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Yes disturbing isn't it ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Correct.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Good clue 
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You won yesterday, remember?
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If you want to alert someone specifically, you can use an "atsign" code: Go to the member page, and in the top left is the code you need. For PeeJayAdams, it's @User-10476399
Enter that in your message, and he is sent an email, like you are for this: @johnwong6
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You forgot to tell him about putting the code into the signature. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That's only for special occasions!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You have probably brought poor DD into a padded cell by now.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Btw, anyone knows how he does?
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature))
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + _signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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OriginalGriff wrote: and he is sent an email
No he doesn't because like me he has the e-mail member facility turned off.
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It should be PeeJayAdams
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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June 21, 1948[^], 70 years ago the first program was executed by the world's first stored-program computer.
Software Zen: delete this;
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We've come a long way. I was thinking, wow, it would have been amazing to work on a project like that. Then I realized the drudgery of hand soldering and wiring all those tubes. I guess no matter how technology advances, the drudgery never goes away, it only changes form.
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As if you drudged the few billion transistors of your I7 onto that die yourself.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Marc Clifton wrote: the drudgery of hand soldering and wiring
Back in the late 80's I worked in the simulation lab at the local Air Force base. They had lots of fancy graphics equipment. While I was there, they purchased a prototype graphics engine. When fully populated, it was to have 1024x1024x32 bit resolution, sprites, the works. The prototype occupied a couple refrigerator-sized cabinets. Each cabinet contained a large number of 24"x24" ... wire-wrap boards  .
Yes, the whole machine was wire-wrap. The two guys who delivered it spent months trying to get it working. When I finished my project, they only had one 1024x1024 plane functional.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My Dad worked on a tube computer. He said maintenance consisted of walking through the racks of tubes and looking for ones that are burnt out, then just unplug it and put in another, easier than changing a light bulb, no soldering required.
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We should. 
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I will.
Sounds like a good reason to celebrate 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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You should have celebrated five years ago. What about Tommy Flowers, Alan Turing et al, and Colossus?
Ah - no - forget that - you just like very very, stale cake don't you? 
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And they are still trying to fix that one last bug.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The 'Meltdown' vulnerability had a whole new meaning back then.
Software Zen: delete this;
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And the march to Skynet begins.
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