Yeah, thats the very first thing that occured to me too!
The ISS (International Space Station) found a security hole in sendmail?
Wow. Space really DOES pay off, doesn't it?;)
I know those guys up there run unix on their laptops (well, and windows), but i didn't know they were auditing sendmail and other open source software up there;)
Way to go NASA!
We are seeing more benefits from the space program every day!
I never noticed it on a PC before (mainly because they are so noisy, hdd's spinning, several fans inside spinning, air blowing, etc).
But on my Powerbook G4, i have DEFINITELY noticed this happening.
When its unusually quiet (usually late at night) when not a sound can be heard, and the powerbooks fan and hdd is off, i can very clearly hear this sound when i move windows around!
Its totally bizzare.... and its like a clicking sound that another poster described.
Its an extremely quiet sound, however, and usually you would never hear it unless its unusually quiet and your ears have had time to adjust to the minutest sounds.
If you have a tibook, try it.
I dunno if its possible with a normal PC, though, since they are just so noisy.
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Re:Issue as I see it...
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What a cool idea.
Why can't i get an external firewire (or ide/scsi) box and just shove a bucketload of ram sticks in there and have an extremely fast external drive?
You (and some of others who replied to my comment) have made some very good points.
I have been corrected:)
That said, i still think optical will be better then radio in the future.
It would also be cool to have a relay satellite in orbit around venus.. which could relay data between earth and mars when earth and mars are on opposite sides of the sun. Usually venus would be on either side then (tho not neccesarily).
NASA is researching the possibility of setting up a network of satellites around the solar system that can relay information.
Mars, infact, has 2 relay satellites (MGS and ODY) in orbit that can relay information from rovers/landers/etc from the ground. More will be entering orbit still (ESA's, and another mars orbiter for 2005 or 2007 i think). They will all have the ability to relay information. The beagle lander will rely on this, for example.
But there is a problem. Those satellites can only relay signals from mars (in orbit, or on the ground). They cannot pick up a signal from Jupiter or Saturn, and retransmit it to earth because they do NOT have a reciever big enough to do that.
NASA's DSN (look it up) has 100 foot dish antennas to pick up signals from the outter solar system.
You CANNOT fit a 100 foot dish to a satellite and orbit it around Mars or Jupiter, etc, to pick up signals from further out and relay them to earth. Its simply not possible.
Because of this, spaceprobes can only relay signals to Earth from signals which are near by. Hence, MGS or ODY relaying from landers on he surface of mars, or Cassini relaying data from the huygens probe.
Cassini can't pick up signals from a probe around Nepture or Uranus and relay it to earth, because it just cannot possibly have a powerful enough reciever since that requires a huge dish.
One option, however, is to use laser (optical) instead of radio transmission, which may make this possible.
That may still have many other problems of its own, however.
Whats wrong with ReiserFS (my favourite) or EXT3? or SGI's XFS even? Strangely, i've never even heard of IBM's JFS before, as ReiserFS/EXT3/XFS make all the news here.
Actually FreeBSD is my OS of choice... i run FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE, 5.0-RELEASE, and also run about 10 or more other FreeBSD boxes for various friends, servers, and other stuff and what not.
So don't make stupid assumptions.
And FreeBSD has included IPv6 as standard since 4.0. I wonder why...
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Re:who gives a fuck tsarkon reports, no one gives
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IPv6 is NOT experimental. Maybe in Linux, but the fact that its in STABLE in FreeBSD means it is NOT experimental.
Windows XP its experimental, until Windows XP SP1 where it is now officially supported by Microsoft and is no longer experimental or a developer feature.
Slashdot Mirror
*LOL*
:)
Reminds me of Microsoft's Critical Update Notification Tool.
I always loved that one
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The AFP (Australian Federal Police) is the Australian Equivelant of the FBI.
Also ASIO is the Australian Equivelant of the CIA.
I always wanted to work for the AFP or ASIO. But its too hard to get in, and you don't get paid enough....
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I agree completely!
...
I always found this aspect of macs... rather... disturbing. (always hated them, too.)
I recently got my first mac (Titanium PowerBook) and i just use the eject button on my keyboard (F12).
Or i rightclick on a CD/etc and select eject. Works for disconnecting from network shares, too.
This dragging shit into the trash is for deleting. I don't CARE if it changes into an eject icon. It was still a trash icon before i began dragging
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Helllloooooooooooo...........
;)
The ISS is the International Space Station!
And IRC is Internet Relay Chat, not the stupid Industrial Relations Commision! They can go stuff off and get their own damn acronym
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Yeah, thats the very first thing that occured to me too!
;)
;)
The ISS (International Space Station) found a security hole in sendmail?
Wow. Space really DOES pay off, doesn't it?
I know those guys up there run unix on their laptops (well, and windows), but i didn't know they were auditing sendmail and other open source software up there
Way to go NASA!
We are seeing more benefits from the space program every day!
D.
*NOTE: This is meant to be HUMOR*
You know, you can't complain that slashdot editors get things wrong.
Space.com often has errors in their articles (I usually email the article editor and they fix it), and in this case new scientist has it wrong!
Cassini is on course to arrive at Saturn in July 2004, when it will deploy a smaller spacecraft called Huygens to study that planet.
Um... Huygens isn't there to study Saturn, infact its not there to study ANY planets. Its there to study Titan, a MOON.
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Man pages are obsolete?
Richard Stallman is an absolute Faggot.
I cannot STAND the gnu info system. Its utter garbage.
