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Bug In DOS-Based Voting Machines Disrupts Belgian Election 193

Posted by samzenpus from the slowing-things-down dept.
jfruh (300774) writes "In 20 cantons in Belgium's Flanders region, voting machines are x86 PCs from the DOS era, with two serial ports, a parallel port, a paltry 1 megabyte of RAM and a 3.5-inch disk drive used to load the voting software from a bootable DOS disk. A software bug in those machines is slowing the release of the results from yesterday's election, in which voters chose members of the regional, national, and European parliaments. The remaining voting machines, which are Linux-based, are unaffected, as were voters in the French-speaking Wallonia region of the country, most of whom use paper ballots."

Comment Re:Let's just get over this and move to 64bit (Score 1) 756

by werelnon (#29194007) Attached to: Behind the 4GB Memory Limit In 32-Bit Windows
I'm with you! As soon as you get on the phone with Logitech and get them to write new 64bit drivers for the Logitech Force joystick and wheel. They've stated that these older peripherals are never going to get 64bit drivers so I, and any one else who has perfectly good 5+ year old devices, will have to throw them away and buy new (probably inferior) devices to go with my 64bit Windows. Pretty expensive upgrade.
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Dead Parrot Sketch Is 1,600 Years Old 276

Posted by samzenpus from the he-prefers-kipping-on-his-back dept.
laejoh writes "Monty Python's 'Dead Parrot sketch' — which featured John Cleese — is some 1,600 years old. A classic scholar has proved the point, by unearthing a Greek version of the world-famous piece. A comedy duo called Hierocles and Philagrius told the original version, only rather than a parrot they used a slave. It concerns a man who complains to his friend that he was sold a slave who dies in his service. His companion replies: 'When he was with me, he never did any such thing!' The joke was discovered in a collection of 265 jokes called Philogelos: The Laugh Addict, which dates from the fourth century AD. Hierocles had gone to meet his maker, and Philagrius had certainly ceased to be, long before John Cleese and Michael Palin reinvented the yarn in 1969."

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