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Comment Re:Interesting thought (Score 2, Insightful) 183

Point 1; the ISS completes an ENTIRE orbit in 90 minutes. That means that if you had an antenna pointed straight up, and say you used a moderate gain antenna with a 5 degree beam, you will get just over ONE minute of access before you need to adjust the antenna. You would need a pretty sophisticated ground tracking mechanism to have any hope of keeping the connection alive for more than a minute.

That would be true if you looked at the orbit from the center of the Earth. From the surface your time window would be in the order of 10 seconds.

Comment Re:I hate [T]CSH (Score 1) 459

In my experience, the only [t]csh users out there are those who used it back in the day before there were other options, or those who are so embedded in the C/C++ world that they thought it a good idea to use a C/C++ -styled shell.

FWIW C shell syntax isn't even remotely similar to C. In my experience people using C shell and derivatives are coming from IRIX systems, where csh was the default shell.

That's fine, use that shell. DON'T write scripts in it though.

That's the problem. If people use tcsh as an interactive shell, there is no way you can convince them to use bash for scripting, because tcsh is all they know. And of course here we have all those problems described in the article you've mentioned.

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