+1 for entropy (no pun intended), but I think a technical solution won't be about reducing the amount to heat people are generating. The sun is by far the dominant energy driver in this system; the heat generated by people is miniscule by comparison. Any solution will have to be one that alters the equilibrium point between energy absorbed and energy radiated. That's how we got here, and that's our only proven technology for altering the balance.

Looks like they're using the celestia engine for that feature. When I zoom all the way out in satellite mode, I get a sidebar menu with the planets and other things in it. I clicked on Mars, and it went full celestia on me, with the pan and zoom from Earth to Mars. I really hope we get to track SpaceX missions with this in the future.

There was only one 2008.

This was in '96. I used Slack until '99, then tried out Mandrake for a couple of years, and then eventually moved to Gentoo in about '01. Also, my Uni never threw anything out. They were using (possibly still are using) another 5150 or maybe a 5160 in the actual physics lab to control experiments and collect data. The PC hardware was simple and well documented, which made it easier to understand how it might affect your experiment.

Last time I used Slackware, it needed significantly less than that, but that was back in 1999. My first Linux box was a Cyrix 486slc running Slackware 3.4, IIRC. I had 1 MB of RAM, a 512MB hard drive, and a trident 9000 video card in that box. It took me all night in the Physics reading room, at uni, to ftp it from ftp.cdrom.com onto 57 floppy disks, using the department's IBM 5150. Good distro.

It could be just your keyboard driver. If you think you've been infected, maybe check that one.

+1 for having the horse sense to move on from that client, after you told them to hold their horses and they didn't listen. I guess you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. If they're going to get on their high horse and be as stubborn as a mule, then they're going to end up trying to close the barn door after the horse has bolted. When comparing in-house vs cloud, in-house really is a horse of a different colour. Trying to run a tech business on the cloud is just horsing around.

That's heavy, man. What's your conversion formula from meters to kilograms?

Yup. When I was a young'un, trucks were the cheaper option. They were bare-bones workhorses. Comfort meant a car. What the 'ell happened to the world in the last 40 years? I think maybe the price inversion on trucks was a tipping point, and we were all just too busy to notice. Everything after the '70s was the logical consequence of this innocuous event in motor vehicle history.

There's a YouTube video of a guy singing a song about the issue, if you scroll down a little. That was the entertaining bit, IMHO.

There's a B-Ark joke in here somewhere...

Although the odds are good that, if you didn't have to respond to a confirmation email to sign up, they probably won't have countermeasures on the reset email either.

I believe it should be "held up like a loofah by the foreman of the night".