The pilot's name was Tupolev, son of the Tupolev who started the OKB of the same name in the Soviet Union. Reportedly, his flight was a success, but he came down in Central China instead. The Chinese held him for a year and held onto the capsule. Tupolev was returned, but I don't know about the capsule. Korolev was ordered to deny any knowledge of the flight.
Gagarin was picked a month later and completed his flight successfully, landing in Central Siberia.
If the airforce gets the bugs worked out, and can deliver the actual vehicle, NASA will probably find or be given the budget to procure a few of these. I don't know if anyone remembers, but the shuttle Atlantis gets used on a regular basis by the Airforce on secret missions.
Just to confuse the issue, there is another all but confirmed triangular craft -- http://www.abovetopsecret.com/a17.html -- the A-17. Another very good page was at http://www.aliensonearth.com/archive_/place/uk/bos combe/ [take the site name with a grain of salt]. It was spotted at RAF Boscombe Down in the UK after a nosewheel mishap. There are apparaently a few C-21 [learjet] military craft that were associated with F-117's that showed up at Boscombe Down the day after the incident. The A-17 I can believe. I don't know about the Aurora.
Victor Belenko reported that the MiG 25 that reached mach 3 had to have the replaced after the flight. They pushed it well past it's design tolerances.
OS X is becoming more Windows-like. Look at disk navigation: The shelf. This feature is the kind of shit Mac uers flung at Windows users. It's cluttered! What are all these comfusing buttons?! It's that web-integration crap!
The apple menu is becoming a place to launch apps from and to access documents. Holy shit, if that doesn't sound like the Start menu.
Yeah, OSX is very pretty, and so is Win XP. You know what? I turn that shit off on my work system. Don't need it. Don't need eye candy. I need somehting that works. The way my Mac and my XP system are setup works just fine for me.
Thelonius was quite real, I assure you. He managed to rescue some older Greek texts that became the Apocrypha [chapters that didn't make it into the Bible] of Biblical fame. Nice fellow too.
According to the information I've seen, the starships of the period looked much like the Daedalus-class http://www.culttvman.com/jbhorizon.html. Eh, please no.
Anyway, this does have potential, not the least of which is the first contact with the Klingons and the Romulans. There are no transporters and primitive phaser technology; generally gritty.
As long as they don't call for a ten-year old boy or cute robot as comic relief, I'll watch.
Plus, there is a very evil problem with the Geforce 2 MX. If you have an Asus A7V mobo, don't buy this card. I can't do anything OpenGL or DirectX without it freezing the system completely.
I specifically have the cursed configuration: A7V, 1 Gig Athlon, Creative SB Live! It seems that the raid version of the Asus socket A works fine. I'm going to try updating the bios to the latest version listed, otherwise I return it.:(
There really ought to be a desktop standard that all desktop environments can provide. It doesn't mean that KDE, Gnome, or anyone else give up their respective projects.
If the winning of hearts and minds is important, then Joe or Jill Consumer should be able to pick the "Standard" desktop [or either KDE or Gnome if not] from any distro, and see exactly the same thing.
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I use Juno maybe 3 hours a week. I've whacked any ActiveX control, any service, and any process I don't recognize. I hibernate the machine 'cause I'm on dialup. There's no reason to keep it running [I do my surfing at work; where'd you think this post is coming from?] Nothing's happened so far.
If anything, I receive messages now and then that my usage pattern is just fine and dandy with them, and there are Stygian tortures awaiting those that abuse the service. I think these people will be getting the extra features.
I have a friend with a Powerbook, don't have any details other than it's about a year old. He installed OSX, which then placed OS9 into it's own subfolder. When he uses a non-carbonized app, it brings up a full copy of OS9 to run it. memory and CPU usage go through the roof, and he can't run more than one app at once.
I'd hope that Apple solves this problem before they release OSX, or that the app designers offer a swap or low-cost program to replace non-carbon apps. I'd be willing to bet that the legacy apps are going to face the same problems on PS hardware if they can be installed at all.
I wouldn't mind seeing Apple get some 2 Ghz AMD love, though.
It sounds like the prevalent view is that Pluto and Charon are Kuiper belt objects, but Pluto will keep it's status as a planet (per previous post, See http://www.iau.org/PlutoPR.html).
Pluto has been called the King of the Kuiper belt, and with good reason. It's by far the largest KBO at 1140 miles. It seems that none of the twenty or so KBO's discovered so far have been larger. That's not to say that anything larger won't be found.
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/garyb/WWW/K BO / describes what could be the edge of the solar system proper just outside of the orbit of Pluto. It seems that Pluto survived the material sweep earlier in the solar system's history.
I think it's desgination should stay planetary for historical reasons. Pluto is a place, a destination in many people's minds; mine included. I hope that the Pluto/Kuiper Express project will get underway again, and soon.