Any system I install (and I install alot) I always install the man pages, and will not install the shitty gnu info system.
I am GLAD that Debian is against his policy and include man pages as standard.
I agree manpages are limited, but what is wrong with plain 'ol text? If you need more then that, go html. But not the info system! *shudder*
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WTF. Since when do you need a license to practice geology?
How soon till i need a license to go take a piss in the toilet?
No license? Sorry, can't go. Need to renew it first.
Think its a joke?
We're practically there already!
Ohh dear...
Verisign/NSI is worse. Alot lot lot worse.
Amazon.com is a blessing incomparison !
The utter fucking shit i had to deal with that is NSI... its unbelieveable....
They are the scum of the universe!
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I have this happen too!
I never noticed it on a PC before (mainly because they are so noisy, hdd's spinning, several fans inside spinning, air blowing, etc).
But on my Powerbook G4, i have DEFINITELY noticed this happening.
When its unusually quiet (usually late at night) when not a sound can be heard, and the powerbooks fan and hdd is off, i can very clearly hear this sound when i move windows around!
Its totally bizzare.... and its like a clicking sound that another poster described.
Its an extremely quiet sound, however, and usually you would never hear it unless its unusually quiet and your ears have had time to adjust to the minutest sounds.
If you have a tibook, try it.
I dunno if its possible with a normal PC, though, since they are just so noisy.
D.
What a cool idea.
Why can't i get an external firewire (or ide/scsi) box and just shove a bucketload of ram sticks in there and have an extremely fast external drive?
Yum!
You (and some of others who replied to my comment) have made some very good points.
:)
I have been corrected
That said, i still think optical will be better then radio in the future.
It would also be cool to have a relay satellite in orbit around venus.. which could relay data between earth and mars when earth and mars are on opposite sides of the sun. Usually venus would be on either side then (tho not neccesarily).
D.
Possible, kind of, but not really.
NASA is researching the possibility of setting up a network of satellites around the solar system that can relay information.
Mars, infact, has 2 relay satellites (MGS and ODY) in orbit that can relay information from rovers/landers/etc from the ground. More will be entering orbit still (ESA's, and another mars orbiter for 2005 or 2007 i think). They will all have the ability to relay information. The beagle lander will rely on this, for example.
But there is a problem. Those satellites can only relay signals from mars (in orbit, or on the ground). They cannot pick up a signal from Jupiter or Saturn, and retransmit it to earth because they do NOT have a reciever big enough to do that.
NASA's DSN (look it up) has 100 foot dish antennas to pick up signals from the outter solar system.
You CANNOT fit a 100 foot dish to a satellite and orbit it around Mars or Jupiter, etc, to pick up signals from further out and relay them to earth. Its simply not possible.
Because of this, spaceprobes can only relay signals to Earth from signals which are near by. Hence, MGS or ODY relaying from landers on he surface of mars, or Cassini relaying data from the huygens probe.
Cassini can't pick up signals from a probe around Nepture or Uranus and relay it to earth, because it just cannot possibly have a powerful enough reciever since that requires a huge dish.
One option, however, is to use laser (optical) instead of radio transmission, which may make this possible.
That may still have many other problems of its own, however.
D.
Apparently not...
Most people don't use the open() system call anyway. They use fopen(), or they use fstream in C++, or they do it in Carbon or Cocoa in MacOS X....
So no, i guess they do not lock their files...
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WTF.
;)
Maybe i am retarted, but why is news.com now news.com.com ?
Now i get the news.com.com.com.com.com.. joke in an earlier article a few days ago.
That is wierd
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MacOS X has this handy little 'services' menu.
;)
Services -> Speech -> Start talking now
Will convert any text highlighted in just about any application into speech.
Its real wierd getting it to say some unix stuff from terminal
Not sure if such a solution exists for windows, however.
Still, letting them play with Apple's and MacOS X would be almost like rewarding them for not being able to read.........
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I love it!!!!
I have a Beowulf cluster of... COMETS!!!!!
;)
Does this mean that beowulf cluster comments will actually be ON TOPIC?
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Oh. Interesting.
How come?
For the greatness that Cocoa is (apparently) there sure is alot of Carbon stuff coming from apple.. hell even the Finder is Carbon for some reason?
Any ideas why?
What else is written in Carbon thats part of OSX?
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Agreed!
I think its very easy to get stuck into the cycle of downloading crap just because you can even if you will never listen to it.
32 THOUSAND songs? I mean, c'mon....... thats just hoarding for the sake of it!
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Objective-C, most likely. Its what all NeXT and Cocoa applications are written in (usually).
I think you CAN make Cocoa applications in C++, and you definitely can in Java.
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Whats wrong with ReiserFS (my favourite) or EXT3? or SGI's XFS even? Strangely, i've never even heard of IBM's JFS before, as ReiserFS/EXT3/XFS make all the news here.
D.
Actually FreeBSD is my OS of choice... i run FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE, 5.0-RELEASE, and also run about 10 or more other FreeBSD boxes for various friends, servers, and other stuff and what not.
So don't make stupid assumptions.
And FreeBSD has included IPv6 as standard since 4.0. I wonder why...
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I take it you like the word 'Cunt' ?
Got anything more impressive to say, troll?
What is Jupiner?
IPv6 is NOT experimental. Maybe in Linux, but the fact that its in STABLE in FreeBSD means it is NOT experimental.
Windows XP its experimental, until Windows XP SP1 where it is now officially supported by Microsoft and is no longer experimental or a developer feature.
Get your facts straight, bub.
And yes, i use FreeBSD too.
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