Hi
Went to Starwars last night. Oh boy did they get it right this time!!
Look and feel of the original 1977 version. Really good new actors.
In a way it was like a retelling of history but in a completly new way.
The bombing runs up the trench used the same sighting system as thirty
odd years ago.
Added to that several scenes were filmed at the former US Airbase at
Greenham Common.
Its a mile from where I live and I passed within 50yards of where the
filming took place on my way to the cinema.
The bunkers are in a natural hollow in the ground and surrounded by
triple fences with watch towers.
In the film you can see the typical camoflarge netting in the back
ground. - Nothing to do with the film.
They were trying to hide the set from passing aircraft.
They managed to keep it a secret until one day a guy was passing in his
microlight and spotted the MF
(or at least most of it) parked by the old cruise missile bunkers.. He
was not a fan but his son was.
He calls his son up on his mobile and says:
You know that spaceship you got for Christmas years ago. Well there's
a big one at Greenham Common.
The answer is not repeatable here but he ended by saying I'm on my way
to your landing strip - pick me up.
It was true and it made the local paper before Lucasfilm could do
anything about it.
This Abrams guy really understood what people wanted.
Considering how unwell Carrie Fisher is she gave a really good performance.
She gets my special "The show must go on" award.
Disney must be so pleased and if I know them they will keep the faith.
Rod
Today we posted the videos from East 5.0. Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_e5fSxflvrxnBFCeLI_uLqQHJBmghA2g.
In the past week or two, we also posted the videos from East 6.0 and 9(.1).
Videos from 7.0 and 10.0 will be ready soon.
East 8.0 is in the hopper, and we're trying to see if we have the
footage from 3.0 and 4.0.
After that, we hope to process the VCF West videos (and East 1.0/2.0,
which were run by Sellam out west).
I have a mint copy with all the passwords if you need a copy of the
passwords let me know I am going to have to type them in because they
are printed on DARK brown paper with black text you cant scan it I tried
so let me know if any of ya need them...
Also it surprisingly has pretty good graphics for the first version of
Castlevaina or I think it is...
On Thu, 12/31/15, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> One quick [non-spoiler?] question:? Is it a remake?? Or is it
> another in the "series"?? (if so, earlier? later?)
It's in the series, specifically Episode 7, taking place sometime
after Revenge of the Jedi.
BLS
There seems to be in this world a hungering for what?s new: witness
the gazillion smart phones sold; untold number of iPads(tablets) and
their ilk; and plug-n-play computers. What seems to be forgotten is
what came before; what interests us ? vintage/classic computers.
Whether in the grand scheme of things it really matters whether we
call it classic computing, this website?s name protected by
copyright(internet ?laws?), retro-computing; vintage computing;
golden-age computing or just plain old-computing era, nevertheless
helps us to immeasurably enjoy our hobby. And yet there is a hunger,
maybe less so for old computers as historical oddities don?t seem to
attract a large following, for what came before. The new year
hopefully expands our community: wishing all classic computer
enthusiasts a wonderful New Year?s and all your wishes come true in
2016.
Happy computing.
Murray :)
From: Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG>
>> [...] industrial espionage [...]
>> One wonders how much goes undetected.
>> Most of those getting caught are in upper management. Us lowly
>> grunts don't seem to get involved as often or maybe there are those
>> among us that are just that much better at covering our tracks.
>
>Or, when a low-level peon is caught, it doesn't make the news, so the
>world at large doesn't notice.
>
This is a big part of my world these days. My wildly subjective,
overly general observations:
1) When a big fish is caught, it's usually an "I took a bunch of doco
I shouldn't have to my next job" situation. I've discussed more
nefarious high-level mole scenarios with the FBI numerous times. It
happens, but it's not apparently that common.
2) When a little fish is caught, it's usually some variation on "I'll
teach them". And as Mouse notes, effort is usually made not to
publicize the event unless there's a regulatory driver that requires
it. That said, there's a *huge* amount of little fish "espionage"
that flies under the radar. Things like client lists, marketing plans
and confidential designs quietly walk out the door all the time and
are rarely noticed. With these sorts of things, it's fiendishly
difficult to assess the impact on the victims business.
3) No one is particularly good at covering their tracks (including
people who in theory know how to do it). Unfortunately, the tools to
proactively spot data exfiltration are rarely implemented and even
more rarely implemented well. BTW...that's more an function of how
difficult the problem is rather than an indictment of the
practitioners.
KJ
I recently blew up a 3278... it worked ok for a few hours then started
blowing fuses.
I haven't done any troubleshooting yet but checking the manuals on
Bitsavers tells me my US 3278s have ferroresonant transformers
specified as 120V 60Hz only. This can be expected to cause problems
with 120V 50Hz here in NZ from my knowledge of how ferroresonant
transformers work; I'll get excessive magnetic currents - overheating
- all kinds of nasties. I can wind the voltage down a bit and run them
at 90-100V but that doesn't help much.
1. Does anyone in a 50Hz country have any dead/spare 3278s and/or
transformers for them? The IBM part number for the 50Hz 220V are
8715343 or 4119686.
2. I have other equipment where this will be an issue and not so
easily solved. Does anyone have any experience in or recommendations
for frequency conversion equipment? My System/3s for instance all use
60Hz ferroresonants operating off 208V 3-phase - now voltage can
probably be retapped or easily converted but I still need to make a
lot of 60Hz to run them...
Thanks
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
'No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother.
Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame.
For one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know or see.'
Over at TUHS an attempt to put the history of 2.11BSD under version
control (git) stranded somewhat.
After some digging the patchlevels that can be found in the archives
are now 195, 277, 303 and 431. The base 2.11BSD is sorely missing.
The numbered updates by Steven M. Schultz are not pure context diffs.
eg. an attempt to reverse them breaks where ld.c is removed in update
#160 and can't be pieced back together accurately using 2.10xBSD and
assorted patches.
Maybe someone here who missed the thread on the TUHS mailing list has
a really old copy of 2.11BSD lying around?
/Jacob