- it was determined that the same thing could be done in userspace
- devfs had been shoved into the tree in hope that its quality will catch up
- devfs was found to have fixable and unfixable bugs
- the former had stayed around for many months with maintainer claiming that everything works fine
- the latter had stayed, period.
- the devfs maintainer/author disappeared and stoped maintaining the code.
I recall reading somewhere (I forget where) that new ships are now beginning to use electrical power for their propulsion systems. As a result of this, they are also going to be using nuclear power, or very large diesel-electric generators. In order to fire the railguns, they divert power from the propulsion systems temporarily to the firing system. Once the job is done, they can continue under power.
I wish I could remember where I read it:-/
Call this fucking news?!
I saw this in use in Lisbon about 4 years ago, and thought it was a fantastic idea. None of these dumbass 'Slow down' signs that light up and have no actual effect. It actually _does_ work, and although I am a speeder, I wholeheartedly agree with it.
Old news for American Nerds, Stuff that sort of matters.
HTF are you gonna fill a 1000Mbit pipe
Errm, probably from the IDE or SCSI raid array that you're likely to have if you're considering Gb networking. The limiting factor isn't the disk speed, but the PCI bus speed. On the presumption that you're spending a wodge of money on GigE, you'd probably have spent money wisely on a server and got PCI64, or at least 66MHz PCI32
Using light would have a similar delay. Radio waves (which are the preferred method of today) travel at the speed of light as it is, so moving to a visible light solution would not make much of a difference. Now... if they could use quantum entanglement somehow... then we'd be talking:-)
I assume you're thinking of one of those flashy new things? Mine is a battered old farm Land Rover, 22 years old and with a variety of patches of rust.:-)
Not neccesarily... My old Land Rover has a new engine, but still has the mileage (and it's clearly evident). The gearbox is still the original, along with most of the drivetrain. But the wheels, engine and odometer have all been replaced. It's still the same Land Rover though, in terms of its registration number and VIN plates.
I don't think you can clearly draw the line in this kind of situation. Various authorities have guidelines to follow when trying to determine if something has changed significantly, but if it looks and behaves the same, and has the same identification marks then it's generally considered to be 'the same'. This doesn't account for originality of all the parts though, which I guess is the real question here. I guess we should just be happy that our cars still work, and that the kid is alive:-)
No, you don't want to know about apt-get or rpm, what you do want to know about is the package manager frontend that your distro provides. By this, I mean the likes of Synaptic, KPackage, Up2Date, MandrakeUpdate, and all the others that are out there. By using apt-get or rpm at the command line, it is akin to
c:
cd my_downloads
setup_game.exe
setup_world.exe
etc
and then an hour of screwing about with dlls that have been overwritten.
You're happy enough to let Windows setup programs do all the hard work for you, why not do the same in Linux?
The software is designed to be given instructions from mission control, and then to act out these instructions in the best possible way. Mission Control tell the rover to drive from A to B, and then leaves the rover to figure out which rocks that it can climb over, and which rocks it will have to drive around. The rover most likely spent too long 'analyzing' the rocks to figure out the best way (after all, have a look at the kind of environment Spirit has landed in).
If there's a Landslide in progress, the rover is humped - either way. The rover will not be programmed to take avoiding action, or to override the instructions from mission control. It simply figures out the best way from A to B.
You may have been told this already, but the best thing to do after installing a standard Debian setup is to use apt-get to install hotplug and discover. This should do the majority of hardware autodetection for you.
If you look at the scientific tools carried on Spirit and Opportunity, and compare them to what was on Pathfinder, then I think you'll see that they _are_ doing something new.
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Not just the biggest employer in the country, but the biggest in Europe...
The devfs code _is_ broken. To quote Al Viro -
- it was determined that the same thing could be done in userspace
- devfs had been shoved into the tree in hope that its quality will catch up
- devfs was found to have fixable and unfixable bugs
- the former had stayed around for many months with maintainer claiming that everything works fine
- the latter had stayed, period.
- the devfs maintainer/author disappeared and stoped maintaining the code.
Do you know if DMA is enabled for your DVD hardware? hdparm will tell you, and allow you turn it on if need be.
