I am familiar with TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 (I still have an account on a DEC-20) and it's not exactly either which makes me think it could be TENEX http://tenex.opost.com/tenex72.txt

that owns the Ile de Sein and it feels good when some of our people do a difficult job so well, again,
I'm in a totally different division, can't claim any credit.

http://nauticallog.blogspot.com/2011/04/ile-de-sein.html

The host_id seems to be base64 representation of 32 hex digits. I hope it's just random but if it's an MD5 hash of something related to the host PC then the real security problem will be when someone figures out what the something is.

oops, upon further reading I realize the law is http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000023646013&categorieLien=id That does indeed state: "Le mot de passe ainsi que les données permettant de le vérifier ou de le modifier, dans leur dernière version mise à jour"

The password AND data to verify it or change it.

I suspect the OP did not verify the exact wording. The law requires retention of (among other things) "mot de passe ou données permettant de le vérifier ou de le modifie" (password *or* data to verify it *or* change it) so it seems that it would be enough to store the password hash and/or do a password reset when demanded by the law enforcement guys.

Could people with better French than me please verify my understanding of what it says:

http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000023646852&dateTexte=&oldAction=rechJO&categorieLien=id

What are these " of which you speak?

What the West should do is support the aid being given from Egypt and other Arab countries. We should not be so arrogant as to assume we know but rather we should ask them what they need to help Libya.

Have you read the paper? It says:

"It uses system functions to access the keychain entries, which made it not necessary to reverse engineer the encryption mechanism of the keychain items."

In this room I count 39, including PCs, keyboards, iPods, calculators, mobile phones, DSLR camera. I didn't count anything that might only have FPGA or custom IC (such as low range calculators, the desk phone or my scanning radio receiver).

There are also 5 slide-rules (I'm a late adopter of technology ;-)

in Euro please, so I don't have to pay exchange rates and bank commission charges.

Of course gold-pressed latinum would always be welcome so I can save for the future.

I first encountered the "wheel" group on the PDP-10 (mid 70s) where the command to become superuser was "pivot". Wikipedia says the "wheel" name is from slang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_(Unix_term)

The issue is that many IP stacks do not handle ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) and only know when the link is saturated by packet loss. Huge buffers hide the problem. A solution is to use ECN, that's what it's for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_Congestion_Notification

I gave my last working 8" floppy drive to the Galway computer museum but I still have the data (from the late 70s), transferred to newer media as they were invented.

The oldest "files" that I can restore from the original media are IBM1800 FORTRAN programs stored on 80 column punched cards and PDP-11 code on paper tape. They date from 1974.

I would have some older punched card archives but my mom found them and (thinking they were waste) used them to write shopping lists on (after I had moved out but before I had a permanent place of my own to store my stuff in).

http://www.clevescene.com/64-and-counting/archives/2010/12/22/absolutely-epic-1974-letter-from-cleveland-browns-to-a-fan

"... assuming that the radiation in a backscatter X-ray is about a hundredth the dose of a dental X-ray, we find that a backscatter X-ray increases the odds of dying from cancer by about 16 ten millionths of one percent. That suggests that for every billion passengers screened with backscatter radiation, about 16 will die from cancer as a result." "Given that there will be 600 million airplane passengers per year, that makes the machines deadlier than the terrorists." http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/tsa_backscatter.html