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Comment Geek Wars (Score 1) 344

by seh4 on Thursday May 24, 2018 @11:32PM (#56670684) Attached to: Robin "Roblimo" Miller, a Long-Time Voice of the Linux Community, Has Passed Away

Your subject line is a lie! According to the article you linked, Mr. Miller was a great guy.

But I see what you did there. You're just honoring roblimo by imitating him:

"Because Prodigy paid Miller based on user activity, he did his best to spark debate in the political chat room.

"I'd just say stuff to piss people off," Miller said"

Feed Wired: How OK Go's Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine Was Built (wired.com)

From feed by feedfeeder on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @08:12PM

Pop band OK Go's newest video features a four-minute Rube Goldberg chain reaction that's synchronized perfectly with the music. Wired talks to one of the builders of the machine shown in the video.

Submission + - How to Write Bits Directly Onto Hard Drive Platter 1

Submitted by kidcharles on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @04:23PM

kidcharles writes: I'm working on a project that requires writing bits to a magnetic hard drive platter in a completely controlled fashion. I'd like to be able to control exactly where 1's and 0's will appear physically on a platter. Normally when data is written to a drive the actual bits that get written are determined by the file system being used and also what kind of error handling the drive itself is using (e.g. Reed-Solomon). All of the modern innovations in file systems and error handling are great for reliable and efficient data storage, but they are making my particular task quite daunting. My question for you Slashdotters is how you might approach this problem. Is there a way to get down to the "bare metal" so-to-speak and write these bits? Any good utilities out there to do this? Obviously a free and open source solution would be preferable but I'm open to anything at this point.

Comment Re:That's funny, expecting her share? (Score 1) 666

by seh4 on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @02:58PM (#30300446) Attached to: Somali Pirates Open Up a "Stock Exchange"

Well it all depends on whether the Somali government will bail out the pirates. They'd better... I've got a CDS riding on the pirates not defaulting on this lady.

FTFY yvw

Submission + - Bernie Madoff's Programmers Arrested (wsj.com) 1

Submitted by ZipK on Friday November 13, 2009 @11:38AM

ZipK writes: With their former boss cooling his heels on a 150-year sentence, programmers Jerome O'Hara and George Perez are now in the U.S. Attorney's crosshairs. They've been arrested and charged with "conspiracy, falsifying books and records of a broker-dealer and falsifying the books and records of an investment advisory." Apparently Madoff's fraud was too large and too complex to be foisted entirely by hand.

Comment Re:Borland Turbo Assembler (Score 1) 351

by seh4 on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @10:52PM (#27855021) Attached to: Borland Being Purchased By Micro Focus

I seem to remember using Kyan Pascal on Apple IIe at school. It had a unix-like shell "KIX" with command line "pc" compiler and "as" assembler. This was 1987ish.

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