The engine inlet is about Mach 5 if I calculated things correctly and use the assumption that the shock cones will be able to move all the way back out when the shock has been captured on the mouth of the engine inlet.
This can also be somewhat confirmed by the pilot reports that noted a reduction in fuel burn when they accelerated past Mach 3.2 to evade missiles.
Now as far as the airframe, that depends on if you want the bow shock to remain clear of the entire airframe, or if you allow it to touch the outer edge of the mouth of the engine inlet. The 3-views I found seem to indicate somewhere just over Mach 4 with 5 a possibility if you let the bow shock reach the edge of the engine inlet.
I haven't had to make this calculation in about 8 years and I don't have a protractor handy, so I could be off a bit.
OK, Here is a suggestion that may help grow Slashdot, but I am not sure how the rest of you will like it.
A "Slashdot Daily" video feed/channel, like "Fast Lane Daily".
So you post a 3 minute video to one/many/all of the numerous video feeds daily (and make sure it is a feed that gets picked up by TiVo so I can have it waiting when I get home from work).
The video would contain some of the days top stories with narration and a video clip or picture that pertains to the story.
For example the clip on "Capsaicin Tested On Surgical Wounds" would have a clip of CmdrTaco dripping Pure Cap on Hemo's paper cut to make it "heal better".
The video would also have a 5-10 second commercial somewhere in there, like for ThinkGeek or somewhere else which could grow your revenue stream with a minimal amount of user aggravation.
They have Beagle http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page to compete with, not sure how useful it will be on Linux. But on Windows at work I can finally find my emails and other documents!
I also have a PS/2 Model 70, 386/25MHz no 387, 12MB RAM, ESDI 120MB, 3Com 3c529 that does work and run linux, but I do not use it on a daily baises so I did not mention it.... My roommate and I pulled 4 IBM MCA machines from dumpsters, 2 of which were rained on heavily, and we set them up as firewall/routers for friends and family. They worked great. We even had a OS/2 Warp & IBM Wave/LAN (2.4GHz wireless pre-802.11) network bridge setup to our friend's place 1200 feet away with the dumpster machines! This allowed us to go to the bars for lunch with an OS/2 laptop and a Wave/LAN card and browse the internet and do school work too. No one else on campus could do that!
The PS/2 Model 9595 is one awesome machine! 8 MCA Slots (Currently Populated with 4 NIC's, 1 Video, and 2 SCSI), the mentioned 256MB RAM, and an 8 character display that my roomate wrote a kernel driver for. If you need the driver let me know. You can put pretty much whatever fits in the 8 characters on there (scroll for more....), you know the display that has the post codes and "CPU 60MHz" I currently show CPU% and Router Thru-Put in bps. I loved it when the display went to "13% 10Mb" before I moved and got only 3M on my DSL...
If you can find a Model 9595 try to get one with the P90 Complex, My friend who wrote the panel driver has one and it is very nice.
I have a P-166, 144MB RAM, 2GB HD laptop running Sarge/Gnome it is a bit slow running OOorg (1.5 min load) but does work fine on the road. Once firefox is loaded (~20 sec) it is fairly peppy, on par with my P-4 1.7GHz bloated W2K machine at work.
Also I run sarge on a circa 1993 IBM PS/2 Model 9595, Pentium 60 with 256MB RAM and 36GB HD, but I use that one for firewall/vpn/smtp/imap/sftp/http and it does an excellent job. I wonder if I will be able keep using it until it is 20 years old? At the rate US Broadband is going I should be able to.....
I have tried a few other small distros but I keep going back to Debian for a fully useable machine. It just works.
Now, for having a bootable linux cd in your wallet the micro distros are great. Damnsmall and LNX/BBC have been lifesavers.
I should have said "any" password.... I could have given him an rbash shell with only "sudo reboot" and "logout" but I wanted him not to touch the machine because he may ask to do more with it (like the local root hole discussed here) and eventually try to get it replaced with a windoze boxen.....
He already tried to do it for $5000 (not including setup fees) compared to my $200 (set up) Linux Box and he still brings it up to the owner of the company... I just make a friendly reminder about the downtime and viruses and that shuts him up for a few months. (the owner got his laptop infuckted with blaster and got the rest of the company and still refuses to keep the laptops in a DMZ)
Everyone had gone home for the day and stopped using the server and there was no spam arriving at the moment, so 15 minutes of "no load" is not unusual....
