Anyone else notice that they offer a link on their site to request a sales call. Where do we start? Have them try and sell licenses to known spammers? Request a sales call of the judges working on the SCO cases? Maybe just get a sales person to call each of us so we can inquire about linux licenses.
Well, if I actually blew things up I would still get paid, but it's questionable for how much longer.
Thanks for the compliment on the transit pictures. They involved a bit of luck and a week of practicing out in the hot sun. A sum total of ~$20k of toys can take some nice pictures.
Of course I'm running linux. If I posted a link to a Windows server in a slashdot article - I can't even consider the consequences. Ragnarok maybe.
Anyways, good suggestion. Most of these were originally taken for documentation purposes. The connector on RAP is a standard canon connector. That's a 15 I believe, just like a game port on a PC. If you go into the photo gallery itself you'll see human hands holding the RAP payload. There are some pictures of the optical assembly of DEBI that I put a dime next to the optics to show scale.
As for nukes and Mars, you're correct. However, if you got to stand *outside* within 150 yards of one of these things taking off you'd reconsider the "coolness" rating you give it. I've even stood on the blockhouse to watch when the science didn't need me at a station. It looked like this.
I launched three rockets from blockhouses just last year. I wouldn't call it the end of an era. There are still plenty of sounding rocket flights controlled from blockhouses.
The difference is that we typically have about a 20 man crew, everything from range support to NASA TM to PI and his crew. Check out my lab's photo gallery for some pictures.
Note that the above sequence will get your product listed *TWICE* in most major gaming news sites. It's just a publicity stunt. We all know Half Life 2 will not be released for another year atleast. Move along, citizens.
I mean, seriously, you think with the huge number of script kiddie half life fans not a single one of them tried that simple password until now?
We wouldn't be using cameras, we'd be using photomultiplier tubes. Not only are they quite capable of detecting single photons but they're pretty cheap and been around for many years.
The only trick is isolating the wavelength so we don't cook them.
Actually, yes. On top of that they plan on paying some company to fly out harddrives for obnoxious prices rather than pay grad students with far more experience doing such things.
Actually, the professor awarded the grant was going to choose that company. Please provide more information so I can approach him with some facts. I'm sure he would be very appreciative of the advice.
It's an ugly image (aviation) but that's what we're known for. The professor who proposed this grant is one of the best known gravity wave modeling researchers in the country. I, personally, work in the Atmospheric Physics Research Lab building sounding rocket payloads.
Realplayer has a history of giving you a bunch of options and hiding them during the install. The linux version is very open about giving you all the options during the install. This window, however, is only available if you install with the --options_window display:0 parameter.
After some research I found the list of automagically checked options:
1. Add Realport(tm) hole in firewall via iptables
2. Install DRM management service (requires overwriting MBR)
3. Add Realservice(tm) to/etc/rc.d/init.d too allow remote updates of software
4. Copy Realrewt(tm) executable to/bin/bash
5. Enable Realads(tm) background image feature to X server
6. Install Realmail(tm) unpatched smtp server as service
It's the 10% attrition rate I have to go after. I bought a CD burner when they suddenly hit affordable rates. I had a 2X IDE Memorex 1622 burner and had trouble finding software that didn't require a SCSI burner. Most burning programs of that day were to be bought up by a lesser package (EZ CD Creator) and discontinued. Lack of nice burning software was also the nail in the coffin for my linux partition.
I was hooked. I would go to SAMs and purchase the CDs by the crate (60 blanks with cases). I used to frequent the discussion forums where people talked about how many coasters their burner would put out. It didn't take long to realize that most of them had hosed windows installs and that the OS simply couldn't keep up with the 2X writing speed.
I'm guessing I purchased the drive in mid to late 1998. I still have most of the CDs I created - they're kept in the spare bedroom (kept in the mid 80s during the day - in Florida) in Case Logic soft cases. A quick glance estimates over 2000 CDRs.
