I think this pretty much hits the nail on the head. Why own a car that sits unused for 90%-99% of the time? When all cars drive themselves (as seems not only possible but entirely practical in the early 21st century), I can foresee the ability to book a car online, have it pick you up and then deposit you at you destination for a fraction of today's cab fare. The economics appear to make so much sense. Also, with self-driving, possibly networked cars, you'd go a long way towards eliminating traffic problems that plague most car commuters on a daily basis.
May be the cars won't be rented, maybe they'll be shared between people or something, but as soon as people realise they don't have to pay to a fortune to buy, then maintain and fuel their vehicle, I think the economics will speak for themselves.
Recent versions of the popular systemimager software (used to replicate Linux installs over many nodes, often in HPC clusters), allow bittorrent to be used to accomplish this, rather than rsync, which is standard.
The documentation states that "SystemImager has been used to image a cluster of 1190 clients (IBM Blade LS21) over a 1Gb/s interconnect link: a 2.7GB RHEL5.1 x86_64 OS image has been delivered to all the clients in only 15min!!! (Note: this means that after 15 minutes we were able to ssh and submit jobs to the nodes)"
This is correct, however, Slashdot being an American website, I clocked the "7m" and automatically took it to mean "7 miles". After a serious case of the cold sweats, and reading TFS, however, I calmly carried on with my breakfast.
FWIW, being a Brit, I use metric on paper, but Imperial units in real life.
I guess so that you can take your hi-def movie/TV series that you've just erm...acquired round to a mate's house and plug it directly into his telly/AV receiver.
I could be wrong, but I believe this has been the case since Win2k, and possibly NT4 before that. IIRC, it was only the DOS-based monstrosities that demanded reboots with everything..
I built my "server" with an AMD BE-2400 CPU which I chose specifically for it's energy-efficiency rating. Before that, I had a single-core "Lima" processor. The system now draws around 50W, and is generally at a load average of 0.00 most of the time. Since then, AMD have brought out another low-energy range also with a 45W TDP.
Conversely, I put the same CPU in an Asus Pundit barebones box downstairs, and it draws a massive 90W or so, due I guess to inefficiencies in the motherboard, etc.
I'll second, third and fourth the positive comments above. I discovered Velib' whilst in Paris last week. I'd taken a fairly long walk to find a restaurant I liked the look of. On the way back, I happened across one of the bike stations and decided to give it a go (there was another station directly in front of the hotel I was staying in).
As you can see from the Wikipedia page, you need a Chip n PIN credit/debit card, it will cost you 5â for a 5-day pass, the first half-hour of any journey is free (encourages you not to hold on to the bike for too long), and if you fail to re-park the bike, it deducts a 120â or so deposit from your card.
The bikes are well designed - three gears, and dynamo powered lights, and instantly noticeable, Wikipedia says "the bikes are by their unique design less attractive to thieves than normal bikes."
One caveat. Have a map (I had Google Maps on my phone), otherwise you may very easily get lost.
From the point of view of the "new IT guy", it's not always like this...
Some background: I started a new job in a small company after five years of self-teaching various sysadmin skills whilst ostensibly being a Windows desktop support monkey. Then I moved to a 10 person company supporting Linux servers (mainly over the phone). There was a hella lot of technical to learn, just to keep my head anywhere near the surface of the metaphorical water. As it turned out, there was even more, as the company suffered a bit of a brain drain (all the techies leaving) within six months of me starting, and really I should have been thinking in terms of strategy, admin, accounting and, God forbid, *SALES* in that time, instead of just support, which was taking up 90% of my day anyway.
15 months after I started there, the company went under, and I was left high and dry - they didn't even pay us our last paycheque. As an aside, I also had a brand new mortgage and the birth of my second daughter was imminent, but that's a different story...
A couple of months later, I started a new job at a multinational company. Yay! Job security. But again, I was the new guy. It wasn't like I had anything to prove, but I was on a 6-month "probationary" period, when I could have been let go with almost no notice, and be right back in the shit again. This was just under two years ago, and finances are only just improving now.
Something I learned from the last few years is that it takes a while to become familiar with any support role, particularly when dealing with a bespoke app (as I was in both these cases). There's also other things like networks, processes etc. to learn, and for me that takes good year or so.
