Not sure why you've been marked funny, unless my 'dry humour' detector is playing up.
If you go to maps.google.com and view the Satellite imagery in there, even if it's out of date, it'll have a (c) notice for who supplied the data. eg If I zoom to NW of Flagstaff, The imagery is (c)2009 DigitalGlobe, GeoEye. If you get in touch with them they may be able to help you trace which companies they've supplied the latest data to (or even when the last flyover they did was). Once you know that, try contacting the companies who write the mapping applications who use the imagery and play the charity card to see if you can get even a trial version of their software with the latest imagery. At least it gives you *something* recent to work with.
I work on mapping systems in the UK and while typical users often ask why they should pay for the software I've worked on, saying they could just use Google/Virtual Earth, part of my remit is to provide the latest monthly data drop from the OS and that's often a big chunk of what you pay for.
There's a tremendous effort involved in stitching together photo imagery and companies like DigitalGlobe are only going to release it for free (or on a restricted license as they do to google) if it means that there's benefit in selling the *very latest* imagery to other companies. I doubt very much that Google does the stitching - they'll drape the geo-located imagery over their globe and that's it.
He's talked about Open Source a fair bit in his 'Dork Talk' section in the Guardian, with a particular article entitled 'Deliver us from Microsoft'
"The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan't burden you with too much detail, I'll just make the outrageous claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two within the next five years and that your life will be better and happier as a result."
There have been several attempts to bring Elite up to date. One (Elite: The New Kind iirc) was taking the original BBC B assembly and rewriting it in C, then adding additional graphical handling on top so that the game was essentially identical with regard to logic.
"Windows XP service pack 2 users: In order to enjoy Movielink, you must enable ActiveX"...in which case, *thanks* Movielink. I don't think I *will* enjoy your site.
Have you installed NetworkManager? It comes with Gnome and KDE tray applications. I used to have real issues with roaming between WPA networks and NetworkManager does the job very nicely. It's not so hot on fixed IP at the minute, but that'll be sorted in.7 apparently.
I fully concur with the parent - I'm helping with an ESX environment at the moment that's running on 8 Proliant blades. Each of these will end up with on average 8 Virtual machines on each one and that leaves us with a lot of overhead 'just in case'. As well as redundancy it's physically taking up a lot less space and power.
Regarding redundancy, we're running with storage on a SAN - if the error detection system uncovers an imminent failure in the hardware (or if we decide to), the time taken to transfer a virtual machine onto another server doesn't take long at all - after all, you're only looking at shifting the memory, not the drive contents.
It *is* weird seing a fully function copy of W2k3 running SQL Server only taking up less than 100 MB RAM, though:)
Why wait for xfs/reiser support?
I needed a file system that could handle >4GB files and read/writable from Windows and Linux - I ended up installing Ext2FSD and it does the job nicely.
Since their original business (MSDOS) was based on taking a competitor's core product (QDOS) renaming it and calling it their own, I'd say they were going back to basics;-)
I believe Sage are also upgrading a chunk of their accounting products to use.NET - they've got a big push on cross training their existing developers, and it's a 'nice to know' on their job adverts.
Synaptic on my Debian box provides a nice GUI for apt. Comes in useful when I want to check availability of various packages rather than just doing an apt-get upgrade/update.
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Who's going to be the one to rant at *him* on the mailing list for this?
"he barely made it work, but he was not sure why it worked and he never bothered to write any documentation"
From the site:
'Maintenance of "black box" systems with no instruction manual or technical support '
Alarm! Alarm!
In the best tradition of WINE, you might be onto something:
"Linux Is Not UniX"
One response:
Change your image to say 'this article stolen from....'
Second response: Goatse image?
"Deep Silver and Apogee Software are not affected by the situation at 3D Realms. Development on the Duke Nukem Trilogy is continuing as planned."
There's a plan to this project?
Not sure why you've been marked funny, unless my 'dry humour' detector is playing up.