I know that there are many OS's and machines with really long uptimes. I was making a comment on my machine that happened to be off topic. But I will have to reboot to update the kernel:(
Besides that IBM PCServer 330 box is from 1997 with all original hardware and my router just turned 10, IBM PS/2 Server Model 9595. So I think the uptimes are pretty good for something like that.
Yup, didn't think it would happen to me, but they were having "problems" with the W2K machine....
I left ctrl-alt-del enabled in case the MCSE had to reboot the machine because I am not giving him the root password.
If I weren't 1200 miles from the machine I would have smacked the guy who did that. There isn't even a monitor on the machine and the keyboard was on top of it at the back of the shelf. Next time I am there the keyboard will be unplugged, power-switch guards installed and I will somehow make the power cables unable to be removed;)
But everytime something like that happens you have a chance to figure out how to make it harder to shut the machine down.....
Even though I do agree that it makes no differnce what RMS looks like, Wouldn't it be cool to have "What would RMS do?" bumper stickers like all those other freaks? I.E. "What would Jesus do?" "What would Usama Bin Laden do?" "What would Saddam do?"
This is a clear cut case of EXTORTION! âoeGive us $12K or we'll sue!â
Jesse admitted no wrong-doing and they still took his money in exchange for not suing. That is extortion, exactly like having the Mafia knock on your door and offer you âoeprotectionâ for a sum of money in exchange for not taking over your business/killing you. He (or someone involved) needs to bring this to the attention of the FBI â" assuming that they are less corrupt than the RIAA.
(Note: FBI guys, could you please inform me if you are or are not corrupt, and whether you will take this case or not? Thanks)
With your endorsement of the Priceline.com supercomputer, you must have some knowledge of how powerful their supercomputer is.
How do you think the Priceline.com supercomputer compares to the envisioned power of the main computer aboard the starship Enterprise (any Enterprise you have set foot on)?
And did you ever imagine, during the filming of the original series, that computers would be as powerful as they are today?
I have Optimum Online cable modem in CT, and I get 10Mbps download and 1.5Mbps upload for $35/month. Yes I have tested it and that is what I really do get. I have not run into fees for excessive use yet either. But I wouldn't suggest moving to CT to get fast broadband unless you want to get your ass taxed off...
Even if the price were $-200, I still wouldn't buy it! (meaning the store paid me $200 to get the X-Box off of their shelves to make room for better things)
At work I am required to use a Win2k Dell Optiplex GX-150, P-III 1GHz 256MB RAM (due to outsourced IT). The machine is very sluggish and really chokes with a few apps running.
I also own for my personal use a Compaq Armada laptop Pentium 166, 64MB RAM running Debian GNU/Linux. That machine will play MP3's and run Office Apps (open office) at the same time with no choking.
I suggest you determine what apps you require, and whether there is a Linux counterpart. Then rollout a few of those P-II 400's to the new employee's (you know, the ones with little computer knowledge) running a nice clean install of Linux with about 256MB RAM and the proper apps and see how it goes. Then plan on rolling out 2-3 a week until everyone is up to speed.
Everyone seems to think that Microsoft is trying to get people to switch to a Windows-based server from a Unix-based server with http://www.wehavethewayout.com
I believe they are just trying to get people to realize that they do not have to pay for very costly 'proprietary' Unix licenses by setting up a site promoting Apache and FreeBSD as one alternative. When they were criticized by investors exclaiming "Where's the profit in 'Open Source'!?", Microsoft humbly complied and tried to switch their new site to IISuck/W2notsoK/MSvirusEXCHANGE when suddenly.....(add your joke here)
I think that all setup utilities required by the ISP should be able to run on any OS with a graphical web browser and be able to work from behind a firewall.
My ISP (Calble Modem) requires that you run their "modem registration" utility within 6 days of your installation or your service is cut off.
When the "installation technician" came to my house he said nothing about having to register the modem. All he said was "How is that computer going to work without a keyboard, monitor or mouse"...Walk to other room sit at Linux workstation and open Konqueror to/. "Oh, I see it works, do you have any spare motherboards for an Athlon?"
Six days later, my connection is cut off so I called techsupport.
