What you have described is a hydrofoil, something completely different. A hydrofoil is a ship with "underwater wings" which lift [most parts of] the hull out of the water at higher speeds to reduce drag.
> Actually, you can't fork off the GPL/LGPL because > recently the FSF has made clear that they own > copyright on them and only wish verbatim copies.
Haha, this is funny. Does this mean the FSF's most important product (the GPL) is not copylefted and you are not allowed to redistributed modified versions?!?
But you can display the oldest "X binaries" running on your "Sun 3" on your "Alpha or PA-RISC or Intel machine" even it runs the latest and greatest X server, i.e. the protocoll is fully backwards compatible.
I bet you can even display simple X applications like xterm from today on the oldest X server for the sun 3. At least I could so with an old Sony NEWS workstation and NEWS OS (from 1990) (But sadly, starting a browser crashed the X server on the News...).
Whenever I see an announcement of the newest harddisc with record breaking capacity I think "How do you backup that beast?".
Whenever harddisc manufactureres manage to double the number of bits that can be written on an inch of a track they get an four fold increase of capacity. But unless you increase the rotational speed of the plattern the time to read the whole content of the harddisc will double as well since the recording/writing speed is proportional to the linear density.
And the rotational speed only increases very slowly - we recently saw the small jump from 5400 to 7200 RPM for the "standard" consumer (IDE) harddisc, the first for several years (I personally stick with 5400 for the cheapo IDE drives for the next few years. Reliability, you know --- see IBM)).
Given that the lower limit for the time to make a full backup of harddiscs will increase roughly with the square root of the growths of their sizes over the time.
The other problem is that backup devices and media affordable for the home user can't keep pace with the harrdiscs, so in my eyes the traditional full backup get's more and more inpractical.
One of the most cost effective backup devices for a harddisc today is another harddisc, but it still needs hours to mirror the content of one disc to another. RAID or something that keeps two discs in sync automagically in the background is no solution - it saves you from data loss by harddisc failures (good if you use IBM GXPs and the like) but it won't help you if you or your software have/has destroyed some important files you have created over the past few weeks/months.
Well, I don't know what other people do, but I stopped doing full backups of the whole disc: Thank God a large amount of files on my harddiscs is not backup worthy since in case of loss I won't miss it (think swap space or contents of a web cache), can easily recreate it (like mp3s made from my own CDs or object files - if you track netbsd-current you keep them around to save some time on future inkremental builds and don't delete them after "make install") or get it back from another of my machines, CDROM or the net.
So I only have to backup a fraction of my discs and the good news is that in absolute numbers the amount of data to backup doesn't grow nearly as fast as harddisc capacities. In my case with compression it easily fits on an older harddisc for complete backups and for weekly incremental backups I can still use and old 1GB DAT (DDS) tape I've got for free. It's not the best solution since recovering from desaster needs some time and a lot of manual work but I can sleep better than those who don't do backups at all...
Errm. For some years now we have PNG and virtualy every graphical browser in use today displays is---but people still use GIF so I doubt JPEG2000 will change it since PNG hasn't already.
And somewhat related: With the unification of Germany the Luftwaffe got some Fulcrums with AA-11 Archer missiles and noticed that it was superior to the current version of sidewinder missile they had (AIM-9L) in all ways (homing, maneuverability) and started with some other nations (Canada, Norway, Seden, Italy, Greece) devoloping a new missile called IRIS-T (AIM-120) which will work with a helmet sight like the AA-11 as well.
No, it's Blader Runner. Replicants have an inbuilt lifetime of 4 years, i.e. it was an artificial design limitation - after 4 years they simply die (as Batty did).
In Logan's Run people older than 30 (in the movie) years are killed, that's something different.
So the Logan's Run aproach to this idea would be a cron job that searches the filesystems and deletes old executables (similar to the sandmen in Logans Run) instead of putting a date check into the code.
Microsoft gains almost 2 million sites this month, primarily as a result of register.com and
Network Solutions migrating their domain parking facilities to a Windows front end.
Because it's different to what they are using. Simple minded people fear what's different, think of racism, McCarthyism, relegious or cultural conflicts...
> Considering how much that rich US guy paid to go up to the Space station, $100,000 is a snap!
I don't think so. How much did Tito pay? I think it was $20M, And how long was he in orbit? 6 days or so. (Which roughly makes ~$2.3k/minute of weightlessness)
Compare that an suborbital flight for $100k with just 3 minutes weightlesness (~$33k/minute).
BTW: You are exactly as much weightless during a parabol flight as you are on a spacestation in orbit around the earth. There's no need to write "weightless" since it really is weightless (!=massless).
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An all spacecraft that were operated in the harsh environment of jupiters radiation belt and/or beyond jupiter they have used tape recorders.
> but you can't glide far when the water is only 10 feet below you.
What's your point?
There's no need to glide far to land on water from 10 feet altitude.
> ... with the deficits of an aircraft (needs a landing strip) ...
What makes you think so?
It lands on water like a flying boat/sea plane.
Guess why it's called "flightship"...
What you have described is a hydrofoil, something completely different. A hydrofoil is a ship with "underwater wings" which lift [most parts of] the hull out of the water at higher speeds to reduce drag.
> Actually, you can't fork off the GPL/LGPL because
> recently the FSF has made clear that they own
> copyright on them and only wish verbatim copies.
