Hm... I have always been given the impression that not using warning and strict would generate a quantum tar and feathering to the perl monkey silly enough to forget them, unless it was a deliberate obfuscation piece.
Whatever didn't end up on
the Apple II was created for the brand-new,
hyper-inexpensive Commodore 64 – bolstered by one of the most
powerful
sound chips to date and the recent innovation of MIDI-sequenced music.
Many friends' doors were knocked down. With Atari out of the way, the
computer age was here.
My Dell Latitude D600 is perfectly happy dual booting XP and Linux.
Currently SuSE 10 and everything just works. Have
had Ubuntu, Debian (Sarge and Etch), and Fedora on it at some point.
Fedora works fine, but I didn't care for it. Ubuntu worked
well but had issues with the Intel a/b/g card. Debian was
great when it was great, a lot of work when it wasn't depending where I
was in the sarge/sid the etch/sid cycle. Debian always hated
my docking station as well. The current SuSE 10 install is
pretty much flawless. The only thing not working is my Sony
Erricson GPRS/EDGE/WiFi card and that is due entirely to my being to
lazy to go look it up, and therefore haven't even plugged it in booted
to Linux.
My laptop is my primary computer, for work and personal so it has to be
stable and useful. I currently run about 60/40 booted to
XP/Linux. For dev work both are needed and for network
audits linux is a requirement. Gaming, Visio, and our ground
system require windows. Between OO and picking up a copy of
crossover everything else works fine whichever way I happen to boot.
Some things to watch out for that bit me here and there.
Remember that with the Dell utility partition and XP
installed you only have two primary partitions left and plan
accordingly. What several people have said about a FAT32
partition is critical if you want to actually use you data.
Watch which WiFI card you get. The Intels are the
best bet. If you don't need triband, then the b/g units seem
to work on more setups.
IMHO I think this might not be true. When you consider the population of all the USAF installations, uniform and civilian, then add NASA and DoE that is a good number of people. Add all the contractors working on those sites and you have a pretty large community. Not all installation of any of the three have completely banned camera phones, but it is coming. There are also a growing number of major US companies beginning to ban camera phones within their building as well.
It's more of a choice of whether or not you want current technology.
If you want modern features you have to get a camera phone.
I want/need to have bluetooth for my phone for a number of
reasons and I have yet to find a bluetooth enabled phone wihtout a
camera. If I found one I would buy it tomarrow as I am forced
to swap my sim card several times a week into an older phone without a
camera to get on installations that ban cameras. I currently
swap between a Sony Ericsson w900i and a Nokia 6800.
As more and more workplaces ban camera phones this problem is only
going to get worse. There are a number of people I work with
buying Razors and then paying to have them modified to remove the
camera, how ridiculous is that? If the manufacturers insist
on force feeding us what they want us to want, there should at least be
options to special order phones without cameras.
For the record the silly comment wasn't in reference to your comment as much as to my initial reaction to it, it struck me as funny until I actually thought about it. No offense intended.
In adddition to increased safety and such as mentioned, it would also lower the bar for non-traditional interests to contribute inovation.
I would have to agree with the parent and GP posters. Human
nature being what it is, competition is critical due to the lack of
substantial and obvious financial or tactical gains to be had from
space exploration. A global joint effort while on paper would
appear the best way to achieve success, would IMO quickly turn into a
huge cluster of epic proportions. That being said, a set of
interoperability standards could go a long way towards
making healthy competition an effective method of achieving
some success. The parent's suggestion of an RFC is not nearly
as silly as it sounded at first though it would have to involve far
more than just NASA however wrong that may seem to us US centric folks.
Steady flow of information between the various groups would
go even further. Our nature and ever present politics will
probably always prevent 100% information exchange, but a high level of
exchange could go a long way. At least among the pure science
types this should be too much of a stretch.
I feel for the academy folks though. Building a satellite is
an all consuming affair and generally sucks away a good portion of the
lives of the people involved for a while, and seeing all your work turn
into twisted
chucks of aluminum would make for a very bad day. I hope not
to be in the same position anytime soon.
