geezer_2
Re:Veterans find relief from nightmares with NightWare and Apple Watch
on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:11AM (#33528035)
This doesn't always work. A friend did massage in a small fishing town in Alaska. As soon as she put on the ocean-waves-breaking-on-a-beach sounds, the massageee would usually bolt upright from the table in a total panic attack. Your mileage may vary!
Re:Mysterious fast radio bursts come in two distinct flavours
on Thursday June 10, 2021 @11:37PM (#27469006)
H E L P
in an unknown alien tongue
No, just a lurker that finally decided to join the fun!
We actually used it in a semi-production configuration. We had an Apple 8100 sitting in the corner. We needed a machine to FTP all the weather sites every 10 minutes and download current conditions to input into a running near-realtime ocean current model. Kinda like Windy, except this was the mid 1990's.
The code was a custom Perl script written by a programmer that later died with his family on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11.
It ran very reliably for weeks, except when somebody would login and run X-windows. Then it would die a horrible death within hours.
One oddity about the version we had, it had to be installed from MacOS (System 7 I believe). Some of the pathnames in the default install were longer than what was allowed in MacOS (256 characters, I think) so not everything would be installed correctly!