A farmer near Ashburton, New Zealand found one of the fragments - a titanium ball - on his farm in 1972. No one knew what it was, they thought it might be dangerous or even radioactive. Not knowing what to do, the local Police took it away and locked it up in their Police cell.

The New Zealand Government tried to give it back to Russia, but they denied it was theirs. Eventually, the mysterious ball that no one wanted, was given to a local museum, where it still resides.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/...

Did all my browsing with no pictures because my ISP charged by the byte downloaded. All the ISP's in my country did this. It wasn't a very rich experience, but every byte downloaded cost money.
In any case the dial-up modem I had was so slow that pictures would have taken all day. I don't remember what it was, but I remember upgrading to a 14.4k modem later. Fast!
I used the Mosaic Browser which could only download one picture at-a-time, but one day splashed out and got this new browser - Netscape - forerunner of Firefox. The 2 Mb download took all evening and crashed a few times before I got it. Never looked back.

Well, having been an open source developer for almost the 10 years, I know a bit about this. Firstly you need to code as securely as you can. Do the research, make sure you know whats going, and audit your own code thoroughly.

Don't believe no one else is looking, because they are. I've had one person ask me a few innocent questions about my code, then email a back a week later to say I'd passed their security audit just fine. I've also been unlucky enough - just once - to have the full disclosure email about a security vulnerability. And yes, that feels bad.

Do your very best; don't worry, and enjoy being part of the open source community.

All this talk about making sure data lasts for the future. Well, I'm currently mining old data that was laid down well before my birth date, that's old family photographs back to the 1860's.

For the first time I'm seeing images of my great, great grandfather and his family candidly posed in an Aberdeen studio. My great grandfather and his brothers on an old tintype photo plate.

Some of the images are in a fairly poor state, but half an hour with the Gimp has got them back into serviceable condition.

When my relatives submitted to the new craze of photography some 150 years ago, did they ever believe that one of their descendants would lovingly resurrect the data? On a machine that would have been a complete fantasy to them.

Oh, and how do I know who they all are? Simple; they wrote their names on the back of the photos for posterity.

I had lots of problems getting NVidia to work with FC1. Things would kind of work, but other things wouldn't. Getting TuxRacer to work is a good litmus test.

Then I found this page of unofficial FC1 FAQ. Yay...!!

Here's what to do - it worked for me:

Use these instructions if there are no RPMs available, or if the available RPMs don't work for you.

Make sure you have the lastest drivers.

Now print this out, or write it down. Then:

1. You must have kernel-source installed for this to work. Check the "Add/Remove Applications" tool in System Settings on the red-hat menu.
2. Shut down X (as root, do telinit 3 in a terminal).
3. Log in as root and go to the directory where you downloaded the nVidia drivers.
4. Type CC="gcc32" sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --add-this-kernel.
5. There will be some whirring and wailing, and then do CC="gcc32" sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2-custom.run That will do a correct install of your nVidia drivers.
6. Follow nVidia's instructions to set up the driver. (Read the "EDITING YOUR XF86CONFIG FILE" section.)
7. You can now restart X by typing telinit 5.

If none of this works, do rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL and then restart your computer. The need to do this should soon be eliminated -- watch this FAQ or the fedora-list. Note that if you update XFree86, this package will be reinstalled and you will need to remove it again. This solves the "DRI" problem.