I did like that - nice consistency - unlike the bastardisation that is every linux command.

I really hate commands that respond to "-h" with "Type --help for help". FFS - you parsed "-h" - how hard would it have been for you to just link that to the "--help" code!!! Or use getopt and it's more or less for free...

And if you did not want to load the parse tree into your DCL instance at login time (because it would CoW the affected memory pages with an entire new parse tree for the whole of DCL IIRC - it was incredibly slow) you could link it to your program, call your program using the "unix like" alias method then have your main function call the same command line parser libs that DCL used. Bit more like the getopt() model but 100% consistent with the regular DCL experience.

I'm surprised noone has used init=/bin/emacs

Has anybody said "Bring back hanging"?

The police have got wise to the terrorist angle and wisely adopted the "think of the children" approach:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news...

"Man held on suspicion of taking indecent images after member of public intervenes to stop children being photographed at Waterloo"

How did they make the leap from "taking pictures" to "taking indecent images". In the bogs that might be possible, but the report says "outside the station".

OK - we don't know what the motives were, but if they were not improper, how is this different to:

http://cdn.scotland.org.uk/ima...

or

https://maggiesscribbles.files...

which are famous in their iconography of the period.

It's like 1995 all over again.

Except now at least the browsers can generally load more than 3 pages before crashing.

In a nutshell.

Let them choose when they are of age. I think the key bit is the IRS stuff. The London Mayor Boris Johnson has fallen foul of this, having dual American and British citizenship. He's trying to revoke his Amercian citizenship "so he can be more pure if he stands for PM" or something like that. Personally I think he's fed up with the IRS crap.

Well, not. Not really.

if "ls" changed it's output format, "grep" would nto need to be changed. Only it's argument in the example above.

Nope - they only need to provide roughly the same torque per wheel.

Th e road surface deals with keeping the speed matched - or not, if you corner...

And yet the 1V PP audio line input on my wife's MINI follows the same interface spec as my father's valve amplifier input he made from a magazine article in the 1950's.

Sometimes, simpler is just better. Period.

IME most kerberos servers store the database key in what they term a "stash file". That's current practise too.

Unless you need the level of security that you have to go upto the console and present a key when the system reboots or the KDC service restarts, there isn't any other way. Essentially, for most real world systems, the kerberos primary and slaves need to be regarded as machines to be kept highly secure or it's game over.

Is AD any different?

How quaint...

You mean like garage forecourt (petrol station) tanks that are invariably underground?

Those are usually a sealed tank with filling and vent pipes above ground. Now, as the filling pipes are capped when not in use, only the vent pipes would be at risk from flooding - and those can be taken up as many storeys as required and vented to the open air (away from windows and aircon intakes obviously).

The pumps could be located above the flood zone feeding generators also above the floodzone.