University Nanosat was detroyed when the Delta-4 heavy failed to place
it anywhere close to a real orbit. Fact is they took the ride
they could get, risky or not. With their original ride
grounded until further notice after the last shuttle accident it was
about the only chance for a low priority payload to fly.
Best wishes to the Navy for better luck with their payload on the next
Falcon attempt.
Certainly WPA under Ubuntu can be done, but it's not always simple.
Or fun.
Ubuntu did not like my Intel abq card at all. I ran
Ubuntu with KDE for a while on the laptop and was
overall fairly happy, but the wireless experience was far from pleasant
IMO. My complete newbie father on the other hand is
running and happy as can be. Fixed all his own issues via the
forums and is very nearly Windows free at this point.
Myself I have switched away from both Debian and Ubuntu to Suse 10.
I have been truly thrilled at the improvements since the last
version I tried (4.something) Wireless with WPA, bluetooth
just worked. My copy of Komodo from Activestate actually
installs and is stable. No X setup issues. The
newest incarnation of YAST makes install a piece of cake.
Can't complain at all. I do
miss Synaptic and apt in general, but needing more stable time and less
time dorking with stuff I am happier with my current setup.
Amen. I do have an interest in C/NOFS having done a good bit of work with payload testing once upon a time, but it is great to see this sort of thing. Helps make up for the fact that it still isn't flying.
The UTD folks are in fact excellent engineers. Unfortunately, the vehicle integrators at Sprectrum Astro have had repeated setbacks breaking the satellite during integration. C/NOFS is already a couple of years overdue for launch and the program shows no signs of moving foward anytime soon.
It's sad really to have it still sitting on the ground. There are some really great combinations of payloads on this satellite that while budgeted as a miltary vehicle is really primarily a science vehicle.
You answered your own question I think. I pay for cable service, but I downloaded and watched them all before they were show here in the US. I then watched several of them again when they were broadcast here in the US. The quality of the broadcast show was still noticably better esspecially when viewed on a bigass 55" TV.
Most people don't know what the hell a "torrent" is.
Exactly. So for all the people who aren't the savvy types, they just get a lot of recomendations to watch the show when it comes out. I personally pestered a dozen or so different people to make sure they watched it when it aired.
And the Boeing anouncers insist on refering to the CBCs as 'strap-ons'. As in adding such and such pounds of thrust per strap-on, or "We have strap-on seperation." Makes for interesting MST3K moments during the launch broadcast.
The first of the two payloads was successfully deployed to LEO prior to the second burn and subsequent fuel shortage. Haven't yet seen news on Nanosat's performance.
Color me jealous, I had to stick with watching the Boeing webcast of the launch.
Even on the ratty webcast link the launch was impressive as hell in my opinion. A plus to the webcast though was being able to watch a replay from the onboard cameras.
First watchign the Florida coastline shrink, then CBC seperation. There were a couple of other cameras showing first stage seperation and blowing the payload shell, but they weren't much to see. All in all, I would say it rocked though.
It was also good to see University Nanosat get a ride. Watching it sit in the clean room and not collect dust after the suttle accident cost the team their ride was pretty sad. Having friends and coworkers who put a lot of time in on that program was the primary reason I actually remebered to watch the launch in the first place.
I am sure there were a bunch of really thrilled undergrads yesterday from the design teams.
Re:MetroPipe: Knoppix for flash drives
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Thank you for the link. Just pulled it down and already seeing great uses for it.
Provided a patch for that particular vulnerability was even available at the time. Since there are those who must use IE and no patch was released, this is one time when the users should not get the blame.
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Hm ... I have always been given the impression that not using warning and strict would generate a quantum tar and feathering to the perl monkey silly enough to forget them, unless it was a deliberate obfuscation piece.
Never played the ST, but the Amiga was truly amazing in it's day.
My personal list of those that I played until my hands ached, my eyes bled, or I ran out of quarters. If not some combination.
