Well, HURD is about to reach V1.0... in the meantime, Linus wrote some other OS:
=== From: torva...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT
[...] I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix. [...] ===
from looking at the european map, it seems like, that most red parts are over rivers (Thames, Rhine, Po). Is that a coincidence (most cities where founded near rivers) or has it a direct reason with water ?
maybe it isn't one of these things I (being a german) don't understand about american moral. I'd rather have my children watch a naked person, which is completly "natural" than having them seeing a movie about many people being murdered ( Talking about the movie "Basic", there are several scenes, where people are being shot, IIRC some even in slow motion)
of course MS tried to kill java, because a alternate gui, networkable, etc. would be a direct thread to them. Who needs windows, if you can run most of you apps on any OS
sure the GPS Signal can be jammed - after all its just a radio transmission - just as good/bad as the Galileo (PRS) system.
The GPS uses two frequencies one for civilian use one for military uses, the first one artificially not as precise, the military signal encrypted.So when the DoD would decide to jam the civilian signal it won't affect the military part of the system.
When the Galileo consortium were designing the system, they decided to use the same frequency as the military GPS. If the US would, for any reason, decide to jam the PRS, at the same time they would affect they own system. A actual simple sollution for protecting this system agains any, well lets say mischance;-)
But as GPS is still the NATO standard there are still needs for the possibility to keep enemies from using any satelite positioning system. After all Galileo is not ment to be a military system, but can of course be misused in this sense.So what to do if there is a NATO "deployment" and you want to keep your enemy from hitting your troops while still having the ability to use modern warfare (smart bombs etc.) ?
as many have already pointed out, this is not a new idea. Here in Germany the Telekom (former govment owned) has used this since years. When the first phone books and yellow pages on CD appeared, many other companies came up with the idea to reverse engineer the data and do their own. To prevent other companies from stealing these data they had several fake entries, that were only on these CDs. The other companies had first to scan and OCR the paper books and since a few years the government forced the Telekom to sell these data.
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Fantastic! :-( And what does it say about all these war and killing games that are out there ?
Well, HURD is about to reach V1.0 ... in the meantime, Linus wrote some other OS:
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From: torva...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT
Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT
[...]
I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be
out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got
minix.
[...]
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http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.os.min
from looking at the european map, it seems like, that most red parts are over rivers (Thames, Rhine, Po). Is that a coincidence (most cities where founded near rivers) or has it a direct reason with water ?
http://epi.infodb.de/212.61.68.34/rebels/hl2/
congratulations to SuSE!
A whole new meaning of *Open*SSH
I setup a mirror in germany at: http://www.infodb.de/linux-egypt.manalaa.net/files /big10/
maybe it isn't one of these things I (being a german) don't understand about american moral.
I'd rather have my children watch a naked person, which is completly "natural" than having them seeing a movie about many people being murdered ( Talking about the movie "Basic", there are several scenes, where people are being shot, IIRC some even in slow motion)
one day my boss came into my office:
... " (I mean that's a bad[tm] question)
..."
"do you know XML ?"
"uhmm
"there ist $BIGBIGCOMPANY we are working with are having problems with this XML software"
"hmmm
"needs to be done by this weekend" (hell, it was thursday!)
"No, don't know anything about XML...." (this was lying, but it sounded really, really dangerous)
next week I read on a newsticker: $BIGBIGCOMPANY fucked up a 1/2 billion project... failing XML-based software
of course MS tried to kill java, because a alternate gui, networkable, etc. would be a direct thread to them.
Who needs windows, if you can run most of you apps on any OS
sure the GPS Signal can be jammed - after all its just a radio transmission - just as good/bad as the Galileo (PRS) system. ;-)
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The GPS uses two frequencies one for civilian use one for military uses, the first one artificially not as precise, the military signal encrypted.So when the DoD would decide to jam the civilian signal it won't affect the military part of the system.
When the Galileo consortium were designing the system, they decided to use the same frequency as the military GPS. If the US would, for any reason, decide to jam the PRS, at the same time they would affect they own system. A actual simple sollution for protecting this system agains any, well lets say mischance
But as GPS is still the NATO standard there are still needs for the possibility to keep enemies from using any satelite positioning system. After all Galileo is not ment to be a military system, but can of course be misused in this sense.So what to do if there is a NATO "deployment" and you want to keep your enemy from hitting your troops while still having the ability to use modern warfare (smart bombs etc.) ?
Hope this brings some sense into this topic.
Thomas
more info: http://www.useu.be/Galileo/June1902NATOBellGalile
as many have already pointed out, this is not a new idea.
Here in Germany the Telekom (former govment owned) has used this since years.
When the first phone books and yellow pages on CD appeared, many other companies came up with the idea to reverse engineer the data and do their own.
To prevent other companies from stealing these data they had several fake entries, that were only on these CDs.
The other companies had first to scan and OCR the paper books and since a few years the government forced the Telekom to sell these data.