk found no errors. ntfs support == all good, imho
Mozilla 1.5 actually, and it's never crashed on me yet, but I digress.
What problems are you having with unstable? I run it on all my desktop systems and development stuff with no problems. Admittedly, there are occasionally glitches with package management when one package wants to update, but is held back because of another. These are normally resolved within a week, so are nothing to worry about. I also run orths CVS KDE packages with very few problems.
Of course, unstable isn't stable, it's not designed to be. But it's hell of a lot better than the likes of Mandrake Cooker or Redhats Rawhide
From what I could make of it, that 'vision' was the power lines that they followed to the machine city, which is why he knew he had to go. Just my 2p:-)
Yeah, Voyager had to return to a planet and land after they realised they were duplicates of themselves, and were falling apart, or something like that. My memory is a bit hazy:-)
I don't know about SATA support, but I recently used the ntfs modules in 2.4.22 to write data to an XP NTFS partition. The fix program that you're supposed to run after unmounting failed totally, so I thought I would boot into XP just to see how it went. XP didn't even blink an eye at the new data. No scandisk or anything, it all just worked magically.
Use http://www.freenet6.net to get yourself a free tunneling link to the 6bone. They'll also give you a/48 subnet if you tweak a few bits. Plenty of clients available too. In Debian, simply apt-get it from your closest mirror;-)
The way it _is_ being done is getting Nominet to ask The House of Commons very nicely to register that ccld with them. Once it's registered, Nominet will then have proof of ownership that they can hand to Thawte.
Yes, you can recover data from that. It involves a scanning electron microscope though, and reading every bit of data individually.
As the storage capacitor flips state, the electromagnetic field that forms at its junction stresses the thin oxide layer around the junction, and stresses it even more the longer the data is held for. This feature can last for a few hours at least, it all depends on how long you have just stored your data for. The only way that you can really prevent this from occurring is to implement continuous bit-flipping in memory.
This is such a misnomer. It's a bog standard long range data link. 'Wi-fi' has generally become the term to describe 802.11 based networking, and not other types of radio data links Like packet radio working through moonbounce (admittedly, not broadband). The day I need a 2.4m dish connected to my laptop for 'wi-fi' is the day hell freezes over.
You may be interested to read about the HyperTransport capabilities of the chip at http://www.hypertransport.org
One thing I found particularly interesting was the SMP abilities of the AMD, through the use of Hypertransport. It allows multiple chips to be used on the same board without all the glue logic normally associated with SMP setups, so you can have arrangements like the Power4 and suchlike, without enormous amounts of additional circuitry.
Funky stuff
What has nerd-pride got to do with units of measurement? Some countries developed with different units of measurement. Tough luck to those that can't figure out how to work out things in different quantities. Some of us have been brought up using imperial measurements, _as well as_ metric stuff and would rather not be dragged kicking and screaming into your completely metric world. Not counting the cost of updating _every_ sign and notice on the roads etc, a good 2/3rds (or would you rather I wrote 0.66666 recurring) of our population were never taught metric in the first place.
Learn to live together and be good at more than one thing. Just watch your boss smack you in the face when you tell him that his new 17" monitor is 43.18cm and if he wants it in inches he can use his calculator.
Well buy from a retailer that doesn't have their ads then. If you're really so pissed about it (get a decent browser in any case) get the X10 protocol spec and build your own kit.
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Point 10...
"However, it lacks bluetooth support and GPS navigation packages for it suck."
I think the authors of the bluez stack would take issue with this comment, along with the authors of all the other stacks and applications for bluetooth on Linux.
I don't suppose you've tried gpsdrive either?
Sorry, I hit reply as there were no other replies at that point :-p
There's some good stuff at http://www.gcn.com/22_24/news/23246-1.html if you like. #maestro on irc.freenode.net is also a good source of technical info.
Nothing runs Windows in this respect. The Rover runs custom code for the Rad 6000 chip they use in the vxworks RTOS, and the mission control systems use Java to run a live version of Meastro.
Also, the chip they use, a radiation hardened 6000 CPU comes from the days before Java was even thought of. Read up on the facts first.
In case you didn't get it, it's called an analogy. I'll explain for those at the back of the class...
It could be used to watch for asteroids or other items in space that could collide with us and have the same effect on us as it did on the dinosaurs.
Take a look at the videos NASA provide of Spirit opening itself up from the lander, whilst on Earth. Now, consider trying to fit all the crap that you suggest into the package it's in. It ain't gonna happen, and I for one am damned impressed at what they _have_ managed to squeeze into such a tight space.
That's not what my mate in the storage division says...
