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03/29/2006 17:44 #24481

Work is Fun
Category: life

Part of our tape library.

Some of our VCR's and DVD recorders.

Some of our Buffalo tapes.

Work has been fun lately. We're converting over from VHS to a mixture of DVD's and DVR's. We do news monitoring and also advertising and marketing research on what airs on TV.

I'll post some pictures of our server rack tomorrow. I've been redoing the cabling so it looks pretty instead of like the flying spaghetti monster.

ajay - 04/01/06 00:56
You could replace that entire roomfull of tapes with a deskside server... ;)

03/28/2006 18:13 #24480

Hawk
Category: photos

03/26/2006 12:44 #24479

Last Minute Announcement
Category: photos

There's a photo meetup at Spot on Chippewa at 2pm today (Sunday).

Around a dozen people, we just hang out and talk about photography, join us if you like!

03/08/2006 11:42 #24478

sudo was invented in Buffalo

who knew?

jim - 03/09/06 02:47
Ajay, thanks for that info. I've always noticed UB was one of the handful of North American mirrors for FreeBSD, so it's great to find out why.

ajay - 03/08/06 18:32
UB's Computer Science Department was very good at one time. When it was established, it was among a handful of departments in the entire country specializing in Computer Science. Our founding chairman, Anthony Ralston, was also the founding-president of the ACM.

We also had the late Patricia Eberlein as a faculty. She was one _kick ass_ woman. Think Amelia Earhart; she was just like her, breaking barriers and shattering the glass ceiling (and walls).

Ken Smith, the Systems Admin of the department, is one of the few people in the world who can actually contribute code directly into FreeBSD.

jim - 03/08/06 13:11
zobar: you made me laugh so hard that I cried

dragonfire: sudo is a program that allows you to temporarily assume superuser priviledges in unix or unix like environments

uncutsaniflush - 03/08/06 12:56
thanks, jim, for the info. I just always assumed that sudo got into bsd at Berkley.

lol, zobar, thanks for making me laugh. I better be careful and not go into a geeky fugue from laughing too much before dinner.

zobar - 03/08/06 12:48
In fact, they invented it specifically for the Pan-Am Exposition in 1901. Few people know this, but they were having serious access control issues with the VAX 11/780 in the Hall of Electricity's server room. Thus begat the first version of sudo(8), though it has gone through numerous ports and revisions since then. My dad, for instance, installed sudo(8) on his slide rule 'cause people kept stealing it.

- Z

dragonfire1024 - 03/08/06 12:15
I could be wrong, but I think it was used first in buffalo during the Pan Am exposition. They used a lot of that stuff on the temporary buildings that were there.

01/21/2006 17:22 #24477

Lord of the Ring(s)
Category: photos

twisted - 02/17/06 16:30
They're beautiful! Best wishes.

p.s. - San Francisco is a great place for a honeymoon...