The solar panels are not "degrading" as much as their ability to collect solar energy is being limited by dust covering them and the winter season. Now that Martian winter is over for both Rovers, they are going to see increased power. Interestingly, and noted elsewhere, Opportunity is seeing up to "landing day" power levels, due perhaps to some Martian dust devils "cleaning" the panels.
JPL instituted energy conservation measures - no instruments were permanently "shut down" - all of the instruments on both MERs are functioning. Opportunity is put into a "Deep Sleep" which does temporarily shut off all instrumentation, but they are brought back online. This was done not for the winterization of the rovers, but in answer to a problem Opportunity had with one of it's heaters for an instrument.
The confusion in this post with Voyager/Pioneer has already been noted.
JPL guys were (and are) doing miracles to keep the craft functional.
JPL is not performing a great deal of real-time operational control over the Voyager craft. They are more monitoring what is left of the various experiments and power levels.
The miracle was performed back in the 70s when these craft were built - they certainly engineered them damn tough! Say what you will about how we've lost 2 shuttles, but NASA has shown some huge successes in our robotic craft: Voyager, Pioneer, NEAR, Deep Space 1 and MERs.
There's not a lot of questions that someone could ask that a stroll through your blog archives wouldn't answer. You're a family man, you've gone through some really harsh, but introspective good times and you've created a career where you get to be creative, filling your geek quota and doing what you started out doing - entertaining.
There are probably just as many people in acting, as well as in any job, that struggle with identity, like you did. They struggle with expectations, they struggle with defining who they are or struggle with exceeding/overcoming definitions that have been put on them. You've answered this in several ways in your book, but if you could summarize - just what the hell did you learn - and if you could be a mentor like Stewart/Frakes were to you - what would you share/teach the budding actors/actresses/geeks/geekettes?
What do you want your legacy to be? And how will you share it?
I think the point is that you *should* know what is on your system - the concept of 'just throw it there in case you need it' is not something that professional Unix admins tolerate kindly. That's one of the things that has been seducing me towards Slackware - the concept of cleaning up my installation and having something clean and simple - rather than a bunch of binaries that 'I might need'.
Besides - if I need something that bad, make; make install works perfectly.
Pre-ordered seats for LotR ($8)
21" Flat LCD Screen ($2569)
Off Topic Part ->
I seriously have to question any religion that advocates or has advocated the elimination of another religion or belief (Crusades, current Moral Minority are good examples).
I seriously have to question the concept that a signle thing 'died' for us so that we 'believe' this person died for us. The focus should not be on that - it should be on that we believe in doing good and not adding to entropy.
I seriously have questions about a single religion when you have 5 dominant religions in the world, each suited for their civilation and ecology/economy of origin, and they all purport to be the One True Way, all you have to do is believe!
I seriously have questions about a religion which is more set up for the benefit of a governance than for a belief in a higher purpose and being.
Maybe the real gift would be inner peace, inner enlightment and inner acceptance that all have a different Path.
11:32 a.m. ET: Hours after Mars Odyssey entered orbit, concerns were raised about the spacecraft smacking into Phobos -- one of two natural moons circling Mars. More data was needed to plot Odyssey's exact orbit. "
That would really suck... get all that way, have a great burn and WHAP.
The problem with trying to backtrack is that this distributed DOS sounds like it could be set up as a message based system with no ACKs required. Just a message to 'wake up', 'heres your targets - go get 'em'.
Althought... an article on ZDNet mentions that there's a series of of agents and connects - one of them being a secured connection to download the targets. I suppose they could do this using broadcast, but it would be hard to set up. They could also, I suppose, mask the control machine from the master hosts by making the control send in a non-connection environment with a spoofed IP. That would at least shield the final link.
Bottom line is - if this is a sophisticated attack, I think going backwards on the chain has already been taken care of. We should check, but it's probably not going to get us any closer.
Just as a side note, it looks like HNN, l0pth and other black/grey hat sites are bogged down... media attention or a bit of the DOS on them as well. Has anyone seen if antionline is still accessible? *G* --
... or the endless cycle of appeals. We still have to learn what laws the judge will rule have been broken. I think this is a major finding, but ultimately only the second in a series of steps.
Gate's response seems to have been taped much earlier... I would give a few $$$ to see the prerecorded tape he made in case the judge ruled in favor of Microsoft:
The Mail IDs are built via how many of last names there are, and then incrementing a number like so: If there were 3 Maldas, then there are 3 accounts: malda@... malda1@... malda2@...
>>The nuke described sounds just like the "Coldbringer" described in the Dark Knight Returns 10 years ago though.
The Soviet Coldbringer was actually a multiuse weapon that affected the climate in a more devestating way than electronics. Any simple atomic device will disrupt electronics. The real scary weapons are the ones that 'dirty' up vast areas of the biosphere. (And yea, Coldbringer is just a comic invention, but the concept of weapons that cause mass devestation specifically targetted at the biosphere is hardly new.)
