I really doubt that. As of january, there were 4380 packages in the tree. Even if half of them don't compile on Darwin that's more than twice as much as DarwinPorts offers.
The NetBSD package system beats that: It can be used on Darwin, FreeBSD, IRIX, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and SunOS, see here.
mk-files for BSDOS and AIX are also present in the tree, so either the documentation is not up to date or support for those systems isn't finished yet.
Daimler (now Daimler-Chrysler) the maker of Mercedes cars and the like, does some hailstorm protection as well. But they use the "traditional" method of using planes to spray silver iodide into or over the top of the clouds which reduces or prevents the build-up of large hail stones.
in your startup script, rcorder will figure out the correct boot order for you automatically at boot time.
You don't have to fuddle with bazillions of symlinks spread over dozen of directories with funny names like "S40nfs", "S30network" linking to "a pile of custom scripts" hidden somewhere else to get the order right.
I think, the SYS-V init style was a good idea that hasn't thought up to the end. The result is an overly complex system. The NetBSD system was born out of the wish to make a system even more powerfull and flexible than the Sys V system, with individual startup scripts for every service as Sys V offers but without the Sys V complexity. And I think NetBSD fullfills that wish quite well with its automatic dependency ordering.
Could be some PCs with badly set clocks. Well, you know those windows users, they don't set their system clocks, have 00:00 blinking on their VCRs, use outlook and click on every fscking single attachements that made it into their mailbox.
But there's also a shift to metric/SI units. Many of the "new" very small SMD-packages are already designed with metric/SI dimensions in mind, e.g. the "very thin shrink small outline package" (VSSOP) uses a pin-to-pin distance of 0.5mm.
"We" are already working together. E.g. both Mars rover carry european sensors as pathfinder and sojourner did before. Or Stardust. Or Ulyssus. Or Soho. Or Cassini+Huygens. Or Hubble. The list goes on and on.
Probably because it makes a goot spy satellite. After all its design is based on one of the series of keyhole spy satellites (KH11 or KH12 or something like that).
No, there's a big difference between subdomains and hostnames in the DNS. Subdomains are SOA entrys and hostnames CNAMES, A, AAAA whatever..
Of course you can have entries with the same name but of different types, that's why "slashdot.org" is both a subdomain and a hostname, but "www.slashdot.org" isn't.
Fire up xephem, view->data table, control->setup, toggle "EaLght", press "apply" et voila: Current light travel time to/from mars is 9 minutes 24 seconds.
> The Sojourner rover from the 90s did very little science because it was mostly wheels and batteries.
I disagree, it did carry a simple but sophisticated instruments that has been used on foreign soil so far, the Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS). The wheels and batteries and solar panel where just build around that instrument to make it mobile since it hat to be placed directly on the surface of the material (rock, dust) you want to investigate.
I guess the reason you don't remember anything about it is that this instrument doesn't produce fance pictures and such, it just tells you the chemical composition of rocks and such, how boring.
> in the 80's we added VTOL or Vertical Takeoff and LAnding... does the Harrier Jet ring a bell? Actually this was somewhere in the 20s, do helicopters ring a bell?
Block DM-3 is a standard part of the proton launcher in the used configuration. You can all it the last "stage" if you want, it's comparable to the H-10+ of the Ariane 4, the L-5 of the Ariane 5, the Centaur used on Atlas launchers and so on.
BTW: The same thing happened with Asiasat 3 five years ago.
I gave a link to that site because it was the best/first hit I found with google. You can give a link to website which tells me a different story.
And: The russians ALWAYS say, it's not their fault in the first. They also said, a submarine from another nation did collide with the Kursk. (They have set up a commision on Dec 10 to investigate the reason for the Block DM-3 failure...)
Neither launchers nor satellites are controlled at Toulouse. The ESA's (not Arianespace's) control center is ESOC in Darmstadt, but i doubt it was involved in this launch.
