'Smile Time'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Can anyone work out what this site does? It looks like a failure of computers interpreting text--like they're having code decide places books refer to, and plotting those points on a map. But the about page is kind of vague. The number of mishits on the front page is discouraging.
So no one looked at the Isabella Rosselllini video? I'm disappointed. It was very informative.
I need to get my hair cut again. I guess I can kill a few minutes looking for my one true bob.
Aww, Hec is going to be so sad about being stuck at his internetless temp job. Christina Ricci is rocking a nice bob in Speed Racer.
Yeah, but the shuttle's electronics supposedly underwent a major upgrade/redesign in the late 90s, early oughts. I remember at the time that they said Columbia had been refitted with the new computers and such...
The specific line was...
Edwards attributes that to a lucky twist: The computer was running an ancient operating system, DOS, which does not scatter data all over drives as other approaches do.
Huh. You read a more thorough article than I did. But now I'm terribly amused at "an ancient operating system, DOS". I believe the hub was running it (in emulation, that is) just this morning, although I gather Wasteland had something to do with that.
I think (all I'm finding seems to imply) that the most recent computer upgrade was in 1990. So that design and code had to be frozen years before that. (eta: that's for the main computer, at least.)
I am so far past ready for this week to be over, but it just won't die.
HATE THAT
Here's some information on some other, more recent, upgrades to systems, with some explanation about the generation gap in tech. And it is from 2001.
(It's driving me nuts trying to remember anything,because a friend's dad worked on the flight systems software ages ago so I feel like I should remember this stuff. OTOH, I was 2 in 1977, so maybe not....)
Pictures of childhood drawings brought to life. [link]
I have officially renamed today as "Firedrill Friday". No one wants anything from me all week and on Friday afternoon I get firedrill request after firedrill request.
I think it is time for me to go home....