Comment Bourne Shell - /bin/sh (Score 1) 477
because not everything is Linux & bash,
thank you very much.
- Hubert
Hackers In Space: Designing A Ground Station 95
An anonymous reader writes with some new information on the happenings of the Hacker Space Program. From the article: "At the Chaos Communication Camp 2011 Jens Ohlig, Lars Weiler, and Nick Farr proposed a daunting task: to land a hacker on the Moon by 2034. The plan calls for three separate phases: Establishing an open, free, and globally accessible satellite communication network, put a human into orbit, and land on the Moon. Interestingly enough, there is already considerable work being done on the second phase of this plan by the Copenhagen Suborbitals, and Google's own Lunar X Prize is trying to spur development of robotic missions to the Moon. But what about the first phase? Answering the call is the 'Shackspace,' a hackerspace from Stuttgart, Germany, who've begun work on an ambitious project they're calling the 'Hackerspace Global Grid.'"
Comment Taxes (Score 1) 651
More than housing.
Comment Didn't they stored passwords crypted?! (Score 1) 123
As the Unix does since
Seriously, WTF?!
- Hubert
Comment In 1996 this was done ... (Score 4, Informative) 254
... by the Harvest Project, which installed several local data collectors, and which then added a search engine over all those collectors. The cache system added in between is still known today: Squid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_project
- Hubert
Comment HMI in automotive is not new (Score 5, Informative) 215
I don't know for Ford, but German automotive manufacturers have dealt with human/machine interfacing for a very long time,
and in the process have not focussed on software/screen only, but also added many more interfacing methods like buttons, dials, cameras facing into the car and outside.
Names that come to mind are car manufacturers (Audi, BMW, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz) and their suppliers (Continental, Hella, Vector Informatik).
The whole topic has been covered not by computer science or engineers, but very much by information science.
So maybe you want to have a look there if you are into this topic.
Keywords: driver assistance, hmi, navigation systems
- Hubert
iOS 5 Update Available 473
tekgoblin writes "Apple has released the iOS 5 update. To update to iOS 5 just open iTunes with your iDevice connected to your computer and press update. I recommend doing a manual backup of your iDevice and make sure all your apps are transferred."
Comment mmm, R (Score 1) 64
nuff said! - try it!
Comment Terminals with graphics capabilities... (Score 1) 203
... were just the next logical step beyond simple ASCII terminals,
and before a decent graphics protocol (X, etc.).
For some background/data on how those things fit together, see here:
http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/ttys.html
Enjoy!
- Hubert
Comment lame (Score 1) 405
just that.
There was enough time to fix this an several other updates were pushed out since this happened last,
so i'm not impressed by the job Apple does here.
- Hubert
Comment mmm, R! (Score 1) 91
R is a very impressive, mature program that does a hell of a job.
I best liked connecting R data sets to a PostgreSQL database
for my PhD thesis, and then doing statistical data on SQL selections
without bothing about the SQL bits any more.
Also, I see lots of universities in Germany step up and teach R, which I think is good.
- Hubert
Comment Agorum, anyone? (Score 1) 152
I've wondered about what document management system to use in an ISO context the other day, and was recommended Agorum (www.agorum.com).
Does anyone have experiences with that? Good / no good?
- Hubert
Comment Congratulations, but ... (Score 0) 37
... what exactly is it? I've missed some striking reason to dig deeper on the webpage. Some showcase with examples, screenshots etc. may be in order to get people look into it. Also, an answer to the question how it relates to Nagios may be nice.
Keep up the good work!
- Hubert
Comment it's too small (Score 1) 343
own: 1
wear: 0
largest size was/is L and that's too small.
Comment Re:ALIX (Score 1) 697
I use an Alix board too, and it works fine with NetBSD 5.0/i386.
I don't know the power consumption, but this may be available somewhere on the website: www.pcengines.ch.
- Hubert
