Comment Obligatory missing option (Score 1) 559
Too many to count.
Comment Re:VMS (Score 1) 763
VMS FTW!
Fantastically consistent command line interface. Tools that were designed to do the job rather than just thrown together. Sadly the only current hardware OpenVMS runs on is iTanic. So it's days are numbered.
Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1, Troll) 279
Not exactly everyone but you. I'd guess anyone, like me,
who blocks almost all Javascript is going to find an improvement in it's execution speed fairly irrelevant.
Submission + - Ulysses Spacecraft final track
Dusty writes: After several false alarms, the Ulysses Mission is finally
ending. According to the Spacecraft Operations Manager's
latest status report, the
last track will be on 30th June 2009 from 15:25 until 20:20 UTC. There's an article on the BBC.. Slashdot has
covered Ulysses several times, not dead yet,
on it's last legs and
chilly death.
Submission + - NASA budget for 2010
Dusty writes: The NASA budget for 2010 has been announced, up
5% on 2009. Human space flight plans to be reviewed.
NASA's press release.
Comment Re:BeOS: still my favorite UI (Score 2, Informative) 448
I don't know how BeOS was engineered to achieve this, I only know that no other OS I used during and since then, achieved this sort of responsiveness.
Fine grained multi tasking, and avoiding mutexs. I think BeOS uses message passing to implement inter process communications. In engineering terms, it is the most modern desktop operating system.
Comment Re:BeOS: still my favorite UI (Score 1) 448
I fail to see why NOT having one (a command line) is good?
It is difficult to get a buffer overflow exploit to run the command line interpreter, when the operating system doesn't have a command line interpreter.
