When I went to work at a new place in 1998, they had a Modcomp computer running their process. It had a floor mounted hard disk drive that was 4 MB, I think. I replaced the whole system with a Unix environment. The 4MB drive was about half the size of a refrigerator and had a glass bubble top so you could change the platter. I called him R2D2.
In the spirit of full disclosure, the submitter feels compelled to point out that this Mr. Thacker is his uncle, and that he thinks this is really cool.
Oh yeah? Well my uncle can beat up your uncle!
The Ministry of Truth issues the announcement and extols the high minded well meaning intent of messaging censure. The Ministry of Love will "help" those citizens sending naughty messages. Does each Chinese citizen also have a telescreen if they are not Proles?
If any vehicle in the history of human flight needed to play this song on it's maiden voyage, this is the one... "I'm leavin' on a jet plane. Don't know when I'll be back again..."
How much are the tickets? I'm willing to fly coach. I bet there are already a bunch of dates blacked out.
I love eBooks! I read them on my iPhone constantly. Project Gutenberg is an excellent source of an endless number of books that I should have already read. Right now I'm reading Bullfinch's books on mythology. I have no nostalgic attachment to paper books for whatever reason. I find that I am very likely to eventually finish a large tome (eTome?) if it is in my pocket at all times. A book can lay on my nightstand for a year and I may never finish it, but the eBook will always eventually be completed.
I second this motion. I have worked on my mother-in-law's computer in the past. She chain smokes and that computer was NASTY. I don't know if that is a biohazard or not, but it damned sure should be. Just messing with the case and the screws gets your hands sticky. If it's got that nasty sticky stuff on it, I say void the warranty.
I hate boot lickers.
I don't know why, but that tickled the shit out of me. Thank you for that Shatrat.
If you are too stupid to change the default password on the SSH server running on your iPhone, you shouldn't have a jailbroken iPhone. You should leave the damn software alone so that Big Daddy Jobs can take care of security for you. Come back and see us jailbreakers when you get to wear your big boy panties.
I switched from WinMob 6.1 to an iPhone too. I'll never go back. I will never buy another phone that has to be operated with a toothpick.
I read books very often with Stanza. It's great. I just bought a book for it this weekend. "A History of the American People". For reading my Game FAQs and walkthroughs, I use GoodReader. It formats nicely so that a standard ASCII document can be read in landscape view without word wrapping which screws up the ASCII tables and makes them hard to use.
The Droid looks to be a very nice phone too. I watched demos of it on the internet. It looks very iPhone like which is a good thing. I could see myself buying one of those in the future if android turns out to be as slick as the iPhone OS. I would like to be able to develop apps for my phone without special permission from Apple and without buying a damned Mac computer.
So SPARC now lays claim to http://www.*sparc*.* as well as http://www.*spark*.*
Does this mean I can't register www.sparccankissmyass.com without getting a C&D letter?
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor... is to discourage... from expecting too much from mathematics. -- N. Wiener
