As doing a lot of my work on Windows, I can definitely say that having a central file registry also helps to keep the confusion down on how to locate a library. Lots of times in Linux I find that I need a library the simply is in the wrong directory (and is put there by default, not by my control), therefore breaking the application. In Windows, libraries have to be either registered or in the same directory, or in a directory that the application natively knows to look for it. Implementing this kind of feature into a package manager wouldnt be hard, and would also allow for the problem with dependencies to be resolved. As anyone who works on Windows knows, there's a least 3 different versions of Common Controls in the average Windows install. And they all co-exist. Why? Because they can be registered seperately, and applications that need a specific library can look in the registry, find the location of the very exact library they need and load it. This for me is why I find it harder to program on Linux, and why a lot of programmers I know dis it because of the shear unorganization of everything..
It would be really nice to see Linux start taking examples, more than just eye candy, from the surrounding operating systems. Linux, to me, is at about the usability of Windows 95; right when Windows developers started noticing how big of a monster it would be to support, and immediately started coding around it. This is why you can still grab a Windows 3.11 binary, and in a lot of cases, run it on anything new and it work. Then again in a lot of cases they won't work as well, but not even the best operating system and programs written under them should have to be supported for more than 10 years. Microsoft sees this and this is why they push new technologies and eye candy moreso than they push improved behind-the-scenes functionality.
Simply put, Linux developers aren't united enough. It's as if they aren't even working with the same operating system; each distrobution does it's own thing, and it's simply the number of developers that are willing to work on that distribution which makes one better than the other. That's why Debian's one of the biggest, that's why Red Hat is so huge, etc etc etc.
As the starting article mentioned UserLinux, as I've been looking at it, nobody seems to really care about taking Linux out of the dark ages, just tidying Debian up for the desktop. And as everyone will tell me, if I don't like it i should do it myself, and I really should... but one man can't change the world, even Jesus needed 12 diciples...
We know the suits arent sterile, that's the point, why not sterilize them? Bringing the suits back on would be easy to sterilize, just put the suit in an autoglave and tada..
But before they went out, this might not be so easy. Remember, astronauts are used to working in SPACE. SPACESUITS are massive, bulky, radiation shielded, air conditioned and heated, and many, many, many other things. On Mars, with the presence of gravity, this bulky, massive suit would just be plain useless. Instead, a more sleek body suit might be prefered. Something like a scuba suit here on earth, ribbed with heating and cooling and bio-sensors, and instead of zipping or snapping or locking, make it skintight and put on simply by crawling in. Put on a sterile helmet and air supply. Go through into the outer airlock and go under a quick, high pressure wash, then a longer hair dryer like phase. Step out on the planet relatively germ free. Wanna make even more sure? Use Anti-bacterial substances on area's that wont get washed well such as helmet fasteners, and coupling points. This module could be sent seperately and wouldn't be as uneconomical as you make it sound.
As for the temperatures on Mars, they would have to be well monitored.. during the day it can get really hot, and nights are really cold due to the lack of a dense atmosphere, but if you chose the right time, with a temperature around 100 degrees to 40 degrees, you wouldn't have to worry about freezing, and the heating and cooling in the suit should take care of any astronaut discomfort. Ripping a suit on mars should also see less of a consern as there is an atmophere, and the worse that would happen is a really bad sun burn. What about sand storms? Martian Sandstorms are really high speeds, but where the atmosphere is not dense, they don't have very much force. The worse damage would be the covering of solar cells or helmets or other equipment. The sandstorms shouldnt bother the marinaut; feeling more like freezing rain or at worse, small hail.
It's all about how the suit is designed, but as for cost, you can keep it all low simply by shipping first, arriving and unpacking later. You wouldnt need to resupply if you used an autoglave to do sterilization of instruments, and if you recycled your water supplies right. Antibacterial solution is very potent, so a pill bottle distribution of the equipment, mixed with water, should be able to last a very long time.
It makes perfect sense, everyone knows about the Wintel relationship, that's why Microsoft hasn't made an operating system to run on an apple computer, and has also stopped the flow of any apps that help to do so *ala, virtual pc*, even though apple's hardware is far superior.
