As someone that lives in Delaware, I always considered Joe Biden to be one of our greatest Senators. He had Delaware and American in mind as he did things. He was a huge asset. Senator Coons is just a ass. He's been involved with three other stupid bills. And I'm equally surprised to see Senator Booker of NJ as a co-Senator on this. I guess it's true that the two of them will be running for President, since they are clearly on the pander trail. Please Coons, stop bringing shame on the First State.

That dialog was just fabulous! +1 for comic genius on your part.

I got one, figured out that I couldn't use it and ended up giving it away. Once I get the hub and networking on it the price point is the same as a PI2. The tiny footprint really doesn't make that much difference. In my case the ESP8266 wireless chips work out better for small, light power remote stuff. I'm wondering how many of the 20,000 are in use and not sitting on shelves because they were purchased as "I want the new cool".

Co-founder of MITS, the company that built the Altair Computer, the first real hobby computer. I still have that January edition of Popular Electronics. I sort of doubt that without his actions across the year you wouldn't have your nerd card.

Now hand in your nerd card, it's important that nerds have a basic understanding of Nerd History.

Quote: "I also think all the younger people are idiots for using Facebook and giving all their information and privacy away."

+1 The fastest way to keep me off the internet would be make me use Facebook. I'm not so sure why the FB user base is so trusting of FP, Identity Theft teams and the government. As they say in the IT security field "It's all fun and games until you get doxxed or your identity gets cloned".

I'm 15 years older than U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M (U23M to friends) and I think Donald is a moron. His last 3 plans (Muslim tracking DB, forbidding Muslims to enter the US, close up the internet) just show how shallow his thinking is. What scares me is that I know lots of Republicans going "Yep, those work for me"

But I don't think Donald needs to worry about closing the Internet down. Between the top carriers (Comcast, Verizon, TW, etc. ) trying to squeeze every cent out of delivery and the advertisers trying to take over more pixels on the screen, the internet will implode on it's own pretty soon.

That's pretty cool. Since the SCO lawyers have lots of time on their hands, wonder why they are not going after the trolls. Or is IBM selling licenses to the trolls for some extra cash?

Guess he had spare time on his hands

I've poked at Minix off and on for the last two decades, I've even taught OS classes using Minix as the source case. It's pretty cool. Its pretty clean code, and it's pretty easy to follow. Now it would be nice to have a portable platform to be able to use. There is more than a few Pi's around, it would make a great place for people to play. For an OS learning environment Minix is great. It's in the realm of Unix V6 or FreeDOS. Linux is a great OS (using it now) but for a lean teaching tool it's too big to manage. I'd love to be able to teach on the Pi. But the port to the ARM platform has been stalled. It would be nice to have a Pi port.

Bound paper engineering books with numbered pages FTW!

I have stacks back to the 80's when I started using them. I put everything in them.

I got deposed in someone else's battle. Went in, got the "and where were you the night of June 2?" "No clue, but let me look in my book". Opened it up and read him the entry. I keep good notes, I even keep who was there in seating order (clockwise from me, I'm last in the list, people that show up late are listed after me). The defendants lawyer was very unhappy. Since it was bound, with numbers, and in date order (no missing pages, no back insertions) they borrowed it to make copies. The battle got settled the next week.

But to answer the OP's question, I use a wiki to keep track of system changes and stuff like that. Nice thing is that you can let others have RO access so they can see some of the items. I use a custom version of JSPWiki that has inter and intra page level security so I can control what is public. Highly recommended.

I also use tiddlywiki (http://tiddlywiki.com/) as a local file version, mostly for active todo/call items.

"one trillion grains of sand are but a small patch of beach."

The largest dump truck in the world would have to carry more than nine full loads to move a trillion grains of sand. A regular dump truck will have to make 150 trips. (first hit on Google "how much is one trillion grains of sand."

In money terms it's about $9 million, that's what NJ spent to replace the sand along one stretch of beach. 150 dump truck loads is a lot.

Now 1 trillion angels, that's really really tiny.....

That is a great idea, but lets send them to the right school. McAuthur High School is the one with the clueless admins and teachers:

MacArthur High School

3700 N MacArthur Blvd

Irving, TX 75062

And the plug worked! Listened to a few samples and decided to get it. Since I'm an instant gratification junky rather than wait and get it for free in a few days I threw money at Amazon. Look for your $0.02 royalty check in next months mail :)

I agree, the Microsoft tax isn't really the need for Windows, it's the constant upgrade cost of the Office Suite. The upgrades have not been worth it, unless you are doing some very fancy document, over 80% of the features are not used.

We stuck with Office 2000 and so far it has not been a problem, but we are now getting documents in the docx (XML) formats. The document exchange is going to get worse, not better.