Haha, this is funny. Does this mean the FSF's most important product (the GPL) is not copylefted and you are not allowed to redistributed modified versions?!?
Lunix is not Linux...
Nobody said something even remotely like that.
But you can display the oldest "X binaries" running on your "Sun 3" on your "Alpha or PA-RISC or Intel machine" even it runs the latest and greatest X server, i.e. the protocoll is fully backwards compatible.
I bet you can even display simple X applications like xterm from today on the oldest X server for the sun 3. At least I could so with an old Sony NEWS workstation and NEWS OS (from 1990) (But sadly, starting a browser crashed the X server on the News...).
Err, the Indigo2 hit the market in spring 1993, so you can't have a 10+ year old one...
Whenever I see an announcement of the newest harddisc with record breaking capacity I think "How do you backup that beast?".
Whenever harddisc manufactureres manage to double the number of bits that can be written on an inch of a track they get an four fold increase of capacity. But unless you increase the rotational speed of the plattern the time to read the whole content of the harddisc will double as well since the recording/writing speed is proportional to the linear density.
And the rotational speed only increases very slowly - we recently saw the small jump from 5400 to 7200 RPM for the "standard" consumer (IDE) harddisc, the first for several years (I personally stick with 5400 for the cheapo IDE drives for the next few years. Reliability, you know --- see IBM)).
Given that the lower limit for the time to make a full backup of harddiscs will increase roughly with the square root of the growths of their sizes over the time.
The other problem is that backup devices and media affordable for the home user can't keep pace with the harrdiscs, so in my eyes the traditional full backup get's more and more inpractical.
One of the most cost effective backup devices for a harddisc today is another harddisc, but it still needs hours to mirror the content of one disc to another. RAID or something that keeps two discs in sync automagically in the background is no solution - it saves you from data loss by harddisc failures (good if you use IBM GXPs and the like) but it won't help you if you or your software have/has destroyed some important files you have created over the past few weeks/months.
Well, I don't know what other people do, but I stopped doing full backups of the whole disc: Thank God a large amount of files on my harddiscs is not backup worthy since in case of loss I won't miss it (think swap space or contents of a web cache), can easily recreate it (like mp3s made from my own CDs or object files - if you track netbsd-current you keep them around to save some time on future inkremental builds and don't delete them after "make install") or get it back from another of my machines, CDROM or the net.
So I only have to backup a fraction of my discs and the good news is that in absolute numbers the amount of data to backup doesn't grow nearly as fast as harddisc capacities. In my case with compression it easily fits on an older harddisc for complete backups and for weekly incremental backups I can still use and old 1GB DAT (DDS) tape I've got for free. It's not the best solution since recovering from desaster needs some time and a lot of manual work but I can sleep better than those who don't do backups at all...
(Has something changed in slashcode so that anchor tags now get filtered out unless you choose HTML formatted?).
The SPARC platform is not proprietary, it's an open standard.
Errm. For some years now we have PNG and virtualy every graphical browser in use today displays is---but people still use GIF so I doubt JPEG2000 will change it since PNG hasn't already.
> The AIM-120 is the best medium range missile in the world,[...]
Yes, sorry. The AIM-120 is the AMRAAM (mixed the numbers).
And somewhat related:
With the unification of Germany the Luftwaffe got some Fulcrums with AA-11 Archer missiles and noticed that it was superior to the current version of sidewinder missile they had (AIM-9L) in all ways (homing, maneuverability) and started with some other nations (Canada, Norway, Seden, Italy, Greece) devoloping a new missile called IRIS-T (AIM-120) which will work with a helmet sight like the AA-11 as well.
Seems like the US of A is a little late here...
No, it's Blader Runner. Replicants have an inbuilt lifetime of 4 years, i.e. it was an artificial design limitation - after 4 years they simply die (as Batty did).
In Logan's Run people older than 30 (in the movie) years are killed, that's something different.
So the Logan's Run aproach to this idea would be a cron job that searches the filesystems and deletes old executables (similar to the sandmen in Logans Run) instead of putting a date check into the code.
Read the Netcraft survey as well---the summary at /. ist not correct, Register.com and Network Solution switched to IIS.
And they use FreeBSD for their campaign's site as well...
Does anybody remember DEC's
Digital Network Appliance Reference Design aka "shark"?
Microsoft pressured DEC to not sell it - otherwise they would drop support for NT/alpha (which they did anyway...). See here for the details.
Because it's different to what they are using. Simple minded people fear what's different, think of racism, McCarthyism, relegious or cultural conflicts...
> You have the right to your network connection,
"Usage is a privilege, not a right." (from one of the links in the article)
> Considering how much that rich US guy paid to go up to the Space station, $100,000 is a snap!
I don't think so. How much did Tito pay? I think it was $20M, And how long was he in orbit? 6 days or so. (Which roughly makes ~$2.3k/minute of weightlessness)
Compare that an suborbital flight for $100k with just 3 minutes weightlesness (~$33k/minute).
BTW: You are exactly as much weightless during a parabol flight as you are on a spacestation in orbit around the earth. There's no need to write "weightless" since it really is weightless (!=massless).
Actually the traditional fans are "direct drive" as well. ("direct drive" means no gear.)
Get handheld pc, dissemble it - iMac mobo beaten (in terms of size...)