I think the move of Microsoft to put G5's in the Xbox2 will start to shift this although.. Microsoft as well as anyone knows they can't continue to be architecture dependent especially in this new world. AMD has quite a good 64 bit chip now, so does IBM (and from that, Apple). The beauty of killing the old 9x Kernel allows for this, as the NT kernel was designed originally to run on different kind of archetectures, even when the design of 9x was still going on.
Basically.. Microsoft is gearing itself to extend it's hold on computing before it's grip becomes too weak to even matter, no speculation required.
I think we might have some cause in that.. The UserLinux team is working hard to improve elements of debian and try to organize everything.. And we still need a lot of help IMO... SUPPORT USER LINUX!
People.. seriously. If you want to DDOS SCO, use wget and grab the whole site to/dev/null/. Sure, it's not anything special, but it works, and you dont have to load a virus which massmails and fucks up filesharing..
Because people in linux land have this nasty habit of reverse engineering things.......
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I have to say it is a lot of pain.. especially for those not too akin to linux like myself.. I admit to being an advanced user of windows, but nearly none of the knowledge transfers over..
I commend this company for doing it in windows, but at the same time, I think what he's doing is stupid: selling software to run with windows seems to be going out of style.. especially since you can do it all and more with linux all for free.. it's just so much harder. We'll wait and see if this catches on....
But why is everyone here trying to answer him with things that aren't in the parameter of the original question? I mean the guy wants to roll his own Wireless communicators, why doesn't someone give him some links to bluetooth equipment, or tell him the electronic issues of this, or even how to convert a pda (running linux of course) into a communicator? These are the kinds of things I would expect.. come on slashdot, you can certainly do better than this...
p.s. Sorry I couldn't help, i know nothing about Radio communications....
It's a good question.. but why not expand it?
Why can't we build a satelite for _humans_ to go into space and be acquainted with the low gravity environment, test out what it's like on is. We did this kind of thing with the shuttle and spacelab (
The question is, why are we sitting around talking theory about something, sending mice into space and watching them, instead of sending human volunteers to do something we know is risky, but as safe as we can do in that environment?
On a sidenote: mice on mars would be a better experiment anyways.. to see how they adapt to the environment, not just the gravity. Anything can cope with gravimetric changes via exercize and a proper diet, mice included;)
Write a driver that emulates a CD-Burner. When you click "Burn" in iTunes, it simply creates an ISO image of the songs you want to burn. Then from there you have a cleanup program that turns the ISO back into MP3's.
I've only read that Xenon is used in current Ion drives... kinda wondering why more common gasses *read, nitrogen, probably the cheapest* can't be used. Anyone know?
If you RTFA'd, you would realize that the satelite isn't on a direct moonshot, it's spiralling out from an earth orbit, to a lunar orbit. This would be hella slow compaired to a direct shot, which should get it there in a few days at worst. The thing is traveling at 3850km/h, it's just not doing it with a direct vector to the moon, rather, a spiral.
WTF? Where have you been, living under a rock? Reruns are at an all time HIGH, in fact, all I ever see on TV is reruns.. I wish the VCR did kill reruns, that way there would be at least SOMETHING on those 400 channels...
20 years since the decision to give people the right to record tv shows, and we're now in a time when our civil rights to record things are at an all time low.. Never bring a camera to a concert, might as well forget using your awesome Tivo when HiDef tv comes along (DRM tv.. what a great station), MP3's.. pleease, you can get fined out the ass for those.. Face it, the Courts need to use this case as a Precendent and not just completely ignore it. Knowledge and entertainment is begging us to free it... it's the people who are greedy who holds it back.
w00teh. first post. Anyways... what's this mean for Mozilla? are they gonna chop it into bits, splice in some crap proprietary code and never show us what they did?
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As doing a lot of my work on Windows, I can definitely say that having a central file registry also helps to keep the confusion down on how to locate a library. Lots of times in Linux I find that I need a library the simply is in the wrong directory (and is put there by default, not by my control), therefore breaking the application. In Windows, libraries have to be either registered or in the same directory, or in a directory that the application natively knows to look for it. Implementing this kind of feature into a package manager wouldnt be hard, and would also allow for the problem with dependencies to be resolved. As anyone who works on Windows knows, there's a least 3 different versions of Common Controls in the average Windows install. And they all co-exist. Why? Because they can be registered seperately, and applications that need a specific library can look in the registry, find the location of the very exact library they need and load it. This for me is why I find it harder to program on Linux, and why a lot of programmers I know dis it because of the shear unorganization of everything..
