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by rootbear 10y ago
Sadly, I haven't gotten to it yet. That's embarrassing to admit, but my time for pleasure reading has gotten frustratingly short.
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by rootbear 10y ago
Yeah, Pixar totally "bought" Disney Animation and, to a lesser extent, the theme parks. I'm told John Lasseter has been deeply involved in them. That would be going home for him, he worked at Disneyland as a youth.
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by rootbear 10y ago
I was working at Pixar at the time and a couple of us went out to lunch when the news broke to figure out What It All Meant. We passed Steve's office on the way out and one of our party, who had worked with him since early Apple days,
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by rootbear 10y ago
My fellow countrymen (and women) are all fools! Fools, I tell you! I love my fifteen year old Subaru Impreza hatchback! If I could get a plug in hybrid version of it I'd hand over my money this minute.
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by rootbear 10y ago
The NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, where I used to work, has published the most accurate map ever produced of a solar eclipse totality track. This animation combines Lunar geographic data from the LRO spacecraft with Earth geographic
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2017 Solar Eclipse Path of Totality(svs.gsfc.nasa.gov)
114 points by rootbear 10y ago|24 comments
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by rootbear 10y ago
Several of my professors at the University of Maryland, in the late 70s, had connections to the institutions that had IMPs, like NBS (now NIST), the Pentagon, Mitre, etc. If you asked nicely, they would give you the dialup numbers for the I
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by rootbear 10y ago
As noted in other replies, the ARPANET predates IP and TCP. Although some Internet applications, like Telnet and FTP, were first implemented on the ARPANET, I don't consider it to be the Internet in any meaningful way. The Internet was
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by rootbear 10y ago
I hope this fixes some problems I'm having with CentOS 7 as a desktop. At home, it's fine, but at work, where I'm joined to an Active Directory server for authentication, it doesn't work so well. Winbindd will slow to a
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by rootbear 10y ago
There are some standards for NASA websites, but I think they have more to do with responsibility for content and other bureaucratic matters than design concerns. The group I used to be with, the Scientific Visualization Studio, at svs.gsfc.
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by rootbear 10y ago
They currently offer only one low end model with the non-touch screen. I wish they would offer a few better options with that screen. The regular HD screen meets all my needs and takes much less power.
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by rootbear 10y ago
I'm beginning to think that's the right approach. Or, have a minimal home directory with a .bashrc that sets $HOME at login to an appropriate sub directory. Might not be too robust...
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by rootbear 10y ago
To inspire someone to work on it?
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by rootbear 10y ago
In the environment I'm in, my Linux home directory is shared by multiple systems. Most are CentOS 6, but we're starting to use CentOS 7, too. I'm using the default Gnome 2 Desktop on 6, but Mate Desktop on 7, as I don't
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by rootbear 10y ago
Agreed. It would be interesting to see how genetic engineering might be used to "steer" the changes needed to adapt to life on Mars. I've been concerned about the gravity issue for some time. It's not at all clear that 0
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by rootbear 10y ago
I a sense, I DID play with electricity as a kid. My father was an Electrical Engineer and a Ham Radio operator, so we had "stuff" around the house. I learned to solder at a young age. Some time ago, I realized that one of the best
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by rootbear 10y ago
Seriously. I would be interested in learning what, exactly, the problem is. Is there a genuine, reasonable shortcoming in the older chips that would be too difficult to work around? What's the point of something being "Certified&q
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by rootbear 10y ago
I love this place. I want to see it in person some day, and I'm glad to hear they give tours. When the Mare Nostrum was first built, I sent the picture of it sitting in the middle of the church to a friend. He posted it on Fark, I thin
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by rootbear 10y ago
Thanks, not sure what up with that other page. As I feared, Dell still only offer the standard def screen on the lowest end model. I do not want a touch screen and I do not want the high dpi screen, if only for the extra power required. Why
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by rootbear 10y ago
The XPS 13 Ubuntu version seems to not be available. Does anyone know what's up? I tried to do a comparison yesterday with the new Macbooks and wasn't able to. The Windows version is still available. http://www.dell.com
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by rootbear 10y ago
I have a long history with Unix (6th Edition on a PDP-11) and it was OS X that brought me to the Mac. I would hate to go back to Windows for commercial apps, except now there is the Linux subsystem in Windows 10. I was not impressed with to
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by rootbear 10y ago
I saw something yesterday to the effect that you can have your cake (Control) and eat it (ESC) too. The Caps Lock key can be set so that if it is pressed and released alone, it sends Escape, but if you use it as a modifier, Ctrl-A, say, the
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by rootbear 10y ago
I barely use Windows these days, mostly Mac and Linux both at work and at home. I'm interested in the Linux subsystem in Windows 10 but haven't had time to look at it. I'd like to believe that Microsoft is now a cuddly Teddy
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by rootbear 10y ago
I believe you are correct. That was supposed to be a short story but it just kept growing. I like that one quite a bit.
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by rootbear 10y ago
I'm as big an Asimov fan as anyone, but I generally agree that his later novels were weaker. He set himself the challenge of merging the Robot universe with the Foundation universe and I'm not sure it was a good idea. I have alway
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by rootbear 10y ago
This is from March 2015. It's an interesting technique and I would be interested to know if they have further results.
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by rootbear 10y ago
I'm concerned about that as well. I've played around with that keyboard in the Apple store and it's not good for me. I have numbness in my fingers (cervical spine issue) and I need good tactile feedback from a keyboard. My 20
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by rootbear 10y ago
It is unclear if the ESC key is now a virtual key on the touch strip. That might take some getting used to.
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by rootbear 10y ago
I work at NASA and sadly, we do still use Imperial units for many things. It's a travesty.
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by rootbear 10y ago
See my post above about a similar NASA incident. The ground contact in that case was indicated by sensors on the landing gear. They appear to have recorded a false positive when the gear were deployed. Different spacecraft use different met

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