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Comment A FORTRAN Coloring Book (Score 1) 624

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "A FORTRAN Coloring Book." Yes, it's a real book: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~kaufman1/FortranColoringBook/ColoringBkCover.html

I would call it influential due to the imitators it had in the end-user publishing field. There were many friendly computer books with cutsy images, but A FORTRAN Coloring Book was the first.

Comment Heinlein (Score 1) 722

I name all my hosts after Heinlein characters (Pinero, Jubal, Mycroft, Friday, LIbby, Castor, Polux, Anne, Miriam, Dorcas, Deety, Podkayne, Oscar, etc).

Routers are named after various gateways: Wardrobe, Warpcore, Tardis, Scylla, Charybdis. and the obligatory Stargate.

Comment . . . we came in. (Score 3, Interesting) 538

This reads like an article from circa 1980, just replace "Cloud" with "Personal Computer".

People didn't want to wait for access to the mainframe, they went to Radio Shack and bought a TRS-80, or whatever local store you had and picked up an Apple, CBM, random CP/M machine, etc.

Then more PCs showed up, they needed to share data, IT installed a network ...

Isn't this where . . .

Comment Re:Too cynical? (Score 3, Interesting) 537

Because every bit of propaganda helps. Frankly, I would think they were idiots if they DIDN'T announce they had found porn, whether they did or not.

It has nothing to do with what "US people" think of porn. The idea is to show he was a hypocrite. People may be less willing to die for his cause, if it can be shown that he didn't follow his own words. Anything that went against his own supposed ideology would serve the purpose.

Comment Re:Electrostatic... (Score 1) 344

Or you can go with vintage gear, if you know where to find it.

I'm using a set of 1970 (or so) original Advent Loudspeakers. A cousin gave me his 'old' system when I was in school around 1986, when he upgraded to a Sony system. I think I got the better part of the deal, and am still using it.

The system included the 2 Advents, a BIC turntable, Yamaha Natural Sound Receiver, and an Akai tape deck.

Red Hat Software

Submission + - Red Hat Nears $1 Billion, Closing Door on Clones (internetnews.com)

darthcamaro writes: Red Hat almost at its goal of being the first pure play open source vendor to hit $1 Billion in Revenues. Red Hat reported its fiscal 2011 revenues this week which hit $909 million. Going forward Red Hat has already taken steps to protect its business by changing the way it packages the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel, making it harder for Oracle to clone.

"We are the top commercial contributor to most of the components of the Linux kernel and we think we have a lot of value and we want to make sure that, that value is recognized," Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst said. "In terms of competition, I don't think we necessarily saw anything different from before but I'd say better to close the barn door before the horses leave than afterwards."


Comment Re:Rename the app.... (Score 3, Interesting) 917

I'm going to bet that no one talking about this knows what the apps actually does. Does the app say "Hold this to your forehead for 5 minutes while running to be cured of being gay" ? If so then it could be denied as being a fraud and skip the whole issue.

Along the same line, a vaccination for being gay would be just as bogus, but wouldn't be an argument against vaccines for polio.

I'm going come back on the freedom side. A person can want or not want, whatever they want. Moreover, as a general fear of absolutes, I would be incredibly surprised if everyone who was gay, was so for the same reason. I don't think we know nearly enough about it to make blanket statements.

Apple, of course, is free to do whatever they want with their business, and we are free to buy whatever phone we want, which is why I have a G2.

Comment As The Grand Master Said: (Score 1) 583

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
  -- Robert A. Heinlein.

And I'm a borderline human who was happy to get a D in Differential Equations. However, I encourage anyone who thinks differently to do what they feel is right, and leave the good jobs to the rest of us.

Comment Re:NEWDOS-80 v 2 (Score 1) 763

Yup, dual DSDD floppies. I bought these Cannon 2/3 height floppies at a local computer show. They had a funky faceplate that you would push in to open, that looked really good with the TRS-80 all in one design. Eventually I added a third external floppy.

The controller was from whoever always had the ad in the first few pages of 80-Microcomputing (later 80-Micro) magazine.

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