fluffysquirrel

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   by fluffysquirrel 10y ago

   That cracks me up. Back in the 80s, I wrote a little TSR for a guy who missed the Atari 800 keyboard click tone on his new clone PC. I had wired a switch in line with the speaker in my Atari so that I could turn off the tone and not wake
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   by fluffysquirrel 10y ago

   The low-compression engine in a 1966 Cessna 172 doesn't require leaded fuel; there are at least two supplemental type certificates available to legally run it on unleaded auto fuel. The lead is in the fuel as an octane booster, and is
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   by fluffysquirrel 10y ago

   I had never heard that Concorde was "quite profitable"; to the contrary, I believe it was heavily subsidized by its operators' respective governments as a point of national pride. e.g.: http://www.nytimes.com/
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   by fluffysquirrel 10y ago

   Which apparently has nothing to do with Xiaolin Wu's algorithm.
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   by fluffysquirrel 10y ago

   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.folklore.computers... " > "Dennis Ritchie" <d...@bell-labs.com> wrote >> Spurious. dd was always named after JCL dd cards. > > Alright