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wozname | 3 years ago | on: What ever happened to webrings? (2015)

My Dad runs a website for his Meccano hobby, and as far as I know their webring is still active: http://nzfmm.co.nz/ https://meccano.link/

I was definitely surprised to see an active web ring.

wozname | 12 years ago | on: Flappy Bird Ported to C64

Obligatory zx81 version, video: http://www.frequency.com/video/just-released-for-zx81-is-qua... The official homepage: http://www.bobs-stuff.co.uk/quack.html

This C64 version is pretty awesome though!

wozname | 12 years ago | on: Complete copy of Star Wars done entirely in ASCII characters [1997]

That's cool, for those interested, here's the link to the original ascii Star Wars at Simon's website: http://asciimation.co.nz

wozname | 13 years ago | on: Surface Dogged by Low Sales, High Returns

I will not be getting a surface. I took a borrowed one home to show my wife, she hated it. She wanted the interface switched around since she's left handed, charms on the left and swipe right for more pages, I couldn't figure out how to do it, but I didn't look that hard.

I'm also forbidden from installing Windows 8 on her laptop and the games machine.

Personally I don't like how I need to be connected to the cloud all the time to do anything.

wozname | 14 years ago | on: Sierra On-line founder Ken Williams on Adventure gaming in the 80s

He is one of the Hackers in Steven Levy's Book pubished in 1984:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer...

wozname | 14 years ago | on: Apollo program source code

Very commonly used in New Zealand, its used on TV with no problems, heres the iconic Toyota ad using the word bugger to good effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKY_OysWu3k

wozname | 15 years ago | on: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

I'd be scared of it automatically downloading inappropriate or even worse illegal stuff from the search results. Try explaining to the boss you did not visit that nsfw site but it merely turned up in your search results.

wozname | 15 years ago | on: Pandora: Community driven linux based hardware project, actually shipping units.

Gutted, I thought it was open source. That would have been cool but I'm still impressed they managed to ship anything at all.

wozname | 15 years ago | on: Pandora: Community driven linux based hardware project, actually shipping units.

Yeah, I don't think you'd be targeting your latest masterpiece at this. Probably it will receive mostly ports of existing software.

wozname | 16 years ago | on: Who actually uses Itanium based computers?

Cheers, thanks for the clarification.

wozname | 16 years ago | on: Who actually uses Itanium based computers?

Fair enough :)

wozname | 16 years ago | on: Who actually uses Itanium based computers?

That makes sense, However there must be some killer feature that makes them superior to the x64 architecture. Could it be memory architecture? Power efficiency? How would you explain to a PHB the advantages it gives you over x64?