The Dept. of Education never educated one single child.
The Dept. of Energy never produced one drop of oil.
HUD, by failing to oversee Freddy and Fanny, got us into the mortgage mess we're in now.
I'm just sorry the EPA isn't on his list. That agency is totally out of control.
the community desperately wanted an open phone, and thousands of openmoko neos and freerunners were purchased. the problem was the 1 day battery life. as well as a few problems with the GSM radio. the iphone is the next best device.
Except this beast was 110baud. But time sharing systems in those days weren't much faster (IBM 1401 series, Honeywell 200 series, early IBM360). It was a TTY33 in a case with wheels and an acoustic coupler (connecting wires to AT&T's network in those days was strictly verboten). It weighed about 90 pounds (or at least felt like 90 #).
The first 300baud units were lugable but used thermal paper on a roll.
Speaking of Airbus, have you seen the video of an Airbus (on a test flight) that decided it was going to land in the trees? The crew was killed. Software.
Today I installed an Asterisk VoIP system (my 14th) into a small business here in Denver. I'm really fascinated by non-technical customers and the challenge of communicating with non-techies (well, we need the firewall on this box because we require a public IP address for the SIP interface...) Plus the money is good and I can work my own hours.
This old programmer (IMB 1620, Honeywell 200/2200/L6, Tandem, Windows, Unix, Linux) is going to be doing it until he drops.
During the 60s, the Army gave me all my injections without a needle. One recruit had fluid (not sweat) dribbling down the inside of his arm after receiving a "shot" on the outside of the arm. The plague "shot" was especially painful--half the platoon was face down after receiving the needle-less injection.
What will you connect eight drives to? Four PCI ATA controllers?
I have eight 200GB drives on my data server using a 3Ware RAID controller, and it has worked wonderfully for 18+ months. I have had a drive fail (due to insufficient cooling), and the system didn't even hiccup.
I have a software RAID system at a client's location. Whenever there is a power failure, the system comes back up nicely. However, because of the abnormal shutdown, the software RAID tries to recover one of the disks. This absolutely eats the processor for 16 hours. 98-100% utilization. Fiddling the/proc parameters is no help. I think this is a bug--what could it be doing for 16 hours?
I've suggested to my employer that we use Lisp to generate some source code as a product of pattern matching. His response was "where has Lisp been for the last seven years?" He's right. No new books. No press. No interest. Do you see Lisp falling off the end of the earth?
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The Dept. of Education never educated one single child. The Dept. of Energy never produced one drop of oil. HUD, by failing to oversee Freddy and Fanny, got us into the mortgage mess we're in now. I'm just sorry the EPA isn't on his list. That agency is totally out of control.
But, but, but, science is not about consensus!
the community desperately wanted an open phone, and thousands of openmoko neos and freerunners were purchased. the problem was the 1 day battery life. as well as a few problems with the GSM radio. the iphone is the next best device.
Except this beast was 110baud. But time sharing systems in those days weren't much faster (IBM 1401 series, Honeywell 200 series, early IBM360). It was a TTY33 in a case with wheels and an acoustic coupler (connecting wires to AT&T's network in those days was strictly verboten). It weighed about 90 pounds (or at least felt like 90 #).
The first 300baud units were lugable but used thermal paper on a roll.
Naw, it's Bush's fault...
County? Isn't that a misspelling? Shouldn't that be country? In the next few years this incident will become just one of thousands.
Ahhh, big government solves everything. Like IT in NHS.
Speaking of Airbus, have you seen the video of an Airbus (on a test flight) that decided it was going to land in the trees? The crew was killed. Software.
wow! just think about having an inductor in that field. OPEC goodbye!
vote results posted real time on the Internet... vote by vote, precinct by precinct, county by county, state by state.
Is there anyone in the room that doesn't believe we need an open source voting system in this country???
Today I installed an Asterisk VoIP system (my 14th) into a small business here in Denver. I'm really fascinated by non-technical customers and the challenge of communicating with non-techies (well, we need the firewall on this box because we require a public IP address for the SIP interface...) Plus the money is good and I can work my own hours. This old programmer (IMB 1620, Honeywell 200/2200/L6, Tandem, Windows, Unix, Linux) is going to be doing it until he drops.
As I recall, M$ wrote OS/2 in assembler. Who would want it now? The available PCs in the early 90s (when OS/2 was released) were i386/33 vintage.
As I recall, M$ wrote OS/2 in assembler. Who would want it?
During the 60s, the Army gave me all my injections without a needle. One recruit had fluid (not sweat) dribbling down the inside of his arm after receiving a "shot" on the outside of the arm. The plague "shot" was especially painful--half the platoon was face down after receiving the needle-less injection.
What will you connect eight drives to? Four PCI ATA controllers? I have eight 200GB drives on my data server using a 3Ware RAID controller, and it has worked wonderfully for 18+ months. I have had a drive fail (due to insufficient cooling), and the system didn't even hiccup. I have a software RAID system at a client's location. Whenever there is a power failure, the system comes back up nicely. However, because of the abnormal shutdown, the software RAID tries to recover one of the disks. This absolutely eats the processor for 16 hours. 98-100% utilization. Fiddling the /proc parameters is no help. I think this is a bug--what could it be doing for 16 hours?
I've suggested to my employer that we use Lisp to generate some source code as a product of pattern matching. His response was "where has Lisp been for the last seven years?" He's right. No new books. No press. No interest. Do you see Lisp falling off the end of the earth?