I'm going to guess neither. (I was the Software Team leader for ASUSat through launch. Now I'm doing other things). Both JAWSAT and ASUSat were practically shaken to pieces on launch. As far as we could tell, the solar cell array was not feeding current to the batteries, so we running totally on our initial charge. ASUSat had 15 hours of operating time before we predict the batteries died (telemetry suggests that the battery volage was dropping according to standard Ni-Cad discharge curves). We last heard from the satellite 14 hours after launch and have officially declared it dead: Press Release
At last check, JAWSAT wasn't working too well or at all. It's a shame because JAWSAT had a camera that was taking pictures of the deployment of the other nanosatellites. That would have let us see what we looked like after launch so we could check for external damage. Not likely, I know, but it would be one less question.
There's more to hosting a project than providing an FTP server. Any place that plans to do it well will have to offer a mix of web-hosting, mailing list management, CVS service, FTP, and any other whiz-bang features they can think of.
The conspiracy theory presented by the Senator at the end of the movie Contact is that the extraterrestrial signals received are a product of Hadden Industries, the company funding the project. He claims that the whole thing is fake.
No, wait, don't give up yet! There are so many other grievances to fixate upon:
Rob posts stories about things other than Y, my pet topic.
Rob supports evil Nazi moderators that mark down informative posts about the homosexual tendencies of many well known people.
Rob prevents trolls from posting after several trolls from the same IP in a short time.
I say riot, my brothers and sister, riot! Leave this poor excuse for a communications medium and stick it to The Man (of whose conspiracy Rob has most assuredly become a part of). That will teach them to respect you. I hereby reinstate the boycott, but extend the duration for a week!
That's right, from Friday, January 28 @ 12:00PM EST to Friday, February 4, @ 12:00PM EST no one shall use Slashdot. Rob shall quiver at our might! Viva la revolucion! Viva la independencia!
Note: The needs of the revolution may dictate that we extend the boycott, perhaps indefinitely. Please do not return to Slashdot unless you receive a specially encoded email informing you that the boycott has succeeded. Such sacrifices are needed if we are to fix the evils of Slashdot!
Frankly, I don't want Microsoft to be broken into multiple companies because I don't see that accomplishing the main goal: Allowing competitors to interoperate with Microsoft products. We want well-documented API's and file formats.
Three companies can be just as non-cooperative as one company. Unless the DoJ is hoping that this threat will scare Microsoft into cutting them a deal.
I'm so sick of reading this oft-repeated pile of horse dung. I've been reading Slashdot for almost two years now, and the only word I can use to describe the change is not "better" or "worse", but "more": More authors, more stories posted each day, more readers, and more comments. Slashdot started out as Chips'n'Dips, a place for Rob's personal rants and thoughts, not unlike Mandrake.net or Alan Cox's Diary. Rob posted stories about things he liked. Slashdot had some whiz-bang Perl scripts to let users comment on his stories. I'm sure the immediate feedback got Rob as hooked on the site as it got the rest of us who read it. That was what Slashdot was about: cool nerdy stories about kernels and science and a place to talk about them. Slashdot wasn't about defense of free speech or anything that idealistic. It was about communicating a shared interest.
Rob happens to like the idea of free speech. Toward that end, he has avoided deleting posts as much as possible (though I'm sure some AC here can contradict me here with some unverifiable anecdote). I take as my evidence the sheer quantity of crap strewn about these comment pages. I know if I were Rob, I would be tempted to delete some of the lame troll posts that are clogging his database. But he doesn't, 'cause I can sit here and read them until I lose most of my faith in humanity.
In fact, I've spent the last month reading Slashdot at -1, and I can say that it has been a depressing experience. When moderation first appeared, I set my threshold at 2, then 1. Things were fairly normal. I wondered what things were like at -1 and I finally decided to take a look. My month-long sample has not convinced me that moderation is evil. A few decent AC posts got left in the dust, and few good posts got taken down. But a whole hoard of juvenile graffiti and basic idiocy got labeled as such.
But guess what:
You can still read it!
Yes, despite the fact that Andover owns Slashdot, you can still read every bit of text that someone felt was worthy of posting (including this rant). The moderators may be too stupid to pull out the comments you like to read, but they are still there. The rest of us are willing to sacrifice a few good posts to have time to read the many good posts the moderators do catch.
And finally: please stop repeating the hackneyed complaint about Rob having sold out to The Man. It's just as annoying as every other bit of "Slashdot wisdom" that gets repeated so many times that people forget it orignated from someone's rear end. Rob is human. Rob is lazy. Rob did not receive a brain transplant when Andover bought Slashdot. If you believe Slashdot isn't catering to your (and others who agree with you) need, blame it on Rob being too stupid or too lazy to implement a system that works. Those reasons are a lot more plausible than: "Andover did it!" That's about as dumb as claiming that Doom makes kids shoot each other.
The world is not so simple.
