"You should need to manually edit the registry about as often as you need to manually edit conf files. The process, risks and need are very similar."
Perhaps, but I don't think the risks are the same. I'm not going to make my system unbootable if I mess up while tweaking ~/.emacs ~/.bashrc, ~/.kde/*, etc. The worst I might do is to break my login environment, which often can be fixed by simply rm-ing the offending file so a generic one can be recreated by the application on next start.
On the other hand, I load up regedit, I have instant access to change, and corrupt both user and system wide configuration. Sure, it can be convenient to have everything in one spot, but am I in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion or HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion?
System wide configuration files are in/etc while user files are in $HOME and opening a file in one does not expose everything else to a careless delete.
That, and the fact that if I make the system unbootable because of breaking a registry entry, good luck trying to fix it. Sometimes you can get into safe mode, but not always. Then what? With plain text configuration files, any other OS capable of reading the filesystem is capable of accessing and editing the configuration files to fix them. Not so easy with Windows (yes there are ways to access the registry offline, but it takes much more effort.)
I think, is a big part of the issue with the registry, and in fact perhaps Windows in general. Sure, it can be convenient and might be fine for many, but that convenience often comes at a cost.
Neither system is perfect, they each have advantages and drawbacks, but I tend to prefer the individual configuration files myself. Even under Windows I much prefer it when applications allow me to tweak.ini files then force me to dig into the registry.
"The Windows Installer has been the only sanctioned installation method for application software since Windows 2000."
Which is why even some Microsoft products still don't use the Windows Installer! (MS Flight Simulator 2004 jumps to mind right away.)
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"I wonder if it is against NASDQ/NYSE/etc exchange rules for a company to knowingly engage or have a 3rd party engage in unsolicited spam to promote the stock."
It is against SEC regulation (read Federal LAW). It's called "Pump and Dump" or "Microcap fruad"
As was previously stated, it's actually the Palm LifeDrive (but that can still be "confusingly similar". There is however a Creatve Sound Blaster Live! Drive, which was MY first thought on the article. It's a box that sits in a half-height 5 1/4 bay with various Analog and Digital outs and ins as well as an IR (remote) reciever. It comes bundled with the "Platinum" versions of their cards. There are also versions for the Audigy and X-Fi series of cards as well.
And what is to prevent you from having a different key for each server? There are plenty of people who do exactly that.
There are plenty of people who use the same weak password for every server... with that password on a note stuck to the monitor. If that password is compromised "access to every server you use is wide open."
The fact of the matter is, many weak passwords can be easily guessed and brute forced. a 1024bit key is realistically impossibe to brute force or guess, it would have to be stolen.
A GOOD ten character alphanumeric password could be at best relative to a weak 80-bit key (10bytes). It's actually less since not all ASCII codes are valid password characters (it's safe to assume only the standard 94 keyboard characters). Additionally, most users do not use truly random passwords which would further weaken the strength.
It is easy to intercept a password with any plaintext protocol (many IMAP/POP servers are STILL not set up to use any sort of encryption). It is virtually impossible compromise a private key without compromising the keyfile itself either through some form of social engineering, or by compromising the network or physical security of the device that contains the key.
Your customer is buying a new computer system and needs it to run the same operating system as their current system - for example Windows 2000 Professional.
You can pre-install Windows XP Professional on the new computer system, then offer to install Windows 2000 Professional, on their behalf.
The customer must supply you with the downgrade media, which must come from a legally licensed version of Microsoft retail, OEM / system builder or volume licensing partners.
Your customer can run Windows 2000 Professional until they are ready to upgrade the system to Windows XP Professional. At that time they would already be licensed for the Windows XP they purchased with this new machine. At no time can they use the 'spare' licence on another PC.
Windows XP Professional has downgrade rights to Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and Windows 98 (Second Edition). Windows XP Home does not have downgrade rights.
Yes, the DPI number is technically meaningless (some might say mostly harmless). What people really want is not DOTS per inch, but PIXELS per inch. Unfortunatly, that's not a number that is usually advertised, instead they give the deceptive dots per inch.
