I just saw this on GNHLUG. Dennis was a giant in our industry.
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Subject:Re: Dennis Ritchie, Creator of UNIX and C, Dead at 70
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:39:55 -0400
From: Jon maddog Hall mad...@li.org
Reply-To: mad...@li.org
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The death of one of the truly great ones in our industry. I owe so much to
this man's work that there is no way to express my sense of loss.
Why is it that the people who contribute so much tend to profit so little?
If there was justice, Richie would be alive today and as rich as Bill Gates.
A while back I asked Clem Cole if we could get Dennis to speak at the
BLU, but Dennis told Clem that he was too ill to come.
On 10/13/2011 10:50 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
The death of one of the truly great ones in our industry. I owe so much to
this man's work that there is no way to
I met Dennis once, it was after he was burned out but still a
spokesman for Bell Labs.
Great guy to have lunch with and swap war stories. I hope we all can
be a nice a
person and anywhere near as technically competent.
He is missed.
... Jack
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart...
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Hold it. P=VI is a DC rule. Power is more complex in AC.
What's the difference between VA and W?
If you have inefficient power supplies, you might be overpaying 30%
for power.
You're referring to power factor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor
The
I think it was Apple (Apple II) that used the first switching power
supply, but that was at the time when competition was limited to a few
hobby computer builders (about 1977).
On 10/13/2011 12:29 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Hold it. P=VI is a DC rule. Power is more
One question I have is in planning. One day we received a shipment of
about 5 or 6 Intel systems from out Toronto office. We ordered a rack,
switch, and a rack KVM. We initially plugged everything in to a wall
outlet. ran fine until it tripped a breaker, and the breaker box was not
in the
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
One question I have is in planning. One day we received a shipment of about
5 or 6 Intel systems from out Toronto office. We ordered a rack, switch, and
a rack KVM. We initially plugged everything in to a wall outlet. ran fine
On Oct 12, 2011, at 6:54 AM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
Hello to all:
I'm closing in on one year of FIOS service which comes with a
complimentary year of DVR service. Unless I can get Verizon to come
up with another way to save the $12 or so a month on the DVR, or get
them to give me another
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 03:00:04PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
| PS: I did see one working example at
|
http://travelingfrontiers.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/how-to-add-colors-to-linux-command-line-output/
| sed ''/crit/s//$(printf \033[31mCRITICAL\033[0m)/g''
|
| However, it relies on the printf
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matt Shields
A long time ago I got fed up with trying to calculate amperage, so I
invested in a clamp on ammeter. Then I test my servers when I get them
and
record the high and
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.comwrote:
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matt Shields
A long time ago I got fed up with trying to calculate amperage, so I
invested in a
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