I'm still wearing a jacket I bought 28 years ago. I wear it nearly every day through the summer.

> "Nixon should be told," Kissinger said, "that it is probably an objective of Clifford to depose Thieu before Nixon is inaugurated. Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - William F. Buckley Jr. claimed this was said in November of 1968, after Nixon was elected but before he was inaugurated.

The word has already gone out, multiple times over. How many of its allies has America burned since then? The French were ahead of their time.

When Zip drives hit the market, I already had a SyQuest drive and the Zip drive didn't have much more capacity and its parallel interface was slower than my computer's SCSI interface. I assumed Zip disks would be less reliable than hard disks, as floppy disks had been.

The SyQuest had a real hard drive platter in it so you knew it was robust. The Zip platter was harder than a floppy but softer than a hard drive, so you knew it wasn't as robust.

So I had no incentive to buy into Zip. I saw a few people use them but I assumed they'd never heard of SyQuest and didn't know better. I never had anyone ask for data on a Zip disk or want to give me data on a Zip disk, so I never bothered.

Later when the click-of-death started happening, I figured it would die off and people would switch to SyQuest, but then there was Jaz, which wasn't as popular as Zip, and then CD-ROM took over, which held a lot of data, but was still slow (in spite of IDE) and still not as robust as the SyQuest products.

In 1998, at their end, SyQuest had a 4.7 GB unit, I presume to compete with DVD.

SyQuest and Iomega were both founded in the early '80s and introduced their first removable disk products in 1982, and both introduced cost-reduced consumer-oriented drives in 1995 (EZ135 and Zip, respectively).

IIRC, Iomega captured the consumer market with the Zip drive for mostly business reasons (better marketing, contracts with major retailers and PC OEMs, etc.).

I remember HAM being stable until you moved the mouse and then it would flicker until you stopped moving the mouse because the scan line interrupts would be interrupted by the mouse, throwing the sensitive scan line timing off.

OK, Blank Reg. You were right all along.

I'm never giving up my Atari 800XL.

Of the over 400 distros listed on DistroWatch.com, 79 are based in the United States.

China doesn't have much oil or natural gas but they have lots of coal so that's their backup until they can get enough renewables built.

As long as they remain more efficient than resistive heaters down to the lowest temperatures you experience, it's a win. Heat pump efficiency is still improving. You can get heat pumps that can handle down to -35°C now with even better ones in the works.

I'm not questioning the merit of heat pumps. I should know because i have two in Ontario, Canada, one rated to -35 C and the other rated to - 25 C.

What i remain opposed to is this persistent idea that heat pumps work in all situations, for all people and for all time. They do not, and heat pumps create a unique set of problems that we might not be fully prepared for.

I know why he uses Fedora but I think it's long term is questionable. It's only a matter of time until IBM F's with it.