I'm old enough to remember when Humans borrowed the term from its original Martian.

I used to and might even still have a localtalk to ethertalk bridge. It was made by one of the handful of ubiquitous 68k era suppliers that made everything for macs back then, but I forget which.

BITD I used to run netatalk, samba, and nfs on the same Linux box for a geek house. Everybody could access their homes and a shared drive.

They also made localtalk cards for PCs.

I am due to make another pass through my cables and crap bins and free another one up, I might still have an ethernet card which I think is for the SE. I also have an SE which doesn't boot which has a Radius 16MHz accelerator in it, an 020 I think. I sold the SE once and then the buyer never came to get it, and never connected with me to have it delivered, and that was years ago... I hope I didn't lose it already, but I think I have a case cracker bit as well...

They just ask Amazon, but they can cache results once you're retrieving them. So they depend on people checking prices on things to record any of their own data.

Ha! I've been through this on Debian! Where I don't think it actually does even use a small tmpfs, but I set it up that way. I decided to keep it that way and make use of TMPDIR, which is how I discovered that Nvidia is a little bitch. You have to both set TMPDIR and pass --tmpdir=$TMPDIR in order for the Nvidia Linux installer to unpack into TMPDIR. Make that make sense.

They appear to be playing heavily on the politics of envy. Look at some of their education policies, for example, or the way they treat small businesses and the people who run them. They don't seem to want to pull up the less fortunate if they can be busy pulling down the more fortunate. It's not a good look if you actually want a successful economy, but it plays well to their base.

I agree with you that they seem to be all over the place in policy generally, and after trying to give them a fair chance in the early months, I now have a fairly low opinion of them (with the odd exception in Cabinet who does actually appear to be at least recognising the real problems and trying to do something about them, which I can respect even while thinking little of their party politicians and government as a whole).

You're right about the investment culture as well, but presumably if we're talking about entrepreneurs who have already been successful and are looking to move elsewhere, that's of limited relevance unless they're planning to start at least one more business after they arrive, so in this particular debate, I doubt that is such a major issue.

While we're hardly Russia, our democratic and stabilisation credentials are looking more shaky than ever as well. Our electoral system produces results very far from proportional. One of our two traditional main political parties is now essentially irrelevant. The other, which currently holds power, is breaking all the wrong records and is widely expected to suffer severe losses at the next election already, barely a year into their term. Waiting in the wings (and currently leading by a very wide margin in the polls) is the nascent far right populist party that has become the default protest vote. It looks scarily like that party might actually be pulling so far ahead (whether thanks to their own merits or, like the present incumbents before the last election, because the government of the day is so unpopular) that even with the usual reversion towards traditional voting patterns when a real election happens, they might still win. And the prospects of what happens next in that timeline are truly terrifying, particularly for anyone who isn't a white British citizen from birth.

"That's once."

That's weird, that's where I got it and I'm still running it successfully now.

... for the Microsoft publicist: Are you a 'bot?

Beware of Geeks bearing gifts.

Well, it worked for Apple.

My balls will break the Microsoft vice.

Price tracker CamelCamelCamel offers browser extensions which allow you to get charts showing price history. Go to an Amazon page and the icon appears in the address bar, click it and the chart pops up. (This is how the Firefox extension works, anyway.) We ordered one of those Solar "Generator" units (I hate it when people or companies call them that, they are not that, but anyway) from Amazon during their sale because it actually was cheaper.

A village is the best way to raise a child. People should learn that they are part of interconnected communities as they grow up. Ideally people would be directly involved instead of their needing to be some kind of government assistance stepping in, but we've become increasingly disconnected from our neighbors and that allows echo chambers to form and fester.

What causes you to imagine I never clicked the link? My response was about the quick google search snark. I also did a google search, that's how I found the links I posted, but it sure didn't show that one in my results - and I looked at the top 30 or so.

Anyway, bummer. What kind of fucking wingnut believes in AGW and then lights a forest fire?