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by mrbill 15y ago
Any reason that results in Carly being gone is a good reason. She was a cancer on HP's good name. And helped ruin what was left of DEC.
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by mrbill 15y ago
"Better than Carly".
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by mrbill 15y ago
This book is great, and finally available in Kindle format too.
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by mrbill 15y ago
It's pretty hard for a robot to throw itself off a roof.
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by mrbill 15y ago
I would mirror my rsnapshot backups to Backblaze if they had Linux support.
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by mrbill 15y ago
April '93 UnixWorld cover - "Does Steve Jobs have a Future in Software?" http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/29870210/ Ironic to look back on now, considering that OS X and the Macs that a lot of us use are the direct descendants of NeXTS
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by mrbill 15y ago
The big thing for the ChromeBook for me is the price. It shouldn't cost more than a more fully-featured notebook. $250 - I'd be all over one. $500? No thanks.
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by mrbill 15y ago
My wife passed away unexpectedly at the age of 34 two years ago. The last line of Derek's post made me lose it, sitting here in my office at work.
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by mrbill 16y ago
You can build an adapter to make the Symbolics keyboards USB. I've got the parts and the keyboard, but haven't taken the time to re-compile the code for the Teensy 2.0 yet. http://netzhansa.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-convert-your-sy...
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by mrbill 16y ago
I recently bought a MacIvory II board set with docs and install media and am awaiting the arrival of parts for the Quadra 700 that I'm going to host it in. I've got a Symbolics "fat" old-style keyboard that I'm going to make the USB adapte
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by mrbill 16y ago
I bought it after I you mentioned it on Reddit. 8-)
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by mrbill 16y ago
His response reads like "How many important-sounding names and terms can I drop in this email?" Frothing-at-the-mouth levels of Proper Captialization and Acronym Usage.
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by mrbill 16y ago
Other than NFC, more internal storage, and Gingerbread pre-installed, this pretty much has the same specs as my Nexus One, which I've been very happy with (no touch screen bugs here).
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by mrbill 16y ago
The telecom nerd in me just EXPLODED. It's great that they've finally put all of these online; no more inter-library loans or having to troll eBay to look up an article. My favorite: the September 1964 special issue detailing the 1ESS elect