First, let's look at the pixels... A standard consumer P/S and low end professional DSLR camera would take images at around 6MP (Nikon D70), a high end professional would be closer to 12MP (Nikon D2X)
The 12MP D2X can take images at 4288 x 2848. Scaled landscape on an 8x10 (what most people end up printing at home, either 8x10 or 81/2x11) we get a resolution of (4288/10) x (2848/8) or 428.8 x 365 in true pixels per inch.
For the D70, it's native resolution is 3008 x 2000. Scaled landscape on an 8x10 we get (3008/10) x (2000/8) or 300.8 x 250 pixels per inch.
Of course if we, say, print a 5x3 which would give us 601.6 x 666 2/3 pixels from the 6MP D70. If we enlarge to say 13x19 we'd get about 153.8 x 158.3
Now the problem here is that Pixels per inch does NOT directly translate into Dots per inch. See http://imaging-resource.com/TIPS/PRINT1/PRINT1A.HT M for a more detailed description on why this is, and why, say, 720 DPI on a printer might translate into only about 130 true pixels depending on how accuratly the printer can place those dots. In short, it usually takes many DOTS of varying colors to make a single pixel. Plus there may be some interpolation and smoothing going on too.
PPI can be a factor of DPI but DPI by itself is meaningless. Printer manufacturers advertise DPI because they want the big numbers to impress uninformed consumers. With most of the high end, high resolution photo printers will give you comparable output in terms of resolution quality so you can't really go wrong there. What you really want to do is look at real photo printout samples if you can, not just for resolution but for things like color quality at different angles, the shine of the gloss for glossy inks, how much it smears/water solubility, etc. Those that plan to do any black and white need to be sure to look at black and white output, particulatly on the papers they plan to use. A printer that can do amazing color might do a poor job of B/W and something that can do great output on glossy paper might not do as good a job on matte paper.
My personal recommendation is to either go with the Epson R800 for up to the standard 8 1/2" wide prints, or the R1800 if you want to do larger prints (up to 13" wide). I have the R1800 and have used an R800 as well. The two printers are virtually identical other than a few things such as the position of the buttons and the maximum paper size. They use the archival quality UltraChome Pigments which are resistant to water, smearing, and are supposed to be fade resistant for 100-200 years depending on paper and environment. They can print on CDs and roll paper. The output looks great.
Sure, there are several ways. Primarily as a result of large parallel computing clusters such as Beowulf type systems, there have been several ways developed to manage packages on large groups of systems.
For the longest time I Had a relatively simple shell script where I could specify the group of systems and what packages to install and it would rsh to each and install them over a network mountpoint. I could do that because this was several years ago, a parallel cluster with a very specific and known configuration, and we were talking over a 100% trusted and isolated network.
Of course nowadays on anything but a completely trusted network like I was running on, it would have to run over ssh for security. Even on a trusted network it's usually better to run ssh however there are some networks where there are actually policies that prohibit encryption within the network for various reasons I shall not go into.
Also now, you can also use some tool like Parallel URPMI which was designed for managing large groups of machines (theoretically parallel clusters but it's not limited to that) and does essentially the same thing.
"debris in orbit could be a serious problem to satellites and other space exploration."
It is a huge problem. NORAD tracks countless pieces of space junk but there are plenty of things that are too small for NORAD to track, and those are the ones the we really fear. A collision, even with something very small, at orbital velocities can be catostrophic.
I face a similar issue. We have Agency "interoperability requirements" which now try to enforce Windows XP and Office 2003 (They also allow MacOS X 10.3+ and Office 2004) on the desktop. Even though I am just a technical peon, I would like to be able to push upward plenty of justification to perhaps get the people who DO write those standards to realize that adopting an open format that any application can fully impliment if it chose to would be much better for "interoperability" than forcing everyone to use a closed propriatary one that is only fully supported by one application. (with others having to reverse engineer it)
It's not been updated since 2001, but can perfectly play just about every MOD, XM, S3M, IT, UMX, etc. I throw at it. It even plays zip encapsulated files without having to decompress them.
