The Daily Nerd (November 14th, 2013)

The Daily Nerd (November 14th, 2013) #

International Space Station attacked by ‘virus epidemics’ #

In May, the United Space Alliance, which oversees the running of if the ISS in orbit, migrated all the computer systems related to the ISS over to Linux for security, stability and reliability reasons.

The Linux kernel community learns how to grow more penguins #

So the Linux Foundation, and others in the Linux community, are undertaking initiatives to bring in new developers to participate in the kernel. For example, reaching out to hobbyist developers to attend the kernel Summit, and adding to the LinuxCon program of activities such as:

• The newcomers reception: “to give new attendees the opportunity to meet some of the key Linux kernel contributors” The Women in OSS luncheon: “a networking opportunity for women in open source to connect and learn from each other” Scholarships for women who want to attend LinuxCon and CloudOpen but are not sponsored by a company or do not have personal funds to attend

Apple II DOS source code #

“DOS was written on punch cards. I would actually hand-write the code on 80-column punch card sheets. A guy at Shepardson named Mike Peters would take those sheets and punch the cards. The punch cards would then be read into a National Semiconductor IMP-16 and assembled, and a paper tape produced. The paper tape was read into the Apple II by a plug-in card made by Wozniak, and I would proceed to debug it. As the project got further along and the code was all written, and it was debugging and updating, I would mark up a listing and give it to Mike Peters who would then change whatever was necessary and deliver me a paper tape and I’d start again.”