What you're talking about is called a BRITE scope. Basically it's used for smaller airports in the vicinity of the radar from larger airports. It's basically a repeater of the radar display from the larger airport, just slid over and centered over the smaller airport.
This has some operational advantages (the biggest being that there's a radar display of local traffic, obviously), but has some glaring deficiencies. Basically it's used in areas where traffic loads don't justify the upkeep and maintenance of a radar installation. Contrary to popular belief, most smaller airports don't have any radar coverage. Airplanes can still operate safely in a non-radar environment, even while "in the clouds" (or IMC as it's called), there's just a different set of rules to follow.
Or even other planes in certain circumstances. That's the pilot's responsibility at all times: see and avoid. Pilots are real good at it. That's why you don't hear about many mid-air collisions anymore, especially on airliners with the high-tech boxes that call out known traffic, and even bark out instructions on how to move out of the way (TCAS.)
Free software is only truly free if it has no restrictions on where it can be used. The GPL only protects the author and encourages giving back to the community, but it does not in any way restrict my use of the software. I'm all for protection of the author's rights, but this is going a step too far.
The consumer IR port is a great idea! I'd love to have a PDA app that could be programmed to control every remote control device in my home (I'd even sit down a teach the PDA everything about each remote), then just carry around the PDA and never have to worry about finding a remote. I've tried this before with little to no success (first on a HP48, later on a Palm), but those IR ports were designed to share data, not turn on the TV 10 feet away from me.
This makes a lot of sense, really. I know you can buy specialty remotes that have LCD displays and can be programmed. Of course, they cost the same as a Palm-type PDA and there's no real sense in buying a single-purpose device if a multi-purpose device like a PDA will do the job just as good.
Well, the i-Opener doesn't run Linux. It runs QNX to be exact. People figured out how to get Linux onto it since it was basically a off-the-shelf computer with a proprietary front end.
CD-Rs are way too cheap as it is, as a matter of fact I pretty much refuse to buy them unless they're free after rebate. Chances are that you won't have to wait but a week or two to find some sort of deal like that.
And I find myself using CD-RW disks much more anymore, even though CD-Rs are practically free I still have a problem throwing them away after burning something for just one use. CD-RWs are perfectly suited for backing stuff up week after week.
So, I guess the moral is, if you see any "free after rebate" deals, take advantage of them because they won't be around long. Race you to Best Buy!
ext3 is a hack to add journaling to ext2. An ext3 partition is backwards-compatible with ext2, so in a worst-case scenerio you could just mount it as ext2 and lose nothing but journaling. However, the support right now is 2.2 only, and personally, I don't think it's such a great idea to maintain backwards compatibility when so many underlying things change. This will only lock us into any bad compromises that were made in the design of ext2/3.
Well, the biggest difference is that XFS is proven and Reiser isn't yet. XFS has been the IRIX filesystem for something like 6 years now, and the on-disk filesystem format does not change between revisions, even during the development stage. You can even mount an IRIX disk under linux and read and write normally. The only thing in development in XFS were the userland and kernel-space tools. Compare that the Reiser where things tend to change a fair bit much.
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Software and hardware RAID support is already in the kernel and in use. LVM supports data striping if you don't want to go the full RAID route.
I don't see how things can possibly get much better.
Why should they take away all 1- and 2-letter names? I can somewhat see the uslessness of 1-letter names (but having one would be very sweet), but two-letter names could definitely have some use. They say that they are trying to avoid confusion with established country codes, but why not reserve just country codes then, not everything?
FTP mirror sites are still smashed from the release of Red Hat 7.1... would it have really killed them to wait a week for things to cool down? Two *major* releases in about 3 days is enough to bring all but the most well-connected sites to their knees.
Airline pilots are required by the FAA to retire at 60. Note that the age at which a pilot (not airline, just pilot in general) is no longer allowed to fly is determined by his ability to pass a medical exam, but for some reason the FAA believes that once an airline captain reaches the age of 60 they are somehow unsafe.
Ummm, let's see... Eazel has released Nautilus 1.0, and while still beta-quality is at least a 1.0 release. Red Carpet and Evolution may still have 1.0 releases, but seem to work fairly good (although I'll admit I haven't spent much time with either of the two). At least you can download them and play around with them, and that sounds like progress to me.
This gets into the whole Boeing vs. Airbus commercial airplane debate. Boeing has had a history of listening to what pilots want in an airplane, and they all want force-feedback on the controls. Therefore, the 777, currently Boeing's only fly-by-wire aircraft, has force-feedback controls. From a "touch and feel" point of view, you will get the same response from the controls of a 777 as you would from any other mechanical/hydraulic flight control system.
Airbus, on the other hand, decided to skip the force-feedback and use a sidestick as their control. Therefore, the pilot cannot feel what the airplane is doing by just resting his hand on the controls. Later models of their fly-by-wire jets have force-feedback as I understand.
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The old 270 was most definitely not a 850MHz phone. The GSM 850 standard was made after the 270 came out.
And it said "every smartphone prior to the Treo 600" lacked the 850 band, it wasn't suggesting that the Treo 600 didn't have it.
Here is a list of mirrors known to have RH 8.0 ready:
http://freshrpms.net/mirrors/psyche.html
Sad thing is, airline reservation systems are nearly as cryptic.
What you're talking about is called a BRITE scope. Basically it's used for smaller airports in the vicinity of the radar from larger airports. It's basically a repeater of the radar display from the larger airport, just slid over and centered over the smaller airport.
