Thissurprises me, as our lab is very much a windows only shop (with some large UNIX/LINUX servers and Exceed used to operate on them) and they'd come down on us like a ton of bricks if we went around installing linux on things. But I wonder, what about live distributions like Knoppix ? You could install it and use it during the day and when you went home there'd be no evidence you'd been using it right?
Issue 38 of the UK linux magazine 'Linux Format' came with debian pacakages for kde 3.1 that work well with my woody release. So I suppose they must exist somewhere on the web.
I know that SuSE for one have released their patch already (available from ftp.suse.com). Those who make accusations of hypocrisy should remember that the purpose of these release dates is to give reasonable time for vendors/distributors to fix bugs before releasing the information, Microsoft/ closed source vendors are given the same time as Linux distributors to fix bugs, it's just that they frequently don't make that time, whereas Red Hat jumped the gun.
Firstly, they saw lots of 'these suckers' quite a few years ago and,well, you have surely noticed the benefits. There are many uses to the detectors themselves, amongst them finding out if protons are stable or not (which has big ramifications), but in terms of cosmic neutrino spotting and establishing that they are massive, they provide candidates for Dark Matter ( which would explain why the universe hangs together) and also
would offer for new physics beyond the laws of particle physics established today.
Of Course the possible loss of Super K is sad, but the reasonably new SNO experiment can also see
supernovae and has already improved on Super K's results for some measurements of neutrinos.
Another Vote for Jack Vance from me, I only actually discovered him recently, and his work just stunned me with it's excellence. As good
(in a different way) as anything I have read by Fritz Leiber, Philip K Dick and Tolkein.
The chances are some version of D&D will still be played in 50 years time, and if you ever read his
'Tales OF the Dying Earth' Series, you can see how
inspirational he was for a generation of Fantasy readers, I belive he is still alive today (though he must be getting on). Maybe Robert Jordan will still be read too, (if he ever finishes the wheel of time series, otherwise I suppose everyone will just give up)
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>That said, I'd bet the BBC will be doing their >encoding on Windows or Mac OS machines anyhow, so I >don't know why they don't use VP3.
Not necessarily, the BBC R&D staff (at least) do a large portion of their work on Linux (SuSE) boxes.
Thissurprises me, as our lab is very much a windows only shop (with some large UNIX/LINUX servers and
Exceed used to operate on them) and they'd come down on us like a ton of bricks if we went around installing linux on things. But I wonder, what about live distributions like Knoppix ? You could install it and use it during the day and when you went home there'd be no evidence you'd been using it right?
Issue 38 of the UK linux magazine 'Linux Format' came with debian pacakages for kde 3.1 that work well with my woody release. So I suppose they must exist somewhere on the web.
I know that SuSE for one have released their patch already (available from ftp.suse.com). Those who make accusations of hypocrisy should remember that the purpose of these release dates is to give reasonable time for vendors/distributors to fix bugs before releasing the information, Microsoft/ closed source vendors are given the same time as Linux distributors to fix bugs, it's just that they frequently don't make that time, whereas Red Hat jumped the gun.
Sad to say I sighted Jar Jar in the teaser trailer 'Mystery', sorry, it pains me to be the messanger.
Firstly, they saw lots of 'these suckers' quite a few years ago and ,well, you have surely noticed the benefits. There are many uses to the detectors themselves, amongst them finding out if protons are stable or not (which has big ramifications), but in terms of cosmic neutrino spotting and establishing that they are massive, they provide candidates for Dark Matter ( which would explain why the universe hangs together) and also
would offer for new physics beyond the laws of particle physics established today.
Of Course the possible loss of Super K is sad, but the reasonably new SNO experiment can also see
supernovae and has already improved on Super K's results for some measurements of neutrinos.
Another Vote for Jack Vance from me, I only actually discovered him recently, and his work just stunned me with it's excellence. As good
(in a different way) as anything I have read by Fritz Leiber, Philip K Dick and Tolkein.
The chances are some version of D&D will still be played in 50 years time, and if you ever read his
'Tales OF the Dying Earth' Series, you can see how
inspirational he was for a generation of Fantasy readers, I belive he is still alive today (though he must be getting on). Maybe Robert Jordan will still be read too, (if he ever finishes the wheel of time series, otherwise I suppose everyone will just give up)