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Comment Re:Is this it? (Score 2, Interesting) 183

yeah - you can see the remnants of the original building from the older looking roof - i believe the windvane is still on top there .. there were train tracks that ran a separate line behind the laboratory, and yes - the octagonal shape i believe is the foundation for the tower that was blown up by the US Army in 1917 (they were worried that the Germans might use it either for a landmark for their submarines or as some sort of communication device) .. it was rumored that it took multiple attempts to actually destroy the tower given the solid construction and size of the wooden beams that were used.

It looks like much of the connecting area between the laboratory and the tower where the tunnels/connections should be are now filled in .. presumably AGFA was dumping their toxic photographic chemicals there - i guess filling it all in with cement constitutes their long cleanup ..

Comment Re:Small Open Source project (Score 1) 252

You make a good point. Although people use open source programs and OSs for many different reasons poverty is one reason that some folks use open source materials.

stinginess is the main reason for me personally ..

but OSS isn't without it's share of frustrations too - i'm reminded of the many times i've caught myself before kicking in my old pentium servers after multiple complex kernel hacks trying to get poorly written and undocumented driver code to compile cleanly

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