Yes, the Proton puts 20 tons into LEO but the Ariane 5 puts 10 tons into GTO (Proton : 2.4 metric tons) which is the geostationary transfer orbit, a high elliptic orbit with an apogee near the geostationary orbit.
You can of course construct satellites with enough fuel and strong enough engines to lift itself from LEO to GEO, but the common approach is to let the launcher "shoot" its payload into GTO so the sattelite only needs a small kick engine and few fuel to accelerate to geostationary orbit.
And the Proton launch you mentioned was a failure of the launcher - instead of putting the satellite into GTO it released it in a low "parking orbit" (LEO) since the upper stage ("block DM") failed to ignite for a second burn. The satellite did not blew up or anything like that. See here for more details.
It's not worth it. With success rates of over 98% it's cheaper to risk the loss of some satellite than reducing payload and increasing lauch cost with an escape system (which also may fail).
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> Biodiesel probably won't show up at 'consumer' pumps any time soon.
Maybe not in your country, but in Germany and Austria there are already over 1500 gas stations which offer biodiesel.
> After all, when was the last time (outside of a truck stop) have you seen a diesel pump?
Well, I don't have (and don't need!) a car. I guess it was last week.
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Oh, I didn't know that SCSI is OS dependent. Sigh, so I can't use it with NetBSD, right?
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Why do they mention the OS at all? If it doesn't work on all OSes which support SCSI out of the box they must have done something horrible wrong which violates SCSI standards.
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I really doubt that. As of january, there were 4380 packages in the tree. Even if half of them don't compile on Darwin that's more than twice as much as DarwinPorts offers.
It can be used on Darwin, FreeBSD, IRIX, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and SunOS, see here.
mk-files for BSDOS and AIX are also present in the tree, so either the documentation is not up to date or support for those systems isn't finished yet.
Daimler (now Daimler-Chrysler) the maker of Mercedes cars and the like, does some hailstorm protection as well. But they use the "traditional" method of using planes to spray silver iodide into or over the top of the clouds which reduces or prevents the build-up of large hail stones.
See here for more info about this method.
> The behavior is documented in a well known way, not a pile of custom scripts
> So this is a benefit and a convenience.
Same is true for the NetBSD way and even more so. Especially if you have to write your own startup scripts and feed it into the startup procedure.
You have something called 'myservice', that must be started when the network is up, after the start of somedaemon but before xdm?
Nothing simplier than that, just put special comments like this:
# REQUIRE: NETWORKING somedaemon
# BEFORE: xdm
# PROVIDE: myservice
in your startup script, rcorder will figure out the correct boot order for you automatically at boot time.
You don't have to fuddle with bazillions of symlinks spread over dozen of directories with funny names like "S40nfs", "S30network" linking to "a pile of custom scripts" hidden somewhere else to get the order right.
I think, the SYS-V init style was a good idea that hasn't thought up to the end. The result is an overly complex system. The NetBSD system was born out of the wish to make a system even more powerfull and flexible than the Sys V system, with individual startup scripts for every service as Sys V offers but without the Sys V complexity. And I think NetBSD fullfills that wish quite well with its automatic dependency ordering.
I asked that myself.
Could be some PCs with badly set clocks. Well, you know those windows users, they don't set their system clocks, have 00:00 blinking on their VCRs, use outlook and click on every fscking single attachements that made it into their mailbox.
But there's also a shift to metric/SI units. Many of the "new" very small SMD-packages are already designed with metric/SI dimensions in mind, e.g. the "very thin shrink small outline package" (VSSOP) uses a pin-to-pin distance of 0.5mm.
"We" are already working together. E.g. both Mars rover carry european sensors as pathfinder and sojourner did before. Or Stardust. Or Ulyssus. Or Soho. Or Cassini+Huygens. Or Hubble. The list goes on and on.
If you've RTFA then you would know that it is on the list but didn't make it into the top ten.
BASIC is an backronym, i.e. the language was called Basic because it was so simple and later someone found some matching words.
