URL may be wrapped http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/16/space.mars.java.reut/index.html
The above is a CNN story about how JAVA is being used to provide the interface to control the Mars rover or something to that effect. Now the purists(???? Note the 4 question marks :-) may ask what the heck does this have to do with Linux ? Hang on. The story points to the homepage http://mars.telascience.org/ which has a download option and surprise of surprises it has a port for the Linux users. So downloaded it and tried to install it(On Fedora and Slackware). It was a breeze. They are even releasing updates of the latest Mars pictures which may be incorporated in your installation and you can virtually tour Mars. Although did not understand quite a few of the options provided in the interface (got to read the help) it was quite cool. It spews a lot of debug messages on the terminal and the perennial problem with Java apps RESOURCE HUNGRY. No flames please these are the views of a hardcore C/C++ guy and it practically ground my P4, 2.4 GHz, 1024 Mb RAM machine to a halt after I became impatient and clicked a lot of images one after the other to populate the thumbnails. Had to grep and kill it finally. Apart from all this it was nice. Try it. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
