Posts by smithwr101

OpenVMS on x86-64 reaches production status with v9.2

Re: I wonder how many people still remember how to use it?

Was that the Big Orange Wall, or The Big Grey wall?

First Boeing 777 (aged 24) makes its last flight – to a museum

First "Fatal crash"

Fortunately, no-one was killed. Otherwise it would have been a "fatal" crash.

I think the Asiana accident at SFO was the first and only fatal accident, where the aircraft has been found and was not shot down.

SPY-tunes scandal: Bloke sues Bose after headphones app squeals on his playlist

You don't need the app to use the headphones.

Actually when you fire up Bose Connect it says "Apps using Bluetooth Low Energy are now required to have location access enabled. We don't like it either."

So it looks like an Android or other third party constraint.

Trump's America looks like a lousy launchpad, so can you dig Darwin?

Prestwick

There has been a discussion in the last few years or so about using one of the Scottish airfields for air launch to orbit systems - pre Brexit/ Indyref v2. Prestwick has a long runway, built for B707 era transatlantic flights and hangerage for that sort of activity. There are other airports in consideration such as Machrihansih on Kintire which has a hugh runway (it was to be used as a Space Shuttle transatlantic abort site had the shuttle got to the planned launch frequency of every week or so.) Also ex-RAF stations at Kinloss, and Leuchurs.

There aren't too many suitable runways south of the border that haven't been grubbed up -- such as Greenham Common.

PDP-10 enthusiasts resurrect ancient MIT operating system

PDP-10, PDP-11

The Blinkenbone project has a number of simulated graphical panels including the PDP-11/70 and PDP-10 KL10. http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone

They use simh and add the flashing lights.

Uber, Apple, Amazon and Sully Sullenberger walk into a bar – er, self-driving car committee

Re: Sullenberger?

Cpt. Sullenberger was an expert in safety and reliability well before Cactus 1549 went into the Hudson (15th January 2009.) He also has a masters in industrial psychology. He is also made of the Right Stuff.

Microsoft RE-BORKS Windows 7 patch after reboot loop horror

Re: No issues here... you do not dual boot using GRUB.

Grub is working fine. It's Windows that detects a problem and reverts. I could understand if MS had modified their bootloader and it caused grub to fail.

Yup. Same problem here. Two Windows 7 machines reboot several times and then revert.

KB3033929 is the problem.

It's a minor weakness in security if you don't install it but an MS DoS if you do!