If you go to maps.google.com and view the Satellite imagery in there, even if it's out of date, it'll have a (c) notice for who supplied the data. eg If I zoom to NW of Flagstaff, The imagery is (c)2009 DigitalGlobe, GeoEye. If you get in touch with them they may be able to help you trace which companies they've supplied the latest data to (or even when the last flyover they did was). Once you know that, try contacting the companies who write the mapping applications who use the imagery and play the charity card to see if you can get even a trial version of their software with the latest imagery. At least it gives you *something* recent to work with.
I work on mapping systems in the UK and while typical users often ask why they should pay for the software I've worked on, saying they could just use Google/Virtual Earth, part of my remit is to provide the latest monthly data drop from the OS and that's often a big chunk of what you pay for.
There's a tremendous effort involved in stitching together photo imagery and companies like DigitalGlobe are only going to release it for free (or on a restricted license as they do to google) if it means that there's benefit in selling the *very latest* imagery to other companies. I doubt very much that Google does the stitching - they'll drape the geo-located imagery over their globe and that's it.
He's talked about Open Source a fair bit in his 'Dork Talk' section in the Guardian, with a particular article entitled 'Deliver us from Microsoft'
"The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan't burden you with too much detail, I'll just make the outrageous claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two within the next five years and that your life will be better and happier as a result."
There have been several attempts to bring Elite up to date. One (Elite: The New Kind iirc) was taking the original BBC B assembly and rewriting it in C, then adding additional graphical handling on top so that the game was essentially identical with regard to logic.
Lt. Caine: "I guess you could say, {removes glasses} [fill in useless plot device here]"
Fixed that for you :)
Sure enough, you get this message:
...in which case, *thanks* Movielink. I don't think I *will* enjoy your site.
"Windows XP service pack 2 users: In order to enjoy Movielink, you must enable ActiveX"
Courtesy of Wikipedia, but mentioned in quite a few other places:
The name Virgin was chosen because a female friend involved in setting up the initial record label commented "We're all virgins at business".
Off topic, but relating to your WiFi support:
Have you installed NetworkManager? It comes with Gnome and KDE tray applications. I used to have real issues with roaming between WPA networks and NetworkManager does the job very nicely. It's not so hot on fixed IP at the minute, but that'll be sorted in .7 apparently.
apt-get network-manager
apt-get network-manager-gnome
I fully concur with the parent - I'm helping with an ESX environment at the moment that's running on 8 Proliant blades. Each of these will end up with on average 8 Virtual machines on each one and that leaves us with a lot of overhead 'just in case'. As well as redundancy it's physically taking up a lot less space and power. Regarding redundancy, we're running with storage on a SAN - if the error detection system uncovers an imminent failure in the hardware (or if we decide to), the time taken to transfer a virtual machine onto another server doesn't take long at all - after all, you're only looking at shifting the memory, not the drive contents. It *is* weird seing a fully function copy of W2k3 running SQL Server only taking up less than 100 MB RAM, though :)
I think I'd prefer to be a virgin than marry the woman who was the project manager of Microsoft Bob.
Why wait for xfs/reiser support? I needed a file system that could handle >4GB files and read/writable from Windows and Linux - I ended up installing Ext2FSD and it does the job nicely.
Branson already has his own island for a staging area - maybe that was phase 1?
... or playing pacman
Since their original business (MSDOS) was based on taking a competitor's core product (QDOS) renaming it and calling it their own, I'd say they were going back to basics ;-)
Warning: unwanted Dimensional rifts or interdimensional transportation may not always ensue when powerful lasers are fired.
:)
Bet you were wanting to put all your Black Mesa experience to real-world use
Have you tried http://www.google.com/xhtml ? Very little non-relevant info on the front screen
I believe Sage are also upgrading a chunk of their accounting products to use .NET - they've got a big push on cross training their existing developers, and it's a 'nice to know' on their job adverts.
Reminds me of a quote:
"The one time Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck, it'll probably be a vaccuum cleaner"
Synaptic on my Debian box provides a nice GUI for apt. Comes in useful when I want to check availability of various packages rather than just doing an apt-get upgrade/update.