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by loph 5y ago
I have sadly lost my copy of the Digital Technical Journal that had this article, it was a All-Alpha issue, if I remember correctly. The authors are not attributed at the beginning of the article, but they are all named at the end.
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by loph 5y ago
Pretty sure I bought this report for money about 15 years ago.
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by loph 6y ago
That's no enigma. enigma had 3 or 4 rotors. This is more like a "tunny", almost. Germany's teleprinter encryption, what you hear about that was decrypted at Bletchly Park, was a machine that had 12 rotors. This pictu
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by loph 6y ago
Team moral? I don't think morals have anything to do with working for facebook.
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by loph 6y ago
Paintings by Zuse... https://www.wikiart.org/en/konrad-zuse
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by loph 6y ago
Interesting to see that many are PDP-8 and -11 clones. "CVAX... When you care enough to steal the very best."
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by loph 6y ago
That was not Ken Olsen, I can assure you. It might have been Bob Palmer, but I don't think he was ru(i)nning the company until the early 90s. Ken was a frugal and deeply religious man. The first time I met him, he was picking up tras
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by loph 6y ago
VAXCluster and the distributed lock manager that enabled it. Nothing has come close. This was from the late 80s. "Digital Has It Now."
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by loph 6y ago
Join your local radio club, or attend their (online) meetings. There are lot of people who would like to help you get licensed, grow your skills, and get better licensed. The Technician test is a few rules and Ohm's law, you learn wha
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by loph 6y ago
and vice-versa. The hacker community can benefit from amateur radio, too. I'm an electronics hacker, software developer, audio enthusiast, and ham radio nut. The lines between them are very, very blurry. Radio is just another nerd-t
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by loph 6y ago
Funny how this appeared the same day as "What Is the PDP-11 Instruction Set".
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by loph 6y ago
Stereophile magazine has never been known for science, mostly pseudo-scientific, unsubstantiable claims. They still insist that double-blind testing is not suitable for audio. I used to subscribe to the magazine, but would get infuriated
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by loph 6y ago
"The URL provided is not correct" -- funny, it seems to work in a web browser.
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by loph 6y ago
PR#6 no, really, you old Apple users know what I mean. That's what you would type to get the thing to load DOS.
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by loph 6y ago
I use duckduckgo for search, I have the DuckDuckGo privacy extensions installed in Chrome, along with EFF Privacy Badger. I'm not that worried about Google. I did de-facebook myself. IMHO Facebook is far more invasive, far more harmf
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by loph 6y ago
What's old is new again. This reminds me of Digital's VEST technology. VEST would convert VAX programs to run on Alpha. From 32-bit CISC to 64-bit RISC. Nearly 30 years ago. https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs
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by loph 6y ago
You might look at what Jamie Dupree has done. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/15/health/dystonia-jamie-dupree-... He uses a text-to-speech system that sounds more-or-less like him.
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by loph 6y ago
My Dad had one of those PDT-11/150 as his "personal computer". It ran RT-11, had two 8" floppy drives. The CPU box was about the size of a countertop microwave oven. He had a video terminal, and a printing terminal (LA
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by loph 6y ago
Having a DEQNA was the reason they did not love their PDP-11. They were notoriously buggy. Replaced with DELQA. See http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/qbus/EK-DELQA-UG-002.pdf
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by loph 7y ago
I am reminded of the xcrab x11 program, where a crab would scuttle across the screen and abscond with the mouse pointer. That was late 80s. Not to be confused with xroach, where disgusting roaches would scatter when the window covering th
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by loph 7y ago
"Privacy-focused", but you need to log in with your Linkedin credentials -- what could go wrong? Thanks, but no thanks.
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by loph 8y ago
More for L.L. Bean, I guess.
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by loph 8y ago
I've driven a Chevy Impala. It drove OK, but it looked and felt really cheap inside. I've owned Chrysler, Chevy, and Ford. It was the Ford product -- that I bought new -- that drove me (in many senses) to the Honda dealer. I&#x
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by loph 8y ago
Find a local club, there will be people there that will want to see you succeed.
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by loph 8y ago
I'm a late-career software developer. 30+ years in the trenches doing this... I've done "meaningful" work at companies that treated my like a consumable resource, and less meaningful work at companies that treated me li
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by loph 9y ago
More good work by radio amateurs. PA3FWM is a ham.
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by loph 10y ago
no headline bias there. ios devices were vulnerable until patched, very recently. the patches are built for android and it's up to the device manufacturers to get them into the wild.
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by loph 10y ago
The library is missing the sound of the bike's rider repeatedly kicking the starter, over and over, and the muttered oaths, as the bike fails to start.
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by loph 10y ago
This one sentence says it all: "The Economist found that between 2012 and 2015 the three biggest Indian outsourcing firms—TCS, Wipro and Infosys—submitted over 150,000 visa applications for positions that paid a median salary of $69,50
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by loph 10y ago
DEC had a tool called VEST which was used to take native VAX binaries and convert them to run on Alpha AXP. It was very cool technology. A fair amount of the system utilities for OpenVMS on AXP were VESTed VAX binaries. I'm pretty s

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