Agreed. What gets me is being a school they get their licences for nothing (or next to nothing). They use a "Third party" piece of software that doesn't actively support Windows. They use Oracle (an absolute pain in the proverbial IMO - [yes that's from experience]).
I bet if they used IIS and SQL Server they would have had a fraction of the issues they have had.
But the really dumb thing is that they are saying "Apache doesn't support Windows - so we're getting rid of Windows". That's like saying My Car won't run on Diesel, so I'm getting rid of the car.
True - but the crew of the Columbia paid a pretty big price for not sticking the robotic arm over the side of the shuttle to have a look at the leading edge of the wing.
On one of the Apollo missions (Don't know which one - but no doubt someone here will) the onboard computer went into a "Standby" mode at launch. The Astronauts were just passengers on a rocket that was heading in one direction until someone at ground control told them to flick some switch that brought it back on line.
It was probably where Microsoft got the idea for the blue screen of death.;)
So being cautious is now a reluctance to go into space? Maybe they don't want to kill another seven astronauts? They are probably quite expensive to replace.
I would think that NASA want to be in space, as much as possible, but they are being careful because they figure that their last act of absolute incompetence put them on notice. They know that they have to be careful - or their funding will dry up because of the outcry that would result from being stupid enough to not do something as simple as "look at the wing".
How do you actually compile the code using VC.NET? I have run MSVCVARS.BAT (or whatever it's called), and the batch files to build the VMs as listed in the Readme. When I try to compile in VC.NET I get:
Build log was saved at "file://e:\Source\Msvc\Quake3\quake3-1.32b\code\re nderer\Release\BuildLog.htm" renderer - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
For each of the projects. As it states it just creates the build log, which tells me which files were to be included, but there's no indication of what error caused the output to not be created.
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I have no idea what you are talking about...
If so, then it makes sense to change the OS, but why did they go with Windows in the first place?
A good point. Oracle has it's roots in Unix (as does Apache IIRC - Unix/Linux?) so why complicate things?
BTW, whoever mod'd you as Troll needs to get his/her/its head checked
Thx. I think the mod is more of a troll than my response.
Agreed. What gets me is being a school they get their licences for nothing (or next to nothing). They use a "Third party" piece of software that doesn't actively support Windows. They use Oracle (an absolute pain in the proverbial IMO - [yes that's from experience]).
I bet if they used IIS and SQL Server they would have had a fraction of the issues they have had.
But the really dumb thing is that they are saying "Apache doesn't support Windows - so we're getting rid of Windows". That's like saying My Car won't run on Diesel, so I'm getting rid of the car.
Cost of exploration
True - but the crew of the Columbia paid a pretty big price for not sticking the robotic arm over the side of the shuttle to have a look at the leading edge of the wing.
On one of the Apollo missions (Don't know which one - but no doubt someone here will) the onboard computer went into a "Standby" mode at launch. The Astronauts were just passengers on a rocket that was heading in one direction until someone at ground control told them to flick some switch that brought it back on line.
;)
It was probably where Microsoft got the idea for the blue screen of death.
With NASA's reluctance to get back into space
So being cautious is now a reluctance to go into space? Maybe they don't want to kill another seven astronauts? They are probably quite expensive to replace.
I would think that NASA want to be in space, as much as possible, but they are being careful because they figure that their last act of absolute incompetence put them on notice. They know that they have to be careful - or their funding will dry up because of the outcry that would result from being stupid enough to not do something as simple as "look at the wing".