By the way, a widely accepted shorthand for "billions and billions" is "sagans" (hopefully no explanation is required). Just wanted to put in a plug for that...
I am guessing that the reason CNN is not reporting the impending rentry of rocks and failed boosters is, well, because we don't know about them ahead of time. Just a guess on my part, though.
Many people probably have the idea that boosters and upper stages are massive chunks of heavy metal. After all, that word "boosters" just sounds solid. Instead they are extremely flimsy and lightweight, with much of their strength derived from pressurization. Kind of like how stiff a hose gets when it is pressurized. Once in orbit, boosters and fuel will not survive reentry.
Warning? The word "warning" implies there is something you can do, if only you know. But what are you going to do about a satellite that is scheduled to fall somewhere on Earth, sometime around Jan 30 or 31? Perhaps a little vacation to the moon or Mars?
Huh? I've been using Mozilla for almost a year now. In that time, it has crashed maybe 3 or 4 times. And I really can't remember the last time, but it has been awhile.
Yep, someone mod that one up! That is of course the key. Who cares how long or how much horsepower it takes to compress the data. As long as it can be decompressed quickly. Almost always decompression takes much less time than compression.
I recently compressed a 20MB file with a lot of repetition using bzip2, and it compressed down to about 80KB! (Okay, there was a LOT of repetition) But I also had time to go out and make a fresh pot of coffee and enjoy it at an easy pace before the compression completed, and this on a 1G Athlon. But decompressing it took mere seconds.
I used Solaris X86 quite a lot when I worked at NASA a few years ago. We had lots of Sparcs around, but getting a purchase of a Sparc approved was a lot more of a hassle than a PC. Many people there, including me, bought PCs and installed Solaris. It worked superbly, and I had high hopes for it at the time. If it really does die, I for one will be sad to see it go.
Another project that I recently subcontracted on and was shipped last week also operates on Solaris X86 (chosen by them, not me), but all of it will also operate on Linux if it comes to that (which it sounds like may come to pass).
I seem to remember in the old days, on large (dinner plate sized) drives used on mainframes, that kind of thing was indeed done. But IDE drives for the consumer market are now a commodity, with ruthless pricing. Cutting the cost down to the obsolute minimum is essential, and I doubt any time soon that additional heads (and the accompaning drive mechanism) will be added solely to cut down access time.
This is, in my opinion, one of the areas that will continue to limit the ability of Linux to be used on the desktop. The printing process is simple and flexible for a hacker, if it is a supported printer, but fails the mom test miserably.
What is really needed is an organization with some clout to get behind an API that can be integrated into applications, with a standard, integrated menu selected printer control. Just like the Macs have had for 17 years and Windoze has had for 10? years. There have been a couple of attempts in this direction, which seem to have mostly fizzled. That is why heavyweight clout will be required to make such a thing work.
CUPS is an improvement and a little easier to use for the printer driver installation and setup. But this does not address the user interface. This is something that perhaps Redhat, on the Gnome side, and perhaps some other organization on the KDE side, should have handled years ago. I think this is far more important than having a Gnome/KDE office suite.
The fundamentals should be the first priority, and in an office, printing is absolutely fundamental and critical. A big enough busines can perhaps afford to hire a Linux guru to set up printing, but that should not be required and will remain a roadblock. In fairness, Windoze printer installation and setup is often no picnic either, but that is no excuse for Linux being so lame in this area.
I think an IANAL disclaimer was called for here. IANAL, but I am pretty sure statements made in public can be used against you in court. The prosecutor just has to be able to prove that you made the statements. Not too hard if made on television.
Tsk, tsk, you're re-painting history. I am accustomed to hearing claims like this from people who have only been exposed to Microsoft products. But on Slashdot?
I doubt that the the Cyberporn story caused the big increase in SNR. I really think that both the story and the SNR were just symptoms of the same problem. This was a period of dramatic increase in newbie usage of the the web, and some exploited that and some were victimized.
Sounds like the press did something to try to fix their problem. Unfortunately, fixing the SNR is going to be much more difficult.
