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by dfghjkfgh 16y ago
Due to some sort of internal Dec sales war you could buy the same hardware running VMS($$$$),Ultrix($$$),or NT($) - we bought NT and wiped the machines then installed Linux. They gave you Sparc ultra performance for 1/2 the price.
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by dfghjkfgh 16y ago
Alpha workstations were pretty awesome just then - although we used to buy the cheap ones with NT and install linux.
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by dfghjkfgh 16y ago
< looks up > whoosh < / looks up >
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by dfghjkfgh 16y ago
The purpose of public education was child care and to teach children - especially countryside children - the idea of turning up at work on time every day, sitting quietly and doing as they were told. It was a big problem in the industrial r
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by dfghjkfgh 16y ago
I'm glad then that teachers don't go into engineering. Another plane crashed today - one of the turbine blades was cracked but we decided to give it sensitivity training to get in touch with it's inner strength rather than callously replace
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by dfghjkfgh 16y ago
You throw kid A out of the class for behaviour, but you don't throw kid B out because he is usually OK. But then kid A's parents get mad - or think they can make some money - and it turns out that kid A is belgian/green skinned/three eyed/a
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by dfghjkfgh 16y ago
The solution is simple - increase teacher salaries and have more computers in schools. It's worked for the last 30years
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by dfghjkfgh 16y ago
Usually the reader has a local log of the last few cards read. If it detects the same card again within a certain time window it assumes it either read it twice - or two people are sharing a card - and ignores the second read