You want COSPAS-SARSAT. (Cosmicheskaya Sistyema Poiska Ava riynich Sudov [Space System for the Search of Vessels in Distress]) (Search And Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking ) It is an international (mostly American and Russian) system of satellite detectors that detect up emergency panic beacons and can transmit the distress signal to rescuers such as the Coast Guard as well as the ability to locate the beacon to within a couple kilometers. It used to be only available for ships and aircraft, but last year was opened for the general public to be able to carry (such as when hiking).
The biggest problem with the 406MHz Personal Locator Beacons is that they don't come cheap at 1-2k. There also can be a hefty fine if they are activated in error, but they get the job done and it has saved many lives.
https://searchandrescue.gsfc.nasa.gov/sar.htm h ttp://www.cospas-sarsat.org/MainPages/indexEnglis h.htm http://www.navtec.de/english/elts.htm
Good Will Hunting would have been an excellent movie had every fifth word not been f this and f-ing that, and didn't have all the sexual jokes. The underlying story was excellent, but the surrounding presentation ruined it in my opinion.
Schindler's List (which just came out on DVD) is a masterpiece, something that truly shows some of the horrors of the Holocost. It was a heart wrenching and touching film that can make anyone with a heart cry. Unfortunatly there is a scene of a "medical exam" which amounts to the Jewish prisoners being forced to jog in circles naked. Now obviously that is not sexual in context but I still would likely not want my children to see that. The film, even without it gives a sad taste of how horrible the slaughter that took place during the Holocost was and so I think it's a very important movie. "Out of the box" it's rated "R" but with only a little minor tweaking it can easily be a "PG-13", perhaps even PG but I think the subject matter is a little intense for that.
Enemy at the Gates (while it had historical inaccuracies) was a fairly good movie beyond a drawn out sex scene that, while did not "show anything" still was obscene, in my mind it served no purpose other than a pubescent giggle. That could be easily have been removed without any impact to the movie at all.
Saving Private Ryan, another great film by Spielberg, had quite a bit of language and some gruesome violence. The language could be milded down while still giving a painful account of war. That (the language) is the biggest reason why a good friend of mine has not seen the movie.
I am not forcing my aversion to unnessecary sexual of profane content on others. If they want to watch "Good Will Hunting" in it's full obscenity then so be it, but just as they don't want me forcing my morality on them, I don't want them forcing their lack of it on me just to watch an otherwise good movie. Like others have said, it's about chose (which last I checked was a good thing). I want to be able to choose if I want to hear profanity, and watch sex in my movies or not. I'm not forcing anything on them, don't force anything on me.
That is actually how I always install. I have a non-public server that I throw all of this stuff onto, then I walk over to the machine, boot off the network floppy, point it to the server (can install over HTTP/FTP/NFS), and go. It runs exactly like a local CD install, with the same GUI installer (unless you tell it to do a text mode install), it pulls the secondary images off the server so you only need one floppy to boot off of.
As far as hardware support goes, I have had great luck with Mandrake, it will detect and configure during install, my TV Tuner, Sound Card, Printer, Scanners, etc. I'ts detected almost all hardware I've thrown at it, with the exception that it took some work to get 9.0 working with my Linksys 3.0 WiFi card. I've not yet tried MDK9.1 on the laptop yet, but the RC's and Cooker have been running well on my desktop.
You probably want to talk to the OMNI group (Operating Missions as Nodes on the Internet) (IP in Space). They have done significant work dealing with using IP to communicate with the spacecraft, including issues of security.
yup, ditto, in the Mall near me there is both a Babbages and am EB, most of the Babbages I go to carry some Linux titles so I normally go there first.
I popped into the EB, and asked about a title for Linux. I was given the same answer you were, "naw, we carry Linux"
I would pop in their periodically asking about a Linux title, always getting the same answer, replying, "well, I guess I'll just have to go to Babbages then, they carry Linux stuff". One week last month, I popped in there and saw on a shelf on the back wall....
