From owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 04:18:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B39116A41F; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:18:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from amongrp@asianet.co.th) Received: from classic.asianet.co.th (adsl-67-125-48-130.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.125.48.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D5F43D45; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:18:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from amongrp@asianet.co.th) message-id: <002401c5a475$1a9309e0$3aa4f983@atloq> From: "Body Wrap" To: "Subscriber" Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:18:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="multipart/alternative"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0021_01C5A453.938169E0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Who says you can rid of inches X-BeenThere: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated to libh code development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:18:50 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C5A453.938169E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Subscriber "You're really dealing with people who are overworked, low morale, stressed out," said Hamid Ghaffari, the union representative at the center in Palmdale which handles high-altitude aircraft in Southern California and parts of Arizona, Nevada and Utah. "Boy, that's not a good mixture for air traffic controllers." The FAA says the recent close calls resulted from human error unrelated to working conditions. The union's claims are nothing more than a negotiating ploy, said FAA spokesman Greg Martin. The current contract expires Sept. 30, though it would still be in effect so that controllers don't stop working. "We all know what's going on," Martin said. "We're in the middle of contract negotiations. It's a press release a day with each one being more outlandish than the last one." The federal government and controllers union have a history of discord dating back decades - President Reagan fired more than 10,000 controllers who illegally walked off the job in 1981. Controllers' gripes may be contract related, but their warnings of faulty equipment are legitimate, according to aviation analyst Mike Boyd said. "By and large, when they say things are not as safe as they need to be, take it to the bank," said Boyd, president of Colorado-based The Boyd Group. "I can understand their frustration." The numbers suggest the nation's aviation safety system is in good shape. No major airplane crashes have occurred in the U.S. since November 2001, when American Airlines Flight 587 lost its tail and plunged into a New York City neighborhood, killing 265 people. Runway safety violations during the first 10-plus months of the 2005 fiscal year totaled 277, compared to 295 during the same period in 2004, preliminary FAA statistics show. At the same time, those data show that "operational errors" - for example, when two airplanes get too close in the air - have increased over the same span from 988 to 1,308. Air traffic safety statistics may be unreliable, however, because in many cases, controllers report their own errors. Controllers claim that numbers do not tell the whole story. A highly touted anti-collision system failed to warn of a near-collision recently at New York's Kennedy Airport. The system also hasn't worked properly in Boston because, controllers point out, it shifts into limited mode during bad weather. FAA spokesman Martin said the anti-collision system, which has been in place for four years at the nation's top 34 airports, is just one component of the runway safety system - with pilots and controllers remaining the backbone. That's the point, according to controllers who complain of understaffing. A prime example is Los Angeles Center, where the two safety problems occurred during the past week, said Ghaffari, the facility's union representative. The control center is authorized to employ 310 controllers but has just 217 certified personnel and 48 trainees, including 21 who can do very little because they are brand new to the job, ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C5A453.938169E0-- From owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 20 10:10:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D72BF16A41F; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:10:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adewole@sympatico.ca) Received: from BAYC1-PASMTP04.bayc1.hotmail.com (bayc1-pasmtp04.bayc1.hotmail.com [65.54.191.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC9243D45; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:10:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adewole@sympatico.ca) Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [64.231.252.68] X-Originating-Email: [adewole@sympatico.ca] Received: from newton ([64.231.252.68]) by BAYC1-PASMTP04.bayc1.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:10:15 -0700 Message-ID: <00d101c5a570$7b322050$6501a8c0@newton> From: "Mike Adewole" To: Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:18:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Aug 2005 10:10:15.0278 (UTC) FILETIME=[5BF6C8E0:01C5A56F] Cc: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Subject: Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop X-BeenThere: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated to libh code development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:10:16 -0000 For many people who spend a lot of time on the *BSD console and would love to have a desktop environment comparable to KDE/GNOME, I'm starting a project called BSDVISION to develop such an environment. Please don't ask if such an environment is really needed or not; the important thing is that some people like me need it badly enough to want to develop it. As a matter of fact, it has been in development for some time now and I think it's getting to the point where it makes sense to ask for community involvement. But I'm not looking for developers because development will continue to be done by myself with the assistance of paid contractors. What I'm looking for is people to maintain a community infrastructure (web site, mailing list, online forum, webcvs/svn, etc) which a community project like this needs in order to appeal to as many people as possible. So if you love the BSD console and would like to see it sport a complete desktop environment, the bsdvision project can really use your support. And since this project developed from an attempt to do a cleanroom implementation of libh, we'll be using the old libh mailing list until we have another one. Come help us make *BSD a truly complete platform with the best console desktop environment in the universe :-) Cheers