I use Linux to run an engineering business. Sorry RMS, but that means lot's of expensive software ($24K for just one program). There simply are no free as in beer alternatives, and likely never will be.
I did not choose Linux because it is free (and after all I went to Fry's and purchased a distro). Linux it is an excellent platform for engineering, and seems to be quickly gaining popularity in this field. And the reason of course is that, next to games, engineering tools really push raw processing horsepower to the limit. And using Linux allows us to keep up with the latest and fastest processors, without breaking the bank on high end Sparcs.
Having seen a couple of rocket launches from Vanderburg Air Force Base from Los Angeles (about 200 miles away), my guess would be that what was reported as an odd flight path might have been a smoke trail high in the atmosphere.
When the rockets launch around sunset, the low angle of the sunlight can really light the trails up spectacularly. And what happens is that the different wind speeds and directions at different levels in the atmosphere twist the trail into amazing shapes. After one launch, I walked around the Marina here and encountered many people who were staring at the display (long after the rocket was gone) and had no idea what it was. Some of them even thought that they were looking at a some sort of UFO generated affect!
Because VMware is a resource hog, performance is mediocre at best, and it requires that you purchase Windoze. Wine has much better performance and does not require Windoze, but will never be able to match the level of compatibility VMware because of that. I only use VMware for things that I cannot do in Wine, such as running software that uses flexlm.
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Absolutely. I'm an nedit [nedit.org] user...
Cool! My already high opinion of Gerv has increased significantly:-) Really, nedit is just so cool. I mostly use it to write VHDL code.
Except that it is not censorship. The purpose of the blocklist is to put market pressure on ISPs to clean up their act, and stop supporting spammers. Teleglobe is not being stupid. They are trying to protect their network from being buried under spam, and in my opinion they are fully justified in their actions. Not every case of blocking access is "censorship". I for one am sick and tired of stupid spamware providers.
Unfortunately, the spam problem is getting out of control. And as long as there are no effective legislative restrictions, I absolutely do support this type of, admittedly, draconian measures. I only wish more ISPs had the guts to do what Teleglobe is doing.
Supposedly, my ISP, Pacbell, has started to use SPEWS (an alternative to MAPS) to block email. If they starting blocking all traffic with sites listed in SPEWs, I would be thrilled. I would gladly "deal with it" in exchange for that kind of a 2x4 upside the heads of the spammers. Yes, it causes collateral damage, but for now, collateral damage is just about the only effective tool available.
Wine has improved dramatically in the last six months. Might be worth a new try. It now includes compile installation scripts, or just get CodeWeavers Wine, which many people seem to find easy to use (haven't tried it myself).
As for DLLs, Wine simply has not completed implementing all the DLLs, and not all of them are perfectly implemented. That is why Wine is still considered alpha software. But the DLL situation is much better today than six months ago. And it continues to improve daily.
By the way, Codeweavers also has an application database which indicates success and/or failure that many people have had installing various apps under Wine, both with and without Windows.
I am sure that the main reason most people don't switch to Linux is the perceived lack of games on that platform.
In my experience, most people have yet to hear of Linux. And those that do think it is some kind of geek thing. Oh, wait... it is. While dramatically easier to use lately, I still don't think Linux is ready for the average Winblows user.
I think the idea of a wine-based distro is pretty cool. A vmware based distro would be even better.
Wine does not require Windows, and does not use a "virtual machine". VMware does both, and in my experience performance is significantly impacted because of it. The big advantage of VMWare is the excellent compatibility with almost any Windoze app.
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Or even turned off permanently in Mozilla. I have never actually seen one of these famous X10 ads.
// Stop pop ups
user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.open ", "noAccess");
Or if you are using Linux, then you can go to Codeweavers and get the Crossover Plugin (which comes with Quicktime 5). Not free, but it is cheap. It works great with Linux and Netscape for me on the Apple movie trailers; the chemistry movies appear to be/.ed.
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Wine is not GPL. It is under an X11 style license, and the license specifically allows the license to be changed.
By the way, a widely accepted shorthand for "billions and billions" is "sagans" (hopefully no explanation is required). Just wanted to put in a plug for that...