SO I guess what I'm trying to say is that the new guy always seeming like they have something to prove may not always be they way it seems. Sometimes it's just trying to prove that they're as good as they said they were in the interview, and for God's sake, please don't kick our arse back onto the street, when there's food to be put on the table.
The last time I checked (pre-Tiger, obivously), with a decent amount of RAM, a blue n' white G3 works very well with Panther. The worst thing was the noise of the fan, and IIRC, that's a standard 12cm one that can be replaced with a quieter one. The second worst thing was the fact that the gfx card doesn't support Core Image or whatever the flashy graphics are called on OSX, but - guess what you can (could) get capable gfx cards to replace the somewhat crappy Rage 128 that came with the thing.
There are other small niggles like the 137 GB limit on IDE hard drives, and the general age of the thing, but let's be honest it's still pretty good, and pretty well supported by current software...
The last time I checked (pre-Tiger, obivously), with a decent amount of RAM, a blue n' white G3 works very well with Panther. The worst thing was the noise of the fan, and IIRC, that's a standard 12cm one that can be replaced with a quieter one. The second worst thing was the fact that the gfx card doesn't support Core Image or whatever the flashy graphics are called on OSX, but - guess what you can (could) get capable gfx cards to replace the somewhat crappy Rage 128 that came with the thing.
There are other small niggles like the 137 GB limit on IDE hard drives, and the general age of the thing, but let's be honest it's still pretty good, and pretty well supported by current software...
Mmm, doubt it. Notice that there's still only one TGV line even in France. That suggests it's more of a showpiece than a paying proposition, even in Europe where population densities are so dense
I think you're wrong there, I'm no train buff, but there's substantially more than one TGV line (LGV) in France (see here). According to the accompanying article, there are eight, with 5 more under construction and 9 more planned. With 1700 km of track, it would appear that the TGV moves a lot of people around the country and has done so for many years
All we need is SATA, USB2/Firewire, digital video, and fiber-optic audio
Sorry, I know I'm still in the dark ages, but both my desktops at home still run off IDE drives.
Disclaimer: We've had two kids in the last four years. I upgraded my server box a few months ago from an Athlon XP 1700 to an low-power Athlon 64, and it only had one IDE port on the new motherboard. I have two LVM'd 120GB drives, so I have no optical drive plugged in at the mo:)
iptables has *always* confused the hell out of me because of its syntax. I can completely dig networks, routing, NAT etc. and all that kind of stuff but I find iptables extremely opaque and counter-intuitive - the last bastion of extreme geekhood - the kind of geek that shouts "RTFM!" at you without a second thought before geeking out some more:)
As a disclaimer, I've been working as a sysadmin for about the last 7 years and would count myself as a fairly proficient one for around the last 5 (since I started getting my teeth into Linux). I once built a NAT box for my old workplace which used iptables, but decided to copy the code for the iptables script off the web somewhere rather than spend any time learning about it (my bad).
I could probably schlep together another one given enough time, but now I find myself working at a company that's all VPN'd up, and with another department that deals with all the routing, networking etc. Getting to a machine on another subnet in another country is now as easy as "# ssh 192.168.x.x".
In the meantime, I've got a cheap D-Link NAT router at home which replaced the WRT54G that went before it (Went from Cable to ADSL), which replaced the IPCop box that went before that.
I really wouldn't mind a router (i.e. a small, low-power appliance) that did traffic-shaping though...
In the comics, Peter Parker designed and made Spider-Man's synthetic spider web and the mechanical wrist guns that fire it. In the movie he shoots the web from his own body. Director Sam Raimi answered the protests of comic book fans saying that it was more credible to have Peter shoot web this way than for a high school boy to be able to produce a wonder adhesive in his spare time that 3M could not make
Being that Stan Lee exec. produced, he must have sanctioned this change, no?
The boxes sold as "broadband routers" tend to be a switch and a router stuffed into one box, they have a "WAN" or "Internet" RJ45 socket that connects to a cable modem. "ADSL" routers are the ones that also contain an ADSL modem and connect via an RJ11 plug to the microfilter. They are usually also dearer by a good £10 or so, as I found out to my horror on moving out of a cable area and having to enter the big wide world of ADSL..
I heartily concur. I installed dokuwiki at my current workplace not long after I started working here, cos what there was of the office/company documentation (ie very little) was spread across a Windows fileserver in Word documents (ugh).