It would be really nice to see Linux start taking examples, more than just eye candy, from the surrounding operating systems. Linux, to me, is at about the usability of Windows 95; right when Windows developers started noticing how big of a monster it would be to support, and immediately started coding around it. This is why you can still grab a Windows 3.11 binary, and in a lot of cases, run it on anything new and it work. Then again in a lot of cases they won't work as well, but not even the best operating system and programs written under them should have to be supported for more than 10 years. Microsoft sees this and this is why they push new technologies and eye candy moreso than they push improved behind-the-scenes functionality.
Simply put, Linux developers aren't united enough. It's as if they aren't even working with the same operating system; each distrobution does it's own thing, and it's simply the number of developers that are willing to work on that distribution which makes one better than the other. That's why Debian's one of the biggest, that's why Red Hat is so huge, etc etc etc.
As the starting article mentioned UserLinux, as I've been looking at it, nobody seems to really care about taking Linux out of the dark ages, just tidying Debian up for the desktop. And as everyone will tell me, if I don't like it i should do it myself, and I really should... but one man can't change the world, even Jesus needed 12 diciples...
Ah, well I read somewhere that temperatures varied from 100 o F to -270... but this was pretty old material and may have been inaccurate.
No, you just need to kill about 99.99% of the bacteria, mostly on feet and hands and other contact points. The UV will take care of the rest..
This is the idea of it being a skinsuit.. tensioning it right would negate the need for it to be presurized.
We know the suits arent sterile, that's the point, why not sterilize them? Bringing the suits back on would be easy to sterilize, just put the suit in an autoglave and tada..
But before they went out, this might not be so easy. Remember, astronauts are used to working in SPACE. SPACESUITS are massive, bulky, radiation shielded, air conditioned and heated, and many, many, many other things. On Mars, with the presence of gravity, this bulky, massive suit would just be plain useless. Instead, a more sleek body suit might be prefered. Something like a scuba suit here on earth, ribbed with heating and cooling and bio-sensors, and instead of zipping or snapping or locking, make it skintight and put on simply by crawling in. Put on a sterile helmet and air supply. Go through into the outer airlock and go under a quick, high pressure wash, then a longer hair dryer like phase. Step out on the planet relatively germ free. Wanna make even more sure? Use Anti-bacterial substances on area's that wont get washed well such as helmet fasteners, and coupling points. This module could be sent seperately and wouldn't be as uneconomical as you make it sound.
As for the temperatures on Mars, they would have to be well monitored.. during the day it can get really hot, and nights are really cold due to the lack of a dense atmosphere, but if you chose the right time, with a temperature around 100 degrees to 40 degrees, you wouldn't have to worry about freezing, and the heating and cooling in the suit should take care of any astronaut discomfort. Ripping a suit on mars should also see less of a consern as there is an atmophere, and the worse that would happen is a really bad sun burn. What about sand storms? Martian Sandstorms are really high speeds, but where the atmosphere is not dense, they don't have very much force. The worse damage would be the covering of solar cells or helmets or other equipment. The sandstorms shouldnt bother the marinaut; feeling more like freezing rain or at worse, small hail.
It's all about how the suit is designed, but as for cost, you can keep it all low simply by shipping first, arriving and unpacking later. You wouldnt need to resupply if you used an autoglave to do sterilization of instruments, and if you recycled your water supplies right. Antibacterial solution is very potent, so a pill bottle distribution of the equipment, mixed with water, should be able to last a very long time.
It makes perfect sense, everyone knows about the Wintel relationship, that's why Microsoft hasn't made an operating system to run on an apple computer, and has also stopped the flow of any apps that help to do so *ala, virtual pc*, even though apple's hardware is far superior.