What this whole post really tells me is that I have too much free time on my hands to read TDKR and The Watchmen and such...
They both do good jobs at the same thing. I personally like OpenBSD's NAT implementation (all you have to do is add -alias to your pppd command line and you have NAT) but at the same time, I like alot of things about Linux too.
Using the tool that I like for the job at hand.
Try both! Learning something new never hurts and who knows... the knowledge will probably come in handy some day! --
Since when does a comment about PR spin constitute FUD?
Talk about knee-jerk reactions.
The really funny point to all of this is that we're talking about 'samples'... which means things can and will change. Personally, I'll wait till the boxens are out, the OS's are shipped and we can really bang on things then.
I quote: "Once we were notified we began investigating," the spokesperson said. "We found it was possible for a malicious hacker to gain access to the Hotmail servers through specific knowledge of advanced Web development languages. We turned off the servers in the interest of security and user privacy."
Hrm.. "advanced Web development languages".. URLs that map to backdoors.. uh.. OK. Hey.. I know HTML.. does that mean I'm super advanced? Maybe I can apply to Mickeysoft and get a nice job... fixing those highly advanced URL type of problems.
Sheesh.. they can't even come up with good spin. C'mon, I'm thinking alien attacks, Bill gone mad, Linux/BSD users invade Redmond and take over the place... ANYTHING but this sort of crap. --
We already know that Tron eliminates Sark/MCP and now the world is a Better Place because data flows freely... but what about before? Maybe to see how MCP/Sark gained power and slowly took over the system?
There was also alot that was shown/not shown in the actual movie (remember Data Town?) that would be fascinating to explore - perhaps the story should not be related to the actual Tron plotline, but another story set within the main world(s).
I guess the old arcade would be gone, replaced by networked computers running Quake... hrm... Quake in Tron-world... now THAT would be an interesting side story. --
It seems a bit odd that they claim to 'support' only Red Hat. Is this statement just limited to support vis-a-vis tech support? How easy to call up and say "Yep, it's a Red Hat kernel" and still run whatever distro you like. --
This piece of hardware sounded interesting. Anyone have any info about it? Perhaps this could be my contribution to Linux.... code the driver for the thing.. Hrm...
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This post should be moderated non-factual.
The solar panels are not "degrading" as much as their ability to collect solar energy is being limited by dust covering them and the winter season. Now that Martian winter is over for both Rovers, they are going to see increased power. Interestingly, and noted elsewhere, Opportunity is seeing up to "landing day" power levels, due perhaps to some Martian dust devils "cleaning" the panels.
JPL instituted energy conservation measures - no instruments were permanently "shut down" - all of the instruments on both MERs are functioning. Opportunity is put into a "Deep Sleep" which does temporarily shut off all instrumentation, but they are brought back online. This was done not for the winterization of the rovers, but in answer to a problem Opportunity had with one of it's heaters for an instrument.
The confusion in this post with Voyager/Pioneer has already been noted.
JPL guys were (and are) doing miracles to keep the craft functional.
JPL is not performing a great deal of real-time operational control over the Voyager craft. They are more monitoring what is left of the various experiments and power levels.
The miracle was performed back in the 70s when these craft were built - they certainly engineered them damn tough! Say what you will about how we've lost 2 shuttles, but NASA has shown some huge successes in our robotic craft: Voyager, Pioneer, NEAR, Deep Space 1 and MERs.
A 25 Year Partnership - Voyager and the Deep Space Network
Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM)
Science being performed during VIM
Weekly Status Reports
There's not a lot of questions that someone could ask that a stroll through your blog archives wouldn't answer. You're a family man, you've gone through some really harsh, but introspective good times and you've created a career where you get to be creative, filling your geek quota and doing what you started out doing - entertaining.
There are probably just as many people in acting, as well as in any job, that struggle with identity, like you did. They struggle with expectations, they struggle with defining who they are or struggle with exceeding/overcoming definitions that have been put on them. You've answered this in several ways in your book, but if you could summarize - just what the hell did you learn - and if you could be a mentor like Stewart/Frakes were to you - what would you share/teach the budding actors/actresses/geeks/geekettes?
What do you want your legacy to be? And how will you share it?
I'd pay $.50 to watch - that would be hilarious!
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Maybe I could start a new business, "Masochist's Fulfillment Corp."
1. Kick guy in nuts
2.
3. Profit!
1976 Mattel Space 1999 Eagle 1 - http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/merc/eagl e/mattel_big_eagle_small_writeup.htm
That, combined with the Six Million Dollar Man "rocket" and the Star Trek Bridge playset and the Space 1999 Moonbase Alpha playset would entertain me for hours.
And I think my parents kept all that stuff as well.
I think the point is that you *should* know what is on your system - the concept of 'just throw it there in case you need it' is not something that professional Unix admins tolerate kindly. That's one of the things that has been seducing me towards Slackware - the concept of cleaning up my installation and having something clean and simple - rather than a bunch of binaries that 'I might need'.
Besides - if I need something that bad, make; make install works perfectly.
