Re: First Mars Pictures

1997-07-08 Thread Alex Romosan
: Anyone watching NASA Select TV for the first pictures of Mars?
: 
: The desktop they're using looks hauntingly familiar...
: 
: fvwm2 is there, and xv too...

Yes, I saw it. I wish it was a Debian machine. The screen looks great
with all those windows.

it was actually an sgi. they said that at some point during the
transmission.

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Re: First Mars Pictures

1997-07-07 Thread Ed Down

Interesting point. I seem to remember xv is shareware, I wonder if they've
paid their fee. And I wonder what NASA is classed as - commercial or
educational?

Ed


On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Jim Pick wrote:

 
 Anyone watching NASA Select TV for the first pictures of Mars?
 
 The desktop they're using looks hauntingly familiar...
 
 fvwm2 is there, and xv too...
 
 :-)
 
 Cheers,
 
  - Jim
 
 


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Re: First Mars Pictures

1997-07-07 Thread Alexander Kjeldaas


On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Ed Down wrote:

 
 Interesting point. I seem to remember xv is shareware, I wonder if they've
 paid their fee. And I wonder what NASA is classed as - commercial or
 educational?

does it matter? our university has a site-license for xv and it's
definitively not commercial.

astor


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Re: First Mars Pictures

1997-07-06 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Jim Pick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

: Anyone watching NASA Select TV for the first pictures of Mars?
: 
: The desktop they're using looks hauntingly familiar...
: 
: fvwm2 is there, and xv too...

Yes, I saw it. I wish it was a Debian machine. The screen looks great
with all those windows.

E.-

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