Could be worse, of course.
Could be worse, of course.
No. The Internet doesn’t care about some neverheard’s weight changes.
I guess you weren’t in the ring.
Right. Site plugins or something.
Could it cure their multiposting?
Could be a liability for them to have to work on support for those sites when it breaks.
Maybe even a transdator
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
I would have settled for “sauna good”. Which I knew already as a finn.
There is the small hope that all this work has lead to better processes and checks to make finding problems, mistakes, and abuse more easily and cheaply.
I once had a hard drive of some particular vintage that wasn’t able to start. I did actually get it running with a hammer tap. Got the remains of data out and replaced the drive. It was nothing special, a Unix system drive with nothing that wasn’t on tape, but I just had to see if I could fix a hard drive with a hammer.
I also remember one admin who would often be seen walking between computer maintenance room and workshop wing with drives and a blacksmiths hammer labelled “format”.
Psions were pretty amazing. Can’t believe they ran a whole operating system like that on a couple of batteries. Iirc, turning on the LCD backlight doubled the idle power consumption. So the whole system was as heavy as a couple of LEDs.
Here’s one nice list which also reflects the status of their usefulness. Physical availability varies widely, though.
I think it’s more like a door slam without a door.
That sounds like an awfully broad target.
A programmer is a device for turning caffeine into code (to borrow a math joke).
That is correct.
But they had to be enterprise, so he became a number one factory.
Why did the reuse old master tapes?
Money. Or the perception that there isn’t money to be gained from the replication and maintenance of the archives.