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by rootbear 7y ago
I am increasingly seeing "software" used as a discrete noun, rather than as a continuous noun or an adjective, as in this line from the article: "The terminal — a software officially named Bloomberg Professional — is still a
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by rootbear 7y ago
I have occasionally taken Route 301 south from the Washington DC area (I live just a few miles from it in Maryland). It's a nice change of pace from I-95. The intersection of I-95 South and the Washington Beltway is huge, complex thing
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by rootbear 7y ago
It was remarkably difficult to dig up any specifics on this. But I finally found the linked PDF below. It says this about the DMS-R: "Another example is EADS DMS-R, a computer board based on ERC32 (Atmel TSC695) processor, and a fault-
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by rootbear 7y ago
I knew Phil slightly when I was at the University of Maryland. I think we had a physics class together. I remember him as being quite smart. I hope he is well and happy.
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by rootbear 7y ago
I need that last sentence on a T-shirt. Bravo!
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by rootbear 7y ago
That was probably me, I posted a link in the Hackaday comment section. Don, I forgot about the colored LEDs. I need to find a picture!
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by rootbear 7y ago
Yes, I understand that. I’m just confused by the author’s use of BOTH the L and the £ together, on the same line.
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by rootbear 7y ago
Fascinating list, but the notation is confusing in places. The pound sterling is denoted by an L: 1 pound (L) = 20 shillings (s) in the introduction, but in the text both the L and the £ are used, sometimes in the same line!
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by rootbear 7y ago
Some high-end CG applications do not work acceptably under nouveau. If I must use those applications for my job, and thus must use the proprietary Nvidia driver, then I will. It is NOT my choice at that point, I am effectively forced into i
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by rootbear 7y ago
I was sad to see that in the release notes, I had not heard. I remember Kurt from the Old Days, when I went to some open houses at UUNET and attended Usenix conferences.
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by rootbear 7y ago
Back in the pre-web days, we used to get software via ftp, usually as source code tar balls, from any of several well-known archive sites. One I remember was labrea.stanford.edu. Yes, it was a tar pit...
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by rootbear 7y ago
A friend and I had been talking about visiting NRAO/Green Bank for some years and in 2006 we finally decided on a weekend. When I went to look up some information on visiting, I discovered we had unknowingly picked their 50th anniversa
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by rootbear 7y ago
I visited Iceland two years ago and loved it. It was a short visit and I did the usual tourist things, like the Golden Circle tour. I would like to go again and see other parts of the country, outside the basic tourist areas. A friend drove
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by rootbear 7y ago
I read a book about a motorcycle-driving mouse many years ago: https://www.amazon.com/Mouse-Motorcycle-Beverly-Cleary/dp/03...
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by rootbear 7y ago
Most early terminals were actually 80x24. I know the DEC VT series were. I remember being surprised when the IBM PC came out with an 80x25 display.
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by rootbear 7y ago
I recognized quite a few, since I met several of them at the old Usenix conferences I used to attend. Dennis Ritchie, Eric Allman, Kirk McCusick, Keith Bostic. A few others. I would like to have seen the late Evi Nemeth, but she was known m
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by rootbear 7y ago
Adafruit also sells two pi-hole kits, one with a Pi Zero included and one BYOP (Bring Your Own Pi). https://www.adafruit.com/product/3973 and https://www.adafruit.com/product/3974 I am not affilia
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by rootbear 7y ago
I shop at the other DC area MicroCenter, in Rockville, and have had similar positive experiences. It's the closest thing I know of to the Fry's shopping experiences I had in the late 90s when I lived in the SF Bay Area. The bigges
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by rootbear 7y ago
Was this part of Vince Cerf's "Interplanetary Internet" project? He's spoken about that at NASA Goddard a few times. I once toyed with the idea of using "in flight" data as mass storage, where data would be kep
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by rootbear 7y ago
Originally, the Pi was going to run Python directly, with a minimal OS underneath, much as early home computers ran embedded BASIC. But as development continued, it became clear that being a full Linux system was desirable. Since it was ori
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by rootbear 7y ago
That's a fascinating analysis. The least credible part of it to me is the CIA connection. It's easy to say that some intelligence agency or another is part of some scheme, very difficult to prove, and impossible to disprove. I cou
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by rootbear 7y ago
That reminds me of a scene in Clarke’s novel “The City and the Stars”, where there is a map that lets one view the entire billion year history of the city of Diaspora. I thought that was a cool idea when I read the book decades ago and now
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by rootbear 7y ago
I saw a "boot leg" cut of The Thief and the Cobbler about twenty years ago. Some of the animation of a huge machine, toward the end of the film, is amazing. It looks like CG but it's completely hand drawn. It's a shame h
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by rootbear 7y ago
XRoach doesn't work even on a modern X desktop. The background window on, say, gnome, isn't really the root window. I compiled XRoach a few years ago and didn't understand at first why it wasn't working. I don't kno
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by rootbear 7y ago
Pity, it's a perfect name. I went to a gay Country Western bar in Houston back in the early 90s and got lost getting there when going through an insanely complex set of highway over passes. It was a fun bar when I finally got there.
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by rootbear 7y ago
> loud music at a bar called power tools Please tell me this was a gay bar. If it wasn't, it should have been. I have some upper range hearing loss that's more or less consistent with my age. I also have tinnitus and ADHD, so I
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by rootbear 7y ago
Bought at $2.02, four years ago. Not all that many shares, sadly, but I'm happy. :) It somewhat makes up for me stupidly selling the cheap Apple stock I had, just before the iPad came out. Oops.
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by rootbear 7y ago
I saw that system a couple of years ago and loved it. It has hundreds of flashing, spinning dekatron tubes, er, valves, and the control logic is relay based, so it makes lots of clicking noises. It's the apotheosis of the 50s sci-fi mo
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by rootbear 7y ago
I used PL/UM, a PL/I variant at the University of Maryland at about the same time. Also on a Univac 1100, specifically an 1108 and/or 1106. Where you there, too?
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by rootbear 7y ago
My chorus director in college was always trying to get us to not use the /g/ when singing German. He often used the finger/singer analogy to explain the difference.

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