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  • Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
    Hi, Terry! I was astounded at how little we wound up changing in the Window Server. The biggest tweakage in that era was the gunk to run the server on one architecture while clients were on the other (big-endian vs...
  • Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
    Oooooh! That little thing does everything that a circa-1980 Shps Inertial Navigation System did, in a 6 foot high rack. 3 axis gyros, accelerometer, and magnetic compass. (Less precision, and Some Assembly Required, but the functionality is all there.) There...
  • Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
    "Midnight January 1, 1970" Probably having nightmares about the Malmstadt-Enke analog computer I was nursmaiding along. Yeah. All those lovely matched sets of 12AX7 tubes, a gnat's hhair from breaking into oscillation. Plugboards. Patch panels. I got better. Xenix 1.0:...
  • Commented on Speaking of book covers ...
    "I averaged 1000 words per day; it was hard work, and I can't do that every year. (I was bitten by a happy accident.) A typical reader can read 1000 words in 3 minutes" Ouch. This makes me want to...
  • Commented on The latest news
    "What happens if the Senator records this talk?" His phone starts sending groinal selfies to every young lady in his address book? My, but those inserted security defects do come in handy from time to time... The point is that...
  • Commented on The latest news
    D'oh. Fat fingers. " produces 9% true positive results" should be " produces 99% true positive results". I blame the cat....
  • Commented on The latest news
    The devil's hands are idle playthings.. or something... The reason we 'adversaries' (USAians and Earthicans) are being intensively observed is to protect us from the Bad Bad People. http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/speeches_testimonies/2013_08_09_the_nsa_story.pdf "The purpose of this particular collection is to identify the U.S....
  • Commented on Grand Guignol Tropes
    After reading the previous thread, a scenario popped into my mind. A bit of Guignol, and a bit of accidental basilisk... Several gentlemen are seated near the fireplace in the Club, sipping their drinks, and debating in a very reasoned...
  • Commented on Why I Do Self-Publish
    Thanks for this. With different backgrounds and skill sets, it seems like self-publishing might be a reasonable path for some writers. There are, alas, some writers who perhaps should not be self-publishing. Or publishing in any form... As a reader,...
  • Commented on Incidentally ...
    Detroit used to be the home of the Stroh Brewery, probably the USA's best macrobrewery ("fire brewed", or fire-burnt; a bit different from the usual). That is long gone, though. Stroh's is currently canned by Pabst, the holding company for...
  • Commented on Incidentally ...
    Urgh. Memories long suppressed rumble to life. I'll have nightmares tonight. "What has it got on its stackses, hmmm?" Could be worse. I could be packaged in a thin aluminum tube, thrown like a dart at strange foreign places on...
  • Commented on Things that keep me awake at night #1: The end of telephony
    Interesting topic. We just moved our old number to new service, a combination of a phone company supplied DSL and VOIP package that turns out to have some handy features. Here in the USA we also have a Do Not...
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