The rest was in the heads of those who were then working there and it left when they did, leading to a lot of reverse-engineering. (Fun, fun fun)
Or, you can use samba with the following in your smb.conf:
[global] printing = cups printcap name = cups
[print$] comment = Printer Driver Download Area # this path holds the driver structure path =/etc/samba/drivers browseable = no guest ok = yes read only = yes write list = <user who is a printer admin>
[printers] comment = All Printers path =/var/spool/samba browseable = no public = yes guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes
The secret is to use the printer drivers on the Windows machine and send raw data to the printer, then you don't have to worry about drivers on the Linux box. Samba also supports "Point n'Print" where you can connect to a printer on \\server\printer and it will automatically download the drivers to your windows machine (only to be used in trusted environments).
You can upload these drivers to the Linux box using the commandline, but I found it far easier to use the Windows "Add Printer Wizard" to get these drivers onto the Linux box.
Peter F Hamilton - in his Night's Dawn Trilogy - had a sytem where the asteroid is broken up into more manageable bite-size chunks, made porous by directing large amounts of energy inside it somehow (it's been a while since I read it, OK?).
These mile-wide shunks are then nudged into a re-entry trajectory, where they splash down in an unoccupied bit of ocean. Being porous they float there until they're towed back to land and dismantled. Seems like a pretty elegant solution apart from the obvious risks involved:)
The BBC has its own biases, based largely on the prejudices of its reporters. It's different from the advertiser-appeasing biases sometimes imposed by producers in the private sector, but I wouldn't call the BBC completely balanced and objective
This is quite timely, I ranted about this in my journal just the other day. On the whole I do find the BBC objective and unbiased about most things (especially when compared to many US news sites), but this particular fast one annoyed me, mainly because my licence fee goes towards paying people to write this rubbish
I watched the Google doc the other night when it was on telly, and I did detect a fair amount of "Google seems a too rosey-smelling not to be evil"-type insinuations, like the previously discussed "they have your computer address etc. logged" - yeah, so does every other webserver you've ever visited, though. I suppose it's a good thing to highlight the fact that Google *just might* be up to something, when so many people use it every day without even thinking about it. I wonder if they've done a similar program on MS, and its undoubtedly shady business practices, though?
I started to understand what people were trying to achieve with calculus when I also discovered that the differential of the momentum of a moving body (mv) is its kinteic energy at any given moment (1/2mv^2). Also (offtopically, you might say), differentiate the formula for the area of a circle (pi.r^2) and you get the volume of the sphere (4/3.pi.r^3).
"We walk out of theatres saying things like, 'Those special effects were fantastic!' rather than, 'Can you believe there was a monster in that cave on the asteroid?'"
I'd just like to add that the special effect of the monster in the asteroid in The Empire Strikes Back was (IMNSHO) one of the worst, if not the worst effect of any of the 6 Star Wars films. It seems after Jim Henson's Creature Shop dreamt up and animated the mighty Yoda, all they could be bothered to do was make a sock puppet to represent this huge concept, a living creature bigger than anything glimpsed in any of the other films.
And he didn't even take the opportunity to jazz it up in the "Special (Effect) Editions"
This brings up another issue, one that I have been pondering for a while...
I am a TV Licence payer, and like most people in this country pay the BBC over £100 a year for the privilege of having a publicly-funded independent broadcasting body show me the programs that I have directly paid for.
No problem with that (though I haven't always thought that way). Now what I'm wondering is what about the legal status of p2p downloads that I have on my computer of shows that have been produced and broadcast by the BBC?
This is particularly topical in my case as I have missed most of the new series of Dr Who for various reasons over the last coupla months, but have been able to download and watch them only a few days after their broadcast by the efforts pf the wonderful p2p community (Cheers lads and lasses)....And what about all those freeloading citizens of other countries who have the nerve to download BBC shows off us? ***runs for cover***
(never mind the fact I may have downloaded chunks of my download from someone in another country..)
There was another series he did called "The Day The Universe Changed", which was a more linear narrative about the development of science and technology from around the Renaissance to the present day (ie the early 80s).
Slashdot Mirror
"You're better off just renting a car"
I think this pretty much hits the nail on the head. Why own a car that sits unused for 90%-99% of the time? When all cars drive themselves (as seems not only possible but entirely practical in the early 21st century), I can foresee the ability to book a car online, have it pick you up and then deposit you at you destination for a fraction of today's cab fare. The economics appear to make so much sense. Also, with self-driving, possibly networked cars, you'd go a long way towards eliminating traffic problems that plague most car commuters on a daily basis.