Yeah, hold on why I put my lab coat on. Did I say 'perfect'? No. See that bit that at the end, 'imho', it means 'in my humble opinion' and consequently that it's just my experience and my opinion. I don't say anywhere that you should go out and try it, nor do I say that it should no longer be 'experimental'. All I'm doing is relating my experiences of NTFS write support, which may provide others with a bit of incentive to try it... or not.
I took my life in my hands, and tried writing to an XP NTFS volume about 3 months ago. The write operation completed successfully, yet ntfsfix said the volume was irrepairable. I booted into XP anyway, which didn't even blink an eye at this new data, and it all worked fine. No idea what ntfsfix was trying to do then, and a manually run scandisk found no errors. ntfs support == all good, imho
lol, muppet. You can't even get that right
Mozilla 1.5 actually, and it's never crashed on me yet, but I digress.
What problems are you having with unstable? I run it on all my desktop systems and development stuff with no problems. Admittedly, there are occasionally glitches with package management when one package wants to update, but is held back because of another. These are normally resolved within a week, so are nothing to worry about. I also run orths CVS KDE packages with very few problems.
Of course, unstable isn't stable, it's not designed to be. But it's hell of a lot better than the likes of Mandrake Cooker or Redhats Rawhide
Just my 2c
From what I could make of it, that 'vision' was the power lines that they followed to the machine city, which is why he knew he had to go. Just my 2p :-)
Yeah, Voyager had to return to a planet and land after they realised they were duplicates of themselves, and were falling apart, or something like that. My memory is a bit hazy :-)
I don't know about SATA support, but I recently used the ntfs modules in 2.4.22 to write data to an XP NTFS partition. The fix program that you're supposed to run after unmounting failed totally, so I thought I would boot into XP just to see how it went. XP didn't even blink an eye at the new data. No scandisk or anything, it all just worked magically.
Oh, you mean like http://www.freedesktop.org/?
I found http://oxcart.xcalibre.co.uk/~kyle/ptrace24.c lying on a webserver I maintain about 7 hours before I heard of this exploit. Does anyone reckon the two are related?
Use http://www.freenet6.net to get yourself a free tunneling link to the 6bone. They'll also give you a /48 subnet if you tweak a few bits. ;-)
Plenty of clients available too. In Debian, simply apt-get it from your closest mirror
The way it _is_ being done is getting Nominet to ask The House of Commons very nicely to register that ccld with them. Once it's registered, Nominet will then have proof of ownership that they can hand to Thawte.
You can get free ones from cacert.org.
I use them to SSL enable my website at glasgownet.com and any other stuff I need certs for.
Well worth it.
Yes, you can recover data from that. It involves a scanning electron microscope though, and reading every bit of data individually.
As the storage capacitor flips state, the electromagnetic field that forms at its junction stresses the thin oxide layer around the junction, and stresses it even more the longer the data is held for. This feature can last for a few hours at least, it all depends on how long you have just stored your data for. The only way that you can really prevent this from occurring is to implement continuous bit-flipping in memory.
Read Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory if you don't believe me.
Another reason to securely erase your data. In the end, _you_ are responsible for data under the Data Protection Act (in the UK anyway)
This is such a misnomer. It's a bog standard long range data link. 'Wi-fi' has generally become the term to describe 802.11 based networking, and not other types of radio data links Like packet radio working through moonbounce (admittedly, not broadband). The day I need a 2.4m dish connected to my laptop for 'wi-fi' is the day hell freezes over.
Slashdot talking bollocks?? Never!!!
You may be interested to read about the HyperTransport capabilities of the chip at http://www.hypertransport.org
One thing I found particularly interesting was the SMP abilities of the AMD, through the use of Hypertransport. It allows multiple chips to be used on the same board without all the glue logic normally associated with SMP setups, so you can have arrangements like the Power4 and suchlike, without enormous amounts of additional circuitry.
Funky stuff
What has nerd-pride got to do with units of measurement? Some countries developed with different units of measurement. Tough luck to those that can't figure out how to work out things in different quantities. Some of us have been brought up using imperial measurements, _as well as_ metric stuff and would rather not be dragged kicking and screaming into your completely metric world. Not counting the cost of updating _every_ sign and notice on the roads etc, a good 2/3rds (or would you rather I wrote 0.66666 recurring) of our population were never taught metric in the first place.
Learn to live together and be good at more than one thing. Just watch your boss smack you in the face when you tell him that his new 17" monitor is 43.18cm and if he wants it in inches he can use his calculator.
As demonstrated by the presence ofn gery/kingery13.htm#digital%20stuff
http://www.x10.org
http://www.x10.com/technology1.htm
http://www.hometoys.com/htinews/feb99/articles/ki
Well buy from a retailer that doesn't have their ads then. If you're really so pissed about it (get a decent browser in any case) get the X10 protocol spec and build your own kit.