RailRoad Tycoon II - Linux
Descent3 - Linux
Soilder of Fortune - Linux
and a few other Linux titles from Loki
so, I bought Soilder of Fortune from them. ~insert whispering voice here~ "if they carry it, they will buy..."
so, I guess the moral of the story is, keep at it, let them know that you want titles for Linux, show them there is a market, and if they are any sort of businessman/salesman they will try to satisfy that market once they see a large enough demand
I have bought titles for Windows first and then the same title for Linux when it was available (Descent3, SimCity 3000, UT(free binary download from Loki), soon SMACX)
why? I want the games now, but I prefer to be able to play under Linux. I vote Linux with my wallet/credit card.
besides, no matter what OS I happen to boot (if one of those two catergories, MS Windows or Linux), I will be able to play games without having to reboot into the other.
now, if we could only get RedAlert 2 ported, well be all set...
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ok, I made a mistake in terminology:-)
my apologies, "Darnnit Jim, I am a software guy, not a thermal engineer!"
still, the Heat/Power issue is a minor one and would only be a nice side effect, if it even makes a difference (remember we have not actually made any sort of tests yet!)
(it is times like this that one wishes he could go back and make a minor edit to a slashdot post);-)
oh well
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let me answer a few question...
PAZware "Dont they usaly write an independant os for satilites and telescopes and such?"
no, normally Sattelites use Propritary, COTS Embedded system like VxWorks
mindstrm "To claim it's 'more able to deal with the harsh radiation of space becasue it runs cooler because its halts the processor for brief times' is rediculous."
we never said that, we have not done any testing but because of the cooling APM features in the kernel it might be better. The problem is, in space heat does not radiate away from components. in order for heat to radiate, it must have air to radiate with, no air and you need to design a cooling system to keep the CPU from overheating. (like when you overclock, and the air circulation is not enough to keep the CPU cool, guess what, we have the same problem, we're not overclocking, but there is no circulation, so we need to find other ways to keep systems cool. the APM Idle functions in only one little but that might help reduce the need and expense for other cooling.
I_redwolf "Linux has been into space before this. Specifically in 96-97"
yes, Debian has been known to fly on a laptop on the shuttle, BUT a Linux system has never been in control of crucial systems, like that of Command and Control, that is one of our goals
papskier "Now we've got astronauts' lives dependent on linux."
if we weren't currently working on flying unmanned sattelite missions. currently not yet, there are no manned missions using Linux in crucial areas. but that may very well change, and I'm sure when we send men to Mars, and the Computers running those systems are based around Linux 4.2.19 you will be the first to know
RayChuang "While NASA using Linux is very good, when will they trust it enough to use it as the primary OS for the main computers operating the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station?"
that will probably not happen, at least not for a while. Both the Shuttle and ISS are in deployment, meaning that the systems onboars have gone through years of development and testing. You will not see any major change of OS' in most existing systems, (imaging if you spent five years and millions of dollars developing an in house application that runs perfect on Solaris, would you change to Linux or BSD at the drop of a hat? no.) However, you may start seeing Linux in use on new systems.
Sarin "I hope they will give us the sourcecode of the programs they run on that machine, but I don't bet on that. Perhaps we will find out they actually use it to run a slightly modified version of lm-sensors!"
of course! this is Linux, Linux is under the GPL, nothing is available for download yet. currently what we have running is based on Lynuxworks BlueCat, and is really a simple "Hello World" (it's reall not very impressive yet, but we are taking baby steps). The initial work has all been done in house with some assistance from the FlightSoftware and IP in Space groups, once we make things publicaly available (and it will be) source will be included for everything that we work on and can Open up (there are somethings that we will probably not be able to open due to NDA issues, but they will most likely be very specific to the Univ. Surrey Sat (http://www.sstl.co.uk/missions/mn_uosat_12.html ) we will be using for our tests. which is a 386EX) but what we can, we will have available under the GPL
ln_sensors? no, we currently are not using that, although we don't know what we may need in the future.
check out http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ it's a dos port of GCC, which also includes most of the GNU tools you would find on a real Unix Box, including bash, ls, cp, grep, more, less, man, and much more, they have ported the vast majority of the GNU toolkit over to DOS, so I can load a Dos prompt, type bash and away I go, (or do the same from pure native DOS):o)
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"You should need to manually edit the registry about as often as you need to manually edit conf files. The process, risks and need are very similar."