Probably because it makes a goot spy satellite. After all its design is based on one of the series of keyhole spy satellites (KH11 or KH12 or something like that).
> Maybe they didn't realize that light is also 'electromagnetic radiation'..
And a laser beam is just light.
Are those people putting warning stickers on laser equippement also completely dumb in your eyes?
No, there's a big difference between subdomains and hostnames in the DNS. Subdomains are SOA entrys and hostnames CNAMES, A, AAAA whatever..
Of course you can have entries with the same name but of different types, that's why "slashdot.org" is both a subdomain and a hostname, but "www.slashdot.org" isn't.
More simple method (without google ;):
Fire up xephem, view->data table, control->setup, toggle "EaLght", press "apply" et voila:
Current light travel time to/from mars is 9 minutes 24 seconds.
> The Sojourner rover from the 90s did very little science because it was mostly wheels and batteries.
I disagree, it did carry a simple but sophisticated instruments that has been used on foreign soil so far, the Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS). The wheels and batteries and solar panel where just build around that instrument to make it mobile since it hat to be placed directly on the surface of the material (rock, dust) you want to investigate.
I guess the reason you don't remember anything about it is that this instrument doesn't produce fance pictures and such, it just tells you the chemical composition of rocks and such, how boring.
> in the 80's we added VTOL or Vertical Takeoff and LAnding... does the Harrier Jet ring a bell?
Actually this was somewhere in the 20s, do helicopters ring a bell?
Since people discovered new ways to (ab)use the internet: first warez, than mp3s and now (non-pr0n) movies...
No, he was a geologist who did his best as selenologist.
Block DM-3 is a standard part of the proton launcher in the used configuration. You can all it the last "stage" if you want, it's comparable to the H-10+ of the Ariane 4, the L-5 of the Ariane 5, the Centaur used on Atlas launchers and so on.
BTW: The same thing happened with Asiasat 3 five years ago.
I gave a link to that site because it was the best/first hit I found with google. You can give a link to website which tells me a different story.
And: The russians ALWAYS say, it's not their fault in the first. They also said, a submarine from another nation did collide with the Kursk.
(They have set up a commision on Dec 10 to investigate the reason for the Block DM-3 failure...)
Neither launchers nor satellites are controlled at Toulouse. The ESA's (not Arianespace's) control center is ESOC in Darmstadt, but i doubt it was involved in this launch.
Yes, the Proton puts 20 tons into LEO but the Ariane 5 puts 10 tons into GTO (Proton : 2.4 metric tons) which is the geostationary transfer orbit, a high elliptic orbit with an apogee near the geostationary orbit.
You can of course construct satellites with enough fuel and strong enough engines to lift itself from LEO to GEO, but the common approach is to let the launcher "shoot" its payload into GTO so the sattelite only needs a small kick engine and few fuel to accelerate to geostationary orbit.
And the Proton launch you mentioned was a failure of the launcher - instead of putting the satellite into GTO it released it in a low "parking orbit" (LEO) since the upper stage ("block DM") failed to ignite for a second burn. The satellite did not blew up or anything like that. See here for more details.
It's not worth it. With success rates of over 98% it's cheaper to risk the loss of some satellite than reducing payload and increasing lauch cost with an escape system (which also may fail).
What's that, an ARM3 with 8MHz? ARM3s are usually clocked at 20-25MHz. It's an ARM2 I bet since all Acorn Archimedes machines with 8MHz had an ARM2.
And maintenance cost would be
maglev = $$
TGV = $$$
autobahn = $$$$$
> Biodiesel probably won't show up at 'consumer' pumps any time soon.
Maybe not in your country, but in Germany and Austria there are already over 1500 gas stations which offer biodiesel.
> After all, when was the last time (outside of a truck stop) have you seen a diesel pump?
Well, I don't have (and don't need!) a car. I guess it was last week.
Why do they mention the OS at all? If it doesn't work on all OSes which support SCSI out of the box they must have done something horrible wrong which violates SCSI standards.