Comment Re:Hypothetical (Score 1) 228
I'm a little buzzed...
and you still think it's ok to drive as long as you don't get caught?
Comment Man-up (Score 1) 480
Seriously? "Maybe 100 machines" and people here are advising you to run for the hills? Can I send this: Diagnosis to all of you? (Don't worry, it's not going to bring the internet to it's knees).
Comment Re:Understanding should increase astonishment (Score 1) 1486
If you understand them, it's not a miracle. It might be awesome (or awe aspiring to not confuse things), but it's not:
* not explicable by natural or scientific laws
* the work of divine agency
* highly improbable or extraordinary
it may be:
* an amazing product or achievement
but that's just a tail-end definition of the word.
Comment Re:Any lawyers in the house? (Score 2) 293
McCarthy was an ass but he didn't jail anybody.
Come again? HUAC sited a number of people who criticised it's tactics for contempt and sentenced them to prison terms.
Comment Re:TNG Commands ... (Score 1) 395
Have you ever been served tea in America? You know the kind where someone has splashed some hot water in a cold cup and left the tea-bag on the side, so that by the time it gets to you all you can do is dunk the poor thing in some luke warm water and hope for some tannins seep out for some token coloration of your tepid water? I bet the reason JLP orders it that way is because that is how poor Patrick Stewart had to specify it every day to get something drinkable.
Comment Re:Twitter knew since December 14th (Score 2) 391
Is there an obvious follow-up question which need to be raised: What other organisations have been similarly subpoenaed but didn't or haven't been able to challenge it. Is it really realsitic that this is only about twitter?
Comment Re:We need details! (Score 1) 600
"a RADIUS box" which replaces WPA2 for security? Yeah, let's mark that 'insightful'.
Comment Re:What does the synclavier have to do with anythi (Score 1) 195
The hardware was certainly versatile. Dartmouth College built its mid-80s network infrastructure around multi-purpose network gateways around boards made by NED (makers of the Synclavier) and at the time was probably the world's largest LocalTalk network.
Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System 325
Milo_Mindbender writes "I've recently gotten ahold of an old Altos 586 Xenix system (a late '80s Microsoft flavor of Unix) that has one of the first multi-user BBS systems in the US on it, and I want to salvage the historical BBS posts off it. I'm wondering if anyone remembers what format Xenix used on the 10MB (yes MB) IDE hard drive and if it can still be read on a modern Linux system. This system is quite old, has no removable media or ethernet and just barely works. The only other way to get data off is a slow serial port. I've got a controller that should work with the disk, but don't want to tear this old machine apart without some hope that it will work. Anyone know?"
Comment Re:Scope creep? (Score 3, Informative) 187
Confused much? EDS is HP. The customer was BskyB.
Comment Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy (Score 3, Informative) 51
Prof. Andy Fabian's (of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and president of the Royal Astronomical Society) entertaining lecture on this very topic, entitled Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy is available on-line in a range of formats.. Enjoy!
