NASA Ames Research Center OpenSource [World Wind 1.2]

NASA Ames Research Center OpenSource

Some cool sounding OSS from NASA...

Livingstone2/Skunkworks
"Livingstone2 is a reusable artificial intelligence (AI) software system designed to assist spacecraft, life support systems, chemical plants or other complex systems in operating robustly with minimal human supervision, even in the face of hardware failures or unexpected events. "

World Wind
"NASA World Wind is a graphically rich 3D virtual globe for use on desktop computers running Windows 2K or XP. It combines NASA imagery generated from satellites that have produced the Blue Marble, LandSat 7, SRTM, MODIS and more. Particular effort was put into the ease of usability allowing the user to interact by panning, rotating, and zooming in and out. Visual guides such as political borders, city labels, latitude & longitude lines are included. All this imagery and data is delivered on demand by automatically streaming data from WMS based servers."


Right now World Wind 1.2 is being "slashdoted", so I will have to try back in a couple days... Here's the comment from the download page, "We are sorry but the slashdoting of a 250MB file was a bit more than we had planned for. We will re-post this file later in the day or this evening once the initial rush cools off. Thank you for your patience."


Here are some other software related links.

"Non-Open-Source NASA Software

Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Research/Software/software.html
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/ILab/
http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/SLAB/

Glenn Research Center
https://technology.grc.nasa.gov/software/

Goddard Space Flight Center
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_home.html
http://hdfeos.gsfc.nasa.gov/hdfeos/softwarelist.cfm
http://hires.gsfc.nasa.gov/stis/software/library.html

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/inst/group_list.php?institution_id=25

Marshall Space Flight Center
http://techtran.msfc.nasa.gov/catalog.html

COSMIC Software Collection
http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/cosmic/"

(via Slashdot - NASA Releases World Viewer)

Update #1 9/24/2004 @ 8:02 PM PDT:
NASA put up some mirrors and I was finally able to download it.

Guess what? The source is included in the install and it's C Sharp. That's pretty cool... Now THERE'S my "business case" for downloading and playing with this... :)

So if I wonder about being a coder at NASA... hum... interesting...

BTW, the app's pretty cool... Still trying to figure out how to really use it, but it sure looks cool.

GDI+ Scan Tool

GDI Scan Utility

A GDI+ Scan utility to help find any gdiplus.dll, sxs.dll, wsxs.dll, mso.dll's that contain the JPEG Buffer overflow bug.

Now that there is code in the wild to exploit this, it's important to get this patched as soon as possible.

I try to keep my system very patched, but this utility still found a couple that needed to be patched/updated.

This bug/issue/patch process pretty much sucks. Something is needed now to make the fixing of ALL effected DLL's much easier...

(Via Larkware - The Daily Grind 467

Reference Library

Reference Library

Not sure how long this site will be available, but while it is it has the full/complete text for a number of O'Reilly books online...

(Via Sijin Joseph's blog - Gold mine for bibliophiles...if it is legal? )

Slashdot | Asterisk Open Source PBX 1.0 Release

Slashdot | Asterisk Open Source PBX 1.0 Release

"An anonymous reader writes 'Today at Astricon (the first Asterisk conference), Mark Spencer announced the release of version 1.0.0 of Asterisk. For those of you that don't know: Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. Asterisk users can be up and running, making phone calls in under an hour using the various guides found at the VoIP Wiki. Connectivity to the PSTN is provided by companies like VoicePulse, Nufone, Gafachi and VoipJet.' "

Interesting...

I really need a PBX for my house... ;)

Getting Started with Mono - SuSE 9.1

Getting Started with Mono - SuSE 9.1

"This is a beginner level guide aimed at users interested in trying out Mono on SuSE Linux 9.1. This document was written against SuSE Linux 9.1 Personal. Following this guide should give the reader a working, tested installation of Mono and common associated components such as Gtk#, Monodevelop, and xsp (a simple ASP.NET web server)."

Very nice... I liked SUSE 9.1, but couldn't get Mono on it, so gave up on it...

With this HowTo I'm going to have to give it another try.

(via Paco's Blog - A Day at the Races

[tip] Speed up VPC under XP SP2

[tip] Speed up VPC under XP SP2

One slimy hack/work around to help speed up your Guest XP2 VPC images....

In short, the VPC 2004 VM Additions are the issue. So wait for VPC 2004 SP1 or use the VM Additions from Virtual Server 2005.

Terminal Services Info from FTP

Some Terminal Services links/info from a FTP email today that I want to check out...

Your Terminal Services Setup Guide
Learn the best way to batten down the hatches on your servers without going too far.

Manage Terminal Services
Take advantage of the new Group Policies in Windows Server 2003 to manage Terminal Services from a central point.

Run Visual Studio .NET on Terminal Servers
Use Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services to centralize development projects.

Jonathan Goodyear / angryCoder [He's Back...]

Jonathan Goodyear / angryCoder

The angryCoder is back and blogging...

(via Ryan Whitaker - Angry Coder's New Blog)

Giving a Mapped Drive .NET FullTrust

Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet - Giving a Mapped Drive .NET FullTrust

"...you need to add a new Code Group with an URL membership permission specifying the folder (in URL form) to which you'd like to grant full trust. You can do with the .NET Framework Configuration tool or you can do it from the command line like so:

c:\>caspol -q -machine -addgroup 1 -url file://z:/* FullTrust -name "Z Drive"

Once this new code group is in place, any new .NET processes you start will give any assemblies on the Z drive full trust (make sure to cycle the devenv.exe process if you want these new permissions and that message box to go away).

Since awarding new permissions, full trust or not, to any chunk of code is something that can cause a security hole, be careful."

Nice tip on updating your .NET CAS to give Full Trust to a mapped drive...

Outlook's 1-Minute Rule [Auto Defer Email Send for 1 Minute Rule]

Outlook's 1-Minute Rule

Nice tip on adding a rule to Outlook 2003 to automatically defer all outgoing email for 1 minute.

There are more times than I can count that I've hit the Send button, and then immediately think, "Damn, I should have CC'ed....", etc. The "Locking the keys in the car as you look at them on the seat" syndrome...

I've copied the steps below so I can highlight #3. I missed the second part of #3 and it jacked me up for a bit...

"1. Click on "Rules and Alerts" under the "Tools" menu

2. Click on "New Rule..."

3. Start from blank rule [GD: Select the Blank Rule radio button], and "check messages after sending" [GD: Two options that will appear when you select on the "Blank Rule" radio button, select the "Check messages after sending" and then click next]

4. Click "Next" and don't select any conditions so that every message will be deferred

5. Click "Next" and "OK" on the confirmation dialog box asking if you are sure you want to apply this to every message

6. Select "Defer delivery by a number of minutes" and change "a number of minutes" to "1". [GD: I actually set mine to 2 minues] This is usually the last action in the list

7. You can click "Next" to specify exceptions or choose a name for the rule or just click "Finish"

8. Be sure to move the rule to the top of your rules or at least before any of the other rules that apply to outgoing messages."

Military Rules for the Non-Military Personnel

Military Rules for the Non-Military Personnel

Good post... As a veteran I totally agree..

Announcing v2.0 of the Syndication Generator for Windows SharePoint Services

Announcing v2.0 of the Syndication Generator for Windows SharePoint Services

The very cool sounding SharePoint RSS Generator Web Part has rev'ed to version 2.0.

I think this new feature, "SmartSyndication™ of Announcements, Document libraries, Events, Links, and Picture libraries. SmartSyndication™ truly makes point and click syndication a reality. " is the most interesting to me...