May be the cars won't be rented, maybe they'll be shared between people or something, but as soon as people realise they don't have to pay to a fortune to buy, then maintain and fuel their vehicle, I think the economics will speak for themselves.
Ah well, I can dream...
Recent versions of the popular systemimager software (used to replicate Linux installs over many nodes, often in HPC clusters), allow bittorrent to be used to accomplish this, rather than rsync, which is standard.
The documentation states that "SystemImager has been used to image a cluster of 1190 clients (IBM Blade LS21) over a 1Gb/s interconnect link: a 2.7GB RHEL5.1 x86_64 OS image has been delivered to all the clients in only 15min!!! (Note: this means that after 15 minutes we were able to ssh and submit jobs to the nodes)"
Pretty amazing, I'd say...
Seven meters just isn't all that big.
This is correct, however, Slashdot being an American website, I clocked the "7m" and automatically took it to mean "7 miles". After a serious case of the cold sweats, and reading TFS, however, I calmly carried on with my breakfast.
FWIW, being a Brit, I use metric on paper, but Imperial units in real life.
I guess so that you can take your hi-def movie /TV series that you've just erm...acquired round to a mate's house and plug it directly into his telly/AV receiver.
There are obviously other uses...
I could be wrong, but I believe this has been the case since Win2k, and possibly NT4 before that. IIRC, it was only the DOS-based monstrosities that demanded reboots with everything..
I built my "server" with an AMD BE-2400 CPU which I chose specifically for it's energy-efficiency rating. Before that, I had a single-core "Lima" processor. The system now draws around 50W, and is generally at a load average of 0.00 most of the time. Since then, AMD have brought out another low-energy range also with a 45W TDP.
Conversely, I put the same CPU in an Asus Pundit barebones box downstairs, and it draws a massive 90W or so, due I guess to inefficiencies in the motherboard, etc.
I'll second, third and fourth the positive comments above. I discovered Velib' whilst in Paris last week. I'd taken a fairly long walk to find a restaurant I liked the look of. On the way back, I happened across one of the bike stations and decided to give it a go (there was another station directly in front of the hotel I was staying in).
As you can see from the Wikipedia page, you need a Chip n PIN credit/debit card, it will cost you 5â for a 5-day pass, the first half-hour of any journey is free (encourages you not to hold on to the bike for too long), and if you fail to re-park the bike, it deducts a 120â or so deposit from your card.
I had a wicked time, cycled from the Denfert-Rochereau area to the Ile de Cité and saw Notre-Dame for the first time in a few years (a distance of maybe a couple of miles), then back to the hotel, stopping off for a beer on the way.
Tourist heaven.
The bikes are well designed - three gears, and dynamo powered lights, and instantly noticeable, Wikipedia says "the bikes are by their unique design less attractive to thieves than normal bikes."
One caveat. Have a map (I had Google Maps on my phone), otherwise you may very easily get lost.
From the point of view of the "new IT guy", it's not always like this...
Some background: I started a new job in a small company after five years of self-teaching various sysadmin skills whilst ostensibly being a Windows desktop support monkey. Then I moved to a 10 person company supporting Linux servers (mainly over the phone). There was a hella lot of technical to learn, just to keep my head anywhere near the surface of the metaphorical water. As it turned out, there was even more, as the company suffered a bit of a brain drain (all the techies leaving) within six months of me starting, and really I should have been thinking in terms of strategy, admin, accounting and, God forbid, *SALES* in that time, instead of just support, which was taking up 90% of my day anyway.
15 months after I started there, the company went under, and I was left high and dry - they didn't even pay us our last paycheque. As an aside, I also had a brand new mortgage and the birth of my second daughter was imminent, but that's a different story...
A couple of months later, I started a new job at a multinational company. Yay! Job security. But again, I was the new guy. It wasn't like I had anything to prove, but I was on a 6-month "probationary" period, when I could have been let go with almost no notice, and be right back in the shit again. This was just under two years ago, and finances are only just improving now.
Something I learned from the last few years is that it takes a while to become familiar with any support role, particularly when dealing with a bespoke app (as I was in both these cases). There's also other things like networks, processes etc. to learn, and for me that takes good year or so.
