Posts by Bamba_RFW

Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal eventually becomes noise

The Domesday book is safe

It was copied onto 12" Philips laser discs for posterity ....

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=1661

China's DeepSeek just emitted a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC

Umm - street level is the GROUND floor in UK/Europe.

Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate

Actually the Good book says ,,,

In the beginning was the WORD *

( clearly Microsoft's Marketing Department has a LOOONG reach [ or are the pipped by Channel 4 ] )

cf the bit in Terry Pratchett's / Neil Gaiman'd GOOD OMENS where the Devils representative sent a a Microsoft EULA down to the contracts department with a stick it note saying LEARN.

* the Star in not to indicate that Wordstar was there earlier [even if it was ] **

** in Latin it is PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBUM and in Koine Greek it comes out as EN ARCHE LOGON

- relevant to IT as it sounds like - "You have to login first", perhaps even more relevant if misheard as as ANARCHY LOGON

CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world

Guardian Type

1h ago

10.05 BST

Woolworths has also issued an updated statement, saying sex stores have been closed. The spokesperson said:

All stores across the country except for six are open and trading.

In some cases, customers may find less registers available than normal so we’re grateful for their patience.

A small number of online orders have been unable to be fulfilled and those customers have been contacted.

We’d also like to thank the thousands of team members who have helped customers throughout the afternoon and evening.

NASA needs new ideas and tech to get Mars Sample Return mission off the ground

Why not land a solar powered linear accelerator to sent the sample containers into mars orbit.

That's what the "Countdown" comic showed in the 70's ( for the exploitation of lunar resources )