/etc while user files are in $HOME and opening a file in one does not expose everything else to a careless delete.
Perhaps, but I don't think the risks are the same. I'm not going to make my system unbootable if I mess up while tweaking ~/.emacs ~/.bashrc, ~/.kde/*, etc. The worst I might do is to break my login environment, which often can be fixed by simply rm-ing the offending file so a generic one can be recreated by the application on next start.
On the other hand, I load up regedit, I have instant access to change, and corrupt both user and system wide configuration. Sure, it can be convenient to have everything in one spot, but am I in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion or HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion?
System wide configuration files are in
That, and the fact that if I make the system unbootable because of breaking a registry entry, good luck trying to fix it. Sometimes you can get into safe mode, but not always. Then what? With plain text configuration files, any other OS capable of reading the filesystem is capable of accessing and editing the configuration files to fix them. Not so easy with Windows (yes there are ways to access the registry offline, but it takes much more effort.)
I think, is a big part of the issue with the registry, and in fact perhaps Windows in general. Sure, it can be convenient and might be fine for many, but that convenience often comes at a cost.
Neither system is perfect, they each have advantages and drawbacks, but I tend to prefer the individual configuration files myself. Even under Windows I much prefer it when applications allow me to tweak.ini files then force me to dig into the registry.
"The Windows Installer has been the only sanctioned installation method for application software since Windows 2000."
Which is why even some Microsoft products still don't use the Windows Installer! (MS Flight Simulator 2004 jumps to mind right away.)
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/aut horization/
How do I deauthorize all of my computers?
If you have authorized five computers, a button labeled "Deauthorize All" will appear in your Account Information screen. This button will deauthorize all computers associated with your account. You can then reauthorize up to 5 computers. Note: You can only use this feature once a year.
"I wonder if it is against NASDQ/NYSE/etc exchange rules for a company to knowingly engage or have a 3rd party engage in unsolicited spam to promote the stock."
It is against SEC regulation (read Federal LAW). It's called "Pump and Dump" or "Microcap fruad"
http://www.sec.gov/answers/pumpdump.htm
http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/cyberfraud.htm
As was previously stated, it's actually the Palm LifeDrive (but that can still be "confusingly similar". There is however a Creatve Sound Blaster Live! Drive, which was MY first thought on the article. It's a box that sits in a half-height 5 1/4 bay with various Analog and Digital outs and ins as well as an IR (remote) reciever. It comes bundled with the "Platinum" versions of their cards. There are also versions for the Audigy and X-Fi series of cards as well.
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And what is to prevent you from having a different key for each server? There are plenty of people who do exactly that.
There are plenty of people who use the same weak password for every server... with that password on a note stuck to the monitor. If that password is compromised "access to every server you use is wide open."
The fact of the matter is, many weak passwords can be easily guessed and brute forced. a 1024bit key is realistically impossibe to brute force or guess, it would have to be stolen.
A GOOD ten character alphanumeric password could be at best relative to a weak 80-bit key (10bytes). It's actually less since not all ASCII codes are valid password characters (it's safe to assume only the standard 94 keyboard characters). Additionally, most users do not use truly random passwords which would further weaken the strength.
It is easy to intercept a password with any plaintext protocol (many IMAP/POP servers are STILL not set up to use any sort of encryption). It is virtually impossible compromise a private key without compromising the keyfile itself either through some form of social engineering, or by compromising the network or physical security of the device that contains the key.
check out http://www.aero.org/capabilities/cords/debris-risk s.html
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That is exactly the case.
Yes, the DPI number is technically meaningless (some might say mostly harmless). What people really want is not DOTS per inch, but PIXELS per inch. Unfortunatly, that's not a number that is usually advertised, instead they give the deceptive dots per inch.
T M for a more detailed description on why this is, and why, say, 720 DPI on a printer might translate into only about 130 true pixels depending on how accuratly the printer can place those dots. In short, it usually takes many DOTS of varying colors to make a single pixel. Plus there may be some interpolation and smoothing going on too.
