Re:It ends when they get some tech folks in there
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And who do you think they'll turn to for "industry experts"?
They'll turn to a talking head whose sum experience working with computers came from a Computers for Dummies book, and whose speech is filled with meaningless buzzwords.
In other words, a me-tooer.
Re:Install guide has some more details...
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But they do warn the second user if the first user decides to shut down the system.
What, you mean like...
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What's puzzled me is why NASA doesn't consider licensing Energia from the Russians and using it to lift the remaining ISS components. Because of its cargo capacity, they won't have to worry about cramming all the stuff into the Shuttle...
Energia is a proven platform, at any rate; and we wouldn't even have to send people up on it.
Come on, NASA, just get that Orbital Space Plane up so we have a people ferry. Save the heavy hauling for other platforms.
But Russians sent two missions to Mars satellite and both failed. The second one failed in a mysterious way: read here http://www.skiesare.demon.co.uk/phob-3.htm or search with google for other articles.
Hmm. Doesn't look like that page you gave is worth its salt. I think they've been reading too much Arthur C. Clarke:
The last transmission from Phobos 2 was a photograph of a gigantic cylindrical spaceship - a huge, approx, 20km long, 1.5km diameter cigar-shaped 'mother ship', that was photographed on 25 March 1989 hanging or parked next to the Martian moon Phobos by the Soviet unmanned probe Phobos 2. After that last frame was radio-transmitted back to Earth, the probe mysteriously disappeared; according to the Russians it was destroyed - possibly knocked out with an energy pulse beam.
Well, it just so happens that http://www.iki.rssi.ru/IPL/phobos.html has the last image from the Phobos-2 probe. Doesn't look like Rama to me.
Proponents might use this as proof: http://www.skiesare.demon.co.uk/phobufo.jpg but 1) you might notice it's from the same UFO-centric site, and 2) the photo was scanned from a UFO magazine. Hardly credible evidence at all -- the photo could easily have been manipulated.
The only fly in HyperSoar's ointment is that its success is highly dependent upon Hyper-X. Note how similar the designs are.
Additionally, Hyper-X is designed to use the engine block as a heatsink. It will run for a few minutes (which is all it needs to do to get up to speed) and then the engine will melt and the aircraft will splash into the Pacific. I don't think that would be a good thing for a passenger aircraft.
As one AC already mentioned, the term really originates from "wardialing" -- which, in the good old days of 300 baud modems, was the act of dialing through a large list of phone numbers to find numbers that had answering computers on the other end.
So now, warflying is related to wardriving (also mentioned above), which is driving or flying around to find open WAPs. Same principle as wardialing, different technology..
That was actuallty the effect that used to be produced on Google. I tried it about a month or so ago and the first result was simply the Microsoft website. I wonder why that changed.
It changed because the link isn't actually to Microsoft's website. Rather, it's to a search engine spamfarm that redirects to Microsoft.
So, the fact that it's not showing up on Google anymore is actually a good sign, because it shows that Google is cracking down on spammers (while Microsoft isn't).
Optical processors have incredible potential. And if you think that's good, just wait. The combo of an optical processor with optical memory is a one-two punch.
But if you want to get the full speed out of your processor and memory, as I recall, all the buses must be optical as well.
Otherwise you're limited by silicon and PCB boards again...
I work for a company that bases many of it's products on FreeBSD -- excellent OS - easy to customize, and we're not constrained by the GPL to give away our work.
The GPL does not constrain you to give away your work. It only mandates that you have to include your source code whenever you distribute the program--that's IF you distribute your program.
Generally we dont package up and sell our software, but rather sell services (accounts on our hardware running our software).
You could do the exact same thing with Linux, or... oh... GNU Hurd. There is nothing in the General Public License saying that you cannot make some software for Linux for internal use, and then sell services using that software.
Of course, this solar flare calls for the obligatory Star Trek joke: If this were Star Trek, we'd all be dead when the solar flare hits.
That said, the ground images from the Terra satellites are nothing short of amazing. Since I live in Southern California, it really put a perspective on things.
Does anyone else find it amusing that all the companies offering these prepaid cards for sale have had hits on their stock prices? Sure, it's probably unrelated, but hey...
And what about the security of this scheme? Surely they have to have a way of authenticating the cards, or otherwise there's going to be a horde of duplicates flooding the market.
I booted it [Mandrake 9.1] up, and my ext3 partition was missing all sorts of files. This surprised the hell out of me, because I've never seen a filesystem actually lose files it wasn't currently altering during a power failure.
When Mandrake runs the startup check, it first fixes the journal. Then, when you see ***REBOOT LINUX*** you are supposed to do exactly that.
Exactly that.
I've been using Mandrake 9.1 here in California, which probably suffers more brownouts and blackouts than any other state. As long as I reboot when it tells me to, I don't lose anything...
Email as it exists today is based on the cooperation of thousands of private servers, owned by private entities. Those entities aren't bound by "common carrier" status like the phone company; they have every right to decide what they do or don't want to carry on their systems.
You're right about the private server part, but you're wrong about the bounds. The E-mail servers are bound by the internet RFCs, and AOL has been casually (and flagrantly) violating those for years now.
I'm a DSL user. I used to be with Verizon, but got fed up with not being able to send E-mails as myself, so now I'm with a different DSL ISP. However, when I was with Verizon, I couldn't send any E-mails to AOL customers-- even with Verizon's asinine restrictions, from their own SMTP server! Even now that I'm on a different ISP I still can't send E-mails to AOL customers, no matter what I try. They're even blocking Yahoo! now, or so it seems. I never get their bounce messages, either.
Re:what players are better than Windows Media Play
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Kaboodle and noatun work pretty well for playing DivX-encoded AVI files under Linux, but I've had no luck trying to play most other Windows Media files.
