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Re: Never thought i'd end up posting here

j...@jfeldredge.com (John F. Eldredge) — Tue, 12 Dec 2009 01:05:17 UT

If hovercraft were still considered exotic, this must have been in the
1950's or very early 1960's. By 1969, hovercraft ferries were in daily
use across the English Channel; I remember riding on one there in
December 1969. As a science-geek 12-year-old, I was quite familiar with
the concept, but I remember that both of my parents were very puzzled as

Re: Never thought i'd end up posting here

m.r.cau...@goglemail.com (Mike Causer) — Tue, 12 Dec 2009 00:39:54 UT

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:19:58 +0000 (UTC)
CDC wasn't quite in what I'd call my youth, and *no*thank*you* I do NOT
want to see them again.
Swallows & Amazons are well covered in 2nd-hand bookshops, but what was
the name (& author) of the series about an Aussie who made really
high-tech ships/aircraft in the 1950/60's. Including picking up on

Re: Never thought i'd end up posting here

zeb...@gmail.com (Zebee Johnstone) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 23:19:58 UT

In alt.sysadmin.recovery on Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:05:41 -0600
You know most people like to go back to the books of their childhood.
Wind in the Willows, Rosemary Sutcliffe, Wizard of Oz.
Mike wants the nostalgic comfort of CDC manuals.
I suppose I should be grateful I feel no desire to do Atari basic
again.

Re: Words and their meanings

gr...@pobox.com (Graham Reed) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 21:22:44 UT

Well, no, we weren't doing code reviews. The project that could have
used them was the one with the bad design. The project that worked
used the "lite(tm)" thing I described as being good enough... but that
one _did_ have design and testplan reviews.
The project in question was being directed by the Research team that

Re: Never thought i'd end up posting here

j...@magrathea.plus.com (Jim) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 19:46:36 UT

No, no. "Yes, dear" is a purely delaying tactic.
Jim

Re: Never thought i'd end up posting here

nob...@nowhere.example.com (Lawns 'R' Us) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 19:41:54 UT

Rather like "Yes, dear"?

Re: Never thought i'd end up posting here

mi...@mikea.ath.cx (mikea) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 19:18:51 UT

ab...@127.0.0.1 wrote in <o3MXm.3899$cW....@newsreading 01.news.tds.net>:
Yeah, yeah. Or, if you prefer, Suuuuuuuure.
About 1970, at the Wycliffe Bible Translators anual meeting
at ou.edu, one speaker said roughly this:
"Many languages use a single negational word to indicate negation; some,
such as French, use two: `n'est pas'. There are no languages of which I

Re: Never thought i'd end up posting here

mi...@mikea.ath.cx (mikea) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 19:05:41 UT

Brian Kantor <br...@ucsd.edu> wrote in <kv0n0k....@ucsd.edu>:
Which ones! Index!! Index!! URL!! URL!!

Re: Never thought i'd end up posting here

br...@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 18:55:16 UT

IBtD! While ALOHA was sort'a packet network, the packets weren't switched,
they were banished into the ether. And not the fun kind, either.
- Brian

Re: Never thought i'd end up posting here

br...@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 18:50:44 UT

ITYM spiraling-downward routing. AKA count-to-infinity-and-beyond.
Feh.
This holiday week I'm keeping myself occupied by scanning in
the piles of old documents and manuals infesting my "guest room"
(which in fact cannot be occupied by guests until the paper is
gone). Today's first candidate was the big yellow BBN1822, the

Re: Never thought i'd end up posting here

ab...@127.0.0.1 — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 14:59:32 UT

"Yeah, right" is the canonical form.
Dima

Re: Never thought i'd end up posting here

use...@lpbk.net (LP) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 09:56:44 UT

surely |!- is more appropriate.
-Paul

Re: Have _I_ got a bridge for you!

stap...@cs.mu.oz.au.spam (David Cameron Staples) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 01:29:31 UT

in Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:22:00 +1100, Lionel in hic loco scripsit:
Simpson's individual bridgettes! A million household uses!

Re: Never thought i'd end up posting here

ab...@leftmind.net (AdB) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 00:40:52 UT

Zebee Johnstone posted thus:
So far so good with this one; all the ancient stuff still running on it is
soldiering on like a cat that hasn't even realized it has one less life
to go.
I do remember the Bad Old Days too; what with a lot of customer-site
deployments and dodgy UPSsen we didn't get a lot of systems reaching that

Re: Insert rant here

imagen...@gmail.com (Lionel) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 00:23:49 UT

Yes. As featured in the Professor Branestawm (sic?) books, which I
highly recommend.