[In defense of Rob's intelligence: USENET, IRC, and Slashdot seem to have shown in three different environments that online discussion tends to degenerate when enough people are put in one place. Two people can have a conversation, a couple hundred can share ideas, but tens of thousands seem to just turn things into a squabbling mess. Solving this problem is hard, and I don't think Rob is an imbecile for not having solved it yet.]
This technology Corel is trying to integrate acts like X. It just sends the display to another machine. It doesn't run Windows, it just lets you look at Windows running somewhere else.
So, unless you can run Windows and Linux simultaneously on your PC, you're out of luck.
I am impressed with your amazing deductive powers. It isn't just anyone who can write off an entire group based upon a single technicality. Such tunnel vision and narrow-mindedness should stand as an example to us all.
That's interesting. I use a Dvorak layout, but since I never use vi, I never noticed the problem you describe. I suppose it's good that I happened to learn emacs then.
[ Note to vi supporters: I'm not so biased that I won't learn vi eventually. I just don't think it will become my editor of choice. Besides, the text editor flame war is always a good hoot.:) ]
Okay, here is my extremely informal data based upon a P-166 w/ 96 Meg of RAM: [Note: All tests were performed with the console version of the editor inside an xterm.]
Editor Load Time Memory Usage -------------------------------- emacs 0.79 s 2800 KB vim 0.40 s 1400 KB
So, yes, I will concede that Emacs is bigger and slower. But, I'm a LISP freak, and I like being able to tweak the editor in crazy ways without having to recompile it. On the whole, the difference in memory and speed does not matter to me (.39 s per load * 1000 loads per year = 6.5 minutes wasted per year).
While RMS and FSF have pissed off more people than any other advocate (including ESR), they have also done a great deal. Their overall effect on open source is probably closer to zero. (I would argue that they are still in the positive, but that's all a matter of degree.)
Okay, so it's not interactive, but I love the status information it gives me at the console while doing batch jobs. I especially like the use of smiley faces to convey program state.
I found myself rapidly nearing a deadline on one of my assignments, and needed diagrams! [Insert ominous music here] I'd used xfig before, but it is about as user-friendly as the cockpit of a 747. So I downloaded Sketch (a vector based drawing program), and learned how to use it and finished my drawings in less time than it would have taken in xfig.
Maybe I'm just sick, but I find the Cheese theme for GNOME hilarious. Maybe it's just that I find it funny when I show it my Windows-using friends and watch their eyes bug out. (Granted, they are probably experience an unnatural mixture of awe and disgust, but it amuses me just the same.)
(I think that's how he/she capitalized his/her name.)
This goes back a bit in Slashdot history, but I always got a kick out of this person, the great wielder of the Clue Stick(TM). I doubt he/she even reads Slashdot anymore, but I think he/she deserves the award more than those stupid MEEPT/gritsboy/Portman trolls.
(I also think that English needs a neuter, singular pronoun.)
Sure, we've all heard about it and heard people drool about it, but it still takes the cake for best eye candy. Of course, that's why people with 32 meg of RAM and a P-100 hate it, but the award isn't for speed.:)
I grew up doing CGI's in Perl, but PHP3 just blew me away when I saw what my roommate was doing with it. This is by far the most awesome extension to Apache I have seen.
Not only has this allowed Linux to be ported to other platforms more easily, but it has allowed me to get X working on a number of Intel machines with poorly supported video cards.
Does anyone know the module name? Is it technically a "kernel module"?
The Mozilla project in the last year has come back from the grave and has made insane progress. I think it deserves the award for improving despite the negative views of others.
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At last check, JAWSAT wasn't working too well or at all. It's a shame because JAWSAT had a camera that was taking pictures of the deployment of the other nanosatellites. That would have let us see what we looked like after launch so we could check for external damage. Not likely, I know, but it would be one less question.
Hope that clears things up.
Excuse me for being skeptical, but do you have any evidence for your claim?
There's more to hosting a project than providing an FTP server. Any place that plans to do it well will have to offer a mix of web-hosting, mailing list management, CVS service, FTP, and any other whiz-bang features they can think of.
The conspiracy theory presented by the Senator at the end of the movie Contact is that the extraterrestrial signals received are a product of Hadden Industries, the company funding the project. He claims that the whole thing is fake.
- Rob posts stories about things other than Y, my pet topic.
- Rob supports evil Nazi moderators that mark down informative posts about the homosexual tendencies of many well known people.
- Rob prevents trolls from posting after several trolls from the same IP in a short time.
I say riot, my brothers and sister, riot! Leave this poor excuse for a communications medium and stick it to The Man (of whose conspiracy Rob has most assuredly become a part of). That will teach them to respect you. I hereby reinstate the boycott, but extend the duration for a week!That's right, from Friday, January 28 @ 12:00PM EST to Friday, February 4, @ 12:00PM EST no one shall use Slashdot. Rob shall quiver at our might! Viva la revolucion! Viva la independencia!
Note: The needs of the revolution may dictate that we extend the boycott, perhaps indefinitely. Please do not return to Slashdot unless you receive a specially encoded email informing you that the boycott has succeeded. Such sacrifices are needed if we are to fix the evils of Slashdot!