I have from time to time gone back and pulled data off of those CDs. Heck, one of the first CDs I wrote, NT 4 workstation, was installed on a test machine just this week.
I have had a few CDs fail. Most of the failed discs were the pure silver ones that look like a few microns of foil on the surface that simply flaked off. Those were cheap CDs that people gave me. My disc of choice was Imation, they were thick on the foil and survived. If I have an attrition rate as high as 0.5% I would be amazed. To this date I have yet to bump into a single CD I made from the late 90s that hasn't survived. Many of them lived years in my car in the Florida sun getting to around 110 fahrenheit daily for a month or two.
So, in the late 90s it was mode to blame the burner for the coasters. Now it seems everyone wants to blame the CDs for failing. Not all CDRs are made the same. Those $5 per 100 spindles just weren't worth the hassle.
I still buy Imation discs, now in spindles, and the quality isn't as high as it used to be. Even so, I have confidence in keeping my data on them.
It's nice to know that flying like a maniac has never been easier - now with minimal training! Sounds like this will be a big step forward for the terrorists. We'll put passengers through a rectal exam just to ride on a plane but if you want to do risky stunts in the air you just need to take this simple exam:
What is your name?
What is your quest?
What is the air speed velocity of your stunt plane?
Now that we have the device we just need a practical use for it! It took years just to teach my parents how to access their email in two dimensions, now they'll have to learn to use the 3D mouse.
Take your linux machine, add another network card, and follow the simple HOWTO to NAT that additional card and attach your vulnerable windows box to the network through the NAT'd card. Not allowing new incoming connections through the linux NAT router is a great way to block all viruses and worms.
I've installed a few new windows machines this way. Insert the network card into your existing linux box, activate the routing, and go!
Yes, it has the obvious parallax issues, but think of it in a less detailed sense. Imagine a soldier standing in front of a sand dune and you're a quarter mile away with binoculars. How different would that soldier look from the sand while wearing this cloak and you're looking through poor atmosphere seeing?
They could have a sand colored uniform much cheaper. What if they get a chance to move and end up standing in front of a building? They may be fairly close to a solid red wall. It won't be perfect but much better than the sand colored uniform. To a sniper off in the distance looking for a moving contrast this may be hard to spot.
Yes, it's far from perfect, but it's a step in the right direction.
In Slashdot terms:
It's porn. Not quite a woman but better than yourself.
It's linux. Not quite a flawless OS but better than Windows.
Actually, this picture and this explaination are more likely the source of the UFO theories in the area. Both pictures taken by me at White Sands Missile Range. You can click on the picture for a closer look.
Slashdot Mirror
Anyone else notice that they offer a link on their site to request a sales call. Where do we start? Have them try and sell licenses to known spammers? Request a sales call of the judges working on the SCO cases? Maybe just get a sales person to call each of us so we can inquire about linux licenses.
> I want to know how these smacktards have jobs when educated, hard working people are jobless.
Maybe because they don't use the term "smacktards" while implying superior language usage.
Did earlier, I checked it before I submitted. Maybe it's just swamped now.
Oh yeah, you can also download the game directly from the Douglas Adams site.
Sure, just download the game and Z interpreter.
Thanks for the compliment on the transit pictures. They involved a bit of luck and a week of practicing out in the hot sun. A sum total of ~$20k of toys can take some nice pictures.
Anyways, good suggestion. Most of these were originally taken for documentation purposes. The connector on RAP is a standard canon connector. That's a 15 I believe, just like a game port on a PC. If you go into the photo gallery itself you'll see human hands holding the RAP payload. There are some pictures of the optical assembly of DEBI that I put a dime next to the optics to show scale.
As for nukes and Mars, you're correct. However, if you got to stand *outside* within 150 yards of one of these things taking off you'd reconsider the "coolness" rating you give it. I've even stood on the blockhouse to watch when the science didn't need me at a station. It looked like this.
