It's not a matter of old equipment, it's a matter of the right tool for the job. The old imac is a perfect computer for some of the applications that schools have. For instance, in a school library what are the computers used for? 1) Searching for books, and 2) doing research online. You don't need a G4 or a P4 to use Google, or to search for a book in the stacks. Apple isn't pawning off old crap on schools, they're giving sys admins more choices.
I'm a physics student at UC Santa Cruz and I've been using the carbonized version of gnuplot for about a month now, and it's really well done. What's cool about it:
1st gnuplot looks good using OSX fonts, much better looking then i ever got out of a windows/linux box.
2nd you still use it from a console windows so all the commands are the same, as is the interface.
3rd You can save the graphs in the following image formats: PICT, MacPaint, PhotoShop, JPEG, PNG, SGI, Quicktime Image, TIFF, BMP
4th You can save graphs as quicktime movies, and show how a graph evolves over time.
5th you can still run it from the terminal using pgnuplot
"The Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer Satellite (CHIPSat) will be the first mission to use end-to-end satellite operations with TCP/IP and FTP. This concept has been analyzed and demonstrated by the NASA OMNI team via UoSAT-12; however, CHIPSat will be the first to implement the concept as the primary means of satellite communication."
Here are some website links:
Spacedev is (duh) www.spacedev.com
CHIPSat can be found under Missions.
Spacedev's stock price can be found at:
finance.yahoo.com
The Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley chips.ssl.berkeley.edu
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It's not a matter of old equipment, it's a matter of the right tool for the job. The old imac is a perfect computer for some of the applications that schools have. For instance, in a school library what are the computers used for? 1) Searching for books, and 2) doing research online. You don't need a G4 or a P4 to use Google, or to search for a book in the stacks. Apple isn't pawning off old crap on schools, they're giving sys admins more choices.
I'm a physics student at UC Santa Cruz and I've been using the carbonized version of gnuplot for about a month now, and it's really well done. What's cool about it:
1st gnuplot looks good using OSX fonts, much better looking then i ever got out of a windows/linux box.
2nd you still use it from a console windows so all the commands are the same, as is the interface.
3rd You can save the graphs in the following image formats: PICT, MacPaint, PhotoShop, JPEG, PNG, SGI, Quicktime Image, TIFF, BMP
4th You can save graphs as quicktime movies, and show how a graph evolves over time.
5th you can still run it from the terminal using pgnuplot
Physicsnerd
For more information try:
www.spacedev.com
go to missions, CHIPSat.
No, it's not. However it IS the first satellite to ONLY use TCP/IP to communicate.
From the spacedev website:
"The Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer Satellite (CHIPSat) will be the first mission to use end-to-end satellite operations with TCP/IP and FTP. This concept has been analyzed and demonstrated by the NASA OMNI team via UoSAT-12; however, CHIPSat will be the first to implement the concept as the primary means of satellite communication."
Here are some website links:
Spacedev is (duh)
www.spacedev.com
CHIPSat can be found under Missions.
Spacedev's stock price can be found at:
finance.yahoo.com
The Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley
chips.ssl.berkeley.edu