The regsrv/regedit hack noted above will probably work. Microsoft will make a half-assed effort to protest against that information being spread. It all boils down to a post [can't remember who] sent in a week ago: Does MS want pirated copies of Whistler or free copies of Linux?
Also, don't forget this: System Properties > Advanced > Error Reporting > Disable Error Reporting. Those reports will go directly to MS. There isn't any privacy-infringing info sent, honest. No really. Trust MS.
Win2000 is the only MS OS I would recommend to anyone. I almost wanted the above mentioned hack to not get out, so that people would use Win2000 or Linux instead, and let Whistler die on the desktop vine. Windows 2000 was the best of Win98 and NT4, Whistler is Win2000 with all the cruft of WinMill.
I don't even want to see Blackcomb. This is not my house! This is not my beautiful OS! Where is my large automobile?!
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
(More leisure for artists everywhere)
--IGY, Donald Fagen
A detailed Sim-Earth game is all fine and well, but then you have to make the ape-creatures stare at the monolith long enough for them to figure out how to bash the pecaries' brains out with thigh bones. Fnord.
MS creates the Win32 environment on Linux, then releases MS-Linux. It's not available for a download, but can be purchased for $149 and $499 respectively, and you get the source code. You have to have a license for each copy. All this is within the bouncds of the GPL.
The first drafts of The Star Wars from ~1974 mention quite a bit about "aura spice". The reference still sneaks past in SW:ANH, when Ben Kenobi tells Luke that his father wasn't a captain on a spice freighter, but a Jedi. In the original drafts spice was pretty important too; enhanced psionic power, life, etc.
"Can you help me come up with opinions/facts/experiences why exchange sucks as an enterprise e-mail solution versus a nice solid Unix solution to present to management?"
Because we can't keep the fuckers up and running here at Microsoft more than a fucking day. Sorry. Got some strong feelings on that subject.
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The pilot's name was Tupolev, son of the Tupolev who started the OKB of the same name in the Soviet Union. Reportedly, his flight was a success, but he came down in Central China instead. The Chinese held him for a year and held onto the capsule. Tupolev was returned, but I don't know about the capsule. Korolev was ordered to deny any knowledge of the flight.
Gagarin was picked a month later and completed his flight successfully, landing in Central Siberia.
If the airforce gets the bugs worked out, and can deliver the actual vehicle, NASA will probably find or be given the budget to procure a few of these. I don't know if anyone remembers, but the shuttle Atlantis gets used on a regular basis by the Airforce on secret missions.
Just to confuse the issue, there is another all but confirmed triangular craft -- http://www.abovetopsecret.com/a17.html -- the A-17. Another very good page was at http://www.aliensonearth.com/archive_/place/uk/bos combe/ [take the site name with a grain of salt]. It was spotted at RAF Boscombe Down in the UK after a nosewheel mishap. There are apparaently a few C-21 [learjet] military craft that were associated with F-117's that showed up at Boscombe Down the day after the incident. The A-17 I can believe. I don't know about the Aurora.
had to have the *engine* replaced after the flight. Damnit!
Victor Belenko reported that the MiG 25 that reached mach 3 had to have the replaced after the flight. They pushed it well past it's design tolerances.
OS X is becoming more Windows-like. Look at disk navigation: The shelf. This feature is the kind of shit Mac uers flung at Windows users. It's cluttered! What are all these comfusing buttons?! It's that web-integration crap!
The apple menu is becoming a place to launch apps from and to access documents. Holy shit, if that doesn't sound like the Start menu.
Yeah, OSX is very pretty, and so is Win XP. You know what? I turn that shit off on my work system. Don't need it. Don't need eye candy. I need somehting that works. The way my Mac and my XP system are setup works just fine for me.
Thelonius was quite real, I assure you. He managed to rescue some older Greek texts that became the Apocrypha [chapters that didn't make it into the Bible] of Biblical fame. Nice fellow too.
According to the information I've seen, the starships of the period looked much like the Daedalus-class http://www.culttvman.com/jbhorizon.html. Eh, please no. Anyway, this does have potential, not the least of which is the first contact with the Klingons and the Romulans. There are no transporters and primitive phaser technology; generally gritty. As long as they don't call for a ten-year old boy or cute robot as comic relief, I'll watch.
Plus, there is a very evil problem with the Geforce 2 MX. If you have an Asus A7V mobo, don't buy this card. I can't do anything OpenGL or DirectX without it freezing the system completely.
I specifically have the cursed configuration: A7V, 1 Gig Athlon, Creative SB Live! It seems that the raid version of the Asus socket A works fine. I'm going to try updating the bios to the latest version listed, otherwise I return it.:(
Thanks to tomsharware.com
There's a big 'ol Bluefin floppin' on the deck named jjsjeff. Trolling does work!:)
There really ought to be a desktop standard that all desktop environments can provide. It doesn't mean that KDE, Gnome, or anyone else give up their respective projects.
