Umm... Is Ubuntu supported? I'm not trolling, I seriously don't know. I'm thinking that Novell may be considering themselves "only" because it's a distro with support behind it, sort of deprecating every distro put together by... um... non-professionals. Not that I support the differentiation, I'm just guessing at what they mean.
Of course, that leaves one open to wonder about Xandros. I've never used it, but it's reputed to be a very easy to use and approachable desktop OS and it's supported.
What really gripes me is that just this morning I ordered a SUSE 9.3 DVD from budgetlinuxcds.com. If I'd waited a month or so, I could have had the first openSUSE distro instead. $10 down the tubes, I guess.
Why not? If that's water ice, there's a lot of water there. Now, it's not enough to suit the needs of a planet full of people, but it's certainly enough to sustain a community of humans of some appreciable size, so long as they don't do something stupid like convert it all to rocket fuel.
Not to troll, as I concede your point, but is there a critical functional difference between actual UNIXes, the BSDs, and Linux? I mean, sure, the kernels vary from one to another, and the implementations vary, such as how security is handled. But if you created a chart showing some sort of indexed "difference" between OSes, all the UNIXes, BSDs, and Linux would probably be clustered closely around each other, with Windows NT variants, Windows 9x variants, Netware, MacOS 9 and previous, and all the other OSes that aren't in some way "UNIX-like" arrayed at different distances much greater than the mean difference between any two Unix-ish ones.
I think I put that the way I wanted to. So, am I wrong?
Not Linux, BSD (actually, a variant). BSD is actually Unix, whereas Linux is "Unix-like." Mind you, this distinction is only important to lawyers and zealots.
Seriously, how long until a hack to defeat this thing comes along? People with riotous intentions will put on their anti-crowd control beam undershorts and go do what they wanted to do in the first place, leaving the rest of the "peaceful demonstrators" to take the heat (sorry) for their indescretions.
You still going to think that way five years from now when this whole thing has blown over and no one cares about PPC any more? The "I still have a PPC" will be looked upon like the "I still have an Amiga" crowd was ten years ago; zealots.
It is really easy to find out information on someone, to an extent. Their address, DOB, etc. are all fairly simple to find.
Okay, what's my birthday? How long did it take you?
(Mind you, I make no special effort to obfuscate common information about myself, so if it's "easy" to find info on someone, I should be a good candidate)
Daniel Keys Moran has a great series, if you can dig it up. Emerald Eyes is the first, and has some stuff in cyberspace but not much. The Long Run is the second, and is thoroughly a cyberpunk novel. The Last Dancer is the third, and has a mix of cyberpunk and traditional sci-fi, if you can call anything Moran does "traditional."
Here's a great sample short story to get an idea of how he writes. Here's a bunch of links to other free-to-read fiction of his.
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Unfortunately, it doesn't make me not want to get it, either. I feel completely unmotivated in either direction, and much like I've just injected my head with a bunch of trivia I'll probably never use about a book I may or may not ever read.
We were wrestling with a similar question recently, and came up with WinSCP as a solution for Windows clients accessing "file shares" on Unix boxen. Our end users are very pleased.
I'm starting to wonder why anyone even bothers anymore. I'm not sure I agree that "we" (the world?) deserves free use of media content, but I think fair use would be... fair.
Ask any mechanic or crew chief for those things. They'll tell you that, if they aren't leaking, they aren't running right.
Most of the Herkys in the fleet were H-models, which they stopped producing in '69 or '71, I believe. After a few thousand combat landings on unimproved runways (gravel roads in the middle of nowhere), you'd have a few loose bolts as well.
For reference, the points are the balls of the feet, the side of one calf, the side of the upper part of that leg, the ass cheek on that same side, and the same side of the back.
Army guy, then? Former C-130 Loadmaster here. The way we heard it, Army guys used the five point system of feet, calf, thigh, hip, shoulder. Marines used a three point system of feet, knees, forehead.
Could have been one of those "urban legends," though. We always preferred staying in the airplane.;^)
I thought that plants, in general, survive on CO2. Plenty of that there. Also, mirrors do a great job of redirecting light without bouncing ions. One window with a fresnel lens at the apex of the dome can distribute a lot of light that's pumped into it from a wide array of mirrors on the outside.
Also, whoever said that a project like this was going to get done without a great degree of materials being hauled up there? The point is that, even if you have to bring every bit of infrastructure up with you, once you set it up, it grows food in a nearly-self-sustainable fashion if you nurture it correctly. Even if you have to keep pumping in biomass, if the output is food, all the better.
There's no way we could take full-pressure domes covered in thick radiation shielding.
Um, why not? A fabric dome is packable (look at camping tents). The fabric can be air tight (look at balloons). The radiation shielding is already there (soil). If you pressurize to even low earth atmospheric pressure (10 p.s.i.), that's plenty of pressure to hold up a fair bit of soil (each square inch of fabric essentially can hold up to 10 pounds of soil, which is a thick layer). In practice, it's quite a bit less than that, but a 10 p.s.i. pressure vessel should hold up a layer of soil that's at least several inches thick, particularly considering that Martian gravity is about 1/3 that of Earth.
How about a complete pressurized sphere, set in a hole that's half it's size, filled with the dirt that came out of the hole? You'd end up with an exposed dome over a pressurized volume of Martian soil. Ammend the soil as necessary with components required to grow crops, plant the seeds, and wait.