I recall reading somewhere (I forget where) that new ships are now beginning to use electrical power for their propulsion systems. As a result of this, they are also going to be using nuclear power, or very large diesel-electric generators. In order to fire the railguns, they divert power from the propulsion systems temporarily to the firing system. Once the job is done, they can continue under power. :-/
I wish I could remember where I read it
Maybe for some superduper modelling and 3D work in SoftImage or Maya
Maybe it's not the electronics, but something else from the night before...
...between access pints...
:-)
You missed a comma before and after 'at the drop of a dime', since it's not a required piece of information to make an understandable sentence.
:-p
Call this fucking news?!
I saw this in use in Lisbon about 4 years ago, and thought it was a fantastic idea. None of these dumbass 'Slow down' signs that light up and have no actual effect. It actually _does_ work, and although I am a speeder, I wholeheartedly agree with it.
Old news for American Nerds, Stuff that sort of matters.
HTF are you gonna fill a 1000Mbit pipe
Errm, probably from the IDE or SCSI raid array that you're likely to have if you're considering Gb networking. The limiting factor isn't the disk speed, but the PCI bus speed. On the presumption that you're spending a wodge of money on GigE, you'd probably have spent money wisely on a server and got PCI64, or at least 66MHz PCI32
You may also be interested in Driftnet
Zebra is nice, but it is unmaintained. Consequently, it was forked and taken over. It is now called Quagga Kyle
Sounds fantastic. Governements offer grants to people like you y'know...
Using light would have a similar delay. Radio waves (which are the preferred method of today) travel at the speed of light as it is, so moving to a visible light solution would not make much of a difference. Now... if they could use quantum entanglement somehow... then we'd be talking :-)
I assume you're thinking of one of those flashy new things? Mine is a battered old farm Land Rover, 22 years old and with a variety of patches of rust. :-)
Probably just as easy as it is to jam yours
Not neccesarily... My old Land Rover has a new engine, but still has the mileage (and it's clearly evident).
:-)
The gearbox is still the original, along with most of the drivetrain. But the wheels, engine and odometer have all been replaced. It's still the same Land Rover though, in terms of its registration number and VIN plates.
I don't think you can clearly draw the line in this kind of situation. Various authorities have guidelines to follow when trying to determine if something has changed significantly, but if it looks and behaves the same, and has the same identification marks then it's generally considered to be 'the same'. This doesn't account for originality of all the parts though, which I guess is the real question here. I guess we should just be happy that our cars still work, and that the kid is alive
redundant GPS? Maybe we just don't want your boys of war to be able to turn off our location finding accuracy whenever they feel like it.
No, you don't want to know about apt-get or rpm, what you do want to know about is the package manager frontend that your distro provides. By this, I mean the likes of Synaptic, KPackage, Up2Date, MandrakeUpdate, and all the others that are out there. By using apt-get or rpm at the command line, it is akin to
c:
cd my_downloads
setup_game.exe
setup_world.exe
etc
and then an hour of screwing about with dlls that have been overwritten.
You're happy enough to let Windows setup programs do all the hard work for you, why not do the same in Linux?
You may want to check out CUPS and the kdeprint framework. It's childs play.
The software is designed to be given instructions from mission control, and then to act out these instructions in the best possible way. Mission Control tell the rover to drive from A to B, and then leaves the rover to figure out which rocks that it can climb over, and which rocks it will have to drive around. The rover most likely spent too long 'analyzing' the rocks to figure out the best way (after all, have a look at the kind of environment Spirit has landed in).
If there's a Landslide in progress, the rover is humped - either way. The rover will not be programmed to take avoiding action, or to override the instructions from mission control. It simply figures out the best way from A to B.
HTH
Have you actually followed the link? I suggest you do...
ph rocked :-) I used it quite a bit on the St Andrews university servers up until the end of 2002. looks like it's being phased out now though.
You may have been told this already, but the best thing to do after installing a standard Debian setup is to use apt-get to install hotplug and discover. This should do the majority of hardware autodetection for you.
HTH
If you look at the scientific tools carried on Spirit and Opportunity, and compare them to what was on Pathfinder, then I think you'll see that they _are_ doing something new.
According to this /. article, an initial 12,000 invitations were sent out.