I find it surprising he was astonished since he was trying to emulate DEC Pathworks which was itself an attempt to provide DOS networking services to IBM PCs from VMS servers and was based on Lan Manager which is what SMB grew out of.
I don't understand the business model of renting hashing out to people. Either its profitable so you effectively lose money by renting it out,
Not true. It might be profitable for people elsewhere but not for you or for people who already have a data centre to put the mining rigs in, but not for you.
or its not profitable so noone in their right minds would rent it off you!
And you can't sell kit to people not in their right minds because.... ?
I'm Slashdot and so's my wife.
If the "new site" had been designed by competent programmers,
And you think the old one was?
Except it was. You know, given that Alan Turing kind of designed the thing.
No he didn't, it was designed by Tommy Flowers.
Colossus wasn't Turing complete either.
No. Colossus was programmable but it wasn't Turing complete.
Previews are adverts.
If the guy had been texting during the actual movie, it's pretty antisocial, but it's still not a reason to kill him.
It's more likely he would have backed down as soon as things started getting heated.
All 6502 opcodes are three characters long e.g. LDA (load accumulator), ASL (arithmetic shift left). So the opcodes you are thinking of are the AHL and FKU opcodes.
The second gen Macbook Pro is supported with Mavericks. In fact, the only Macbook Pros not supported seem to be the original 32 bit only ones.
There's no evidence that Apple has stopped providing security updates for older versions of OS X.
Lileth? The PDP-11 was a hardware Fortran machine
No it wasn't.
and C was its assembler!
No it wasn't, it's assembler was Macro 11 which doesn't look anything like Fortran or C.
And good luck getting your dollars out of Mt Gox in a reasonable timeframe. The backlog on withdrawals of non trivial USD amounts is months at the moment
And CUPS and Webkit.
I worked as a contractor on an IBM project a year or two ago. I have to say that my experience backs your post up. All of the desktops were Windows based. The servers were Linux, but that was mandated by the customer.
Even worse, we were not allowed to use open source components unless they had been approved by IBM's legal department. We got into the ridiculous situation that we had to change our code coverage tool from one that was based on the GPL to one that wasn't even though the instrumented code it produced was never shipped to the customer.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
