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.

I prefered LDOS, which I needed to use my double-sided 360k floppies.

But I voted for TRS-80 DOS above as a general alternative.

Thanks ! This immediately came to mind, but I could not remember the title of the book.

Points to anyone who can spot the reference.

This reminds me of my college days, when the school was switching from all DEC Pro-350 computers to PCs. They were throwing out pallets of the DECs, and students were grabbing them all up - to use as space heaters. Had an off-campus basement apartment ? Extra cold night ? Turn on another DEC Pro-350 !

Not a complete solution, but possibly part of a solution. WowWee (The company that made the Robosapian) has a mobile webcam 'robot', the Rovio

http://www.wowwee.com/en/products/tech/telepresence/rovio

They sell it for pretty much your situation. So, whenever it's wondering around, the family can know "Dad is here !"

Better blowing it up in Iraq and Afghanistan than New York.

Sorry guys, short term "better you than me" goals are a fact of life.

Fscking hot.

Why should we go to the moon ? Do you want someone ELSE to be at the top of a big gravity well, throwing rocks at you ?

Of course, discussing the military aspects of space is unthinkable, so it doesn't come up. Meanwhile, some other country will get up there, And that scares me.

The ultimate irony will be if this letter does more to raise funds for EFF and Creative Commons then ASCAP

I'ld like to read a transcript of the phone call where they told them unicords don't exist.

"Causing a sensation and inspiring others in the literary community" isn't my idea of a ringing endorsement. At the risk of being rated flamebait again, I could take a dump in the middle of the street and cause a sensation, that wouldn't make it good literature.

Joyce's groundbreaking "Stream of consciousness" style is to most normal people simply incomprehensible. I was tortured by Portrait of the Artist in High School, couldn't make it all the way through Ulysses, and was spared Finnegans Wake. Heinlein's description of modern art as "Pseudo-intellectual Masturbation" applies very well to Joyce.

I thought Joyce was the crap you were forced to read in school by bitter English teachers who wanted to torture kids as much as they were.
You mean people actually WANT to read his swill ?

It's garbage. Not filth, just bad writing. If he Ulysses hadn't been banned no one would even remember it exists.

I have been volunteered to teach this ping in my son's Den. I will admit to having a similar reaction to most here when I first heard of it. (My initial reaction to "explain why it is important to have a rating system" was "Well, you have to know who you are better than !" Whoops.)

I have decided however to concentrate on the more technical aspects. We are talking about 8-9 year olds here, so I'm going to start with how to install a system, including what the different jacks are, the difference between composite, component, HDMI, etc. I'm also going to cover some history of video games, Space War, Pong, Atari 2600, show some classic gaming systems. Also cover online safety, and exchanging Nintendo friend codes (which I've found most of the other kids and parents actually don't know how to do).

Then top it off with some time in the basement arcade:
http://www.westnet.com/~chris/arcade/MyBasement/

It's more complicated than that.

Older versions of clamd were going to crash on signatures that newer versions would accept, and they have been prevented for at least 6 months from using that type of signature. They have posted since then for people to upgrade.

When they did was publish this type of signature (has to do with length, greater than about 900bytes), where the signature itself is an error message, so when the program dumped the signature the error would be displayed.

That's all, not a kill switch as such, but using a known bug to deliver a message, rather than have it just bomb out with a hex dump when they tried to use a larger signature.