First, let's look at the pixels... A standard consumer P/S and low end professional DSLR camera would take images at around 6MP (Nikon D70), a high end professional would be closer to 12MP (Nikon D2X)
The 12MP D2X can take images at 4288 x 2848. Scaled landscape on an 8x10 (what most people end up printing at home, either 8x10 or 81/2x11) we get a resolution of (4288/10) x (2848/8) or 428.8 x 365 in true pixels per inch.
For the D70, it's native resolution is 3008 x 2000. Scaled landscape on an 8x10 we get (3008/10) x (2000/8) or 300.8 x 250 pixels per inch.
Of course if we, say, print a 5x3 which would give us 601.6 x 666 2/3 pixels from the 6MP D70. If we enlarge to say 13x19 we'd get about 153.8 x 158.3
Now the problem here is that Pixels per inch does NOT directly translate into Dots per inch. See http://imaging-resource.com/TIPS/PRINT1/PRINT1A.H
PPI can be a factor of DPI but DPI by itself is meaningless. Printer manufacturers advertise DPI because they want the big numbers to impress uninformed consumers. With most of the high end, high resolution photo printers will give you comparable output in terms of resolution quality so you can't really go wrong there. What you really want to do is look at real photo printout samples if you can, not just for resolution but for things like color quality at different angles, the shine of the gloss for glossy inks, how much it smears/water solubility, etc. Those that plan to do any black and white need to be sure to look at black and white output, particulatly on the papers they plan to use. A printer that can do amazing color might do a poor job of B/W and something that can do great output on glossy paper might not do as good a job on matte paper.
My personal recommendation is to either go with the Epson R800 for up to the standard 8 1/2" wide prints, or the R1800 if you want to do larger prints (up to 13" wide). I have the R1800 and have used an R800 as well. The two printers are virtually identical other than a few things such as the position of the buttons and the maximum paper size. They use the archival quality UltraChome Pigments which are resistant to water, smearing, and are supposed to be fade resistant for 100-200 years depending on paper and environment. They can print on CDs and roll paper. The output looks great.
Sure, there are several ways. Primarily as a result of large parallel computing clusters such as Beowulf type systems, there have been several ways developed to manage packages on large groups of systems.
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For the longest time I Had a relatively simple shell script where I could specify the group of systems and what packages to install and it would rsh to each and install them over a network mountpoint. I could do that because this was several years ago, a parallel cluster with a very specific and known configuration, and we were talking over a 100% trusted and isolated network.
Of course nowadays on anything but a completely trusted network like I was running on, it would have to run over ssh for security. Even on a trusted network it's usually better to run ssh however there are some networks where there are actually policies that prohibit encryption within the network for various reasons I shall not go into.
Also now, you can also use some tool like Parallel URPMI which was designed for managing large groups of machines (theoretically parallel clusters but it's not limited to that) and does essentially the same thing.
http://clic.mandriva.com/documentation/ch10.html#
"debris in orbit could be a serious problem to satellites and other space exploration."
It is a huge problem. NORAD tracks countless pieces of space junk but there are plenty of things that are too small for NORAD to track, and those are the ones the we really fear. A collision, even with something very small, at orbital velocities can be catostrophic.
I face a similar issue. We have Agency "interoperability requirements" which now try to enforce Windows XP and Office 2003 (They also allow MacOS X 10.3+ and Office 2004) on the desktop. Even though I am just a technical peon, I would like to be able to push upward plenty of justification to perhaps get the people who DO write those standards to realize that adopting an open format that any application can fully impliment if it chose to would be much better for "interoperability" than forcing everyone to use a closed propriatary one that is only fully supported by one application. (with others having to reverse engineer it)
It's not been updated since 2001, but can perfectly play just about every MOD, XM, S3M, IT, UMX, etc. I throw at it. It even plays zip encapsulated files without having to decompress them.
Try mp3 Tag Studio http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/
You want COSPAS-SARSAT.
h ttp://www.cospas-sarsat.org/MainPages/indexEnglis h.htm
(Cosmicheskaya Sistyema Poiska Ava riynich Sudov [Space System for the Search of Vessels in Distress])
(Search And Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking )
It is an international (mostly American and Russian) system of satellite detectors that detect up emergency panic beacons and can transmit the distress signal to rescuers such as the Coast Guard as well as the ability to locate the beacon to within a couple kilometers. It used to be only available for ships and aircraft, but last year was opened for the general public to be able to carry (such as when hiking).
