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Looking At Turing

Posted by Hemos on from the down-memory-lane dept.

Jim Jones has written in with the first of a series that explores the history of Mr. Alan Turing, and his connection with digital computing.

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  1. In other news... by itwerx · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...with the recent release of LOTR, Alan Turing has been found to be the originator of DNS and somewhat megalomaniac, as evidenced by this inscription:

    One Rule Turing them all
    One Find Turing them,
    One Bring Turing them all
    And in the darkness BIND them

    (Who knew Tolkien was secretly dyslexic?)

    Score=Funny - Right on!
    Score=Offtopic - Oh yeah? Let's see you post something better! :)

  2. Re:What a teaser! by sylvester · · Score: 5, Funny

    > who doesn't know what a "Turing Test" is?

    I'm sorry, I don't what you mean by "Turing Test". Perhaps we can talk about something else for a while.

    :-)

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    -Rob Ewaschuk
  3. Re:All Computers by Merry_B.Buck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hardware is fine and dandy, but have you ever tried to find the right drivers for a Turing Machine? ArcServe and Veritas drivers only support a few hundred gigabytes of tape.

    You'd think after 60 years someone could have at least invented a Turing Autoloader.

  4. hmm by Docrates · · Score: 3, Funny


    Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) in /home/sites/site53/users/systool/stbwebsite/inc/da tabase.inc on line 17
    Secret code error number 83: localhost, bfadmin.

    Yes, that Turing sure was a complicated fellow...

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    There are two kinds of people in the world: Those with good memory.
  5. Secret code by Mr.+Fred+Smoothie · · Score: 2, Funny
    Haha! I wasn't able to read the article, but due to their poor programming, I NOW KNOW THEIR SECRET CODE:
    "error number 83: localhost, bfadmin"
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