They must be using SCOS-2000 if it runs on Linux: in that case it is designed to run on SUSE with one or two mods (sorry, I can not remember which version and what mods). The missions I have worked on use either SCOS-1 (VAX/Fortran!) or run SCOS-2000 on Solaris.
Oh - and SCOS is definitly NOT free - it is owned by ESA.
> Sturmey-Archer! I had a hub-geared one in the 80's, are they still made?
Yes - but SA went bust and are now being made by Sun Race (www.sturmey-archer.com). SRAM and Shimano also make "normal" hub gears (ie not the v. expensive Rohloffs)
> What keys do you "liberate" from your keyboards?
Not the answer you were after, but at home I use the Happy Hacker 2 keyboard so I have dropped all the function keys, keypad keys and the insert/del/home/end/pgup/pgdn keys:-)
> No, it doesn't. It reveals that MS has used some BSD code...
Perhaps you could have pointed out the "strings" posters' possible confusion - that the BSD licence is more relaxed than the GPL. Hence it is OK for MS (or others) to incorperate it (and IIRC credit is give to BSD in MS licences).
This is what is happening, and one of the basis of smaller, faster, cheaper. For example (at ESA) the satellite control system for Mars Express was derived heavily from Rosetta and Venus Express will derive from Mars Express... And ESA has developed it's own infrastructure that sits between the OS and the mission-specific software (SCOS-2000).
And the "Polar Platform" (PPF) forms the basis of low earth orbit satellites, eg Envisat.
> ESA's budget for 2002 was around 2,8 bn euros. With this sort of money for last four years they were able to put together a mission to Mars
Sounds like you did not do you homework - see for example: http://sci.esa.int/home/ourmissions/index.cfm
This budget funded: - current science missions: Ulysses, Soho, Huygens, Cluster, XMM, Integral, Hubble(with NASA) - kept ERS-2 running and is now running Envisat - 16 missions at various stages of development - launched XMM, Cluster, Integral and Envisat - nearly (!!) launched Rosetta (post-poned)
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> "In true British low-budget fashion..."
Except that most of the budget has come from ESA, in which the UK is a minor contributor (sorry, I can not remember the numbers)
Regards, Simon
Having worked with SCOS-1 and now SCOS-2000 I can confirm that no SCOS software has ever left the ground !!
Regards, Simon
> Any idea of the distribution they are using ?
They must be using SCOS-2000 if it runs on Linux: in that case it is designed to run on SUSE with one or two mods (sorry, I can not remember which version and what mods). The missions I have worked on use either SCOS-1 (VAX/Fortran!) or run SCOS-2000 on Solaris.
Oh - and SCOS is definitly NOT free - it is owned by ESA.
Regards, Simon
> Sturmey-Archer! I had a hub-geared one in the 80's, are they still made?
Yes - but SA went bust and are now being made by Sun Race (www.sturmey-archer.com). SRAM and Shimano also make "normal" hub gears (ie not the v. expensive Rohloffs)
> What keys do you "liberate" from your keyboards?
:-)
Not the answer you were after, but at home I use the Happy Hacker 2 keyboard so I have dropped all the function keys, keypad keys and the insert/del/home/end/pgup/pgdn keys
Regards, Simon
> No, it doesn't. It reveals that MS has used some BSD code...
Perhaps you could have pointed out the "strings" posters' possible confusion - that the BSD licence is more relaxed than the GPL. Hence it is OK for MS (or others) to incorperate it (and IIRC credit is give to BSD in MS licences).
Regards, Simon
> 2 and a half people? Cool. I wonder what the midget does.
I work 30 hours instead our company standard 40 hours so I always appear as 0.75 (or does this disqualify me from posting on Slashdot ?)
Regards, Simon
> ... something millions of miles away, than it is when it is 4 minutes from impact.
:-)
At 1/4 light speed that is nearly the same thing
Regard, Peter Pedant
Hence, AFAIK, most space agencies launch their rockets/shuttles out over the sea !!
Regard, Simon
> If you're gonna use XML, make it human-readable. That's the point.
IIRC OOo 1.1 offers save-as-formated-XML as a new option.
Regards, Simon
> I'm guessing you ride one
:-)
And by your comments I'm guessing you've *never* ridden one
Regards, Simon
Do not panic - ESA's Envisat is still rocking :-)
http://envisat.esa.int/news/index.html
Regards, Simon
This is what is happening, and one of the basis of smaller, faster, cheaper. For example (at ESA) the satellite control system for Mars Express was derived heavily from Rosetta and Venus Express will derive from Mars Express... And ESA has developed it's own infrastructure that sits between the OS and the mission-specific software (SCOS-2000).
And the "Polar Platform" (PPF) forms the basis of low earth orbit satellites, eg Envisat.
> ESA's budget for 2002 was around 2,8 bn euros. With this sort of money for last four years they were able to put together a mission to Mars
Sounds like you did not do you homework - see for example: http://sci.esa.int/home/ourmissions/index.cfm
This budget funded:
- current science missions: Ulysses, Soho, Huygens, Cluster, XMM, Integral, Hubble(with NASA)
- kept ERS-2 running and is now running Envisat
- 16 missions at various stages of development
- launched XMM, Cluster, Integral and Envisat
- nearly (!!) launched Rosetta (post-poned)
Regards, Simon