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Like spaceships? Come to JPL too, and I'll give you a tour. Pasadena is also in the LA area, depending on the time of day.
The rovers run VxWorks as their operating system. The ground system runs on Solaris and Linux.Microsoft? Well, MS Office for management spreadsheets and slides. No Windows machines allowed on the flight network.
Kudos to everyone who has worked so hard to keep the rovers roving.I just want to draw attention to the submitter's link: http://www.hspd12jpl.org/There's a situation brewing where JPL employees (who are employed by Caltech, not the federal government) will be fired if they do not submit to unprecedented invasions of their privacy. Some other relevant links: http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2007/08/hspd12_c oncerns.html http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2007/05/nasa_jpl _hspd12.html http://www.editthis.info/jpl_rebadging/Main_Page
has everyone forgotten..."ed is the standard text editor"
RPI trivia: their main computer labs are in a stone chapel, complete with stained glass windows.
Why not? :-)
My 10-year-old (step) daughter was using XEmacs to practice typing just the other night.
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Like spaceships? Come to JPL too, and I'll give you a tour. Pasadena is also in the LA area, depending on the time of day.
The rovers run VxWorks as their operating system. The ground system runs on Solaris and Linux.
Microsoft? Well, MS Office for management spreadsheets and slides. No Windows machines allowed on the flight network.
Kudos to everyone who has worked so hard to keep the rovers roving.
c oncerns.htmll _hspd12.html
I just want to draw attention to the submitter's link:
http://www.hspd12jpl.org/
There's a situation brewing where JPL employees (who are employed by Caltech, not the federal government) will be fired if they do not submit to unprecedented invasions of their privacy. Some other relevant links:
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2007/08/hspd12_
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2007/05/nasa_jp
http://www.editthis.info/jpl_rebadging/Main_Page
has everyone forgotten...
"ed is the standard text editor"
RPI trivia: their main computer labs are in a stone chapel, complete with stained glass windows.
Why not? :-)
My 10-year-old (step) daughter was using XEmacs to practice typing just the other night.