Me: Hi, my modem stopped working... Support: Are the lights on? Me: Yes, all except activity. Support: Is this a new account? Me: Yes. Support: Did you register your modem? Me: No one told me about that, what do I have to do? Support: Put the CD that came with the modem in your drive and the utility will start automatically. Me: (Taking beer off of new coaster and putting it in my CD-ROM drive) Umm.... Nothing is happening.... Support: What version of Windows are you using? Me: What's Windows? Support: (Explains what windows is) Your computer should have come with it. Me: Nope, my computer didn't come with windows. Support: Do you have a Mac? Me: No, I have an x86 PC. Support: Then it should have come with Windows. Me: I couldn't afford the $200, plus the $100's of other dollars for the software I want to use ocassionally. Support: Then how did you get on the internet before? Me: Linux. Support: We don't support that. Me: Well, you do now, please register my modem for me by hand, my MAC address is....
How hard can it be to make platform independent tools (ie Java programs) to perform the registration tasks? As for other software to include with their "package" I think they should give you a list of software to choose from, you pick what you want, and they burn you a CD or two (or more). On my list would be only the latest Debian CD's and a GRUB floppy.
What do you think of the excessive amount of/.'ers who are immature an post hundreds of posts asking if you are gay and bad-mouthing Linux potentially ruining the whole QnA thing for the rest of the people who have legitimate questions?
I think that they should use their real email address' and stop being Anonymous Cowards, any help Cmdr Taco or CowboyNeal?
Thanks for taking the time to answer the many questions brought forth by us/.'ers
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The engine inlet is about Mach 5 if I calculated things correctly and use the assumption that the shock cones will be able to move all the way back out when the shock has been captured on the mouth of the engine inlet.
This can also be somewhat confirmed by the pilot reports that noted a reduction in fuel burn when they accelerated past Mach 3.2 to evade missiles.
Now as far as the airframe, that depends on if you want the bow shock to remain clear of the entire airframe, or if you allow it to touch the outer edge of the mouth of the engine inlet. The 3-views I found seem to indicate somewhere just over Mach 4 with 5 a possibility if you let the bow shock reach the edge of the engine inlet.
I haven't had to make this calculation in about 8 years and I don't have a protractor handy, so I could be off a bit.
OK, Here is a suggestion that may help grow Slashdot, but I am not sure how the rest of you will like it. A "Slashdot Daily" video feed/channel, like "Fast Lane Daily".
So you post a 3 minute video to one/many/all of the numerous video feeds daily (and make sure it is a feed that gets picked up by TiVo so I can have it waiting when I get home from work).
The video would contain some of the days top stories with narration and a video clip or picture that pertains to the story.
For example the clip on "Capsaicin Tested On Surgical Wounds" would have a clip of CmdrTaco dripping Pure Cap on Hemo's paper cut to make it "heal better".
The video would also have a 5-10 second commercial somewhere in there, like for ThinkGeek or somewhere else which could grow your revenue stream with a minimal amount of user aggravation.
Just my two cents
Patrick
They have Beagle http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page to compete with, not sure how useful it will be on Linux. But on Windows at work I can finally find my emails and other documents!
That Model 55 is pretty sweet!
I also have a PS/2 Model 70, 386/25MHz no 387, 12MB RAM, ESDI 120MB, 3Com 3c529 that does work and run linux, but I do not use it on a daily baises so I did not mention it.... My roommate and I pulled 4 IBM MCA machines from dumpsters, 2 of which were rained on heavily, and we set them up as firewall/routers for friends and family. They worked great. We even had a OS/2 Warp & IBM Wave/LAN (2.4GHz wireless pre-802.11) network bridge setup to our friend's place 1200 feet away with the dumpster machines! This allowed us to go to the bars for lunch with an OS/2 laptop and a Wave/LAN card and browse the internet and do school work too. No one else on campus could do that!
The PS/2 Model 9595 is one awesome machine! 8 MCA Slots (Currently Populated with 4 NIC's, 1 Video, and 2 SCSI), the mentioned 256MB RAM, and an 8 character display that my roomate wrote a kernel driver for. If you need the driver let me know. You can put pretty much whatever fits in the 8 characters on there (scroll for more....), you know the display that has the post codes and "CPU 60MHz" I currently show CPU% and Router Thru-Put in bps. I loved it when the display went to "13% 10Mb" before I moved and got only 3M on my DSL...
If you can find a Model 9595 try to get one with the P90 Complex, My friend who wrote the panel driver has one and it is very nice.
I also run Debian Sarge on a few old machines.