ARCADE
Galaga
Defender
Tempest
Donkey Kong / Crazy Kong
DOS
Elite
Starglider
Hitcherhikers
Leather Goddesses
FPS
Unreal Tournament
Quake I II III
Duke Nukem 3D
RTS
Starcraft
Age of Empires II
RPG
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
Morrorwind (Xbox)
Oblivion (Xbox360)
OTHERS
Dungeon Keeper
Decent 1 & 2
Freespace 2
Bejeweled
Civ - I II III
Diablo II
Mechwarrior 2
Zaxon (Coleco Vision)
From TFA:
Whatever didn't end up on the Apple II was created for the brand-new, hyper-inexpensive Commodore 64 – bolstered by one of the most powerful sound chips to date and the recent innovation of MIDI-sequenced music. Many friends' doors were knocked down. With Atari out of the way, the computer age was here.
Weird you should say that.
My Dell Latitude D600 is perfectly happy dual booting XP and Linux. Currently SuSE 10 and everything just works. Have had Ubuntu, Debian (Sarge and Etch), and Fedora on it at some point. Fedora works fine, but I didn't care for it. Ubuntu worked well but had issues with the Intel a/b/g card. Debian was great when it was great, a lot of work when it wasn't depending where I was in the sarge/sid the etch/sid cycle. Debian always hated my docking station as well. The current SuSE 10 install is pretty much flawless. The only thing not working is my Sony Erricson GPRS/EDGE/WiFi card and that is due entirely to my being to lazy to go look it up, and therefore haven't even plugged it in booted to Linux.
My laptop is my primary computer, for work and personal so it has to be stable and useful. I currently run about 60/40 booted to XP/Linux. For dev work both are needed and for network audits linux is a requirement. Gaming, Visio, and our ground system require windows. Between OO and picking up a copy of crossover everything else works fine whichever way I happen to boot.
Some things to watch out for that bit me here and there. Remember that with the Dell utility partition and XP installed you only have two primary partitions left and plan accordingly. What several people have said about a FAT32 partition is critical if you want to actually use you data. Watch which WiFI card you get. The Intels are the best bet. If you don't need triband, then the b/g units seem to work on more setups.
Thank you. Now I need to see if they are for sale unlocked somewhere.
Here is the english link. No bluetooth though.
IMHO I think this might not be true. When you consider the population of all the USAF installations, uniform and civilian, then add NASA and DoE that is a good number of people. Add all the contractors working on those sites and you have a pretty large community. Not all installation of any of the three have completely banned camera phones, but it is coming. There are also a growing number of major US companies beginning to ban camera phones within their building as well.
It's more of a choice of whether or not you want current technology. If you want modern features you have to get a camera phone. I want/need to have bluetooth for my phone for a number of reasons and I have yet to find a bluetooth enabled phone wihtout a camera. If I found one I would buy it tomarrow as I am forced to swap my sim card several times a week into an older phone without a camera to get on installations that ban cameras. I currently swap between a Sony Ericsson w900i and a Nokia 6800.
As more and more workplaces ban camera phones this problem is only going to get worse. There are a number of people I work with buying Razors and then paying to have them modified to remove the camera, how ridiculous is that? If the manufacturers insist on force feeding us what they want us to want, there should at least be options to special order phones without cameras.
For the record the silly comment wasn't in reference to your comment as much as to my initial reaction to it, it struck me as funny until I actually thought about it. No offense intended.
In adddition to increased safety and such as mentioned, it would also lower the bar for non-traditional interests to contribute inovation.
I would have to agree with the parent and GP posters. Human nature being what it is, competition is critical due to the lack of substantial and obvious financial or tactical gains to be had from space exploration. A global joint effort while on paper would appear the best way to achieve success, would IMO quickly turn into a huge cluster of epic proportions. That being said, a set of interoperability standards could go a long way towards making healthy competition an effective method of achieving some success. The parent's suggestion of an RFC is not nearly as silly as it sounded at first though it would have to involve far more than just NASA however wrong that may seem to us US centric folks. Steady flow of information between the various groups would go even further. Our nature and ever present politics will probably always prevent 100% information exchange, but a high level of exchange could go a long way. At least among the pure science types this should be too much of a stretch.
