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Agreed, that would make the conversation quite lively.

Unfortunately, anyone who managed or worked on a curses app that relayed store sales data to a corporate database would need an exceptional memory.

That could very well have been a Model 16 running Xenix 68k.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_II#model16

Free OpenServer appeared in 1996. The cash registers were running on the x86 platform, for sure (68000 was a dead architecture for general purpose computing by then - Apple had been on POWER for several years).

https://www.eetimes.com/sco-provides-free-unix-system-licens...

I bailed on the S&P when oil shock concern was first expressed earlier this year.

I will get back into a non-U.S. total market index fund (VXUS or equivalent) after the dust settles with Iran.

I will wait on buying the S&P, and perhaps QQQM, until after the Anthropic IPO at the very least.

I think their cash registers ran SCO Xenix. I ran the free version on my desktop at work for a few months in the late 90s (I think that I still have the installation media).

They had the same virtual console behavior as we see in Linux.

I had a friend who worked in one of the stores, and I scared the daylights out of him by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F4 on his cash register to get a login. After switching back to F1, he learned the scary trick himself.

This previous [flagged] post implies that a natural gas line blocked by regulatory action is holding a data center offline:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978367

I understand that trucking the natural gas into the generation plant is one workaround.

I have the two small books of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn on a shelf in my living room.

The most poignant moment is in Huckleberry Finn, where (floating on the Mississippi) the protagonist asserts:

"If my friendship damns me to hell, then I'll go to hell with him."

Looking it up...

"I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking—thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn’t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I’d see him standing my watch on top of his’n, ’stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he’s got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.

It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:

“All right, then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up."

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/76/pg76-images.html

I do reccomed Tacitus for his scandalous take:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6400

What most people do not know is that Smalltalk was originally a childrens' teaching language, a peer of Logo, which (I have learned in previous comments) preceded it.

"Smalltalk is a purely object-oriented programming language that was originally created in the 1970s for educational use, specifically for constructionist learning, but later found use in business."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk

I think this is the whole set.

I'd also recommend the recent Domina for Livia's perspective.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlwzDYw6zp2D6DxLR8zGz1i_7...

I think that I liked him most as Sejanus in I, Claudius. That was before any of his major sci-fi roles.

I see him in this episode:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xA6QbwPGlgk

I've read both Suetonius and Tacitus on the subject of Augustus and the Julio-Claudian dynasty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio-Claudian_dynasty

Those who lack this family knowledge would want to start with the first episode of I, Claudius.

The riddle was: "What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?".

Oedipus answered: "Man: as an infant, he crawls on all fours; as an adult, he walks on two legs and; in old age, he uses a walking stick".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_and_the_Sphinx

Now I get the Gungan and Naboo reference.

I was never a fan of the prequels. You got me, you scoundrel.

As I understand it, the U.S. President engaged in an agreement with the Houthis for mutual non-agression, explaining our refusal to assist the House of Saud and greater Arabia.

I did not know this has a wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States%E2%80%93Hou...

I read a direct account from FiftyPlusOne earlier this week that had been posted to a political site.

Wedgewood was quite abrupt and profanely offensive in their (re)actions in shutting down their operations, if I have read the account correctly.

It certainly appears that they were not expecting to be caught.

The post mentions "Jack Sims and Andrew Prater," whom I assume will now face far more professional review.

https://blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftyplusone-just-caught-a-...

Summary...

Samos: An effective blockade must be persistent; distractions imperil the effort.

Syracuse: When the timing is wrong, situations can reverse to shatter your forces.

Rhodes: An incomplete effort can result in stalemate.

Lilybaeum: Replacement forces who are inexperienced are vulnerable.

Hard file locking makes Windows Update into agony.

I can see the 70s motivation for it, but it is a terrible burden in modern times.

Hopefully is is not implemented here.

PHP is not prominently used in banking.

It is a common technology, well supported in the Red Hat family, and (I would hope that) dnf update will be the proper step for most people.

As I understand it, their mitochondrial DNA does not survive, so they were always the fathers of any hybrids that contributed to the modern human genome.

" recent Science study found evidence that couplings followed a distinct pattern: Neanderthal males with modern human females."

The article links to this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/science/human-evolution-n...

https://archive.ph/9mQKV

I have never examined this in any detail before. It looks far easier than the mass majority of clustered database architectures.

https://rqlite.io/

How about this one? It should be a collection of documentaries and reviews.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRjRVyOP5DtHQkX2-K-fTNm0V...

This film, Colossus: The Forbin Project, is free on YouTube. I have seen it several times.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qSgsHIj7jpg

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRjRVyOP5DtHQkX2-K-fTNm...

Eleven years ago, I wrote an introduction to nspawn from a busybox perspective.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/infinite-busybox-system...

I used that for a number of designs before my retirement.

The quality of my writing certainly did improve after that was finished.

> I stopped considering such tinkering because I got tired of finding those little tweaks and fixes on forums like xda every time something was updated.

Several vendors sell Android devices that allow bootloader unlocking, Pixels being the most known.

Once unlocked, Magisk is the current and most used rooting tool.

The procedure is quite straightforward.

https://github.com/topjohnwu/magisk

https://magiskmanager.com/

For 109619, "Exploitation requires hitting a precise out-of-memory condition during request processing, which keeps this below Critical."

The lower criticality may be wishful thinking.

Does active SELinux (as used in Red Hat derivatives) limit the damage at all?

I built some rhel7 systems that are relaying user-provided LDAP credentials into a domain controller, and these are probably wide open with these flaws.

I would hope that SELinux would prevent the launch of a shell, at least.

Does PHP built with FORTIFY_SOURCE and other RedHat-recommended compiler flags help?

Well, I have just retired, as a millionaire.

My outburst should have been concealed in more diplomatic language, I'll grant.

I am frightened of what I'm doing next (driving to Mazatlan).

Begging your pardon.

If I am reading this correctly, then mercury-198 will receive a neutron, decay to mercury-197, then emit an electron to become gold-197.

Mercury has seven stable isotopes ranging from 195 to 204, so purifying to 198 is challenging (this isotope is 10% of the metal's occurrence). Would this require centrifuges as uranium does?

The decay chains of the other isotopes would be different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_of_precious_metals#G...

"...the production cost is estimated to be a trillion times the market price of gold."

The above reaction is at the end of the section.

For as much COBOL as my (former) coworkers use every day, they should bankroll her day.