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In the DVD commentary, they mention 'some software' which they used to find the anagrams. I have a feeling this is 'NAMEGRAM' (ie, avaiable around 1992) which you can still find online.

And that pop culture was written by Carl Sagan, who is no stranger to this subject!

See film 'Secret of My Success' with Michael J. Fox for similiar plot. Great film.

Tyre is English.

Perhaps they could reverse-engineer the Windows 3.1 software and get it to run on XP?

Can't tell from the details why the software won't do Windows XP.

It'd be nice if the Infocom guys could get a text adventure on Kickstarter!

Running SUSE 9.1 on a Dell Precision M70. Huge screen works fine in Suse, and as I use an external PS2 keyboard, no chance of accidentally tapping the mouse pad. Wifi works fine on M70's internal wifi card. Great cheap Linux laptop.

As far as I know, the Peel Sessions are (c) BBC Radio, because they were recorded in the radio studio...

Have you got the URL of any websites that offer such an alignment tool? Preferably done using PC software and the XA1541 cable.

A few months ago, I found some C64 5 1/4 inch disks in my Mum's loft. I didn't need "crates of Apple II's", just a 1541 drive from Ebay and a XA1541 cable to connect to my laptop's parallel port.

I worked out a system whereby I'd read a disk, then when the drive head got magnetic filth on it, I'd swab the disk head with isopropyl alcohol.

Anyway, I recovered about 1/2 of the disks with no errors, recovering 4 short stories - thought lost forever - and 52 Boulderdash 4 caves I did with a friend. Also, a sampler/sequencer.

My point is that the C64's 1541 disk drive has its own ROM, so you don't need a C64 to read its disks!

I wrote a novel on an Amstrad NC-100. It had a 1MB PCMCIA flash disk (from an Apple Newton!) and I saved a chapter at a time onto the disk (it only had 64KB of RAM) and I installed a new, clearer screen in it. Nice little machine!

Is there an alternative to Berkeley DB which has a hash database file on disk? Rather than in RAM? The problem is I use BDB 1.86 on Windows, because it's free, but the DB size is limited to 2GB. I want to use an alternative which is just as fast and pretty much the same interface.

Ted Nelson was saying pretty much the same thing at about the same time!

Just pointing out that Musk is not necessarily a 'billionaire' in actual net worth.

It should say "RealVideo", too, actually, as that was the format of the day.

I got a $45 voucher (in the UK; £30) and I spoke to a rep on the phone. He said do this, do that, yet about 2 months later and my spent is £10 for that period! I'm actually disillusioned because I'm not getting enough clicks!

My theory is that Bing is taking more and more clicks away, so I'll have to find another way of promoting my business/projects.

Soon after Apple (Computer) set up business, the Beatles' record label (Apple) asked Apple to change their business name. They didn't, so Apple (Computer) signed a contract with Apple to never enter the music industry.

They broke this twice. Once in the 80s when they released music hardware, and in the 2000's when they founded iTunes. The Beatles weren't pleased about this contract breaking, so they denied permission to distribute the Beatles on iTunes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

Well, you patent it.

Is that Bill Gates right of the robot?

It can output single emails to folders named after months (eg, 2011_10_18), which I think is MailDir.

If you're interested, we could talk over email.

Do you have an email address or do you want me to post my email address? Or not? ;-)

I wrote software which scans a hard disk for email in any of 6 formats, converts them to Mbox (eg, standard, with emails one after another in plaintext), creates 2 indexes (full-text and SQL) then lets you search all your emails with a Lucene query (full text of email bodies) or an SQL query (MySql or PostGres or SQLite - SQL database of common email headers). It doesn't run on 'the cloud'; it's a Windows application.

An example search is 'All emails from "geocities.com" between March 2009 and April 2009, with attachments.

I haven't found anyone who wants such a program. Anyone here interested?

I found out from reading the source to Wordpad, that on Windows 95/98, Wordpad would reject ANY file starting 'MZ' as 'executable'. Quite amusing.

In the film Waterworld, they have a device to purify urine - you crank the handle - but funnily enough they aren't using the device to clean seawater. Just another plot hole...

I saw a grey-scale style calendar (branded with a pharmaceutical brand) in a pharmacy the other day. I asked if it was an e-ink display and they said yes. Then they realised it was just an old-style flip-page calendar which LOOKED like e-ink.

I like the way it looks like his hands are a blur, for moving so fast.

I just rewrite the stack function to use heap (eg, a queue) instead of stack.

Ah, a blast from the past. I was reading Once Upon a Time in Computerland by Steven Levy. Not a bad book, but I wondered what happened to Millard. Now I know!

I was expecting a video: 'nooooo!'

Stick a computer on the moon, put a mirror of the Web on it, and let it serve queries over shortwave radio. Then all a fallen civilisation has to do is re-discover radio, to get access to the world's knowledge.