In 1990, we had some brand new HP disks the size of a washing machine. Capacity 650MB. Some software was written to move the head assembly from end to end. This would cause so much vibration the the whole machine would “walk” around. The machine room had video cameras, and sometimes if you saw some…Continue Reading…
The “Contact Us” form in vBulletin is highly susceptible to spamming. I’ve received 100% spam from it– no legitimate emails. 32 spam emails so far.. the forum is inactive anyway, so I’m shutting it down. Update (8/20/2007): Did a Google search for vBulletin Spam and this post came up 4th. Unfortunately, I still get lots…Continue Reading…
Acronym I haven’t seen used until now: RITW, for “Re-Invent The Wheel” I’d rather not RITW.
Animated favicons are the most annoying thing in the world. (boriel.com is currently using one.) Is there a way to disable this in Firefox?
NASA uses duct tape to save the day. It secures “British astronaut Piers Sellers to his jet-propelled backpack today for the final spacewalk of the shuttle Discovery’s 13-day mission to the International Space Station.” I have patch stickers for this flight, STS-121. By the way, the saying goes: “Duct tape is like the Force. It…Continue Reading…
Air Marshal Burridge … said that he doesn’t concern himself with the ground-level details of an operation. A reporter asked him in a rather nasty tone if he didn’t think the British public mightn’t be concerned by their overall commander saying he doesn’t concern himself with “details.” In case it isn’t immediately obvious to you…Continue Reading…