If the winning of hearts and minds is important, then Joe or Jill Consumer should be able to pick the "Standard" desktop [or either KDE or Gnome if not] from any distro, and see exactly the same thing.
Whine, Whine, Wine -- [hint, hint, wink, nudge, nudge, grin, grin, wink, wink]
I use Juno maybe 3 hours a week. I've whacked any ActiveX control, any service, and any process I don't recognize. I hibernate the machine 'cause I'm on dialup. There's no reason to keep it running [I do my surfing at work; where'd you think this post is coming from?] Nothing's happened so far.
If anything, I receive messages now and then that my usage pattern is just fine and dandy with them, and there are Stygian tortures awaiting those that abuse the service. I think these people will be getting the extra features.
Not worried about Microsfot; I work for them.
I have a friend with a Powerbook, don't have any details other than it's about a year old. He installed OSX, which then placed OS9 into it's own subfolder. When he uses a non-carbonized app, it brings up a full copy of OS9 to run it. memory and CPU usage go through the roof, and he can't run more than one app at once.
I'd hope that Apple solves this problem before they release OSX, or that the app designers offer a swap or low-cost program to replace non-carbon apps. I'd be willing to bet that the legacy apps are going to face the same problems on PS hardware if they can be installed at all.
I wouldn't mind seeing Apple get some 2 Ghz AMD love, though.
It sounds like the prevalent view is that Pluto and Charon are Kuiper belt objects, but Pluto will keep it's status as a planet (per previous post, See http://www.iau.org/PlutoPR.html).
K BO / describes what could be the edge of the solar system proper just outside of the orbit of Pluto. It seems that Pluto survived the material sweep earlier in the solar system's history.
Pluto has been called the King of the Kuiper belt, and with good reason. It's by far the largest KBO at 1140 miles. It seems that none of the twenty or so KBO's discovered so far have been larger. That's not to say that anything larger won't be found.
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/garyb/WWW/
I think it's desgination should stay planetary for historical reasons. Pluto is a place, a destination in many people's minds; mine included. I hope that the Pluto/Kuiper Express project will get underway again, and soon.
Yeah, this is amazingly funny. Everyone is calling in saying that it's down, but we can't do a damn thing about it bacause it's an external site.
The regsrv/regedit hack noted above will probably work. Microsoft will make a half-assed effort to protest against that information being spread. It all boils down to a post [can't remember who] sent in a week ago: Does MS want pirated copies of Whistler or free copies of Linux? Also, don't forget this: System Properties > Advanced > Error Reporting > Disable Error Reporting. Those reports will go directly to MS. There isn't any privacy-infringing info sent, honest. No really. Trust MS. Win2000 is the only MS OS I would recommend to anyone. I almost wanted the above mentioned hack to not get out, so that people would use Win2000 or Linux instead, and let Whistler die on the desktop vine. Windows 2000 was the best of Win98 and NT4, Whistler is Win2000 with all the cruft of WinMill. I don't even want to see Blackcomb. This is not my house! This is not my beautiful OS! Where is my large automobile?!
On that train all graphite and glitter Undersea by rail Ninety minutes from New York to Paris (More leisure for artists everywhere) --IGY, Donald Fagen
A detailed Sim-Earth game is all fine and well, but then you have to make the ape-creatures stare at the monolith long enough for them to figure out how to bash the pecaries' brains out with thigh bones. Fnord.
MS creates the Win32 environment on Linux, then releases MS-Linux. It's not available for a download, but can be purchased for $149 and $499 respectively, and you get the source code. You have to have a license for each copy. All this is within the bouncds of the GPL.
The best solution is not to use this crap in the first place. Loser-"I think my mail server is down". Me-"It's Exchange 2000; I think you're right."
Fah!
I'm becoming more and more convinced [and rightly so] that whetever client you want is fine, but the server had better not be NT.
The first drafts of The Star Wars from ~1974 mention quite a bit about "aura spice". The reference still sneaks past in SW:ANH, when Ben Kenobi tells Luke that his father wasn't a captain on a spice freighter, but a Jedi. In the original drafts spice was pretty important too; enhanced psionic power, life, etc.
Lest we forget the NIN cd 'fixed'. It had 99 tracks. I reburned a copy minus the zero-length tracks to save my sanity.
"Can you help me come up with opinions/facts/experiences why exchange sucks as an enterprise e-mail solution versus a nice solid Unix solution to present to management?"
Because we can't keep the fuckers up and running here at Microsoft more than a fucking day. Sorry. Got some strong feelings on that subject.