Posts by Web Monster

Reagan slams webmail providers for liberal bias

Re: Cheers

Yes, Hypocrisy is rampant. The compulsory medical insurance, the individual mandate, was on McCain's 2008 GOP platform and Obama opposed it. After originating in the conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, and after 20 years of advocacy by the GOP, when the Dems coopted the idea--why the GOP tried to have it ruled unconstitutional.

Mussolini equated fascism with corporatism, hardly a 'socialist' position by today's usage of the term. Both he and Hitler began their reigns of error by privatizing nationalized industries, selling them to their cronies. Fascism is closer to state managed crony capitalism than socialism and is itself neither 'Left' nor 'Right'. That's why both use it as a derogatory of the other.

Obama is a 'Third Way' Democratic Leadership Council politician, which is why so many moneyed interests backed him. He's a centrist with progressive rhetoric in contrast to the centrist with conservative rhetoric, Ronald Reagan Sr. The Right might hold fealty to Reagan, but if he ran for office today with his governing history, he'd be labeled a RINO and the Tea Party would oppose him. Reagan not only legalized abortion in California before Roe v. Wade, but he also balanced California's budget with what would today be a $17 billion tax increase. As President, Reagan not only signed the largest peacetime revenue generating tax increase in the nation's history, TEFRA, but also increased taxes for Medicare and Social Security.

It's the oldest working Seagate drive in the UK

Hydraulics anyone?

Now I just feel like an old geek--I maintained CDC equipment and some the CDC 3000 era disk drives were hydraulically actuated. Nothing like regularly taking a 2 foot qtip dipped in alcohol to remove hydraulic fluid from the platters of the refrigerator sized 20mb drive. The next generation used voice coils, ala speakers. Stepping motors were for cheaper printers...

Ballmer, Gates won't slice up Microsoft

Any other term for 'dis-synergy'?

Un-Borg'ed?

Hitachi refrigerates rack rears

CDC Memories

Did they hire the old 1960's Control Data Corp cooling engineers? Does this have desuperheating and a hot gas bypass for cool load leveling to prevent condensation?

In answer to AB, 'heat pipes' have to get rid of their heat somewhere, usually ambiently. This provides a water heat exchange mechanism to remove the heat at a physically removed location..

Microsoft vision chief sees world without Microsoft PCs

Complexity kills?

From Mr. Lotus Notes, the apex of simplicity?

Apple eyes kill switch for jailbroken iPhones

Just remembering

who that old Super Bowl Apple commercial identified as evil...

Hotmail still not working? Use Chrome to fix it, says MS

with any mail client

that supports POP3. Why bother with a browser?

Supercomputer geek builds Cray-1 around home PC

Cray1 is not the first supercomputer.

Cray did design the first supercomputer, but it wasn't the Cray1. The first supercomputer was the (RISC before the word existed) Control Data Cyber 6600. When he lost out on the design on their next product, where he basically wanted to double the then latest 7600 to two functional unit processors but lost to Thornton's vector processing design of the Star 100, he left and built the vector Cray1 (with financial backing from CDC). Ironically, the Cray1 outperformed the Star for vector processing for all but the largest datasets.