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by hazeii 9y ago
Then, of course, there were the messageries roses (translated roughly as 'pink message areas' - adults only, of course!).
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by hazeii 9y ago
We were running a multi-user text adventure on Prestel at the time, and BT wanted to put it Minitel (in a lot of ways, Minitel was Prestel done right - at least technically). Cue some days in Paris running around with a 'portable'
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by hazeii 9y ago
In case you're not aware, the Guardian is funded by the Scott Trust ( https://www.theguardian.com/the-scott-trust ), with the idea of ensuring the Guardian would "remain free of commercial pressures". From the
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by hazeii 9y ago
Naturally, always been like it. I got some glasses back in my 20's to correct it, but the effect was to put everything into the zone where each eye would struggle for dominance (maybe I should have persisted, to see if my neural circ
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by hazeii 9y ago
I do something similar, when reading stuff around 15 feet (typically text on TV screens). In my case, it's because I have one long-sighted eye and one short-sighted (so I use one for close-up stuff like reading and the other for far st
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by hazeii 9y ago
Nature and New Scientist online archives? (sub. required).
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by hazeii 9y ago
>assuming that there is no lying involved I've seen this video several times before, and it's usually explained as an FLIR artifact (I believe the pod has a steerable lens systen, so possibly the cause of the rotation seen in t
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by hazeii 9y ago
The bus is sufficiently slow you can emulate the hardware with an MCU. I'm using a slightly different approach with my PDP-11's, which is to use a custom device driver using DRV-11 parallel interfaces connected to a PC at the othe
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by hazeii 9y ago
Adding fun with PDP-11 autoincrement:- MOV (PC)+,(PC)+ What does that do? It's a single-instruction program that replicates itself throughout memory.
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by hazeii 9y ago
The field effect transistor was patented in 1926 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-effect_transistor ) - practical devices came later.
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by hazeii 9y ago
It's on the MS FTP server (which seems to down at present - withdrawn?). There are plenty of mirrors - first one on Google is:- http://www.kompx.com/en/network-setup-in-dos-microsoft-netwo...
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by hazeii 9y ago
DOS (without or with older hardware) is great for hardware hacking, e.g. it's trivial to write code to directly access hardware and find out how it works; the information can then be used to e.g. implement a linux driver. Note that per
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by hazeii 9y ago
MS-Net is another option for connecting DOS boxes to linux servers running samba - it's a neat way of running diskless DOS boxes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-Net
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Passenger aircraft struck by drone in Quebec(canada.ca)
3 points by hazeii 9y ago|0 comments
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by hazeii 9y ago
I suspect there are quite a few in private ownership (I have several). If you really want one, your best bet may be find someone who wants to 'pass the torch', so to speak.
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by hazeii 9y ago
Thanks, I misread the draft as '<star>.localhost.<star>'(!)
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by hazeii 9y ago
Within " .localhost. "... www.localhost.mydomain.com?
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by hazeii 9y ago
~$ calc calc 2.12.4.1 > a=154476802108746166441951315019919837485664325669565431700026634898253202035277999 > b=36875131794129999827197811565225474825492979968971970996283137471637224634055579 > c=437361267792869725786
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Would Siri really work in space?(fortune.com)
1 points by hazeii 9y ago|0 comments
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by hazeii 9y ago
Indeed, as a regular rsh user, this caught me out; it seems a poor choice to replace a working command with a non-functional alternative (and obviously ssh doesn't want to add a feature like silently falling back to rsh).
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by hazeii 10y ago
Having run Debian both with and without systemd, I'm keen to try this out. Every time I hit an issue with systemd, the fix seems to involve a script anyway so experience has pushed me back to sysvinit (admittedly I'm biased in hav
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Norway converting diesel ferries to electric(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by hazeii 10y ago|0 comments
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by hazeii 10y ago
Can still get Dell 2007FPs on eBay; I find a good set-up is 1920x1200 centre with 1600x1200s to both left and right (for linux, all driven by a single nvidia card nowadays).
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by hazeii 10y ago
That's news to me, and a real disappointment. Just before Christmas I saw there was going to be a mag -8 flare close to where the ISS would be- watched it with my 4yo, spinning a tale the ISS was Santa and the flare was a reindeer re-e
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by hazeii 10y ago
PDP-11's are still powering nuclear reactors to this day - a few years back GE were looking for programmers to keep them going (interesting to me, since I programmed them in octal and Macro-11 back in the early 80's). http:/
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by hazeii 10y ago
Back in the days when games were written by one person, it was not that uncommon to get death threats or to have people say they were going to firebomb your house. We just ignored them. Which is not to say it's acceptable to make such
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by hazeii 10y ago
The one I'm currently in.
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by hazeii 10y ago
Well, stating that the "value to a user increases as more users use it" seems incorrect for Skype and Facebook at least (not familiar with WhatsApp). In fact, I'd say the more people around that you don't know or relat