Speaking of the Turing Award, why isn't Alan Turing on the list of famous programmers?
I realise that it is up for debate whatever he was a programmer by modern standards, but there simply weren't any good computers to program on in his days.
However, he (probably) wrote the first computer Chess-program in 1948, for a computer that didn't even excist at the time.
He deserves to be on the list, IMHO.
The stangest datacenter I've been to is in "De Waag".
It was build in 1488 and was originally part of the city walls of Amsterdam.
It only has five racks if I recall correctly, but it's very cool to see modern technology in such a medieval setting.
It's not just about law, it's about respecting certain unwritten cultural rules. When I travelled to Cuba, I found people find it rude if you take pictures of them without asking.
Here in Amsterdam there is an unwritten law that forbids you to take pictures in the Red Light District. If you take a photograph of a prostitute you can be sure that someone will take your camera and break it. And the police won't be to eager to help you, as it is considered to be very disrespectfull to the woman working there.
I would be very surprised if the Red Light District shows up on Google Street View.
I tried to get this card running on Linux, but the madwifi-drivers where in beta and unstable. I found that FreeBSD 5.2.1 detected my Conceptronic without a problem. Just do ifconfig ath0 up and the card is detected.
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I'll 1-up you on that one: While technically not a dam, the Dutch Afsluitdijk is 20 miles long, and was finished in 1932.
Speaking of the Turing Award, why isn't Alan Turing on the list of famous programmers?
I realise that it is up for debate whatever he was a programmer by modern standards, but there simply weren't any good computers to program on in his days. However, he (probably) wrote the first computer Chess-program in 1948, for a computer that didn't even excist at the time.
He deserves to be on the list, IMHO.
The stangest datacenter I've been to is in "De Waag". It was build in 1488 and was originally part of the city walls of Amsterdam.
It only has five racks if I recall correctly, but it's very cool to see modern technology in such a medieval setting.
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It's not just about law, it's about respecting certain unwritten cultural rules. When I travelled to Cuba, I found people find it rude if you take pictures of them without asking.
Here in Amsterdam there is an unwritten law that forbids you to take pictures in the Red Light District. If you take a photograph of a prostitute you can be sure that someone will take your camera and break it. And the police won't be to eager to help you, as it is considered to be very disrespectfull to the woman working there.
I would be very surprised if the Red Light District shows up on Google Street View.
Sorry for modding you Redundant.
That should be Informative.
Please don't propagate an OS which leaves it's root password in it's installation log as an 'Ultimate Spyware/Virus Blocker'.
If your serious about security have a look at OpenBSD.
I tried to get this card running on Linux, but the madwifi-drivers where in beta and unstable. I found that FreeBSD 5.2.1 detected my Conceptronic without a problem. Just do ifconfig ath0 up and the card is detected.