I've caught the "flying car" bug in GTA3 a number of times. It happens whenever a path-driven car flies over a spot where the road has disappeared; it'll tilt at a crazy angle... and keep on driving.
But the most important thing is that I keep coming back to GTA3. Ah well, until they come out with Vice City for the PC...
The difference here is that *nix uses separate config files for the programs, so it doesn't NEED security settings for one file...
It's like having one big locked safe with many compartments in your living room, versus smaller safes locked in other rooms. Anybody can access the big one, if they know what they're doing, but not everybody can access the smaller ones.
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What, you mean like...
Oh, the horror!It's Windows CeMeNT Express! Just like Windows CeMeNT, but bluescreens 50% faster than ever before!
You could put it down as an "act of God." Maybe they'd accept the claim that way.
What's puzzled me is why NASA doesn't consider licensing Energia from the Russians and using it to lift the remaining ISS components. Because of its cargo capacity, they won't have to worry about cramming all the stuff into the Shuttle...
Energia is a proven platform, at any rate; and we wouldn't even have to send people up on it.
Come on, NASA, just get that Orbital Space Plane up so we have a people ferry. Save the heavy hauling for other platforms.
Hmm. Doesn't look like that page you gave is worth its salt. I think they've been reading too much Arthur C. Clarke:
Well, it just so happens that http://www.iki.rssi.ru/IPL/phobos.html has the last image from the Phobos-2 probe. Doesn't look like Rama to me.
Proponents might use this as proof: http://www.skiesare.demon.co.uk/phobufo.jpg but 1) you might notice it's from the same UFO-centric site, and 2) the photo was scanned from a UFO magazine. Hardly credible evidence at all -- the photo could easily have been manipulated.
Scratch one more conspiracy theory...
You have a point there. Still, there are enough hurdles to cross that I'm not going to hold my breath for 2-hour worldwide flights.
Not to mention, exactly how are you supposed to land that thing with its engine taking up most of the ventral side?
The only fly in HyperSoar's ointment is that its success is highly dependent upon Hyper-X. Note how similar the designs are.
Additionally, Hyper-X is designed to use the engine block as a heatsink. It will run for a few minutes (which is all it needs to do to get up to speed) and then the engine will melt and the aircraft will splash into the Pacific. I don't think that would be a good thing for a passenger aircraft.
Public service announcement: parent contains link to goatse.cx image.
That was actuallty the effect that used to be produced on Google. I tried it about a month or so ago and the first result was simply the Microsoft website. I wonder why that changed.
It changed because the link isn't actually to Microsoft's website. Rather, it's to a search engine spamfarm that redirects to Microsoft.
So, the fact that it's not showing up on Google anymore is actually a good sign, because it shows that Google is cracking down on spammers (while Microsoft isn't).
Optical processors have incredible potential. And if you think that's good, just wait. The combo of an optical processor with optical memory is a one-two punch.
But if you want to get the full speed out of your processor and memory, as I recall, all the buses must be optical as well.
Otherwise you're limited by silicon and PCB boards again...
I work for a company that bases many of it's products on FreeBSD -- excellent OS - easy to customize, and we're not constrained by the GPL to give away our work.
The GPL does not constrain you to give away your work. It only mandates that you have to include your source code whenever you distribute the program--that's IF you distribute your program.
Generally we dont package up and sell our software, but rather sell services (accounts on our hardware running our software).
You could do the exact same thing with Linux, or... oh... GNU Hurd. There is nothing in the General Public License saying that you cannot make some software for Linux for internal use, and then sell services using that software.
Do you really want to see a rerelease of MS BOB?
There already is one. It's called Windows XP.
Of course, this solar flare calls for the obligatory Star Trek joke:
If this were Star Trek, we'd all be dead when the solar flare hits.
That said, the ground images from the Terra satellites are nothing short of amazing. Since I live in Southern California, it really put a perspective on things.
Does anyone else find it amusing that all the companies offering these prepaid cards for sale have had hits on their stock prices? Sure, it's probably unrelated, but hey...
And what about the security of this scheme? Surely they have to have a way of authenticating the cards, or otherwise there's going to be a horde of duplicates flooding the market.
When Mandrake runs the startup check, it first fixes the journal. Then, when you see ***REBOOT LINUX*** you are supposed to do exactly that.
Exactly that.
I've been using Mandrake 9.1 here in California, which probably suffers more brownouts and blackouts than any other state. As long as I reboot when it tells me to, I don't lose anything...
You're right about the private server part, but you're wrong about the bounds. The E-mail servers are bound by the internet RFCs, and AOL has been casually (and flagrantly) violating those for years now.
I'm a DSL user. I used to be with Verizon, but got fed up with not being able to send E-mails as myself, so now I'm with a different DSL ISP. However, when I was with Verizon, I couldn't send any E-mails to AOL customers-- even with Verizon's asinine restrictions, from their own SMTP server! Even now that I'm on a different ISP I still can't send E-mails to AOL customers, no matter what I try. They're even blocking Yahoo! now, or so it seems. I never get their bounce messages, either.
Kaboodle and noatun work pretty well for playing DivX-encoded AVI files under Linux, but I've had no luck trying to play most other Windows Media files.
Maybe that helps. *shrugs*
I've caught the "flying car" bug in GTA3 a number of times. It happens whenever a path-driven car flies over a spot where the road has disappeared; it'll tilt at a crazy angle... and keep on driving. But the most important thing is that I keep coming back to GTA3. Ah well, until they come out with Vice City for the PC...
The difference here is that *nix uses separate config files for the programs, so it doesn't NEED security settings for one file... It's like having one big locked safe with many compartments in your living room, versus smaller safes locked in other rooms. Anybody can access the big one, if they know what they're doing, but not everybody can access the smaller ones.