02-07-2004, 07:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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Mars Rover Spirit Connection Established
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/02/active_sync.html
"After a few weeks of speculation about why NASA suddenly lost contact with the Spirit rover, engineers stumbled on a simple software upgrade that quickly restored contact."
This simple link between NASA and the Spirit rover has become a major problem.
Turns out a quick trip to Microsoft's Pocket PC site to download the latest version of ActiveSync cleared the whole thing up! :lol:
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02-07-2004, 07:03 PM
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Theorist
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haha i cant tell if this is a joke or if its true
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02-07-2004, 07:04 PM
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Theorist
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I can see a bunch of NASA geeks sitting around a PC, cursing Microsoft, doing weekly deletions of partnerships, sometimes followed by hard-resetting the rover.
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02-07-2004, 07:07 PM
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Thinker
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
Wow....maybe thats the cause of aLL our problems
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02-07-2004, 07:25 PM
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Ponderer
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If only Beagle had been Psion based.... 
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02-07-2004, 07:32 PM
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Techtoys
If only Beagle had been Psion based.... |
Maybe it was Palm based. Couldn't multitask so it crashed. :grinning devil:
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02-07-2004, 07:41 PM
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That was funny  . So I don�t want to hear anybody bitchin about how they can�t get there iPAQ to sync via Bluetooth anymore...these guys got it to work over RF at 300 million miles away. Of course at 128 kilobits per second I�ll take WiFi or BT any day. Now I�m to shop for one of those funky UHF antennas to stick on my iPAQ so I can sync it between work and home, I�m not sure if I can get used to this backpack transmitter however� 8O
--Bill
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02-07-2004, 08:02 PM
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Intellectual
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Funny as.........well, this is funny.
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02-07-2004, 08:07 PM
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Theorist
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It was all of thoses duplicate contacts that filled up the flash memory on the rover. They just needed to run a contact scrubber program
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02-07-2004, 08:23 PM
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Intellectual
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In an unrelated story NASA purchases Scary Bear Software lock stock and barrel. When asked to comment if this had anything to do with the rover and the Notification Event Database overflow this is what mission coordinators had to say: �We stand by our technology and technology partners, the Scary Bear purchase was an unrelated move to future proof further projects going forward and does not indicate any lack of faith in our current software partners or their current released products that may generate unnecessary Event Notifications.�
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