You have to have the branes to figure it out yourself...

You just set up the computer controlling the experiment to create a bunch of zombie processes. They'll eat the branes...

Yep. In the days before Fry's, the Shack was the place to go for components.

Then they decided to become Best-Buy-wannabees.

I didn't really look closely. It just immediately jumped out at me.

Corrected: ... actually went too far...

Sorry, given the story topic, I couldn't help myself.

Maybe it should wipe out the Klingons, then.

Coming to Netflix this fall: "Systemd is the new EMACS"

Dude, at least RTFS.

That's what Wilson NC did. They asked the inumbents to build out and give a quote.

The big boys told them to go to hell. At which point, they decided to build out their own.

My take: "Those who have never seen anything different happy with status quo".

Demographic: 18-29. That means that they were between 5 and 16 when 9/11 happened. These kids grew up with "ZOMG!!! 3VIL TERRORIZTS!!!!!"

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Don't touch my Carlsbergite!!!!

Robert Conroy used the Trent Affair as the critical point in his alternate history novel 1862.

In the novel, Palmerston was not placated by Lincoln's actions, and Great Britain became an ally of the Confederacy.

In L.A., with two kids at UC? No.

They're busy herding spherical cows... And applying for the "perfectly spherical astronaut" jobs.

Back in the early to mid-90's, I admined a 486/33 (no bloody SX/DX suffix). It ran SCO ODT 2.0, and functioned as a departmental development server, supporting about 20 devs.

It had an Adaptec 1740 EISA SCSI-2 adapter, and an early Diamond S3(?) video card.

I *LOVED* that box, and wish I had tried to purchase it after they removed the classified media and decommissioned it. The thing was a frickin' tank, with a steel enclosure.