* Posts by chic

6 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Dec 2014

'A guy in a jetpack' seen flying at 3,000ft within few hundred yards of passenger jet landing at LA airport

chic

The spirit of Larry Walters . . .

. . . lives on!

https://www.wired.com/2009/07/dayintech-0702/

Good thing this dev quit. I'd have fired him. Out of a cannon. Into the sun

chic

You'll throw one away . . .

Re the Fred Brookes comment, I once bought my then boss a copy of 'The Mythical Man Month'

In fact I bought him three copies so that he could understand it quicker . . .

SpaceX: launch, check. Landing? Needs work

chic

Or even land it on, well, land! Clues in the name, doesn't bounce about so much, weather tends to be more clement and have less effect

Server retired after 18 years and ten months – beat that, readers!

chic

Sounds like you need to knit a laplink cable!

ALL comp-sci courses will have compulsory infosec lessons – UK.gov

chic

And whence ....

... will they procure InfoSec teachers worthy of the name yet willing to take an FE drones salary?

Independent inquiry into British air-traffic-control IT nightmare

chic

I seem to recall...

.. visiting the Prestwick end of NATS in the 1990's. At that point it was running on PDP11s, with unbelievable amounts of life support. When I asked "Why don't you port it to something modern, like a Z80?" I was told that the problem is that the system has to be ratified by the British CAA, the merkin FAA, the french, spanish, german, yadda yadda. Getting anything agreed is practically impossible. They were looking fwd to the opening of the new Atlantic house, but freely admitted it would be newer tech, but not new tech.