National Weather Service forecast: Linux(OT)
"About one-third of the agency's 5,000 workers -- those who do hands-on weather forecasting -- now use Linux. They're using Red Hat 7.3 Linux on Intel-based workstations from IBM in some 122 NWS Weather Offices across the nation, as well as in 12 River Forecast Centers, six regional weather service offices and the agency's training facilities. Linux is also being used in the specialized offices of the agency's National Center for Environmental Prediction, including the National Hurricane Center and the Storm Prediction Center." http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,78061,00.... -- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
On Saturday 01 February 2003 17:17, Fred A. Miller wrote:
"About one-third of the agency's 5,000 workers -- those who do hands-on weather forecasting -- now use Linux. They're using Red Hat 7.3 Linux on Intel-based workstations from IBM in some 122 NWS Weather Offices across the nation, as well as in 12 River Forecast Centers, six regional weather service offices and the agency's training facilities. Linux is also being used in the specialized offices of the agency's National Center for Environmental Prediction, including the National Hurricane Center and the Storm Prediction Center."
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,78061,0 0.html>
Fred... this is NOT an advocacy group. It is a support mailing list. If you want to do some advocacy, take it into the correct usenet newsgroup, comp.os.linux.advocacy I'll be waiting. -- Paul Cooke Registered Linux user 273897 Machine registration number 156819 Linux Counter: Home Page = http://counter.li.org/
Thought we all agreed that Freds posts ( that are marked OT) are welcomed by the list community, And isn't Christopher the Moderator?? PeterB On Saturday 01 February 2003 12:20 pm, Paul Cooke wrote:
On Saturday 01 February 2003 17:17, Fred A. Miller wrote:
"About one-third of the agency's 5,000 workers -- those who do hands-on weather forecasting -- now use Linux. They're using Red Hat 7.3 Linux on Intel-based workstations from IBM in some 122 NWS Weather Offices across the nation, as well as in 12 River Forecast Centers, six regional weather service offices and the agency's training facilities. Linux is also being used in the specialized offices of the agency's National Center for Environmental Prediction, including the National Hurricane Center and the Storm Prediction Center."
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,78061 ,0 0.html>
Fred... this is NOT an advocacy group. It is a support mailing list. If you want to do some advocacy, take it into the correct usenet newsgroup, comp.os.linux.advocacy
I'll be waiting.
-- -- Proud to be a SuSE Linux User since 5.2 --
On Saturday 01 February 2003 23:37, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Thought we all agreed that Freds posts ( that are marked OT) are welcomed by the list community, And isn't Christopher the Moderator??
I'll quote the FAQ to you and then I'll shut up. |Q1. What is the suse-linux-e mailing list? |A1. SLE is a high volume, unmoderated mailing list for general | discussions about SuSE Linux in English. In other words, | it's a wild, largely unsupervised, collection of Linux | users that will flood your mailbox with 100-200 messages | per day. It's also a great place to get help with your | SuSE Linux system or have discussions about Linux. note "Unmoderated" |Q3. What is not appropriate content for the list? |A3. Commercial postings of any kind, job postings, non-computer/Linux | related material. Because of the large size of the list (1500 | subscribers and ~200 messages per day), flame wars and off-topic | posting can sometimes result in you being unsubscribed and, in | extreme cases, banned from the list. Also, please unsubscribe | now if you planning on posting advocacy-type things. There are | lots of advocacy newsgroups such as comp.os.linux.advocacy. note no "Advocacy-type" things. There is a fine line as to what is and isn't advocacy. it can be a matter of personal definition. As mentioned before, I'll now disengage from this topic and stick to SuSE specific stuff. I've set a filter to ditch all stuff marked (OT) into a bin for later perusal. In fact this reply by me should give it a test :) Good night :)
PeterB
On Saturday 01 February 2003 12:20 pm, Paul Cooke wrote:
On Saturday 01 February 2003 17:17, Fred A. Miller wrote:
"About one-third of the agency's 5,000 workers -- those who do hands-on weather forecasting -- now use Linux. They're using Red Hat 7.3 Linux on Intel-based workstations from IBM in some 122 NWS Weather Offices across the nation, as well as in 12 River Forecast Centers, six regional weather service offices and the agency's training facilities. Linux is also being used in the specialized offices of the agency's National Center for Environmental Prediction, including the National Hurricane Center and the Storm Prediction Center."
