cchheezzaall - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Everyone should read (Score 2) 97

by cchheezzaall on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:08PM (#65277887) Attached to: Bill Gates Celebrates Microsoft's 50th By Releasing Altair BASIC Source Code

I wonder where Microsoft would have ended up if they did not do all their dirty tricks

Comment t will be the embrace extend extinguish story (Score 1) 108

by cchheezzaall on Saturday November 14, 2020 @06:58PM (#60725092) Attached to: What Will Happen After Python Creator Guido Van Rossum Joins Microsoft?

When the expert gets hired by Microsoft they get "neutralized". Their output will be controlled by Microsoft. Microsoft's duty is to its share holders is to make $. It will be the embrace extend extinguish story

Comment Just say no, (Score 1) 68

by cchheezzaall on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @08:56PM (#59506328) Attached to: Microsoft Teams is the First Office App For Linux

Its the embrace part of embrace, enhance, extinguish. The ultimate aim of this is to make money for windows. And, another observation, is the needed server , running on Linux?

Comment Re:Are they? (Score 2) 170

by cchheezzaall on Sunday April 29, 2018 @05:01PM (#56525087) Attached to: Microsoft Attempts To Spin Its Role in Counterfeiting Case

RE comment "....... He expected a tidy profit from this investment. ......." From the article Lundgren was going to sell them to repair shops for a quarter each so they could hand them out to people who needed them. Hardly a profit ... more likely ... just cover costs ....

Comment Dream 6800 in 1979 with 1KByte RAM (Score 1) 857

by cchheezzaall on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:27AM (#54247395) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer?

Built from parts on a PCB Used a TV as a display Had a hex keyboard with 16 keys for input. Could load and store on Cassette tape Still have it Design is detailed in Electronics Australia magazine The one built by the designer is shown here. http://www.mjbauer.biz/DREAM68...

Comment forged signature (Score 2, Informative) 227

by cchheezzaall on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @04:10AM (#33570680) Attached to: Criminals Steal House Thanks To Hacked Email

The guy was on TV here in Australia. He claimed the authorization signature looked nothing like his , and he said it looked like a 5 year old child wrote it ....

Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic 615

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 05, 2010 @01:36PM from the truth-is-out-there-in-that-filing-cabinet dept.

Newly released secret files show that Winston Churchill ordered a cover-up of an alleged encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber because he feared public panic. From the article: "Mr Churchill is reported to have made a declaration to the effect of the following: 'This event should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic among the general population and destroy one's belief in the Church.'"

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