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Comment Re:Looking for a game from an old computer magazin (Score 1) 57

by the_cowgod on Thursday October 20, 2022 @12:35PM (#62983275) Attached to: Lost Something? Search Through 91.7 Million Files From the 80s, 90s, and 2000s

Sylvan Idyll is from the Apple II disk magazine "Softdisk". Specifically, issue #127. It is available (and playable in-browser!) here: https://archive.org/details/21...

It is a sequel to / new levels for "Catacombs" which was written by John Carmack (from issue #114), and there is third game Ether Quest (issue #134)

Comment Re:I guess they learned nothign from War Games (Score 1) 196

by the_cowgod on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @08:34PM (#36667448) Attached to: US Army Spent $2.7 Billion On Crashing Computer

Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.

Submission + - 22 million missing Bush emails found! (yahoo.com)

Submitted by ctmurray on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @12:29AM

ctmurray writes: Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days' worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system.

The article goes on to describe to say the tally of missing e-mails, the additional searches and the settlement are the latest development in a political controversy that stemmed from the Bush White House's failure to install a properly working electronic record keeping system.

Earlier /. had a discussion on the Obama White House opposing the lawsuit that lead to this discovery.

Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced 151

Posted by kdawson on Monday October 06, 2008 @10:16PM from the star-developers dept.

davidmwilliams writes "Microsoft followed their major annual Tech-Ed event in Australia with a week-long programming contest called 'DevSta,' to find 'star developers.' While the quantity and quality of submissions suggest a poor turnout, it certainly caught the attention of at least two hackers who left their mark. Here is the low-down on the contest, what happened, by whom, and screen shots for posterity in case it's been fixed by the time you read this. And unless the volume of submissions increase dramatically within the next few hours, someone may be awarded an Xbox for doing nothing more than rewriting the Windows calculator as a .NET app."

Comment Re:This is an advertised feature I believe (Score 1) 287

by the_cowgod on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @01:18PM (#22476628) Attached to: Comcast Cheating On Bandwidth Testing?

Indeed, and Slashdot already covered this last year.

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