On Topic Part ->
Pre-ordered seats for LotR ($8)
21" Flat LCD Screen ($2569)
Off Topic Part ->
I seriously have to question any religion that advocates or has advocated the elimination of another religion or belief (Crusades, current Moral Minority are good examples).
I seriously have to question the concept that a signle thing 'died' for us so that we 'believe' this person died for us. The focus should not be on that - it should be on that we believe in doing good and not adding to entropy.
I seriously have questions about a single religion when you have 5 dominant religions in the world, each suited for their civilation and ecology/economy of origin, and they all purport to be the One True Way, all you have to do is believe!
I seriously have questions about a religion which is more set up for the benefit of a governance than for a belief in a higher purpose and being.
Maybe the real gift would be inner peace, inner enlightment and inner acceptance that all have a different Path.
Hrm. Go here for updates..
"Breaking News Updates
Wednesday, Oct. 24
11:32 a.m. ET: Hours after Mars Odyssey entered orbit, concerns were raised about the spacecraft smacking into Phobos -- one of two natural moons circling Mars. More data was needed to plot Odyssey's exact orbit. "
That would really suck... get all that way, have a great burn and WHAP.
Damn pesky moons...
Althought... an article on ZDNet mentions that there's a series of of agents and connects - one of them being a secured connection to download the targets. I suppose they could do this using broadcast, but it would be hard to set up. They could also, I suppose, mask the control machine from the master hosts by making the control send in a non-connection environment with a spoofed IP. That would at least shield the final link.
Bottom line is - if this is a sophisticated attack, I think going backwards on the chain has already been taken care of. We should check, but it's probably not going to get us any closer.
Just as a side note, it looks like HNN, l0pth and other black/grey hat sites are bogged down... media attention or a bit of the DOS on them as well. Has anyone seen if antionline is still accessible? *G*
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... or the endless cycle of appeals. We still have to learn what laws the judge will rule have been broken. I think this is a major finding, but ultimately only the second in a series of steps.
Gate's response seems to have been taped much earlier... I would give a few $$$ to see the prerecorded tape he made in case the judge ruled in favor of Microsoft:
"Suckers....."
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The Mail IDs are built via how many of last names there are, and then incrementing a number like so: If there were 3 Maldas, then there are 3 accounts:
malda@...
malda1@...
malda2@...
The password is that MailID & nsi.
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The Soviet Coldbringer was actually a multiuse weapon that affected the climate in a more devestating way than electronics. Any simple atomic device will disrupt electronics. The real scary weapons are the ones that 'dirty' up vast areas of the biosphere. (And yea, Coldbringer is just a comic invention, but the concept of weapons that cause mass devestation specifically targetted at the biosphere is hardly new.)
What this whole post really tells me is that I have too much free time on my hands to read TDKR and The Watchmen and such...
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I use both.
They both do good jobs at the same thing. I personally like OpenBSD's NAT implementation (all you have to do is add -alias to your pppd command line and you have NAT) but at the same time, I like alot of things about Linux too.
Using the tool that I like for the job at hand.
Try both! Learning something new never hurts and who knows... the knowledge will probably come in handy some day!
--
Since when does a comment about PR spin constitute FUD?
Talk about knee-jerk reactions.
The really funny point to all of this is that we're talking about 'samples'... which means things can and will change. Personally, I'll wait till the boxens are out, the OS's are shipped and we can really bang on things then.
Use the right tool for the job...
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"Once we were notified we began investigating," the spokesperson said. "We found it was possible
for a malicious hacker to gain access to the Hotmail servers through specific knowledge of advanced Web development languages. We turned off the servers in the interest of security and user privacy."
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,41 069,00.html
Hrm.. "advanced Web development languages".. URLs that map to backdoors.. uh.. OK. Hey.. I know HTML.. does that mean I'm super advanced? Maybe I can apply to Mickeysoft and get a nice job... fixing those highly advanced URL type of problems.
Sheesh.. they can't even come up with good spin. C'mon, I'm thinking alien attacks, Bill gone mad, Linux/BSD users invade Redmond and take over the place... ANYTHING but this sort of crap.
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We already know that Tron eliminates Sark/MCP and now the world is a Better Place because data flows freely... but what about before? Maybe to see how MCP/Sark gained power and slowly took over the system?
There was also alot that was shown/not shown in the actual movie (remember Data Town?) that would be fascinating to explore - perhaps the story should not be related to the actual Tron plotline, but another story set within the main world(s).
I guess the old arcade would be gone, replaced by networked computers running Quake... hrm... Quake in Tron-world... now THAT would be an interesting side story.
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It seems a bit odd that they claim to 'support' only Red Hat. Is this statement just limited to support vis-a-vis tech support? How easy to call up and say "Yep, it's a Red Hat kernel" and still run whatever distro you like.
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Guess he's not thinking about the Internet that much...
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This piece of hardware sounded interesting. Anyone have any info about it? Perhaps this could be my contribution to Linux.... code the driver for the thing.. Hrm...
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