I have a P-166, 144MB RAM, 2GB HD laptop running Sarge/Gnome it is a bit slow running OOorg (1.5 min load) but does work fine on the road. Once firefox is loaded (~20 sec) it is fairly peppy, on par with my P-4 1.7GHz bloated W2K machine at work.
Also I run sarge on a circa 1993 IBM PS/2 Model 9595, Pentium 60 with 256MB RAM and 36GB HD, but I use that one for firewall/vpn/smtp/imap/sftp/http and it does an excellent job. I wonder if I will be able keep using it until it is 20 years old? At the rate US Broadband is going I should be able to.....
I have tried a few other small distros but I keep going back to Debian for a fully useable machine. It just works.
Now, for having a bootable linux cd in your wallet the micro distros are great. Damnsmall and LNX/BBC have been lifesavers.
I should have said "any" password.... I could have given him an rbash shell with only "sudo reboot" and "logout" but I wanted him not to touch the machine because he may ask to do more with it (like the local root hole discussed here) and eventually try to get it replaced with a windoze boxen.....
;)
He already tried to do it for $5000 (not including setup fees) compared to my $200 (set up) Linux Box and he still brings it up to the owner of the company... I just make a friendly reminder about the downtime and viruses and that shuts him up for a few months. (the owner got his laptop infuckted with blaster and got the rest of the company and still refuses to keep the laptops in a DMZ)
Thanks for the info though
Everyone had gone home for the day and stopped using the server and there was no spam arriving at the moment, so 15 minutes of "no load" is not unusual....
:(
rock@phantom:~$ uptime
Unknown HZ value! (3) Assume 100.
08:34:22 up 256 days, 17:38, 2 users, load average: 1.47, 0.74, 0.89
I know that there are many OS's and machines with really long uptimes. I was making a comment on my machine that happened to be off topic. But I will have to reboot to update the kernel
Besides that IBM PCServer 330 box is from 1997 with all original hardware and my router just turned 10, IBM PS/2 Server Model 9595. So I think the uptimes are pretty good for something like that.
Yup, didn't think it would happen to me, but they were having "problems" with the W2K machine....
;)
I left ctrl-alt-del enabled in case the MCSE had to reboot the machine because I am not giving him the root password.
If I weren't 1200 miles from the machine I would have smacked the guy who did that. There isn't even a monitor on the machine and the keyboard was on top of it at the back of the shelf. Next time I am there the keyboard will be unplugged, power-switch guards installed and I will somehow make the power cables unable to be removed
But everytime something like that happens you have a chance to figure out how to make it harder to shut the machine down.....
Hmmm.... Although this could start a flame war...
I would have been up for 367 days today if some idiot didn't grab my server's keyboard instead of the M$ W2K box next to it to do a 3-finger-salute.
Needless to say I have disabled that "feature" now.
rock@phantom:~$ uptime
Unknown HZ value! (2) Assume 100.
16:47:42 up 256 days, 1:51, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Maybe their site choked and died upon switching back to SCO UNIX from "GNU/Linux & Apache"....
Check out their OS History
I don't think SCO wants people to know that they are running on Linux. And the hipocracy grows deeper......
Even though I do agree that it makes no differnce what RMS looks like, Wouldn't it be cool to have
"What would RMS do?" bumper stickers like all those other freaks?
I.E. "What would Jesus do?" "What would Usama Bin Laden do?" "What would Saddam do?"
This is a clear cut case of EXTORTION!
âoeGive us $12K or we'll sue!â
Jesse admitted no wrong-doing and they still took his money in exchange for not suing. That is extortion, exactly like having the Mafia knock on your door and offer you âoeprotectionâ for a sum of money in exchange for not taking over your business/killing you. He (or someone involved) needs to bring this to the attention of the FBI â" assuming that they are less corrupt than the RIAA.
(Note: FBI guys, could you please inform me if you are or are not corrupt, and whether you will take this case or not? Thanks)
Debian Jr.
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/index
With your endorsement of the Priceline.com supercomputer, you must have some knowledge of how powerful their supercomputer is.
How do you think the Priceline.com supercomputer compares to the envisioned power of the main computer aboard the starship Enterprise (any Enterprise you have set foot on)?
And did you ever imagine, during the filming of the original series, that computers would be as powerful as they are today?
I have seen several Freight Trains powered by gas turbines.
t m
http://www.railpower.com/2support/locomotives.h
I hope optonline doesn't join in on the shenanagins of the other Cable ISPs......
