Posts by Prof. William Waterman Sherman
34 posts • joined Thursday 6th May 2010 20:13 GMT
Not possible!
No way those were Photoshopped. The last moon landing was in 1972. Photoshop didn't come out for another 18 years! Man, do your research before making wild accusations.
Grammar Nazi, heil thyself.
Technically, it's "sex" not "gender".
Re: Looting
One electronics shop was looted, and afterwards counted 32 more HP tablets than they started the day with.
denied the frisson...
or, in other words, piloerection. And it's only Thursday.
you've got the wrong state...
Surely the firearm that goes with incest is the Kentucky long rifle!
Posted in Unix dynamic duo awarded Japan Prize
It's called "K & R C" for a reason...
Bet Brian Kernighan is miffed.
...well actually...
The Brits tried to pull a fast one and turn Jerusalem over to the Arabs before they were scheduled to bug out. Didn't work too well. There was considerable animosity between Israelis and Brits at the time. The only reason the latter did anything to benefit the former was Truman twisting their arm.
Loopy Science
Why is it every alarmist warming scenario piles on an endless chain of positive feedback loops? If the realy world worked that way, the first dinosaur fart would have cooked the planet millions of years ago. Finally, we have a model that considers a possible negative feedback, and guess what? Things aren't so bad after all.
Posted in 'ALIEN' LIFE FOUND in California
Arse-nicker friends...
Good one. Best use of "I for one welcome..." leitmotif in a long time. I vote we retire the category.
Git a rope...
Sadly, not much can be done about the Aussie, but the source of the leak is another matter. If it turns out to be an American, well, treason is still a hangin' offence in these parts.
Posted in How I invented Desktop Publishing
Maybe you invented the Internet, but I invented computer networks...
In high school I discovered I could get two TRS-80s to talk together by cross-connecting their cassette tape drive cables. The first machine thought it was writing a string to tape, but it was really read by the second machine, which thought it was reading a string from tape. I cooked up a BASIC version of Battleship to demo the concept.
What about FT and BC?
There's also fault tolerance (FT) which is a very high level of redundancy, such that software is unaware of any failure. I'm thinking especially of Tandem. And then there's business continuity (BC) which is like DR but focuses less on the disastrous aspects. I'm thinking near line storage or data replication. The lines can blur but you really need prudent amounts of both. You don't want to fail over to the bunker just because one disk goes bad. And your RAID6 array doesn't help when it's under water.
Enough!
All those "thumbs up" icons are making feel very uncomfortable.
she's just not into you (and vice versa)
I've always felt I was a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
I need to read El Reg before doing anything else on a Monday!
I was so frustrated by 4.0 performance on my steam driven 3G that I downgraded it to 3.13. Not a hard process, but you can't restore apps, settings, etc. from backup. To stay on 3.13 you have to set it up as a new unit. I lost Exchange, VPN, etc. settings, not to mention Angry Birds progress.
Now I read of relief in sight. Crap.
BTW, iTunes won't let me restore from backup, even after a firmware upgrade because it's a different machine. I think I'll relax and read The Register until I calm down.
Posted in Can replication replace backup?
database replication
When the data you're protecting is all in an object or relational database, the DBMS usually offers another form of replication. Database replication basically consists of replaying the primary's transaction logs on a secondary system. This is an attractive option because replaying transactions instead of physical device I/O prevents many types of corruption and maintains transactional integrity. The secondary system can be used for report generation as well or other read-only uses.
I'm with Jake.
Technically, it might be a verb, but it sounds wrong to my ears. If we all agree to never use it as a verb, eventually (after a hundred years or so) the OED will delist it.
Let's dialog it some more.
Hurd Sacking?
I haven't even figured out what a dutch lobster is. Now this!?
yeah
I guess your profile would be low if you're alway horizontal.
Well stated.
Once the Web gets deduped, my 9600 Baud modem becomes viable again.
Reminds me of the joke about the Texan who passed away and was too large to fit in a casket. They gave him an enema and buried him in a matchbox.
Posted in ET voted fave family film fodder
Maybe kids are the fodder for these family films.
For me, at least three of those films were emotionally scarring. Didn't stop me from showing it to my kids, but still.
Forget re-writing history. Try reading history.
The Taliban came after, fought, and displaced, the Mujahideen. The people we armed to fight Russian invaders were Mujahideen. Taliban largely sat out that fight, or were too young.
Not the first time the Russians have suspended equines.
Isn't that how Catherine the Great met her end?
Posted in Before the iPad, there was the Newton
Executive whirlygig
As a vendor SE, I had the misfortune of attending a meeting of LA Times execs after they all received their Newtons. The meeting was constantly interrupted by, "hold on!...(scribble, scribble)...okay, go ahead...hold on...(scribble, scribble)...". My comment about witnessing the human equivalent to XON/XOFF flow control was not appreciated.
Those in the room with Tandy Model 100s had no problem keeping up. Ah, the Model 100, stalwart of newsrooms everywere, that's a computer you should memorialize.
Tombstone, to represent beloved gear of day gone by.
IT angle is quite obvious..
...if IT stands for Interspecific Transgendered.
eBay, Craigslist, or a slow boat to China
How many ToughBooks does Panasonic sell of any model, and how can the thieves expect to unload all that gear? Obviously a pro job, so they had to have an end game. Frankly, I'd be more worried if they spent nine hours playing with the laptops and then left them in the warehouse.
Posted in Colt loads up factory-built data centres
Finally!
Something of the future that isn't constructed of ISO containers! I wonder if they are fully compostable.
Posted in iPhone 4 burns, hurts owner
Burnt his hand or his pride?
Is his pride anything like Navin R. Johnson's special purpose? I mean, was he holding it in his lap?
Posted in El Reg marks Steve Jobs for termination
@ all Brits...
Surprised you Brits missed the significance of the red X. Clearly the X is the Cross of St. Patrick and Steve's mug replaces the Crosses of Saints George and Andrews. Hats off, and salute your new Union Jack (thumb-side down, of course)!
Posted in El Reg marks Steve Jobs for termination
X-Man
I think superimposing the X-Men logo on Steve's hypnotic stare gives him a certain Prof. Xavieresque mien. Fitting for someone with the ability to produce shiny gadgets that control minds.
Posted in .XXX to get ICANN nod
All for it.
Parents and pornographers both have an interest in keeping kids away from the stuff. The latter if only because kids don't have credit cards. The former because they bought the damn computer to do homework on.
This kind of initiative is usually quashed by prudes under the misaprehension that a porn-only TLD somehow promotes the stuff.
Need a headcount.
Would someone please check on the Raellians?
Posted in Lindsay Lohan to pull off Linda Lovelace
Ha!
If El Reg is releasing this kind of story on Wednesday, then Friday's should be freakin' awesome! Don't let us down!
