Hasn't IPv6 been there since Win2003 and WinXP SP2, though?
Honestly, I don't know. I haven't used Windows at work since 2001, and haven't used Windows at home since 1998.
Besides, there's still the matter of application-level support, which is much more important. And even then, what we really need to get it adopted is IPv6-enabled websites and ISPs. I doubt a new version of Windows can help there.
Excellent point, I wasn't thinking about that when I wrote my OP. I was thinking that if Microsoft provides broad support of IPv6, that would spur on ISV's and developers to add support for it in their applications, kind of a trickle-down effect.
This wasn't too well received over at Macslash. There seemed to be some questions as to whether he was in violation of the ADC's NDA, so he took the page down: here
Are you sure about that? My Linux (the kernel) history is a bit rusty, but I was under the impression that Linus only created the kernel. At the risk of overstating the obvious, Linux the operating system ("GNU/Linux" as it is sometimes referred to) is a compilation of the kernel and third party utilities.
The GUI was an ad-hoc solution built on X.
I'd hardly call it ad hoc; X11 with a window manager is anything but.
If you want to answer the question of whether or not Linux is better on desktop or embedded, you should probably ask the question, "On which can I distribute binaries?"
This statement is disingenuous. Being "better" on the desktop has nothing to do with the target platform.
I do embedded development, using...yep... Linux as both my development box and the embedded OS target (both Geode and XScale processors). Linux is not "better" or "worse" running in either context.
It does use adaptive optics. Have a peek at the tech section of the GMT site, here: http://www.gmto.org/tech_overview>
From the aforementioned link: The GMT secondary mirror is composed of seven thin adaptive shells, with each segment mapping to a single primary mirror segment. The adaptive secondary will provide diffraction-limited performance over modest fields of view and ground-layer adaptive optics over a field of ten to twenty arcminutes in diameter.
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Unless of course you kill the mingetty daemons...
Then init would respawn them.
Not that I'm totally sure what would happen if you killed one of the 24 processes associated with the kernel...
You can't.
-Scott
Very nice write-up on your site.
-Scott
Hasn't IPv6 been there since Win2003 and WinXP SP2, though?
Honestly, I don't know. I haven't used Windows at work since 2001, and haven't used Windows at home since 1998.
Besides, there's still the matter of application-level support, which is much more important. And even then, what we really need to get it adopted is IPv6-enabled websites and ISPs. I doubt a new version of Windows can help there.
Excellent point, I wasn't thinking about that when I wrote my OP. I was thinking that if Microsoft provides broad support of IPv6, that would spur on ISV's and developers to add support for it in their applications, kind of a trickle-down effect.
-Scott
Is it just me, or did they morph a woman holding a ferret into a classic "wardrobe malfunction" by using some cool filters?
Geez, I need to get a life.
-Scott
From TFA: Is that all? No. Among the other features Microsoft has publicly confirmed are: broad IPv6 support ...
Mind you, I am no fan of Microsoft, but I'm thinking that this can really help speed along the efforts to get IPv6 in widespread use.
It's a good thing, methinks.
-Scott
This wasn't too well received over at Macslash. There seemed to be some questions as to whether he was in violation of the ADC's NDA, so he took the page down: here
Good to see he brought it back up.
-Scott
Linus created Linux the OS and Kernel.
...yep... Linux as both my development box and the embedded OS target (both Geode and XScale processors). Linux is not "better" or "worse" running in either context.
Are you sure about that? My Linux (the kernel) history is a bit rusty, but I was under the impression that Linus only created the kernel. At the risk of overstating the obvious, Linux the operating system ("GNU/Linux" as it is sometimes referred to) is a compilation of the kernel and third party utilities.
The GUI was an ad-hoc solution built on X.
I'd hardly call it ad hoc; X11 with a window manager is anything but.
If you want to answer the question of whether or not Linux is better on desktop or embedded, you should probably ask the question, "On which can I distribute binaries?"
This statement is disingenuous. Being "better" on the desktop has nothing to do with the target platform.
I do embedded development, using
-Scott
All the images would be inverted. They'll need some kind of erection device... :-)
-scott
It does use adaptive optics. Have a peek at the tech section of the GMT site, here: http://www.gmto.org/tech_overview>
From the aforementioned link: The GMT secondary mirror is composed of seven thin adaptive shells, with each segment mapping to a single primary mirror segment. The adaptive secondary will provide diffraction-limited performance over modest fields of view and ground-layer adaptive optics over a field of ten to twenty arcminutes in diameter.
-scott
We're talking optical, not radio. Arecibo is more like an giant antenna than a light gathering device, no?
-scott