Reading the article, Lego had it's largest loss ever, primarily do to the cost of the movie tie-in toys.
They are going back to basics, the building blocks that made them famous, and thus IMHO, getting some master builders, makes sense, since they show off what can be done.
They can probably pay the yearly salary of a master builder, for what it costs them to have a meeting in hollyweird.
You still move files, dd things, and have a shell script, make, cc, and so on.
Yeah, a few options have changed here and there, but the fundimentals of the OS are easily familar if you time travel fowards or backwards a couple of decades.
We, which is to say NASA, is going to have to do some research into the long term effects of space on materials, before they can go to mars, with people.
I hope that some of this space "junk" is being brought back, to see how the various things have faired.
IMHO one should find a distribution they like, and stick with it. The FLOSS situation is such that any new feature is implemented by the others pretty quickly. And one should support the folks that make the distribution.
FreeBSD has been geared more to the server market, not that it really makes a difference.
They use someone's national network, but they just added new modems in Wisconsin, so what ever system they use, is growing, not contracting.
Even with broadband, there still is a use for dialup, especially for travel. If I had a laptop, the ability to dial up in Stevens Point, WI might come in handy if I decide to visit their famous Point beer brewery.
Sounds like the neutron star of SF lore. Where enough matter accumulates to crush down to sub-atomic particles, enough gravity to hold it all together, like a huge neutron, but not enough that sucks light in.
I remember the period when Digital was developing the Alpha to replace the CISC cpus in Vaxen.
Nice chip, but relegated to the history books now.
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Groklaw is the best thing, so far, to come out of the case.
There is an ever increasing need for common ground between the legal and geek communities, and Groklaw appears to be it. Neither techs or lawyers understand each other's worlds, this goes a long way, to bridging the gap.
A hearty "atta boy" to Pam, and a nomination for whatever annual award there is on the web.
A time server would be a really handy thing to have in a home network, imagine all the clocks in the appliances having the same, correct time all the time.
A company by that name used to do this, in a former iron ore mine.
This would offer the benefit of some magnetic shielding, from an EMP pulse.
For most companies, a single tape cartridge, or other removable media (cdrom, dvd-rom) will hold the most critical data, and fits just fine in a safety deposit box, at the bank. Or if your not that paranoid, in a box under the CEO's bed.
BSD itself died, back at v4.4 when UCB stopped doing development itself. The body parts have been transplanted into computer systems all over, almost every system has some BSD code.
The current BSD's are like the children of the original, taking on the family business.
BSD is like the late, great, patriarch, whose portrait hangs on the wall, in the living room of the family mansion.
What does a new hire at a place like SCO look like?
Putting the young guys on an old, stable, project allows the more experienced developers to move on to newer, and more exciting development projects, seems to be a reasonable strategy for software development.
The project management skills he will learn will help him in his future endevours.
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is there any value in retrieving the dead gyros for analysis on why they failed? and how to improve the design for future projects?
That episode makes me glad the US doesn't have very many nude beaches.
The Russians could have a Soyuz on the pad nearly ready to go. If the shuttle has another problem, they can launch a rescue mission.
If the shuttle lands safely, send the Soyuz up to the ISS.
Reading the article, Lego had it's largest loss ever, primarily do to the cost of the movie tie-in toys.
They are going back to basics, the building blocks that made them famous, and thus IMHO, getting some master builders, makes sense, since they show off what can be done.
They can probably pay the yearly salary of a master builder, for what it costs them to have a meeting in hollyweird.
My first Unix was v7, 25 years ago.
You still move files, dd things, and have a shell script, make, cc, and so on.
Yeah, a few options have changed here and there, but the fundimentals of the OS are easily familar if you time travel fowards or backwards a couple of decades.
We, which is to say NASA, is going to have to do some research into the long term effects of space on materials, before they can go to mars, with people.
I hope that some of this space "junk" is being brought back, to see how the various things have faired.
He peeked under the robes to see if they are like Scotsman.
Your terabyte drive, measured in binary, once formatted with a file system, which will come amazingly close to the tera decimal size, when done.
Parts of it are. After a week or two of plumbing, soldering copper pipes, I feel quite confident that nobody can snoop on my water.
Why? Code. But it is a wonderful, if small and tubular, faraday shield. Now what is needed is long thin secrets.
If your happy with what you got, why switch?
IMHO one should find a distribution they like, and stick with it. The FLOSS situation is such that any new feature is implemented by the others pretty quickly. And one should support the folks that make the distribution.
FreeBSD has been geared more to the server market, not that it really makes a difference.
Even with a big, slow, daemon like Apache, my older AMD K6 machine, has average idle of 96% over the time it has been up?
Those older machines can do a whale of a lot of work, when running in a non-graphical server environment.
They use someone's national network, but they just added new modems in Wisconsin, so what ever system they use, is growing, not contracting.
Even with broadband, there still is a use for dialup, especially for travel. If I had a laptop, the ability to dial up in Stevens Point, WI might come in handy if I decide to visit their famous Point beer brewery.
Sounds like the neutron star of SF lore. Where enough matter accumulates to crush down to sub-atomic particles, enough gravity to hold it all together, like a huge neutron, but not enough that sucks light in.
At least that was known space.
I remember the period when Digital was developing the Alpha to replace the CISC cpus in Vaxen.
Nice chip, but relegated to the history books now.
Groklaw is the best thing, so far, to come out of the case.
There is an ever increasing need for common ground between the legal and geek communities, and Groklaw appears to be it. Neither techs or lawyers understand each other's worlds, this goes a long way, to bridging the gap.
A hearty "atta boy" to Pam, and a nomination for whatever annual award there is on the web.
Wait a minute, that has been done.
Been a long time user, now it is one of the reasons I run Windows.
With the bill pay, one can schedule in the payments, and then let the paperwork pile up for a while.
Hopefully there is a FLOSS program out there that does the same things, but Quicken is the gold standard for personal finance IMHO.
Otherwise known as a city street in winter.
I can't imagine that salt spray on the inside of a motor is going to it any good.
A time server would be a really handy thing to have in a home network, imagine all the clocks in the appliances having the same, correct time all the time.
Sure beats the blinking 12:00 syndrome.
"There is something on Mars which hates space probes!"
The Romans didn't have to spend much to figure that one out, a long time ago. You can't expect to land on the war god's planet easily did you?
A company by that name used to do this, in a former iron ore mine.
This would offer the benefit of some magnetic shielding, from an EMP pulse.
For most companies, a single tape cartridge, or other removable media (cdrom, dvd-rom) will hold the most critical data, and fits just fine in a safety deposit box, at the bank. Or if your not that paranoid, in a box under the CEO's bed.
"Your eyes suck at blue"
Which is why red light districts do so much better than the ones in blue.
Steve B and Bill G install a new Windows PC, without any help, or special privileges, or special help lines.
Now, that is what I call a reality show.
BSD itself died, back at v4.4 when UCB stopped doing development itself. The body parts have been transplanted into computer systems all over, almost every system has some BSD code.
The current BSD's are like the children of the original, taking on the family business.
BSD is like the late, great, patriarch, whose portrait hangs on the wall, in the living room of the family mansion.
What does a new hire at a place like SCO look like?
Putting the young guys on an old, stable, project allows the more experienced developers to move on to newer, and more exciting development projects, seems to be a reasonable strategy for software development.
The project management skills he will learn will help him in his future endevours.