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Now here’s a tale of woe that actually turned out OK, but there were a few tense moments. My computer (a Mac Pro) has a 1 TB boot disk and was about 75% utilized. I had a backup strategy that had been partially tested, but I’d never had to use it in a recovery […] Here’s a geeky thing on this Friday, the 13th. This computer’s internal clock (based on Unix epoch time) just hit 1234567890. It does the same thing on my desktop running OS-X. RP:~ phil$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";' Fri Feb 13 15:31:30 2009 Unix time is defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed […] While I’m remembering things from 40 years ago I thought I’d write a little more about working on the PDP-1 computer. While debugging the mouse interface I wrote about previously, I added a small enhancement to the light pen. The original light pen simply set a hardware flag when the pen detected light as the […] |
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