User: HarryMangurian

wow 1%

On: Linux Reaches 1% Usage Share

That puts Linux right up there with my AMIGA OS. Don't get me wrong..I am a Linux fan, but a 1% penetration is not worth writing about.

drum memory !

On: Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In?

The navigation system on early missile boats had no hard drive. The used a rotating drum. The drum was slightly conical so that an adjustment screw could raise it up/down slightly to change the distance between the drum an the surrounding read heads. If you went to far (we did) the drum would wipe out against the read heads. Then you spent a day disposing of a drum with secret data on it. Fun days !

I win

On: Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In?

Literally, in the bilge of a nuclear submarine. Basic and machine code for a Varian computer circa 1974.

if you want understanding

On: Good Physics Books For a Math PhD Student?

The Feynman lectures. The MIT video physics courses (free on the internet)are very good.

I want to see.......

On: Group Wants Wi-Fi Banned, Citing Allergy

If there is a judge without the cajones to just summarily throw them out of court. This sort of BS costs the taxpayers money.

there is to be a conference in August

On: Successful Cold Fusion Experiment?

The Conference on Cold Fusion (known as ConFusion) will be held in lorence, Italy. There will be a demonstration on a cold day in August.

whaddaya call people .........

On: What Earth Without People Would Look Like

whaddaya call people who like to hang around with scientists ? conservation biologists

Have your state pass a "do not fax" law

On: FCC Opens Flood Gates for Junk Faxes

That's the way "do not call" got started.