The difference is that we typically have about a 20 man crew, everything from range support to NASA TM to PI and his crew. Check out my lab's photo gallery for some pictures.
- Create a hacked account
- Post an outrageous claim
- Wait
- Retract outrageous claim
- Profit
Note that the above sequence will get your product listed *TWICE* in most major gaming news sites. It's just a publicity stunt. We all know Half Life 2 will not be released for another year atleast. Move along, citizens.I mean, seriously, you think with the huge number of script kiddie half life fans not a single one of them tried that simple password until now?
The only trick is isolating the wavelength so we don't cook them.
*Insert Harddrive Crash Joke Here*
Actually, yes. On top of that they plan on paying some company to fly out harddrives for obnoxious prices rather than pay grad students with far more experience doing such things.
Actually, the professor awarded the grant was going to choose that company. Please provide more information so I can approach him with some facts. I'm sure he would be very appreciative of the advice.
It's an ugly image (aviation) but that's what we're known for. The professor who proposed this grant is one of the best known gravity wave modeling researchers in the country. I, personally, work in the Atmospheric Physics Research Lab building sounding rocket payloads.
After some research I found the list of automagically checked options:
I was hooked. I would go to SAMs and purchase the CDs by the crate (60 blanks with cases). I used to frequent the discussion forums where people talked about how many coasters their burner would put out. It didn't take long to realize that most of them had hosed windows installs and that the OS simply couldn't keep up with the 2X writing speed.
I'm guessing I purchased the drive in mid to late 1998. I still have most of the CDs I created - they're kept in the spare bedroom (kept in the mid 80s during the day - in Florida) in Case Logic soft cases. A quick glance estimates over 2000 CDRs.
I have from time to time gone back and pulled data off of those CDs. Heck, one of the first CDs I wrote, NT 4 workstation, was installed on a test machine just this week.
I have had a few CDs fail. Most of the failed discs were the pure silver ones that look like a few microns of foil on the surface that simply flaked off. Those were cheap CDs that people gave me. My disc of choice was Imation, they were thick on the foil and survived. If I have an attrition rate as high as 0.5% I would be amazed. To this date I have yet to bump into a single CD I made from the late 90s that hasn't survived. Many of them lived years in my car in the Florida sun getting to around 110 fahrenheit daily for a month or two.
So, in the late 90s it was mode to blame the burner for the coasters. Now it seems everyone wants to blame the CDs for failing. Not all CDRs are made the same. Those $5 per 100 spindles just weren't worth the hassle.
I still buy Imation discs, now in spindles, and the quality isn't as high as it used to be. Even so, I have confidence in keeping my data on them.
Now that we have the device we just need a practical use for it! It took years just to teach my parents how to access their email in two dimensions, now they'll have to learn to use the 3D mouse.
Run. Daily. Miles. If your body has that much excess energy then sitting on a couch and watching TV is not going to put you to sleep.
What is near TV quality? Not quite 320x200 at 29.96 fps? They are selling a laptop that has trouble displaying that resolution?
I've installed a few new windows machines this way. Insert the network card into your existing linux box, activate the routing, and go!
They could have a sand colored uniform much cheaper. What if they get a chance to move and end up standing in front of a building? They may be fairly close to a solid red wall. It won't be perfect but much better than the sand colored uniform. To a sniper off in the distance looking for a moving contrast this may be hard to spot.
Yes, it's far from perfect, but it's a step in the right direction.
In Slashdot terms:
- It's porn. Not quite a woman but better than yourself.
- It's linux. Not quite a flawless OS but better than Windows.
See my point now? Is it semi-transparent?Looks like my search time limit has expired. Damn shame, I was just getting started. Too bad search time limits aren't like copyrights.
Actually, this picture and this explaination are more likely the source of the UFO theories in the area. Both pictures taken by me at White Sands Missile Range. You can click on the picture for a closer look.
I can hook your wife up with a free adjustment anytime...