SO I guess what I'm trying to say is that the new guy always seeming like they have something to prove may not always be they way it seems. Sometimes it's just trying to prove that they're as good as they said they were in the interview, and for God's sake, please don't kick our arse back onto the street, when there's food to be put on the table.
The last time I checked (pre-Tiger, obivously), with a decent amount of RAM, a blue n' white G3 works very well with Panther. The worst thing was the noise of the fan, and IIRC, that's a standard 12cm one that can be replaced with a quieter one. The second worst thing was the fact that the gfx card doesn't support Core Image or whatever the flashy graphics are called on OSX, but - guess what you can (could) get capable gfx cards to replace the somewhat crappy Rage 128 that came with the thing.
There are other small niggles like the 137 GB limit on IDE hard drives, and the general age of the thing, but let's be honest it's still pretty good, and pretty well supported by current software...
Oh, and it only draws 50W...
The last time I checked (pre-Tiger, obivously), with a decent amount of RAM, a blue n' white G3 works very well with Panther. The worst thing was the noise of the fan, and IIRC, that's a standard 12cm one that can be replaced with a quieter one. The second worst thing was the fact that the gfx card doesn't support Core Image or whatever the flashy graphics are called on OSX, but - guess what you can (could) get capable gfx cards to replace the somewhat crappy Rage 128 that came with the thing.
There are other small niggles like the 137 GB limit on IDE hard drives, and the general age of the thing, but let's be honest it's still pretty good, and pretty well supported by current software...
Mmm, doubt it. Notice that there's still only one TGV line even in France. That suggests it's more of a showpiece than a paying proposition, even in Europe where population densities are so dense
I think you're wrong there, I'm no train buff, but there's substantially more than one TGV line (LGV) in France (see here). According to the accompanying article, there are eight, with 5 more under construction and 9 more planned. With 1700 km of track, it would appear that the TGV moves a lot of people around the country and has done so for many years
All we need is SATA, USB2/Firewire, digital video, and fiber-optic audio
Sorry, I know I'm still in the dark ages, but both my desktops at home still run off IDE drives.
Disclaimer: We've had two kids in the last four years. I upgraded my server box a few months ago from an Athlon XP 1700 to an low-power Athlon 64, and it only had one IDE port on the new motherboard. I have two LVM'd 120GB drives, so I have no optical drive plugged in at the mo :)
I would submit: **CLOSED**.
Whether that be up or down...
Just a quick "Me Too!" from over here..
:)
iptables has *always* confused the hell out of me because of its syntax. I can completely dig networks, routing, NAT etc. and all that kind of stuff but I find iptables extremely opaque and counter-intuitive - the last bastion of extreme geekhood - the kind of geek that shouts "RTFM!" at you without a second thought before geeking out some more
As a disclaimer, I've been working as a sysadmin for about the last 7 years and would count myself as a fairly proficient one for around the last 5 (since I started getting my teeth into Linux). I once built a NAT box for my old workplace which used iptables, but decided to copy the code for the iptables script off the web somewhere rather than spend any time learning about it (my bad).
I could probably schlep together another one given enough time, but now I find myself working at a company that's all VPN'd up, and with another department that deals with all the routing, networking etc. Getting to a machine on another subnet in another country is now as easy as "# ssh 192.168.x.x".
In the meantime, I've got a cheap D-Link NAT router at home which replaced the WRT54G that went before it (Went from Cable to ADSL), which replaced the IPCop box that went before that.
I really wouldn't mind a router (i.e. a small, low-power appliance) that did traffic-shaping though...
The IMDB has this to say:
In the comics, Peter Parker designed and made Spider-Man's synthetic spider web and the mechanical wrist guns that fire it. In the movie he shoots the web from his own body. Director Sam Raimi answered the protests of comic book fans saying that it was more credible to have Peter shoot web this way than for a high school boy to be able to produce a wonder adhesive in his spare time that 3M could not make
Being that Stan Lee exec. produced, he must have sanctioned this change, no?
Just my £0.02
I feel I must be even more pedantic here :)
The boxes sold as "broadband routers" tend to be a switch and a router stuffed into one box, they have a "WAN" or "Internet" RJ45 socket that connects to a cable modem. "ADSL" routers are the ones that also contain an ADSL modem and connect via an RJ11 plug to the microfilter. They are usually also dearer by a good £10 or so, as I found out to my horror on moving out of a cable area and having to enter the big wide world of ADSL..