Yeah! Tell it like it is! We all know Rob is the great Satan. He's sold out and joined forces with The Man.
Damn The Man!
Damn The Man!
</SARCASM>
Jeez, people. Lay off the capitalist-pig conspiracy theories.
Three companies can be just as non-cooperative as one company. Unless the DoJ is hoping that this threat will scare Microsoft into cutting them a deal.
Rob happens to like the idea of free speech. Toward that end, he has avoided deleting posts as much as possible (though I'm sure some AC here can contradict me here with some unverifiable anecdote). I take as my evidence the sheer quantity of crap strewn about these comment pages. I know if I were Rob, I would be tempted to delete some of the lame troll posts that are clogging his database. But he doesn't, 'cause I can sit here and read them until I lose most of my faith in humanity.
In fact, I've spent the last month reading Slashdot at -1, and I can say that it has been a depressing experience. When moderation first appeared, I set my threshold at 2, then 1. Things were fairly normal. I wondered what things were like at -1 and I finally decided to take a look. My month-long sample has not convinced me that moderation is evil. A few decent AC posts got left in the dust, and few good posts got taken down. But a whole hoard of juvenile graffiti and basic idiocy got labeled as such.
But guess what:
Yes, despite the fact that Andover owns Slashdot, you can still read every bit of text that someone felt was worthy of posting (including this rant). The moderators may be too stupid to pull out the comments you like to read, but they are still there. The rest of us are willing to sacrifice a few good posts to have time to read the many good posts the moderators do catch.And finally: please stop repeating the hackneyed complaint about Rob having sold out to The Man. It's just as annoying as every other bit of "Slashdot wisdom" that gets repeated so many times that people forget it orignated from someone's rear end. Rob is human. Rob is lazy. Rob did not receive a brain transplant when Andover bought Slashdot. If you believe Slashdot isn't catering to your (and others who agree with you) need, blame it on Rob being too stupid or too lazy to implement a system that works. Those reasons are a lot more plausible than: "Andover did it!" That's about as dumb as claiming that Doom makes kids shoot each other.
The world is not so simple.
[In defense of Rob's intelligence: USENET, IRC, and Slashdot seem to have shown in three different environments that online discussion tends to degenerate when enough people are put in one place. Two people can have a conversation, a couple hundred can share ideas, but tens of thousands seem to just turn things into a squabbling mess. Solving this problem is hard, and I don't think Rob is an imbecile for not having solved it yet.]
So, unless you can run Windows and Linux simultaneously on your PC, you're out of luck.
[Sarcasm off]
[ Note to vi supporters: I'm not so biased that I won't learn vi eventually. I just don't think it will become my editor of choice. Besides, the text editor flame war is always a good hoot. :) ]
[Note: All tests were performed with the console version of the editor inside an xterm.]
Editor Load Time Memory Usage
--------------------------------
emacs 0.79 s 2800 KB
vim 0.40 s 1400 KB
So, yes, I will concede that Emacs is bigger and slower. But, I'm a LISP freak, and I like being able to tweak the editor in crazy ways without having to recompile it. On the whole, the difference in memory and speed does not matter to me (.39 s per load * 1000 loads per year = 6.5 minutes wasted per year).
While RMS and FSF have pissed off more people than any other advocate (including ESR), they have also done a great deal. Their overall effect on open source is probably closer to zero. (I would argue that they are still in the positive, but that's all a matter of degree.)
Okay, so it's not interactive, but I love the status information it gives me at the console while doing batch jobs. I especially like the use of smiley faces to convey program state.
Databases + Perl = Nirvana.
I found myself rapidly nearing a deadline on one of my assignments, and needed diagrams! [Insert ominous music here] I'd used xfig before, but it is about as user-friendly as the cockpit of a 747. So I downloaded Sketch (a vector based drawing program), and learned how to use it and finished my drawings in less time than it would have taken in xfig.
Maybe I'm just sick, but I find the Cheese theme for GNOME hilarious. Maybe it's just that I find it funny when I show it my Windows-using friends and watch their eyes bug out. (Granted, they are probably experience an unnatural mixture of awe and disgust, but it amuses me just the same.)
(BTW: That's M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead.)
This goes back a bit in Slashdot history, but I always got a kick out of this person, the great wielder of the Clue Stick(TM). I doubt he/she even reads Slashdot anymore, but I think he/she deserves the award more than those stupid MEEPT/gritsboy/Portman trolls.
(I also think that English needs a neuter, singular pronoun.)
Sure, we've all heard about it and heard people drool about it, but it still takes the cake for best eye candy. Of course, that's why people with 32 meg of RAM and a P-100 hate it, but the award isn't for speed. :)
I grew up doing CGI's in Perl, but PHP3 just blew me away when I saw what my roommate was doing with it. This is by far the most awesome extension to Apache I have seen.
Does anyone know the module name? Is it technically a "kernel module"?
The Mozilla project in the last year has come back from the grave and has made insane progress. I think it deserves the award for improving despite the negative views of others.
I would, however, retract this nomination if maddog has already received an award for said advocacy.