Amen. Not enough positivity around this thread.
I feel for the academy folks though. Building a satellite is an all consuming affair and generally sucks away a good portion of the lives of the people involved for a while, and seeing all your work turn into twisted chucks of aluminum would make for a very bad day. I hope not to be in the same position anytime soon.
No it's here
Not so uncommon elsewhere either.
University Nanosat was detroyed when the Delta-4 heavy failed to place it anywhere close to a real orbit. Fact is they took the ride they could get, risky or not. With their original ride grounded until further notice after the last shuttle accident it was about the only chance for a low priority payload to fly.
Best wishes to the Navy for better luck with their payload on the next Falcon attempt.
Certainly WPA under Ubuntu can be done, but it's not always simple. Or fun. Ubuntu did not like my Intel abq card at all. I ran Ubuntu with KDE for a while on the laptop and was overall fairly happy, but the wireless experience was far from pleasant IMO. My complete newbie father on the other hand is running and happy as can be. Fixed all his own issues via the forums and is very nearly Windows free at this point.
Myself I have switched away from both Debian and Ubuntu to Suse 10. I have been truly thrilled at the improvements since the last version I tried (4.something) Wireless with WPA, bluetooth just worked. My copy of Komodo from Activestate actually installs and is stable. No X setup issues. The newest incarnation of YAST makes install a piece of cake. Can't complain at all. I do miss Synaptic and apt in general, but needing more stable time and less time dorking with stuff I am happier with my current setup.
That is great news, congrats. Hope all goes smoothly, or as smoothly as a launch prep can go.
Whatever the commentary here on slashdot, the comic is a really great concept IMO. Never hurts to try to attract young talent.
Amen. I do have an interest in C/NOFS having done a good bit of work with payload testing once upon a time, but it is great to see this sort of thing. Helps make up for the fact that it still isn't flying.
The UTD folks are in fact excellent engineers. Unfortunately, the vehicle integrators at Sprectrum Astro have had repeated setbacks breaking the satellite during integration. C/NOFS is already a couple of years overdue for launch and the program shows no signs of moving foward anytime soon.
It's sad really to have it still sitting on the ground. There are some really great combinations of payloads on this satellite that while budgeted as a miltary vehicle is really primarily a science vehicle.
You answered your own question I think. I pay for cable service, but I downloaded and watched them all before they were show here in the US. I then watched several of them again when they were broadcast here in the US. The quality of the broadcast show was still noticably better esspecially when viewed on a bigass 55" TV.
Most people don't know what the hell a "torrent" is.
Exactly. So for all the people who aren't the savvy types, they just get a lot of recomendations to watch the show when it comes out. I personally pestered a dozen or so different people to make sure they watched it when it aired.
And the Boeing anouncers insist on refering to the CBCs as 'strap-ons'. As in adding such and such pounds of thrust per strap-on, or "We have strap-on seperation." Makes for interesting MST3K moments during the launch broadcast.
The first of the two payloads was successfully deployed to LEO prior to the second burn and subsequent fuel shortage. Haven't yet seen news on Nanosat's performance.
Color me jealous, I had to stick with watching the Boeing webcast of the launch.
Even on the ratty webcast link the launch was impressive as hell in my opinion. A plus to the webcast though was being able to watch a replay from the onboard cameras.
First watchign the Florida coastline shrink, then CBC seperation. There were a couple of other cameras showing first stage seperation and blowing the payload shell, but they weren't much to see. All in all, I would say it rocked though.
It was also good to see University Nanosat get a ride. Watching it sit in the clean room and not collect dust after the suttle accident cost the team their ride was pretty sad. Having friends and coworkers who put a lot of time in on that program was the primary reason I actually remebered to watch the launch in the first place.
I am sure there were a bunch of really thrilled undergrads yesterday from the design teams.
Thank you for the link. Just pulled it down and already seeing great uses for it.
Provided a patch for that particular vulnerability was even available at the time. Since there are those who must use IE and no patch was released, this is one time when the users should not get the blame.
It's good for you to want. Disappointment builds character. :-)