... SMIS : Space Monitoring Information Support laboratory . Russia's Weather : State Meteorological Center Weather Forecast . Space Weather service : ACE real time solar wind data and simple geomagnetic activity forecast. ... World Fire Web : Space Research Institute (IKI) node . Sputnik : Joint project of SRC Planeta, Rosgidromet and Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... Today's Space Weather : Presented by the Space Environment Center . ... Back to the Space Research Institute Home Page ...

... LILO . ... You can pass LILO arguments at boot time, the most damaging (from a security point of view) being "image-name single" which boots Linux into single user mode, and by default in most distributions dumps you to a root prompt in a command shell with no prompting for passwords or other pesky security mechanisms. ... requires user to input a password, used in conjunction with restricted, also make sure lilo.conf is no longer world readable, or any user will be able to read the password. ...

The solar system probably formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a giant disk of gas, dust and ice in space. ... All forms of life on Earth require liquid water to survive, so the presence of liquid water is a good criterion for deciding whether other planets in the universe could be habitable. Earth is the only habitable planet in the solar system. Venus, closer to the Sun, is too hot to have liquid water. Planets and moons in the outer solar system are too cold for liquid water. ...

Next: Tape Input and Up: Commands Grouped by Previous: Commands Grouped by . Execute a MIDAS procedure . ... CHANGE/DIRECTORY Change the default (current) directory for MIDAS . ... CONNECT/BACK_MIDAS Connect "command syntax" to another MIDAS . ... CREATE/DEFAULTS Create special defaults for MIDAS commands . ... DELETE/COMMAND Delete a user defined command . DELETE/DEFAULTS Delete special defaults for command . ... DELETE/LOG Delete log file . ... SHOW/COMMANDS Display MIDAS commands . ...

Next: Other People's Software . ... Quality system management of computer workstations for astronomy can be achieved with relatively small manpower requirements, if the right cost-effective administrative design decisions are made. ... This is all done with essentially one system manager. ... The system is designed so that one doesn't depend on four or more hosts, (such as a software server, cpu server, data file server, font server, etc.) to get work done. ...

The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. ... A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). ...

Next: MARK5 and EVLBI Up: Recording Systems. ... These are specified in the SCHED station catalog with the paramters CONTROL , DAR , RECORDER and DISK . The first element is the control system -- what software (and hardware) is used to control the recording system. The options that SCHED can handle for wide band VLBI observations are VLBA and VEX. ... The new control system will initially just control the new data aquisition system and recorder. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... September . ... Posted on February 18, 2011 | 2 Comments The Zodiacal light is a rarely seen yet intriguing spectacle in a dark sky. ... Continue Reading.. ... 12 Comments In 2003 astronomers discovered Eris, an object seemingly bigger than Pluto, in the frigid Trans-Neptunian wastes of the Solar System. ... Posted on November 5, 2010 | ... Posted on October 14, 2010 | ... Posted on September 27, 2010 | ...

. Strictly speaking, UNIX is not one single operating system, it is a family of operating systems. Different computer manufacturers produce their own versions of UNIX. Although these are mostly similar, there are small differences which can cause problems. The most obvious examples are the layout of the file system and the exact format of certain commands. History of the UNIX operating system . Modern variants of UNIX .

... In this report the measurement results are presented of the ACE Benchmark Suite, run on a variety of UNIX based systems, ranging from personal computers, through workstations, to multi-processor superminis. ... This 1988 edition of the report "Benchmarking UNIX Systems" contains the results for many new systems, besides some which were already present in the previous, September 1987 issue. ... 3.6 From the Philips Set 16 . ... Hewlett & Packard 152 . 14.1 The Hewlett & Packard HP 9000/319 152 . ...

. Executes spacecraft command timeline. Provides pointing control, power system control, gathers telemetry, provides routine safemode protection, and much more . Executes SI command timeline. Provides safety monitoring, special purpose computing, and data interface for SIs. SI specific operations, science data form