OK, I'm done. I have a large amount of other software but the bare essentials for a casual user is now covered.
The fact is, Win2K is Windows as good as it will ever get. Faster than XP, more stable than NT4, it is probably the best OS MS ever wrote and will ever write.
On the other hand, I still prefer my Linux boxen to work with.
Metallica? Hard and angry? Not since 1988! Since then I've stopped listening any crap they come up with. The most angriest they were was around 1986 and since then they've grown up to become boring old farts.
What amount of g forces are we talking about? Shuttle structure is rated for 3g acceleration and it has throttable engines which provides exactly this. 3g is quite harsh but a reasonably healthy athlette will cope with it. Fighter pilots and early astronauts regularly cope with g forces around 7 to 12g.
3 g is not that much, a medieval knight with his armour usually experiences something akin to 2g. The force is uniform and will feel like you are very heavy but you will still be able to move your arms reasonably freely.
About jumps, stratosheric jumps are not dangerous, it's been done before many times. As long as you have a partial pressure-suit with insulation, you will survive. For a shape like human body the terminal speed is around 300km/h in all cases.
Only two is needed to fly the shuttle, the rest are passangers. It's not admitted but probably none is actually needed to fly the shuttle, the whole thing works like a clockwork with pre-determined flight plans and monkey^H^H^H^H^Hastronauts are there just to satisfy their macho ego.
As a result the rescue goes up with only two on board, not an other 7. What would be the point of sending 5 more passangers?
Well, there are many reasons. Matching vectors in orbit is not an easy thing (although it can be done by hand calculation and with eyesight), a lot of training is necessary. First Gemini rendezvous were quite a nightmare, almost disasters because the monkeys didn't realise you couldn't just aim and hit the gas pedal (them being test pilots, it might be understandable).
Basicly to match vectors you have a very small launch window. You will either aim for ISS or for the escape pod. If you have just lost 25% power at one of the main shuttle engines you just lost your window. You will have to follow an alternative plan. This is why all this "stay safe in ISS" is a bullshit plan. It will only work if a tile gets loose. It won't work in Challenger-type scenarios (which there is no escape with the current Shuttle tech) nor Columbia (something happens unnoticed and you have the failure in the re-entry).
Going up and down is easy. Changing vectors and orbit is just too expensive in energy terms so you don't do it. The whole point is getting it right the first time.
I had a 1.0 kernel with X11 and all of the eye candy I cared and I definitely had more than two X11 apps running at the same time, on an 486dx2-66 with 16MB of RAM! We are talking about serious bloatware, not just eye candy that can be turned off.
The only way of getting comfortable with an Pentium 150MHz with 48MB was having Dragonfly and XFCE, none of the modern Linux distros would run fast enough. I installed Redhat 6.2 on the box with KDE and it was incredible, unbelievable fast... I was going "fuckin' brilliant!" and then hit the problem... There was a day when openssh wasn't part of a Linux distribution and now here's me, ditched all telnet daemons years ago in favour of openssh, not being able to connect a single server to get some more X11 apps running remotely and working on other machines...Nope, not possible. Damn annoying! I don't even run FTP servers any more, Users can only get sftp and FTP access should be banned. Anyway, I digress.
On many cases I find TWM more useful than Gnome and KDE, it at least works fast. Ditto with icewm with no extras, it starts up under a second on my poor laptop.
Puppy Linux. When loaded to RAM (requires 128MB) it made my slowest PC (a P3-500MHz) faster than my fastest (Athlon XP2200+, 768MHz). Opening an aplication would only take a second. That's what all of the Linux distributions should have ended as, instead of FC/Suse bloatware (and I'm a (these days) FC3 + Suse 9.x + SLES + Centos user).
What I can't understand is, I can't do the same using 128MB and a Pentium III CPU with any of the recent distributions and I ask myself every time "What's gone wrong with my fast and beautiful Linux?". I know what: Bloatware.:(
I can't understand why this is a security feature? The only possibility is you are less likely to leave a shell with root at your desktop and go and get some coffee, leaving your machine vunerable. Surely it sets a password, it just sets it randomly and sets up the sudo trust relationship by default. Instead of attacking your PC for root access, I can as easily attack your PC for your user access, then do whatever I like, eventually. Most of the password-related security problems are due to user mistakes. I leave my laptop with a root shell on the window all the time although theoretically I shouldn't. I shouldn't scream any root password for a particular server over the phone but ocassionally I do that as well. Whatever that gets the work done, especially in an environment security is not that strict (read: development, academia vs. banks and business).
