I have to admit; I liked the ISA riser card in my ancient crappy Packard Bell 386sx.

When you wanted to swap cards, you just undid one screw, and the whole assembly (riser card, and the surrounding frame that the cards screwed into) came out. You had unobstructed access to all of the cards, and just plugged the riser card back in once you were done.

I did like the system they had in place before that, where the name was just another field you filled out when making a comment, but it really wasn't sustainable in the long run.

I guess you got up a few minutes earlier than me back in 1997.

Anyone out there have any of the mugs that Rob made in an art class, and was selling?

I think you are missing one possible cause of the whining about "deletionism".

I see the problem as editors who revert any changes to articles without taking a moment to verify the fact before they remove it.
Often a few seconds of search would have lead to a citation for the fact.
Adding the citation would improve the article, whereas a knee jerk reaction to delete the new information leads to stagnation.

Often when I check the contribution history of the editors involved, it consists almost entirely of deleting statements that people have added.

It's a regional eccentricity from the southern US; they tend to refer to all carbonated beverages as "Coke".

There's a nice map showing regional terms at the Pop vs Soda Page.

ELKS Linux should run on it; start digging through the files in http://sourceforge.net/projects/elks/files/.

I bought a pair of Infrant ReadyNas NV+ systems a couple of years ago; I kept one for myself, and gave one to my parents.
My computers back up to my nas box, my parent's computer backs up to their nas box.
I keep a ssh tunnel open between both of our networks, and each nas box uses rsync to back up to the other one.

The only problem I've run into so far is Comcast's 250 gig cap; but so far I've been edging in slightly under the limit.

I seem to recall X working decently over the internet back in 1994 or so; there used to be websites which would have you authorize them to access your local X server, before you clicked a link - a program running on the remote webserver would then open an X window on your desktop.

I think the Rome lab snowball cam was one such site; it was an early webcam that let you pretend to throw snowballs at people.

If you don't believe it, try the commands for yourself:
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overmind% nslookup
Default Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
> set querytype=a
> www.google.com
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.l.google.com
Addresses: 74.125.53.147, 74.125.53.104, 74.125.53.99, 74.125.53.103
Aliases: www.google.com
> server 208.67.220.220
Default Server: resolver2.opendns.com
Address: 208.67.220.220
> www.google.com
Server: resolver2.opendns.com
Address: 208.67.220.220
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.navigation.opendns.com
Addresses: 208.69.36.230, 208.69.36.231
Aliases: www.google.com
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Talking to my local DNS server, www.google.com resolved to IP addresses in the 74.125.0.0/16 netblock, which is assigned to Google.
Talking to resolver2.opendns.com, www.google.com resolved to 208.69.36.230 and 208.69.36.231, which have no reverse information, but are in the 208.69.32.0/21 netblock which is assigned to OpenDNS.

The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse has a searchable database of DMCA notices, and other take down requests, but they rely on either the sender or receiver to report it to them.

One of the reasons I wrote it was because I got tired of all of the contemporary fiction with computers that made you roll your eyes at how absurd the technology was. You know what I'm talking about: "It's a UNIX system -- I know this!".

If you are referring to the scene with the 3d interface from Jurassic Park, that was SGI's File System Navigator. I used to use it when I administered IRIX systems.

As for the other computer systems in the control room; most of them were running software which was available for IRIX at the time. According to one of SGI's press releases when the movie came out:

Because Silicon Graphics workstations are used by scientists and engineers to visualize and interpret complex data, existing software applications were easily modified for use in the film," said Harry Pforzheimer, director of corporate communications at Silicon Graphics. "Programs like EarthWatch Communications' EarthWatch(tm), which interprets weather data, and a 3D information navigator from Silicon Graphics, which lets users graphically fly through computer file system representations, provided perfect solutions to enhance the story line."

I think you could have picked far better examples of movies/fiction getting technology wrong than Jurassic Park.

I've got 15 year old Laphoraig here.