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Whomever modded this guy Offtopic should be flailed with MetaMod death rays. Or something.
Um... No thanks. What the hell is it?
It's a financial institution. It's more likely "Transaction Processing System," which is a generic term for software that does just that.
Umm... Is Ubuntu supported? I'm not trolling, I seriously don't know. I'm thinking that Novell may be considering themselves "only" because it's a distro with support behind it, sort of deprecating every distro put together by... um... non-professionals. Not that I support the differentiation, I'm just guessing at what they mean.
Of course, that leaves one open to wonder about Xandros. I've never used it, but it's reputed to be a very easy to use and approachable desktop OS and it's supported.
What really gripes me is that just this morning I ordered a SUSE 9.3 DVD from budgetlinuxcds.com. If I'd waited a month or so, I could have had the first openSUSE distro instead. $10 down the tubes, I guess.
Choose your favorite punchline:
a) Ah, so that's what's been coming out of the White House all this time.
b) If I commit, is it really a rollback?
Why not? If that's water ice, there's a lot of water there. Now, it's not enough to suit the needs of a planet full of people, but it's certainly enough to sustain a community of humans of some appreciable size, so long as they don't do something stupid like convert it all to rocket fuel.
Not to troll, as I concede your point, but is there a critical functional difference between actual UNIXes, the BSDs, and Linux? I mean, sure, the kernels vary from one to another, and the implementations vary, such as how security is handled. But if you created a chart showing some sort of indexed "difference" between OSes, all the UNIXes, BSDs, and Linux would probably be clustered closely around each other, with Windows NT variants, Windows 9x variants, Netware, MacOS 9 and previous, and all the other OSes that aren't in some way "UNIX-like" arrayed at different distances much greater than the mean difference between any two Unix-ish ones.
I think I put that the way I wanted to. So, am I wrong?
Not Linux, BSD (actually, a variant). BSD is actually Unix, whereas Linux is "Unix-like." Mind you, this distinction is only important to lawyers and zealots.
Seriously, how long until a hack to defeat this thing comes along? People with riotous intentions will put on their anti-crowd control beam undershorts and go do what they wanted to do in the first place, leaving the rest of the "peaceful demonstrators" to take the heat (sorry) for their indescretions.
If I'm not mistaken, if you discover a hack, you have the opportunity to become a fare.
You still going to think that way five years from now when this whole thing has blown over and no one cares about PPC any more? The "I still have a PPC" will be looked upon like the "I still have an Amiga" crowd was ten years ago; zealots.
Okay, what's my birthday? How long did it take you?
(Mind you, I make no special effort to obfuscate common information about myself, so if it's "easy" to find info on someone, I should be a good candidate)
Here's a great sample short story to get an idea of how he writes. Here's a bunch of links to other free-to-read fiction of his.
Sometimes I wish my head had ctrl-z.
I wonder if they've read my essay on content licensing. I'd be happy to ... uh ... license it to them. :-D
We were wrestling with a similar question recently, and came up with WinSCP as a solution for Windows clients accessing "file shares" on Unix boxen. Our end users are very pleased.
I'm starting to wonder why anyone even bothers anymore. I'm not sure I agree that "we" (the world?) deserves free use of media content, but I think fair use would be ... fair.
"Holy carp, Batman!"
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They're going to get some guy named Riddik as the test subject for the human trial...
Hehehe...
Ask any mechanic or crew chief for those things. They'll tell you that, if they aren't leaking, they aren't running right.
Most of the Herkys in the fleet were H-models, which they stopped producing in '69 or '71, I believe. After a few thousand combat landings on unimproved runways (gravel roads in the middle of nowhere), you'd have a few loose bolts as well.
Army guy, then? Former C-130 Loadmaster here. The way we heard it, Army guys used the five point system of feet, calf, thigh, hip, shoulder. Marines used a three point system of feet, knees, forehead.
Could have been one of those "urban legends," though. We always preferred staying in the airplane. ;^)
Well, at least they didn't name it Mad Dog 20/20. Everyone would recognize that as a straight ripoff of a name.
I thought that plants, in general, survive on CO2. Plenty of that there. Also, mirrors do a great job of redirecting light without bouncing ions. One window with a fresnel lens at the apex of the dome can distribute a lot of light that's pumped into it from a wide array of mirrors on the outside.
Also, whoever said that a project like this was going to get done without a great degree of materials being hauled up there? The point is that, even if you have to bring every bit of infrastructure up with you, once you set it up, it grows food in a nearly-self-sustainable fashion if you nurture it correctly. Even if you have to keep pumping in biomass, if the output is food, all the better.
Um, why not? A fabric dome is packable (look at camping tents). The fabric can be air tight (look at balloons). The radiation shielding is already there (soil). If you pressurize to even low earth atmospheric pressure (10 p.s.i.), that's plenty of pressure to hold up a fair bit of soil (each square inch of fabric essentially can hold up to 10 pounds of soil, which is a thick layer). In practice, it's quite a bit less than that, but a 10 p.s.i. pressure vessel should hold up a layer of soil that's at least several inches thick, particularly considering that Martian gravity is about 1/3 that of Earth.
How about a complete pressurized sphere, set in a hole that's half it's size, filled with the dirt that came out of the hole? You'd end up with an exposed dome over a pressurized volume of Martian soil. Ammend the soil as necessary with components required to grow crops, plant the seeds, and wait.