I used to use Redhat once time ago. It made sense, it was easy to administer using CLI, ncurses and GUI apps. For some reason or the other, I switched to SuSE and first FC was quite a dissapointment.
I installed FC4 recently and found a lot of differences to the old nice Redhat. Kpackage is no longer available so managing the rpms is only possible through CLI yum. It is not possible to create a software RAID array without using the CLI and using mdadm by by hand.
Ubuntu Breezy doesn't have these tools either but SuSE does. This really annoys me.
The worst thing is: Ubuntu and FC's documentation are really poor. They are (rightly) wiki bases but the content is mostly unusuable.
Eh? On this machine (a Linux loaded laptop): - 10+ xterm sessions - Konsole with about 10 sessions - Code system software x2 - Evolution - Konqueror - Firefox with numerous tabs.
On the second machine on my desk (a Win2k box with GeoShell installed) - Winamp - Toad - Acrobat - Oracle Designer - Oracle Repository Browser - three sessions of gvim - two sessions of Windows Explorer - Firefox - Code repository software - BOINC client - two sessions of CMD - Eclipse
The reason I have all of them open is called work and this is a reasonably relaxed day. When it gets busy all of my four virtual desktops on the laptop is full of applications, monitoring tools, processes in remote boxes, processes in local box etc.
There are times you need so many windows open and surfing for porn isn't one of them.
Movies thought me that space is cold. won't the radio equipment will cool better if you leave the spacesuit behind?:)
Joke aside it is quite hard to explain people that space isn't cold and you would feel very hot if you were in orbit, especially if your only cooling method is inefficient radiation.
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It is nice to hear that you are happy with your fast and stable Slackware. It is one of my favourite distros as well. I blame Gnome.
Let's start with essentials:
Openoffice? Check.
Firefox? Check.
Gaim? Check.
Azureus? Check.
BS Player? Check.
BOINC Seti@home? Check.
Thunderbird? Check.
Eclipse IDE? Check.
gvim? Check.
Quake III? Check.
OK, I'm done. I have a large amount of other software but the bare essentials for a casual user is now covered.
The fact is, Win2K is Windows as good as it will ever get. Faster than XP, more stable than NT4, it is probably the best OS MS ever wrote and will ever write.
On the other hand, I still prefer my Linux boxen to work with.
Metallica? Hard and angry? Not since 1988! Since then I've stopped listening any crap they come up with. The most angriest they were was around 1986 and since then they've grown up to become boring old farts.
That's what the preview button is for. Arrrgh!
On the other hand, I would pay for Radio 4 but at least that's for free (for now).
3 g is not that much, a medieval knight with his armour usually experiences something akin to 2g. The force is uniform and will feel like you are very heavy but you will still be able to move your arms reasonably freely.
About jumps, stratosheric jumps are not dangerous, it's been done before many times. As long as you have a partial pressure-suit with insulation, you will survive. For a shape like human body the terminal speed is around 300km/h in all cases.
As a result the rescue goes up with only two on board, not an other 7. What would be the point of sending 5 more passangers?
Basicly to match vectors you have a very small launch window. You will either aim for ISS or for the escape pod. If you have just lost 25% power at one of the main shuttle engines you just lost your window. You will have to follow an alternative plan. This is why all this "stay safe in ISS" is a bullshit plan. It will only work if a tile gets loose. It won't work in Challenger-type scenarios (which there is no escape with the current Shuttle tech) nor Columbia (something happens unnoticed and you have the failure in the re-entry).
Going up and down is easy. Changing vectors and orbit is just too expensive in energy terms so you don't do it. The whole point is getting it right the first time.
A BUBBLEGUM!!
You have introduced them to the SIN!
You are going to burn in hell because of that bubblegum!
