syranez

Day 1

1. Can trains be hacked? (Rating: AAA)
2. EU-Datenschutz und das Internet der Dinge (Rating: AA)
3. The coming war on general computation
4. What is in a name? (Rating: AA)
5. Pentanews Game Show 2k11/3 (Rating: AAA)

Day 2

syranez

"
No. It took a long time. It was really hard to do because you've got to remember that I was trying to make it usable over a 300 baud modem. That's also the reason you have all these funny commands. It just barely worked to use a screen editor over a modem. It was just barely fast enough. A 1200 baud modem was an upgrade. 1200 baud now is pretty slow.

9600 baud is faster than you can read. 1200 baud is way slower. So the editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore.

The people doing Emacs were sitting in labs at MIT with what were essentially fibre-channel links to the host, in contemporary terms. They were working on a PDP-10, which was a huge machine by comparison, with infinitely fast screens.

So they could have funny commands with the screen shimmering and all that, and meanwhile, I'm sitting at home in sort of World War II surplus housing at Be

syranez

"Don't be evil."

rofl. Was für ein lames Motto. "Tu, was Du tun willst, aber sei nicht böse." So geht es nicht voran.

Das Motto jedes Internetnuzers sollte sein:

"Make the world a better place. Be evil when you have to for reaching the goal."

syranez

I've loaded the famous NASA 8000x8000 picture in firefox on a site and X crashed.

It is repeatable with http://goo.gl/T87tw X crashes on closing the tab with this image. :(

     577 [1280104.455] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
     578 [1287152.893].
     579 Backtrace:
     580 [1287152.982] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x568578]
     581 [1287152.983] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x16c109) [0x56c109]
     582 [1287152.983] 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x3ad6800000+0x102e0) [0x3ad68102e0]

syranez

...wenn Du im Winter mit Schnee unter den Schuhen in Deinen Flur gehst und noch bevor Du den Monitor Deiner Rechenmaschine anschaltest die Sauerei im Flur wegwischt.

syranez

System

with normal user activity.

CPU

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz

Hard Drive

syranez

syranez

syranez

syranez

@ohaimareiki hat ein Kind.