In comp.os.linux.advocacy, ed
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wrote
on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:43:22 GMT
<20061219194239.0de67d51@ed-desktop>:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:20:44 +0000
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Linux blasts off in U.S. tactical satellite
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Linux was shot into space Dec. 16, as part of a second-phase Air
>> | Force Research Laboratory program aimed at making space more
>> | "operationally responsive." The TacSat-2 (tactical satellite)
>> | program aims to create "micro satellites" that can be launched
>> | quickly and cheaply, to support tactical military operations.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | Linux was also a part of last year's TacSat-1 effort, powering the
>> | Copperfield-2 payload, as described in LinuxJournal.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8137978310.html
>>
>> I wonder if Linux beat Microsoft to it.
>
> NT has been in space before. It BSOD. My google foo is not strong
> today. Lets hope it's not going to be a repeat of the USS "BUTTNUTT"
> Yorktown.
>
My google foo (interesting way of putting it) is worsened
by the fact that there's a Toshiba Satellite laptop;
guess what Google is keying on? :-) Fortunately, a
'-Toshiba' filters out the worst of that issue.
I did find
http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/archives/2005/03/microsoft_chair_1.html?t=archive
which describes Windows XP Final Frontier Edition.
(It's a spoof, of course.)
I also found
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
which apparently is a .NET/DirectX based viewing engine. I'll admit to
some interest as to how grody the source is, and whether it can be
retrofitted to OpenGL; apparently they've not bothered (yet).
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=13183
makes the rather strange claim that Powerpoint was
partially responsible for the Columbia breakup -- mostly
because a slide confused the managers.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1343227&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=126&tid=128&tid=172&tid=187
makes the even stranger claim that Slammer crashed a
nuclear plant in Ohio. (I suppose it's possible, but why
would SQL Server be anywhere near the plant's control
system?)
http://www.gcn.com/print/vol20_no16/4507-1.html
indicates an upgrade from NT to 2000 Server for the Deep Space
Network satellite tracking systems, and, on a more relevant
note:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1638764,00.asp
gives some indication as to the rover problem that nearly
killed them; turned out to be FAT being flabby. (AFAIK,
the rovers still live yet; this article was published more
than two years ago.)
http://asr.arc.nasa.gov/publications/pdf/0647.pdf
mentions the Ariane 501 rocket failure and the crashing
of the Mars Polar Lander, then goes into a presentation
of static code analysis. (I would hope to see this in
Gentoo, though it appears to integrate with a database --
PostgreSQL -- and something called PVM. I can see PVM --
packages.gentoo.org says it's a 'parallel virtual machine'
-- but not cgs. A google search for 'cgsfe' coughed
up nothing.
Ah, the Web, distracts the unwary in hundreds if not thousands of
different ways... :-)
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