The biggest problem with the 406MHz Personal Locator Beacons is that they don't come cheap at 1-2k. There also can be a hefty fine if they are activated in error, but they get the job done and it has saved many lives.
https://searchandrescue.gsfc.nasa.gov/sar.htm
http://www.navtec.de/english/elts.htm
Exactly, a few examples.
Good Will Hunting would have been an excellent movie had every fifth word not been f this and f-ing that, and didn't have all the sexual jokes. The underlying story was excellent, but the surrounding presentation ruined it in my opinion.
Schindler's List (which just came out on DVD) is a masterpiece, something that truly shows some of the horrors of the Holocost. It was a heart wrenching and touching film that can make anyone with a heart cry. Unfortunatly there is a scene of a "medical exam" which amounts to the Jewish prisoners being forced to jog in circles naked. Now obviously that is not sexual in context but I still would likely not want my children to see that. The film, even without it gives a sad taste of how horrible the slaughter that took place during the Holocost was and so I think it's a very important movie. "Out of the box" it's rated "R" but with only a little minor tweaking it can easily be a "PG-13", perhaps even PG but I think the subject matter is a little intense for that.
Enemy at the Gates (while it had historical inaccuracies) was a fairly good movie beyond a drawn out sex scene that, while did not "show anything" still was obscene, in my mind it served no purpose other than a pubescent giggle. That could be easily have been removed without any impact to the movie at all.
Saving Private Ryan, another great film by Spielberg, had quite a bit of language and some gruesome violence. The language could be milded down while still giving a painful account of war. That (the language) is the biggest reason why a good friend of mine has not seen the movie.
I am not forcing my aversion to unnessecary sexual of profane content on others. If they want to watch "Good Will Hunting" in it's full obscenity then so be it, but just as they don't want me forcing my morality on them, I don't want them forcing their lack of it on me just to watch an otherwise good movie. Like others have said, it's about chose (which last I checked was a good thing). I want to be able to choose if I want to hear profanity, and watch sex in my movies or not. I'm not forcing anything on them, don't force anything on me.
This script was able to make a DVD image from the CD images.
It's for Red Hat, but works with Mandrake too.
Yes and great
That is actually how I always install. I have a non-public server that I throw all of this stuff onto, then I walk over to the machine, boot off the network floppy, point it to the server (can install over HTTP/FTP/NFS), and go. It runs exactly like a local CD install, with the same GUI installer (unless you tell it to do a text mode install), it pulls the secondary images off the server so you only need one floppy to boot off of.
As far as hardware support goes, I have had great luck with Mandrake, it will detect and configure during install, my TV Tuner, Sound Card, Printer, Scanners, etc. I'ts detected almost all hardware I've thrown at it, with the exception that it took some work to get 9.0 working with my Linksys 3.0 WiFi card. I've not yet tried MDK9.1 on the laptop yet, but the RC's and Cooker have been running well on my desktop.
Go to the MandrakeClub page, information is there, use the mirrors module.
I have passed this article onto them.
http://ipinspace.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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Chris Hendrickson
FlightLinux
http://flightlinux.gsfc.nasa.gov/
yup, ditto, in the Mall near me there is both a Babbages and am EB, most of the Babbages I go to carry some Linux titles so I normally go there first.
I popped into the EB, and asked about a title for Linux. I was given the same answer you were, "naw, we carry Linux"
I would pop in their periodically asking about a Linux title, always getting the same answer, replying, "well, I guess I'll just have to go to Babbages then, they carry Linux stuff". One week last month, I popped in there and saw on a shelf on the back wall....