I heartily concur. I installed dokuwiki at my current workplace not long after I started working here, cos what there was of the office/company documentation (ie very little) was spread across a Windows fileserver in Word documents (ugh).
:)
The rest was in the heads of those who were then working there and it left when they did, leading to a lot of reverse-engineering. (Fun, fun fun)
Jerry
Or, you can use samba with the following in your smb.conf:
The secret is to use the printer drivers on the Windows machine and send raw data to the printer, then you don't have to worry about drivers on the Linux box. Samba also supports "Point n'Print" where you can connect to a printer on \\server\printer and it will automatically download the drivers to your windows machine (only to be used in trusted environments).
You can upload these drivers to the Linux box using the commandline, but I found it far easier to use the Windows "Add Printer Wizard" to get these drivers onto the Linux box.
For more info, check Classical Printing Support in the Official Samba Howto Hope this helps. JerryPeter F Hamilton - in his Night's Dawn Trilogy - had a sytem where the asteroid is broken up into more manageable bite-size chunks, made porous by directing large amounts of energy inside it somehow (it's been a while since I read it, OK?).
:)
:)
These mile-wide shunks are then nudged into a re-entry trajectory, where they splash down in an unoccupied bit of ocean. Being porous they float there until they're towed back to land and dismantled. Seems like a pretty elegant solution apart from the obvious risks involved
Jezza
Three words:
Start->Run->winver
Should give you some idea...
Three more words:
Know Your Enemy
Jerry
The BBC has its own biases, based largely on the prejudices of its reporters. It's different from the advertiser-appeasing biases sometimes imposed by producers in the private sector, but I wouldn't call the BBC completely balanced and objective
This is quite timely, I ranted about this in my journal just the other day. On the whole I do find the BBC objective and unbiased about most things (especially when compared to many US news sites), but this particular fast one annoyed me, mainly because my licence fee goes towards paying people to write this rubbish
I watched the Google doc the other night when it was on telly, and I did detect a fair amount of "Google seems a too rosey-smelling not to be evil"-type insinuations, like the previously discussed "they have your computer address etc. logged" - yeah, so does every other webserver you've ever visited, though. I suppose it's a good thing to highlight the fact that Google *just might* be up to something, when so many people use it every day without even thinking about it. I wonder if they've done a similar program on MS, and its undoubtedly shady business practices, though?
Jerry
FWIW,
I started to understand what people were trying to achieve with calculus when I also discovered that the differential of the momentum of a moving body (mv) is its kinteic energy at any given moment (1/2mv^2). Also (offtopically, you might say), differentiate the formula for the area of a circle (pi.r^2) and you get the volume of the sphere (4/3.pi.r^3).
Neat huh?
"We walk out of theatres saying things like, 'Those special effects were fantastic!' rather than, 'Can you believe there was a monster in that cave on the asteroid?'"
I'd just like to add that the special effect of the monster in the asteroid in The Empire Strikes Back was (IMNSHO) one of the worst, if not the worst effect of any of the 6 Star Wars films. It seems after Jim Henson's Creature Shop dreamt up and animated the mighty Yoda, all they could be bothered to do was make a sock puppet to represent this huge concept, a living creature bigger than anything glimpsed in any of the other films.
And he didn't even take the opportunity to jazz it up in the "Special (Effect) Editions"
Bloody George Lucas
Jerry
This brings up another issue, one that I have been pondering for a while...
...And what about all those freeloading citizens of other countries who have the nerve to download BBC shows off us? ***runs for cover***
I am a TV Licence payer, and like most people in this country pay the BBC over £100 a year for the privilege of having a publicly-funded independent broadcasting body show me the programs that I have directly paid for.
No problem with that (though I haven't always thought that way). Now what I'm wondering is what about the legal status of p2p downloads that I have on my computer of shows that have been produced and broadcast by the BBC?
This is particularly topical in my case as I have missed most of the new series of Dr Who for various reasons over the last coupla months, but have been able to download and watch them only a few days after their broadcast by the efforts pf the wonderful p2p community (Cheers lads and lasses).
(never mind the fact I may have downloaded chunks of my download from someone in another country..)
Gawd bless the ed2k network...
Jerry
: )
There was another series he did called "The Day The Universe Changed", which was a more linear narrative about the development of science and technology from around the Renaissance to the present day (ie the early 80s).
It rocked, in its own quiet way..