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,780 61 ,0 0.html>
Fred... this is NOT an advocacy group. It is a support mailing list. If you want to do some advocacy, take it into the correct usenet newsgroup, comp.os.linux.advocacy
I'll be waiting.
-- Paul Cooke Registered Linux user 273897 Machine registration number 156819 Linux Counter: Home Page = http://counter.li.org/
On Saturday 01 February 2003 20:59 pm, Paul Cooke wrote:
As mentioned before, I'll now disengage from this topic and stick to SuSE specific stuff. I've set a filter to ditch all stuff marked (OT) into a bin for later perusal. In fact this reply by me should give it a test :)
Good night :)
And thanks.... and Good Night. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 02/01/03 21:07 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread."
On 1 Feb 2003 at 17:37, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
From: Peter B Van Campen
Thought we all agreed that Freds posts ( that are marked OT) are welcomed by the list community, And isn't Christopher the Moderator??
My feeling entirely... alan -- http://www.ibgames.net/alan Registered Linux user #6822 http://counter.li.org Winding Down - Weekly Tech Newsletter - subscribe at http://www.ibgames.net/alan/winding/mailing.html
On Saturday 01 February 2003 13:20 pm, Paul Cooke wrote:
On Saturday 01 February 2003 17:17, Fred A. Miller wrote:
"About one-third of the agency's 5,000 workers -- those who do hands-on weather forecasting -- now use Linux. They're using Red Hat 7.3 Linux on Intel-based workstations from IBM in some 122 NWS Weather Offices across the nation, as well as in 12 River Forecast Centers, six regional weather service offices and the agency's training facilities. Linux is also being used in the specialized offices of the agency's National Center for Environmental Prediction, including the National Hurricane Center and the Storm Prediction Center."
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801, 78061,0 0.html>
Fred... this is NOT an advocacy group. It is a support mailing list. If you want to do some advocacy, take it into the correct usenet newsgroup, comp.os.linux.advocacy
I'll be waiting.
I for one like seeing items like this.... I doubt if it makes up 1% of the number of emails sent to this list. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 02/01/03 20:27 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 20:27:59 -0500
Bruce Marshall
I for one like seeing items like this.... I doubt if it makes up 1% of the number of emails sent to this list.
Yeah, I thought this was settled awhile back. It was OK as long as he put OT in the subject line so picky people could filter it out. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
On Saturday 01 February 2003 13:20, Paul Cooke wrote:
On Saturday 01 February 2003 17:17, Fred A. Miller wrote:
"About one-third of the agency's 5,000 workers -- those who do hands-on weather forecasting -- now use Linux. [snippety] <http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/ os/linux/story/0,10801,78061,0 0.html>
Fred... this is NOT an advocacy group. It is a support mailing list. If you want to do some advocacy, take it into the correct usenet newsgroup, comp.os.linux.advocacy
I don't see advocacy. From what I've seen, he usually sets up with a paragraph or two of background text, and then gives us the URL. The ones that I've read (several) have been news pieces that constitute a 'progress report' on how Linux is doing in the big wide world. I find them encouraging, generally, and I venture to suggest that any seeming bias toward more frequent mention of RH is just because of current market reality. Sure, it would be nice if the majority of success/inroads pieces mentioned SuSE, but that's not Fred's fault. And they are marked OT. I, for one, am not offended or inconvenienced. Yeah, I know it wasn't a poll. :-) /kevin
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