I think the move of Microsoft to put G5's in the Xbox2 will start to shift this although.. Microsoft as well as anyone knows they can't continue to be architecture dependent especially in this new world. AMD has quite a good 64 bit chip now, so does IBM (and from that, Apple). The beauty of killing the old 9x Kernel allows for this, as the NT kernel was designed originally to run on different kind of archetectures, even when the design of 9x was still going on.
Basically.. Microsoft is gearing itself to extend it's hold on computing before it's grip becomes too weak to even matter, no speculation required.
Kiss your dreams of ever being with a lady goodbye if you even have to THINK about slashdot....
I think we might have some cause in that.. The UserLinux team is working hard to improve elements of debian and try to organize everything.. And we still need a lot of help IMO... SUPPORT USER LINUX!
i was thinking many people would run the command, making it ddos.. and if it were a virus that _just_ dos'd sco, i'd hop on the bandwagon.. but alas.
People.. seriously. If you want to DDOS SCO, use wget and grab the whole site to /dev/null/. Sure, it's not anything special, but it works, and you dont have to load a virus which massmails and fucks up filesharing..
Because people in linux land have this nasty habit of reverse engineering things.......
I have to say it is a lot of pain.. especially for those not too akin to linux like myself.. I admit to being an advanced user of windows, but nearly none of the knowledge transfers over..
I commend this company for doing it in windows, but at the same time, I think what he's doing is stupid: selling software to run with windows seems to be going out of style.. especially since you can do it all and more with linux all for free.. it's just so much harder. We'll wait and see if this catches on....
But why is everyone here trying to answer him with things that aren't in the parameter of the original question? I mean the guy wants to roll his own Wireless communicators, why doesn't someone give him some links to bluetooth equipment, or tell him the electronic issues of this, or even how to convert a pda (running linux of course) into a communicator? These are the kinds of things I would expect.. come on slashdot, you can certainly do better than this...
p.s. Sorry I couldn't help, i know nothing about Radio communications....
Brings all new meaning to "vote with your dollar", or however many dollars you choose to spend..
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It's a good question.. but why not expand it? Why can't we build a satelite for _humans_ to go into space and be acquainted with the low gravity environment, test out what it's like on is. We did this kind of thing with the shuttle and spacelab (
;)
The question is, why are we sitting around talking theory about something, sending mice into space and watching them, instead of sending human volunteers to do something we know is risky, but as safe as we can do in that environment?
On a sidenote: mice on mars would be a better experiment anyways.. to see how they adapt to the environment, not just the gravity. Anything can cope with gravimetric changes via exercize and a proper diet, mice included
Any Real Geek (tm) would have written this in perl ;)
Seems to me like it'd be really easy.
Write a driver that emulates a CD-Burner. When you click "Burn" in iTunes, it simply creates an ISO image of the songs you want to burn. Then from there you have a cleanup program that turns the ISO back into MP3's.
I've only read that Xenon is used in current Ion drives... kinda wondering why more common gasses *read, nitrogen, probably the cheapest* can't be used. Anyone know?
If you RTFA'd, you would realize that the satelite isn't on a direct moonshot, it's spiralling out from an earth orbit, to a lunar orbit. This would be hella slow compaired to a direct shot, which should get it there in a few days at worst. The thing is traveling at 3850km/h, it's just not doing it with a direct vector to the moon, rather, a spiral.
It was the end of TV. No more money from re-runs.
WTF? Where have you been, living under a rock? Reruns are at an all time HIGH, in fact, all I ever see on TV is reruns.. I wish the VCR did kill reruns, that way there would be at least SOMETHING on those 400 channels...
20 years since the decision to give people the right to record tv shows, and we're now in a time when our civil rights to record things are at an all time low.. Never bring a camera to a concert, might as well forget using your awesome Tivo when HiDef tv comes along (DRM tv.. what a great station), MP3's.. pleease, you can get fined out the ass for those.. Face it, the Courts need to use this case as a Precendent and not just completely ignore it. Knowledge and entertainment is begging us to free it... it's the people who are greedy who holds it back.
w00teh. first post. Anyways... what's this mean for Mozilla? are they gonna chop it into bits, splice in some crap proprietary code and never show us what they did?
I doubt you meet the system requirements ;) you need at least a 386...
But when can I get my fuckin gundam???