Ubuntu Spotted Flying Over the Antarctic During a NASA Mission |
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- Ubuntu used by NASA people
The
Ubuntu community has made a habit of spotting their favorite operating
system in the most unexpected places. The Linux distribution built by
Canonical has been observed “flying” over an Antarctic region, during a
NASA mission.
The Ubuntu Linux distro has been spotted before in numerous weird places, like billboards and a Nintendo kiosk at Best Buy, to name just a couple. Now, a user has posted on Reddit a video made by NASA during the Operation IceBridge, which takes place over the Ross Sea. It looks like the scientists are using Ubuntu for various “scientific” purposes, but Ubuntu developer Michal Hall managed to identify a number of other desktops in the video, like KDE, some GNOME panels, and even a QtCreator window. "After an early morning weather briefing and takeoff from the sea ice runway at the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station, the NASA P-3 flew a survey that took researchers across the Ross Sea basin and back. The purpose of this mission was to set up a pair of parallel lines known as a flux gate that scientists can use to study how ice moves out through the Ross Sea," says NASA in the video description. If you have seen Ubuntu in an interesting or funny location, please make sure to leave a comment. Enjoy the video! |
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Repostorm 1.8.4 is generating a full report.After Repostorm has repaired issues in Mate DE:
SESSION RESULTS
Error(s): 248 | Warning(s): 4546 | Info: 0
Writing permanent logs.
Execution Time: 11m43s
Repostorm 1.8.4 is generating a full report.I’m providing the log files for your viewing pleasure:
SESSION RESULTS
Error(s): 4 | Warning(s): 31 | Info: 0
Writing permanent logs.
Execution Time: 27s
I no longer possess the time. Understand I have like 10 days coming off for July 4th mass changes are coming.▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒Most importantly wrote a manual for it
# title :thumbos
# description :Loads disk images to thumbdrive from the CLI.
# author :theemahn # date :04/27/2014
# version :1.0.8
# usage :thumbos –help
# manual :man thumbos
# notes :See change-log below for further information.
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Change-log
1.0.1:
* Initial Internal Beta release
1.0.2:
* Bug fixes
* Erase feature added.
* Test feature added.
* Display ISO and Image info
1.0.3:
* Minor bugfix see comment in code.
* Supress errors if end user does not possess a thumbdrive, exit graciously.
1.0.4:
* Edited erase routine, NTFS set as default.
* Added partition detection function in case user has multiple partitions on the thumbdrive.
* Added initial ©Microsft Windows support & detection routine.
1.0.5:
* Adjustment to test function when booting ISO’s
* Added cpu core(s) & memory size detection set VM based on detected hardware.
* Added ntfsprogs to dependancy list, direct check on mkfs.ntfs Broken symlink: The symlink to mkfs.ntfs is wrong. A bug report has been filed.
* Added Eyecandy routines borrowed code from repostorm
* Added notifications and sound, ThumbOS now talks to you.
1.0.6:
* Bug Fix: Columize function info output in wrong column.
1.0.7:
* Add more comments to code, we are here to learn right?
* Fixed scan function if 2 unknowns are found no output.
* Appended detected size MB / GB etc. Calculating disk sizes smartly up to 999 Yottabytes.
1.0.8:
* Added fix for 0 thumbdrives detected. Report and exit.
* Added code for X11 detection in test function.
* Wrote Thumbos initial manpages, postscript and pdf manuals.
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[rhyme]$ md5sum ultimate-edition-4.0-x*
1c113155e761c833712f46d203501326 ultimate-edition-4.0-x64-lite.iso
f37883a9e66926058de9de782c0ab2cc ultimate-edition-4.0-x64.iso
8a3938140303d2618a9fe66f6f5b3ab4 ultimate-edition-4.0-x86.iso
tonie@Tigger:/media/3TB/Copy/Ultimate Edition/Public/Operating Systems$ ls -la ultimate-edition-4.0-x*
-rw——- 1 tonie tonie 3441631232 Apr 16 22:28 ultimate-edition-4.0-x64.iso
-rw-r–r– 1 tonie tonie 2185959424 Apr 19 15:44 ultimate-edition-4.0-x64-lite.iso
-rwx—— 1 tonie tonie 3293022208 Oct 31 21:21 ultimate-edition-4.0-x86.iso
tonie@Tigger:/media/3TB/Copy/Ultimate Edition/Public/Operating Systems$
Password:
sending incremental file list
ultimate-edition-3.9-x64.iso
2877493248 100% 12.53MB/s 0:03:38 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
sent 2877844627 bytes received 31 bytes 12324816.52 bytes/sec
total size is 2877493248 speedup is 1.00
[rhyme]$ md5sum ultimate-edition-3.9-x*
21adb908287cd2f7bc80b15262fb8da1 ultimate-edition-3.9-x64.iso
a3b9895970d5235a914c590a1181934e ultimate-edition-3.9-x86.iso
[rhyme]$
theemahn@JackHammer:/media/4TBRaid0/Copy/Ultimate Edition/Public/Operating Systems$ ls -la ultimate-edition-3.9-x*
-rw-r–r– 1 theemahn theemahn 2877493248 Jan 30 22:54 ultimate-edition-3.9-x64.iso
-rw-r–r– 1 theemahn theemahn 2966786048 Jan 31 09:30 ultimate-edition-3.9-x86.iso
theemahn@JackHammer:/media/4TBRaid0/Copy/Ultimate Edition/Public/Operating Systems$
tonie@Tigger:/media/3TB/Copy/WorkInProgress$ md5sum ultimate-edition-4.2-x64-Mar-27-2014-2129.isoIf you wish to re-download it: https://copy.com/ituV09JN46we
c6f9b739905e4134f8eb41307a2dfdee ultimate-edition-4.2-x64-Mar-27-2014-2129.iso
tonie@Tigger:/media/3TB/Copy/WorkInProgress$ ls -la ultimate-edition-4.2-x64-Mar-27-2014-2129.iso
-rwx—— 1 tonie tonie 2228160512 Mar 31 17:48 ultimate-edition-4.2-x64-Mar-27-2014-2129.iso
tonie@Tigger:/media/3TB/Copy/WorkInProgress$
