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it's not just a good idea for raid

Oh definitely not, I do it on every system that I've needed it to be synced before I did something. We were just working at a place that had 2k+ physical servers with 88 drives each in RAID6, so that was our main concern back then.

I have been passing my anxieties about hardrives to junior engineers for a decade now.


she didn't. she was on a united way charity comittee with an ibm executive

Potato, po-tato?

Somewhat different, I think. She had no direct financial interest in IBM's decision; she convinced the guy at IBM to look at Bill for the PC's operating system. Sure, at that level favors and family can have a lot of influence, but there wasn't a direct business relationship.

That’s fair. I never meant to imply a business relationship. I only meant the connections aspect. I should have made that more clear.

Morrowind has zillions, largely because the original CD version (the one with the big colour map) came with its own mod editor, used by bethesda to develop the game. I remember using it to cut down on the cliff-racer count.


Ah, so the StarCraft Map Editor approach.


> Also, a large number of warheads would have been targeted at the mountain.

Yeah, the Loonies in "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" keep pounding away at it with space rocks launched from the Moon. It worked in the end, overall.


back in the days when beards were serious beards


The serious beards were a century earlier, when the terms "sideburns" and "mutton chops" were coined, when Dickens had a doorknocker beard, when Thomas Nast drew Uncle Sam with a goatee, and very few men were clean-shaven.

One of the early pictures on that page shows Ken Thompson didn't have a beard in the early 1970s.


That’s…sarcasm?


It is most likely, related to how growing one nowadays is a kind of hipster thing with the trendy barber shops decorated as if they were western barber shops scattered a bit all over the globe.


You don't think Ken's beard was serious?


Nope - simple observation!


We still have serious beards kicking around.

The Linux folks, Andrew Kelley etc all qualify as True Beards.


> Also what kind of psycho uses CppStyleFunctionNames() in C?

People influenced by the Win32 C API. I prefer it that way myself.


That style predates Windows.


I would guess a significant portion of people using the style (if not most), did so inspired by Windows, though


It was common across all not UNIX operating systems.

You will find it on MS-DOS, Amiga, OS/2, Mac OS.

It was based on what was common in ALGOL derived languages.

On UNIX you will find it on X Windows, and Motif.


Macintosh toolbox was Pascal first right? Or at least there was an era where it was. And I think this naming convention is kinda a pascal thing.


Yes, Apple is the actual creator of Object Pascal variant, and there was a Pascal based OS using P-Code for Apple II GS.


and thailand


> Thank you, Douglas Adams

actually, hp lovecraft


The characters are seen from Sal's perspective, and I will admit he is not the sharpest pencil in the box (I think Kerouac, who was quite smart, realises this). I wonder what OTR written from Dean's point of view would be like?


> Ah, Barbarian

game was almost impossibly difficult, imho. did look good, though.


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