I have Optimum Online cable modem in CT, and I get 10Mbps download and 1.5Mbps upload for $35/month. Yes I have tested it and that is what I really do get. I have not run into fees for excessive use yet either. But I wouldn't suggest moving to CT to get fast broadband unless you want to get your ass taxed off...
They can call it whatever they want, as long as they aren't stuffing our politicians pockets to the brim China will not be considered democratic.
.sig, I've moved recently...
About your
rock@habu:~$ uptime
22:29:54 up 123 days, 8:16, 14 users, load average: 0.18, 0.44, 0.56
Even if the price were $-200, I still wouldn't buy it! (meaning the store paid me $200 to get the X-Box off of their shelves to make room for better things)
At work I am required to use a Win2k Dell Optiplex GX-150, P-III 1GHz 256MB RAM (due to outsourced IT). The machine is very sluggish and really chokes with a few apps running.
I also own for my personal use a Compaq Armada laptop Pentium 166, 64MB RAM running Debian GNU/Linux. That machine will play MP3's and run Office Apps (open office) at the same time with no choking.
I suggest you determine what apps you require, and whether there is a Linux counterpart. Then rollout a few of those P-II 400's to the new employee's (you know, the ones with little computer knowledge) running a nice clean install of Linux with about 256MB RAM and the proper apps and see how it goes. Then plan on rolling out 2-3 a week until everyone is up to speed.
Good Luck!
Everyone seems to think that Microsoft is trying to get people to switch to a Windows-based server from a Unix-based server with http://www.wehavethewayout.com
I believe they are just trying to get people to realize that they do not have to pay for very costly 'proprietary' Unix licenses by setting up a site promoting Apache and FreeBSD as one alternative. When they were criticized by investors exclaiming "Where's the profit in 'Open Source'!?", Microsoft humbly complied and tried to switch their new site to IISuck/W2notsoK/MSvirusEXCHANGE when suddenly.....(add your joke here)
I think that all setup utilities required by the ISP should be able to run on any OS with a graphical web browser and be able to work from behind a firewall.
...Walk to other room sit at Linux workstation and open Konqueror to /. "Oh, I see it works, do you have any spare motherboards for an Athlon?"
My ISP (Calble Modem) requires that you run their "modem registration" utility within 6 days of your installation or your service is cut off.
When the "installation technician" came to my house he said nothing about having to register the modem. All he said was "How is that computer going to work without a keyboard, monitor or mouse"
Six days later, my connection is cut off so I called techsupport.
Me: Hi, my modem stopped working...
Support: Are the lights on?
Me: Yes, all except activity.
Support: Is this a new account?
Me: Yes.
Support: Did you register your modem?
Me: No one told me about that, what do I have to do?
Support: Put the CD that came with the modem in your drive and the utility will start automatically.
Me: (Taking beer off of new coaster and putting it in my CD-ROM drive) Umm.... Nothing is happening....
Support: What version of Windows are you using?
Me: What's Windows?
Support: (Explains what windows is) Your computer should have come with it.
Me: Nope, my computer didn't come with windows.
Support: Do you have a Mac?
Me: No, I have an x86 PC.
Support: Then it should have come with Windows.
Me: I couldn't afford the $200, plus the $100's of other dollars for the software I want to use ocassionally.
Support: Then how did you get on the internet before?
Me: Linux.
Support: We don't support that.
Me: Well, you do now, please register my modem for me by hand, my MAC address is....
How hard can it be to make platform independent tools (ie Java programs) to perform the registration tasks? As for other software to include with their "package" I think they should give you a list of software to choose from, you pick what you want, and they burn you a CD or two (or more). On my list would be only the latest Debian CD's and a GRUB floppy.
Hmmm....
The problem must be on your end, the entire page loads on my machine in about 3 seconds.
I love when I get "connection refused" when trying to access sites that are posted on /.
/. proof their sites if they are going to do/make something remotely interesting or cool!
I wish they would learn to
What do you think of the excessive amount of /.'ers who are immature an post hundreds of posts asking if you are gay and bad-mouthing Linux potentially ruining the whole QnA thing for the rest of the people who have legitimate questions?
/.'ers
I think that they should use their real email address' and stop being Anonymous Cowards, any help Cmdr Taco or CowboyNeal?
Thanks for taking the time to answer the many questions brought forth by us