I live in Australia and I always know what my offset is from UTC. I assume most people around the world know theirs too.

What I never know is my offset from PT, CT or ET. Does anyone else have that problem too?

I guess if this problem was isolated to the U.S.A. then only using local time definitions is OK.

So they still run their Crays at full whack. Your desktop may be faster that Crays from 30 years ago but probably not the Crays UKMET are using today:

https://www.hpcwire.com/2018/09/26/uk-met-office-deploys-cray-ai-analytics-to-enhance-forecasting/

I think it was in about 1985 I got an Altos 186 workstation. It ran Xenix. From memory it was the only workstation Altos ever produced. They were mainly a server company.

That was where I learned to write C.

who haven't read this: https://info.publicintelligence.net/US-HPSCI-SnowdenReport.pdf

Yes. It's called CLE or "Cray Linux Environment".

All good except I think you messed up on the foot-pound bit. Torque should be Newton Metres in metric.

Joules is the measurement of energy. I suppose that would Calories in the U.S., Burma and Liberia.

You should get out more...

(Apple marketing victim)

I'm not sure this is too big a deal. You hear about the problem and you patch it. Both the systems I have that are Internet facing use distros that had new bashes available very quickly. Yesterday morning I wasted 15 minutes on this. We'll now be reading about it for the next month.

I guess the problem will remain for those that don't patch.

Wow! I'm impressed with how citizens of the U.S. support freedom of speech. One guy comes out in support of NSA and gets a "fuck you shithead" in response. Wow.

For me the problem is always the other way around. Microsoft Office doesn't work well with .od? files.

Are you serious?

I live in Canberra Australia where billboards are not allowed. I've been here for 15 years and now when I leave town and go to say, Sydney, the billboards drive me crazy. They're such a blot on the landscape. Plus now it seems that every second one is trying to give me a boner. Not by showing me beautiful women but chemically!

This is pure bullshit. This crap about religiosity being genetic is pushing some atheistic barrow where it shouldn't be. Debating the existence of God belongs in a philosophical discussion not just assuming that one opinion is correct. Religion bashing is pretty popular among stupid geeks who are just sheep when it comes to anything beyond reductionist dogma.