I am guessing that the reason CNN is not reporting the impending rentry of rocks and failed boosters is, well, because we don't know about them ahead of time. Just a guess on my part, though.
Many people probably have the idea that boosters and upper stages are massive chunks of heavy metal. After all, that word "boosters" just sounds solid. Instead they are extremely flimsy and lightweight, with much of their strength derived from pressurization. Kind of like how stiff a hose gets when it is pressurized. Once in orbit, boosters and fuel will not survive reentry.
Warning? The word "warning" implies there is something you can do, if only you know. But what are you going to do about a satellite that is scheduled to fall somewhere on Earth, sometime around Jan 30 or 31? Perhaps a little vacation to the moon or Mars?
Huh? I've been using Mozilla for almost a year now. In that time, it has crashed maybe 3 or 4 times. And I really can't remember the last time, but it has been awhile.
Yep, someone mod that one up! That is of course the key. Who cares how long or how much horsepower it takes to compress the data. As long as it can be decompressed quickly. Almost always decompression takes much less time than compression.
I recently compressed a 20MB file with a lot of repetition using bzip2, and it compressed down to about 80KB! (Okay, there was a LOT of repetition) But I also had time to go out and make a fresh pot of coffee and enjoy it at an easy pace before the compression completed, and this on a 1G Athlon. But decompressing it took mere seconds.
I used Solaris X86 quite a lot when I worked at NASA a few years ago. We had lots of Sparcs around, but getting a purchase of a Sparc approved was a lot more of a hassle than a PC. Many people there, including me, bought PCs and installed Solaris. It worked superbly, and I had high hopes for it at the time. If it really does die, I for one will be sad to see it go.
Another project that I recently subcontracted on and was shipped last week also operates on Solaris X86 (chosen by them, not me), but all of it will also operate on Linux if it comes to that (which it sounds like may come to pass).
I seem to remember in the old days, on large (dinner plate sized) drives used on mainframes, that kind of thing was indeed done. But IDE drives for the consumer market are now a commodity, with ruthless pricing. Cutting the cost down to the obsolute minimum is essential, and I doubt any time soon that additional heads (and the accompaning drive mechanism) will be added solely to cut down access time.
This is, in my opinion, one of the areas that will continue to limit the ability of Linux to be used on the desktop. The printing process is simple and flexible for a hacker, if it is a supported printer, but fails the mom test miserably.
What is really needed is an organization with some clout to get behind an API that can be integrated into applications, with a standard, integrated menu selected printer control. Just like the Macs have had for 17 years and Windoze has had for 10? years. There have been a couple of attempts in this direction, which seem to have mostly fizzled. That is why heavyweight clout will be required to make such a thing work.
CUPS is an improvement and a little easier to use for the printer driver installation and setup. But this does not address the user interface. This is something that perhaps Redhat, on the Gnome side, and perhaps some other organization on the KDE side, should have handled years ago. I think this is far more important than having a Gnome/KDE office suite.
The fundamentals should be the first priority, and in an office, printing is absolutely fundamental and critical. A big enough busines can perhaps afford to hire a Linux guru to set up printing, but that should not be required and will remain a roadblock. In fairness, Windoze printer installation and setup is often no picnic either, but that is no excuse for Linux being so lame in this area.
I think an IANAL disclaimer was called for here. IANAL, but I am pretty sure statements made in public can be used against you in court. The prosecutor just has to be able to prove that you made the statements. Not too hard if made on television.
Tsk, tsk, you're re-painting history. I am accustomed to hearing claims like this from people who have only been exposed to Microsoft products. But on Slashdot?
A likely troll.
I doubt that the the Cyberporn story caused the big increase in SNR. I really think that both the story and the SNR were just symptoms of the same problem. This was a period of dramatic increase in newbie usage of the the web, and some exploited that and some were victimized.
Sounds like the press did something to try to fix their problem. Unfortunately, fixing the SNR is going to be much more difficult.
Umm... what makes you think they don't already have it, with Microsoft's cooperation, of course.
No, Alan Cox is not pro non-disclosure.
Wow, had to read that a couple times to figure it out.
But it does seem to have been an unintended side affect...
