racingmars

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by racingmars 7y ago
Yeah, perhaps I should have more strongly stated my "but I prefer how HPE did it point", because I agree the current VSI hobbyist program is useless to me. Hopefully by the time the current round of hobbyist licenses expire (HPE i
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by racingmars 7y ago
HPE licensed all rights to the OpenVMS operating system and codebase, including ongoing support and all future distribution, to the new company, VMS Software Inc., who among other things is working on an x86_64 port. So I don't think i
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by racingmars 7y ago
This isn't really creating a "what's in the sky right now" chart (which requires your location & time) so much as a map of the sky based on standard astronomical coordinates. These are the sorts of charts you'd
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by racingmars 7y ago
Yes. On my system, for example, I like to pin odd-numbered workspaces to my left screen and even-numbered workspaces to my right screen: workspace $ws1 output DisplayPort-0 workspace $ws2 output DisplayPort-1 workspace $ws3 output D
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by racingmars 7y ago
Often the "single text file" organization method is used along with a source control system like git to synchronize the file between different devices. So that helps with the backup/recovery aspect too.
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by racingmars 7y ago
It runs HP-UX, and the logic analyzer software is an X11 application. The HP-UX install on the system even starts up a VNC server, running the logic analyzer app, so you can use it over the network!
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by racingmars 7y ago
You're thinking of fsn, a 3D filesystem browser demo for the Irix operating system :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)
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by racingmars 7y ago
RAR is a proprietary format... there is no free-software code to decompress RAR archives (the license agreement for the code that is available prohibits using the code to 'reverse engineer' the RAR format itself, and I'm gues
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by racingmars 7y ago
I'm familiar with an organization that lost about $750,000 because someone spoofed an email from the CEO to the CFO asking to wire money to an account. The CFO fell for it. AFAIK, the money was never recovered (nor was the CFO fired...
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by racingmars 7y ago
Fun! A/UX was neat... I was always a big fan of System 7, and this was System 7 running on top of a real Unix environment. Many years ago I picked up an "Apple Workgroup Server 95", which was basically a Quadra 950, to try ru
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by racingmars 7y ago
You mean when the article says "it has a user interface light years better than your gas pumps". That's not expressing time, it's expressing distance. Not sure if it's a common expression where you're from, but
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by racingmars 7y ago
> there is no such thing as a bulk power regulator. this is a BUCK POWER REGULATOR No, in IBM mainframes, the rack component that takes the mains AC and starts doing something with it is, indeed, called a "bulk power regulator"
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by racingmars 8y ago
Unfortunately doctors have to do this because the common legal interpretation of HIPAA and HITECH Act is that they have to. Dates of service for a patient are protected health information. Most covered entities and business associates won&#
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by racingmars 8y ago
Yes, the "correct procedure" would be for the pilots to recognize the MCAS problem (whether they know about the existence of MCAS or not) as a runaway stab trim problem, and treat it as such. One of the steps for the runaway stab
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by racingmars 8y ago
That's a 787, not 737 at all...
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by racingmars 8y ago
Not sure what the meaning of your comment is. The Stab Trim cutout switches have been in the 737, in the same place aft of the flap selector, since the original 737. These were not a new feature related to the MCAS system.
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by racingmars 8y ago
> How does the trim wheel work? Is it mechanically connected to the stabilizer? On 737s, yes, the trim wheel is mechanically connected by cables. To quote the 737-800 FCOM: "Manual stabilizer control is accomplished through cables w
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by racingmars 8y ago
The submission has a Makefile that works fine for me. It needs several things defined by -D for configuration options for the emulator. https://www.ioccc.org/2018/mills/
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by racingmars 8y ago
Yes, excellent point. It's not correct to say a company is more "efficient" in the market simply because it can undercut another company due to being taxed differently. If the global companies are able to still compete effect
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by racingmars 8y ago
> The point I was making is that these academic debates about ecosystems are at the expense of the lives of millions children. The debate isn't so academic if it turns out the ecosystem impact of the thing you did to try to save mil
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by racingmars 8y ago
I don't know why the downvotes since it's an interesting tidbit of info... but looking at the Wikipedia page, it's not that you are legally required to do all of your processing using the IBM hex format in your floating point
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by racingmars 8y ago
Planes like the 787 are probably very rarely completely powered down. At the gate, they're on ground power and there are probably some power buses left energized even if the plane is going to sit unused until the next day. These genera
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by racingmars 8y ago
The checklist is what you'd be reading, usually a laminated one-page card kept in a convenient spot. The documentation that the checklist refers to is the full "user manual" for the plane, with things like the quick reference
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by racingmars 8y ago
Not necessarily. Even without GPS, commercial airliners have a good idea of where they are using their INSes (inertial navigation systems). That technology well predates GPS receivers being common in aircraft. Most of the Boeing and Airbus
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by racingmars 9y ago
I'm not sure if it's an option in your setup, but this is why I use the "Windows" key on my keyboard as my i3 modifier. The Alt key then remains available for applications.