Comment I know a bunch (Score 1) 370
C++, C, Java, C#, FORTRAN, Perl, Python, VAX Macro, 80x86 assembly, 6502 assembly, Algol, shell scripting (sh, ksh, bash)
Comment Re:ed is the standard text editor! (Score 1) 96
ed - for when you're using a teletype terminal.
Comment FORTRAN (Score 1) 633
FORTRAN, followed by Algol.
Comment Re:Fantasy more than SF (Score 1) 93
Same can be said of Star Trek...
Comment Project Managers (Score 2) 473
What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do?
Dealing with incompetent project managers.
Submission + - Jupiter-sized Alien Planet is Darkest Ever Seen, A (ibtimes.com) 1
thebchuckster writes: The darkest alien world ever spotted by astronomers has been discovered in the outskirts of our galaxy.
"It's darker than the blackest lump of coal, than dark acrylic paint you might paint with. It's bizarre how this huge planet became so absorbent of all the light that hits it," David Kipping, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
"It's darker than the blackest lump of coal, than dark acrylic paint you might paint with. It's bizarre how this huge planet became so absorbent of all the light that hits it," David Kipping, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Journal Journal: Taye MetalWorks Double Bass Drum Pedal
Why You See 'Free Public WiFi' In So Many Places 260
An anonymous reader writes "Almost anywhere you go these days (particularly at airports), if you check for available WiFi settings, you have a pretty good chance of seeing an ad hoc network for 'Free Public WiFi.' Of course, since it's ad hoc (computer to computer) it's not actually access to the internet. So why is this in so many places? Turns out it's due to a bug in Windows XP. Apparently, the way XP works is that if it can't find a 'favorite' WiFi hotspot, it automatically sets up the computer to broadcast itself as an ad hoc network point, using the name of the last connection the computer attempted. So... people see 'Free Public WiFi' and they try to log on. Then their own computer starts broadcasting the same thing, because it can't find a network it knows. And, like a virus, the 'Free Public WiFi' that doesn't work lives on and on and on."
Comment How about... (Score 1) 501
...Dr. Clayton Forrester?