Somehow, I don't think that was an unintended side affect. Even though he may not say it, this looks to me like ACs way of protesting the DMCA.
I use Linux to run an engineering business. Sorry RMS, but that means lot's of expensive software ($24K for just one program). There simply are no free as in beer alternatives, and likely never will be.
I did not choose Linux because it is free (and after all I went to Fry's and purchased a distro). Linux it is an excellent platform for engineering, and seems to be quickly gaining popularity in this field. And the reason of course is that, next to games, engineering tools really push raw processing horsepower to the limit. And using Linux allows us to keep up with the latest and fastest processors, without breaking the bank on high end Sparcs.
Having seen a couple of rocket launches from Vanderburg Air Force Base from Los Angeles (about 200 miles away), my guess would be that what was reported as an odd flight path might have been a smoke trail high in the atmosphere.
When the rockets launch around sunset, the low angle of the sunlight can really light the trails up spectacularly. And what happens is that the different wind speeds and directions at different levels in the atmosphere twist the trail into amazing shapes. After one launch, I walked around the Marina here and encountered many people who were staring at the display (long after the rocket was gone) and had no idea what it was. Some of them even thought that they were looking at a some sort of UFO generated affect!
Because VMware is a resource hog, performance is mediocre at best, and it requires that you purchase Windoze. Wine has much better performance and does not require Windoze, but will never be able to match the level of compatibility VMware because of that. I only use VMware for things that I cannot do in Wine, such as running software that uses flexlm.
Absolutely. I'm an nedit [nedit.org] user...
Cool! My already high opinion of Gerv has increased significantly :-) Really, nedit is just so cool. I mostly use it to write VHDL code.
Except that it is not censorship. The purpose of the blocklist is to put market pressure on ISPs to clean up their act, and stop supporting spammers. Teleglobe is not being stupid. They are trying to protect their network from being buried under spam, and in my opinion they are fully justified in their actions. Not every case of blocking access is "censorship". I for one am sick and tired of stupid spamware providers.
Unfortunately, the spam problem is getting out of control. And as long as there are no effective legislative restrictions, I absolutely do support this type of, admittedly, draconian measures. I only wish more ISPs had the guts to do what Teleglobe is doing.
Supposedly, my ISP, Pacbell, has started to use SPEWS (an alternative to MAPS) to block email. If they starting blocking all traffic with sites listed in SPEWs, I would be thrilled. I would gladly "deal with it" in exchange for that kind of a 2x4 upside the heads of the spammers. Yes, it causes collateral damage, but for now, collateral damage is just about the only effective tool available.
Wine has improved dramatically in the last six months. Might be worth a new try. It now includes compile installation scripts, or just get CodeWeavers Wine, which many people seem to find easy to use (haven't tried it myself).
As for DLLs, Wine simply has not completed implementing all the DLLs, and not all of them are perfectly implemented. That is why Wine is still considered alpha software. But the DLL situation is much better today than six months ago. And it continues to improve daily.
By the way, Codeweavers also has an application database which indicates success and/or failure that many people have had installing various apps under Wine, both with and without Windows.
I am sure that the main reason most people don't switch to Linux is the perceived lack of games on that platform.
In my experience, most people have yet to hear of Linux. And those that do think it is some kind of geek thing. Oh, wait... it is. While dramatically easier to use lately, I still don't think Linux is ready for the average Winblows user.
I think the idea of a wine-based distro is pretty cool. A vmware based distro would be even better.
Wine does not require Windows, and does not use a "virtual machine". VMware does both, and in my experience performance is significantly impacted because of it. The big advantage of VMWare is the excellent compatibility with almost any Windoze app.
Or even turned off permanently in Mozilla. I have never actually seen one of these famous X10 ads.
n ", "noAccess");
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user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.ope
On that thread, here are some more entertaining stories (warning, pop ups) involving amateurs, explosives, and unintended consequences.
Or if you are using Linux, then you can go to Codeweavers and get the Crossover Plugin (which comes with Quicktime 5). Not free, but it is cheap. It works great with Linux and Netscape for me on the Apple movie trailers; the chemistry movies appear to be /.ed.