hrmm they're planning on cutting budgets that projects have planned on and budgetted against. one of the problems that i've noticed at labs i work at ( jhuapl) is that in order to get grant money / projects from nasa, you must underbid the next guy. while the underbids are usually reasonable it's hard to plan out ahead for a long term project. new technologies will definantly emerge during the life of the project, and the project teams may very well develop some of these. but with new toys comes a higher price, yet you are held to the price that you quoted. what do you do then?
now that there stands a chance of a smaller budget for messenger (the satellite to mercury) or the possiable cancelation of the project, i wonder how lean it will start to get around here.
explain jpl or apl then. both are parts of educational institiutions that are a part of every step of a project life. i can take a 10 minute walk from my desk over to our fabrication lab where the 'timed' satellite is being built. yes some of the work may be contracted out, but that's only in an effort to cut costs. why pay an in house person $100+ an hour (they only make 1/4th of that... the rest is overhead,ect) to fabricate a part when some other company already makes it.)
a dvd has the capacity of 2-4 gigs right? i'm guessing that not too many people are going to have their entire collection of dvds sitting on their harddrive. anyone have any status about www.linuxtv.org ?
we've got a 8 node 1 master test cluster that is in a 43" [ i think ] high x 19" rack. compared to a irix challenge [ think fridge ] or any of the other racks we have, our beowulf is just a tiny little beast.
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hrm, it's not gpl.. and it is rather confusing. will they have to provide the source to the changes that they made or just point to where to get a real version of perl? [point 3-a, 3-c in the license.]
i know that you don't just like slackware because you can set up your partitions anyway that you want. it's not like this is a special feature that just slackware has. yes maybe va research only sells redhat, but how much time and money do they put back into the community? actually let me rephrase that... how much more -constructive- time and money do they put back into the community.
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hrmm they're planning on cutting budgets that projects have planned on and budgetted against. one of the problems that i've noticed at labs i work at ( jhuapl) is that in order to get grant money / projects from nasa, you must underbid the next guy. while the underbids are usually reasonable it's hard to plan out ahead for a long term project. new technologies will definantly emerge during the life of the project, and the project teams may very well develop some of these. but with new toys comes a higher price, yet you are held to the price that you quoted. what do you do then?
now that there stands a chance of a smaller budget for messenger (the satellite to mercury) or the possiable cancelation of the project, i wonder how lean it will start to get around here.
explain jpl or apl then. both are parts of educational institiutions that are a part of every step of a project life. i can take a 10 minute walk from my desk over to our fabrication lab where the 'timed' satellite is being built. yes some of the work may be contracted out, but that's only in an effort to cut costs. why pay an in house person $100+ an hour (they only make 1/4th of that... the rest is overhead,ect) to fabricate a part when some other company already makes it.)
a dvd has the capacity of 2-4 gigs right?
i'm guessing that not too many people are going to
have their entire collection of dvds sitting on
their harddrive. anyone have any status about
www.linuxtv.org ?
wrong, these 2 latest projects were selected from
a lot of other projects by nasa. each one has a generous budget to keep it going.
i work at jhuapl ( johns hopkins applied physics lab ) and we're the one behind the messenger project. everyone here was pretty excited that we got the project. we had another project ( aladin ) which was almost like the comet harpooning ( we were going to collect samples from one of mar's moons ), but that one didn't get selected.
we've got a 8 node 1 master test cluster that is in a 43" [ i think ] high x 19" rack. compared to a irix challenge [ think fridge ] or any of the other racks we have, our beowulf is just a tiny little beast.
uhmm it is a subset of gpl or so i believe..
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hrm, it's not gpl.. and it is rather confusing. will they have to provide the source to the changes that they made or just point to where to get a real version of perl? [point 3-a, 3-c in the license.]
i know that you don't just like slackware because you can set up your partitions anyway that you want. it's not like this is a special feature that just slackware has. yes maybe va research only sells redhat, but how much time and money do they put back into the community? actually let me rephrase that... how much more -constructive- time and money do they put back into the community.