RailRoad Tycoon II - Linux
Descent3 - Linux
Soilder of Fortune - Linux
and a few other Linux titles from Loki
so, I bought Soilder of Fortune from them. ~insert whispering voice here~ "if they carry it, they will buy..."
so, I guess the moral of the story is, keep at it, let them know that you want titles for Linux, show them there is a market, and if they are any sort of businessman/salesman they will try to satisfy that market once they see a large enough demand
I have bought titles for Windows first and then the same title for Linux when it was available (Descent3, SimCity 3000, UT(free binary download from Loki), soon SMACX)
why? I want the games now, but I prefer to be able to play under Linux. I vote Linux with my wallet/credit card.
besides, no matter what OS I happen to boot (if one of those two catergories, MS Windows or Linux), I will be able to play games without having to reboot into the other.
now, if we could only get RedAlert 2 ported, well be all set...
(ok, add StarTrek Armada, Voyager: Elite Force, Half Life....)
Chris
ok, I made a mistake in terminology :-)
;-)
my apologies, "Darnnit Jim, I am a software guy, not a thermal engineer!"
still, the Heat/Power issue is a minor one and would only be a nice side effect, if it even makes a difference (remember we have not actually made any sort of tests yet!)
(it is times like this that one wishes he could go back and make a minor edit to a slashdot post)
oh well
Chris
ok, I stand corrected
let me answer a few question...
PAZware "Dont they usaly write an independant os for satilites and telescopes and such?"
no, normally Sattelites use Propritary, COTS Embedded system like VxWorks
mindstrm "To claim it's 'more able to deal with the harsh radiation of space becasue it runs cooler because its halts the processor for brief times' is rediculous."
we never said that, we have not done any testing but because of the cooling APM features in the kernel it might be better. The problem is, in space heat does not radiate away from components. in order for heat to radiate, it must have air to radiate with, no air and you need to design a cooling system to keep the CPU from overheating. (like when you overclock, and the air circulation is not enough to keep the CPU cool, guess what, we have the same problem, we're not overclocking, but there is no circulation, so we need to find other ways to keep systems cool. the APM Idle functions in only one little but that might help reduce the need and expense for other cooling.
I_redwolf "Linux has been into space before this. Specifically in 96-97"
yes, Debian has been known to fly on a laptop on the shuttle, BUT a Linux system has never been in control of crucial systems, like that of Command and Control, that is one of our goals
papskier "Now we've got astronauts' lives dependent on linux."
if we weren't currently working on flying unmanned sattelite missions. currently not yet, there are no manned missions using Linux in crucial areas. but that may very well change, and I'm sure when we send men to Mars, and the Computers running those systems are based around Linux 4.2.19 you will be the first to know
RayChuang "While NASA using Linux is very good, when will they trust it enough to use it as the primary OS for the main computers operating the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station?"
that will probably not happen, at least not for a while. Both the Shuttle and ISS are in deployment, meaning that the systems onboars have gone through years of development and testing. You will not see any major change of OS' in most existing systems, (imaging if you spent five years and millions of dollars developing an in house application that runs perfect on Solaris, would you change to Linux or BSD at the drop of a hat? no.) However, you may start seeing Linux in use on new systems.
Sarin "I hope they will give us the sourcecode of the programs they run on that machine, but I don't bet on that. Perhaps we will find out they actually use it to run a slightly modified version of lm-sensors!"
of course! this is Linux, Linux is under the GPL, nothing is available for download yet. currently what we have running is based on Lynuxworks BlueCat, and is really a simple "Hello World" (it's reall not very impressive yet, but we are taking baby steps). The initial work has all been done in house with some assistance from the FlightSoftware and IP in Space groups, once we make things publicaly available (and it will be) source will be included for everything that we work on and can Open up (there are somethings that we will probably not be able to open due to NDA issues, but they will most likely be very specific to the Univ. Surrey Sat (http://www.sstl.co.uk/missions/mn_uosat_12.html ) we will be using for our tests. which is a 386EX) but what we can, we will have available under the GPL
ln_sensors? no, we currently are not using that, although we don't know what we may need in the future.
"Why Linux"
check out http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ it's a dos port of GCC, which also includes most of the GNU tools you would find on a real Unix Box, including bash, ls, cp, grep, more, less, man, and much more, they have ported the vast majority of the GNU toolkit over to DOS, so I can load a Dos prompt, type bash and away I go, (or do the same from pure native DOS) :o)
Chris