Posts by shocking

Boris Johnson set to step down with tech legacy in tatters

Re: Sub-sea nukes

Having a bunch of transmission towers blow over did not help.

Graphical desktop system X Window just turned 38

Using X since late 80s

I first saw it running on NCD Xterminals 1988. I was the 1st beta tester for the Xfree86 project (Tseng ET4000 card, good times, running on Dell's SVR4 release), and have a lot of memories of the futzing around required. Also at work on ICL DRS3000s and BW NCD Xterms.

Microsoft staffers restive as annual employee poll lands – without questions about compensation

Re: re: Maybe repeating a lie often enough can make it sounds true.

Simple - people are capable of learning. And they apply the lessons. So we had Trump's own election guy say they were OK and his own AG, Barr, said that there wasn't enough fraud to alter the results.

Chill out, lockdown ain't over yet – perhaps FUZIX on the Pi Pico could feature in your weekend shed projects

I had a 286 with 512k than ran Microport V/AT OK. Programming with the different memory models was a PITA - lot of unix software assumed sizeof(int) == sizeof(char *). Had C & fortran compilers, troff, the works. Used to futz around with code at home, then upload to the Amdahl 570 running UTS at work. Good times.

It's almost time for Australia's fibre fetishists to give up

Copper degrades over time

When I moved into my current residence, I could get 8032 kb/s. Now it's down to 3612. I was supposed to get the NBN in 2014, but we had a change of Government. My suburb's not on the list of the ones that are supposed to get the rollout by 2018.