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I had a 1.0 kernel with X11 and all of the eye candy I cared and I definitely had more than two X11 apps running at the same time, on an 486dx2-66 with 16MB of RAM! We are talking about serious bloatware, not just eye candy that can be turned off.
The only way of getting comfortable with an Pentium 150MHz with 48MB was having Dragonfly and XFCE, none of the modern Linux distros would run fast enough. I installed Redhat 6.2 on the box with KDE and it was incredible, unbelievable fast... I was going "fuckin' brilliant!" and then hit the problem... There was a day when openssh wasn't part of a Linux distribution and now here's me, ditched all telnet daemons years ago in favour of openssh, not being able to connect a single server to get some more X11 apps running remotely and working on other machines...Nope, not possible. Damn annoying! I don't even run FTP servers any more, Users can only get sftp and FTP access should be banned. Anyway, I digress.
On many cases I find TWM more useful than Gnome and KDE, it at least works fast. Ditto with icewm with no extras, it starts up under a second on my poor laptop.
768MB, not MHz, dammit!
Puppy Linux. When loaded to RAM (requires 128MB) it made my slowest PC (a P3-500MHz) faster than my fastest (Athlon XP2200+, 768MHz). Opening an aplication would only take a second. That's what all of the Linux distributions should have ended as, instead of FC/Suse bloatware (and I'm a (these days) FC3 + Suse 9 .x + SLES + Centos user).
What I can't understand is, I can't do the same using 128MB and a Pentium III CPU with any of the recent distributions and I ask myself every time "What's gone wrong with my fast and beautiful Linux?". I know what: Bloatware. :(
Oh, weill, since you asked: we call it a thingy!
What else? I wonder what's the classical greek for "thingy"?
It's full of stars!
Those damned dependencies is the reason why you should use Slackware, not gentoo and save a lot of time.
I can't understand why this is a security feature?
The only possibility is you are less likely to leave a shell with root at your desktop and go and get some coffee, leaving your machine vunerable.
Surely it sets a password, it just sets it randomly and sets up the sudo trust relationship by default. Instead of attacking your PC for root access, I can as easily attack your PC for your user access, then do whatever I like, eventually.
Most of the password-related security problems are due to user mistakes. I leave my laptop with a root shell on the window all the time although theoretically I shouldn't. I shouldn't scream any root password for a particular server over the phone but ocassionally I do that as well. Whatever that gets the work done, especially in an environment security is not that strict (read: development, academia vs. banks and business).
I used to use Redhat once time ago. It made sense, it was easy to administer using CLI, ncurses and GUI apps. For some reason or the other, I switched to SuSE and first FC was quite a dissapointment.
I installed FC4 recently and found a lot of differences to the old nice Redhat. Kpackage is no longer available so managing the rpms is only possible through CLI yum. It is not possible to create a software RAID array without using the CLI and using mdadm by by hand.
Ubuntu Breezy doesn't have these tools either but SuSE does. This really annoys me.
The worst thing is: Ubuntu and FC's documentation are really poor. They are (rightly) wiki bases but the content is mostly unusuable.
Eh?
On this machine (a Linux loaded laptop):
- 10+ xterm sessions
- Konsole with about 10 sessions
- Code system software x2
- Evolution
- Konqueror
- Firefox with numerous tabs.
On the second machine on my desk (a Win2k box with GeoShell installed)
- Winamp
- Toad
- Acrobat
- Oracle Designer
- Oracle Repository Browser
- three sessions of gvim
- two sessions of Windows Explorer
- Firefox
- Code repository software
- BOINC client
- two sessions of CMD
- Eclipse
The reason I have all of them open is called work and this is a reasonably relaxed day. When it gets busy all of my four virtual desktops on the laptop is full of applications, monitoring tools, processes in remote boxes, processes in local box etc.
There are times you need so many windows open and surfing for porn isn't one of them.
cheers, I should do something about my radios and antennas and get interested in the hobby again.
My Yaesu is not junk and I am not old, you insensitive clod!
And what's the problem with that? I love smut.
They are not that expensive but I never did any ATV work myself either.
Joke aside it is quite hard to explain people that space isn't cold and you would feel very hot if you were in orbit, especially if your only cooling method is inefficient radiation .