This has some operational advantages (the biggest being that there's a radar display of local traffic, obviously), but has some glaring deficiencies. Basically it's used in areas where traffic loads don't justify the upkeep and maintenance of a radar installation. Contrary to popular belief, most smaller airports don't have any radar coverage. Airplanes can still operate safely in a non-radar environment, even while "in the clouds" (or IMC as it's called), there's just a different set of rules to follow.
ATC does not separate planes from buildings.
Or even other planes in certain circumstances. That's the pilot's responsibility at all times: see and avoid. Pilots are real good at it. That's why you don't hear about many mid-air collisions anymore, especially on airliners with the high-tech boxes that call out known traffic, and even bark out instructions on how to move out of the way (TCAS.)
Linux supports ACPI and PnP, I have no idea what you are talking about.
Free software is only truly free if it has no restrictions on where it can be used. The GPL only protects the author and encourages giving back to the community, but it does not in any way restrict my use of the software. I'm all for protection of the author's rights, but this is going a step too far.
The consumer IR port is a great idea! I'd love to have a PDA app that could be programmed to control every remote control device in my home (I'd even sit down a teach the PDA everything about each remote), then just carry around the PDA and never have to worry about finding a remote. I've tried this before with little to no success (first on a HP48, later on a Palm), but those IR ports were designed to share data, not turn on the TV 10 feet away from me.
This makes a lot of sense, really. I know you can buy specialty remotes that have LCD displays and can be programmed. Of course, they cost the same as a Palm-type PDA and there's no real sense in buying a single-purpose device if a multi-purpose device like a PDA will do the job just as good.
Well, the i-Opener doesn't run Linux. It runs QNX to be exact. People figured out how to get Linux onto it since it was basically a off-the-shelf computer with a proprietary front end.
CD-Rs are way too cheap as it is, as a matter of fact I pretty much refuse to buy them unless they're free after rebate. Chances are that you won't have to wait but a week or two to find some sort of deal like that.
And I find myself using CD-RW disks much more anymore, even though CD-Rs are practically free I still have a problem throwing them away after burning something for just one use. CD-RWs are perfectly suited for backing stuff up week after week.
So, I guess the moral is, if you see any "free after rebate" deals, take advantage of them because they won't be around long. Race you to Best Buy!
ext3 is a hack to add journaling to ext2. An ext3 partition is backwards-compatible with ext2, so in a worst-case scenerio you could just mount it as ext2 and lose nothing but journaling. However, the support right now is 2.2 only, and personally, I don't think it's such a great idea to maintain backwards compatibility when so many underlying things change. This will only lock us into any bad compromises that were made in the design of ext2/3.
Well, the biggest difference is that XFS is proven and Reiser isn't yet. XFS has been the IRIX filesystem for something like 6 years now, and the on-disk filesystem format does not change between revisions, even during the development stage. You can even mount an IRIX disk under linux and read and write normally. The only thing in development in XFS were the userland and kernel-space tools. Compare that the Reiser where things tend to change a fair bit much.
Software and hardware RAID support is already in the kernel and in use. LVM supports data striping if you don't want to go the full RAID route.
I don't see how things can possibly get much better.
Why should they take away all 1- and 2-letter names? I can somewhat see the uslessness of 1-letter names (but having one would be very sweet), but two-letter names could definitely have some use. They say that they are trying to avoid confusion with established country codes, but why not reserve just country codes then, not everything?
FTP mirror sites are still smashed from the release of Red Hat 7.1... would it have really killed them to wait a week for things to cool down? Two *major* releases in about 3 days is enough to bring all but the most well-connected sites to their knees.
rsync://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu::redhat/redhat /linux/7.1/en
Airline pilots are required by the FAA to retire at 60. Note that the age at which a pilot (not airline, just pilot in general) is no longer allowed to fly is determined by his ability to pass a medical exam, but for some reason the FAA believes that once an airline captain reaches the age of 60 they are somehow unsafe.
Ummm, let's see... Eazel has released Nautilus 1.0, and while still beta-quality is at least a 1.0 release. Red Carpet and Evolution may still have 1.0 releases, but seem to work fairly good (although I'll admit I haven't spent much time with either of the two). At least you can download them and play around with them, and that sounds like progress to me.
Funny, I spent most of last night looking at this stuff! Here's some interesting stuff I uncovered, fits right in:m l
http://www.hughes.net/~gcifu/applemuseum/index.ht
http://www.hypermall.com/History/
I stayed up way too late reading the last one last night...
The Airbus computer can be overridden, but you're right in the fact that their philosophy is that the computer is always right.
This gets into the whole Boeing vs. Airbus commercial airplane debate. Boeing has had a history of listening to what pilots want in an airplane, and they all want force-feedback on the controls. Therefore, the 777, currently Boeing's only fly-by-wire aircraft, has force-feedback controls. From a "touch and feel" point of view, you will get the same response from the controls of a 777 as you would from any other mechanical/hydraulic flight control system.
Airbus, on the other hand, decided to skip the force-feedback and use a sidestick as their control. Therefore, the pilot cannot feel what the airplane is doing by just resting his hand on the controls. Later models of their fly-by-wire jets have force-feedback as I understand.
April Fools jokes are supposed to be not entirely obvious.
This is obvious, especially since they've been doing it all day!
It needs to stop.
There already is a port of GIMP to Win32... look here.
The PROM is not UNIX based, rather it is Forth.
And, yes it is very handy. I prefer the Sun PROM console to BIOSes anyday, it's so much more powerful.
Wouldn't that be Y2.1K?