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neon4891
neon4891 SuperDork
11/11/10 9:37 p.m.

SWMBO late brother.

IED...

neon4891
neon4891 SuperDork
11/11/10 9:48 p.m.

Maternal Grandfather, Army WWII, MIA in the Philippines during the Japanese ocupation.

friedgreencorrado
friedgreencorrado SuperDork
11/11/10 10:22 p.m.
neon4891 wrote: SWMBO late brother. IED...

RIP. I've been lucky..everyone in my circle of family/friends has made it back so far.

No hotlink after seeing that pic. IMO it would be in poor taste.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
11/12/10 8:53 a.m.

alfadriver
alfadriver SuperDork
11/12/10 9:04 a.m.

Nov 12, 1980- Voyager 1 sends back pictures of Saturn

alfadriver
alfadriver SuperDork
11/12/10 9:06 a.m.

Nov 12, 1990, the world wide web was invented - this would be Tim Berners-Lee at CERN

alfadriver
alfadriver SuperDork
11/12/10 9:08 a.m.

Nov 12, 1954, Ellis Island closes. I had relatives who passed through here.

Hocrest
Hocrest Reader
11/12/10 9:11 a.m.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

HA

I could watch that all day...

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
11/12/10 9:14 a.m.
alfadriver wrote: Nov 12, 1990, the world wide web was invented - this would be Tim Berners-Lee at CERN

Huh, he is running X. I figured him to be an OS/2 kinda guy. Like Beta... the better answers of the time got beat down by better marketing.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
11/12/10 11:46 a.m.

Grtechguy
Grtechguy SuperDork
11/12/10 11:52 a.m.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

I used to run that....I was 15-17

rebelgtp
rebelgtp SuperDork
11/12/10 12:02 p.m.
Grtechguy wrote:
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:
I used to run that....I was 15-17

Same here I used it up until Warp 4. Then I started in on Linux.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
11/12/10 12:11 p.m.

Anybody remember Microware OS-9?

Real-time, process-based, multitasking, multi-user, Unix-like operating system in 1980.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
11/12/10 12:12 p.m.

Mayhap Plan-9 rings a ... um... Bell?

You can see where the Linux folks "borrowed" a few concepts (/proc for one)

Keith
Keith GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
11/12/10 12:13 p.m.
Pumpkin Escobar wrote: I lold

That picture is lifted from our website! You'll be glad to know the Miata is running an FM II, and the driver is Howard Marder But what you don't know is that he got his clock cleaned on the next straight...

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
11/12/10 12:14 p.m.

In reply to Keith:

The caption on that should be "Pray for Rain"

Rob_Mopar
Rob_Mopar Reader
11/12/10 12:33 p.m.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Mayhap Plan-9 rings a ... um... Bell? You can see where the Linux folks "borrowed" a few concepts (/proc for one)

Not to be confused with this Plan 9.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
11/12/10 12:42 p.m.
Rob_Mopar wrote:
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Mayhap Plan-9 rings a ... um... Bell? You can see where the Linux folks "borrowed" a few concepts (/proc for one)
Not to be confused with this Plan 9.

Actually - it's name is a tribute to the worst film ever made. I didn't really know that... I read it on the Plan 9 wiki. I love nuggets of arcane trivia.

Rob_Mopar
Rob_Mopar Reader
11/12/10 12:45 p.m.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Actually - it's name is a tribute to the worst film ever made. I didn't really know that... I read it on the Plan 9 wiki. I love nuggets of arcane trivia.

This is the first image that comes up when searching Google Images for arcane trivia.

Now thats both ironic and arcane if you've ever seen Ed Wood.

Rob_Mopar
Rob_Mopar Reader
11/12/10 12:50 p.m.

In honor of the page number and earlier days in my career...

Pumpkin Escobar
Pumpkin Escobar SuperDork
11/12/10 1:02 p.m.

rebelgtp
rebelgtp SuperDork
11/12/10 1:10 p.m.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
11/12/10 1:13 p.m.

81gtv6
81gtv6 GRM+ Memberand Dork
11/12/10 1:37 p.m.

I have two of these in my basement running my Windows 2003 server. The nerd force is fairly high at my house.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
11/12/10 1:41 p.m.
81gtv6 wrote: I have two of these in my basement running my Windows 2003 server. The nerd force is fairly high at my house.

I see your old '03 Server and raise you one HP Proliant DL-380, sitting on the floor in my home office sounding like a goddamn hovercraft and raising my electric bill $20 a month.

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