E D Skinner
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Software

Ctrl + Alt + Delete
Posts
10/1/11

Some of the engineers I work with design computerized flight control systems such as those that would be considered …

WAP
Posts
9/14/11

Ah, blogging!

The SSID of my personal WiFi hot spot is a type of rare fruit, broadcast is turned off, and the WPA2 …

How Many Computers …
Posts
9/12/11

… are in the computer you are looking at right now?

Of course there’s the main one. It’s probably …

RBOS
Posts
9/3/11

You probably don’t know the Red Baron Operating System, “R-Boss” (RBOS). It was named for a strip bar in …

Locked Out
Posts
8/31/11

… and this is bad because?

I’m switching from “Old cranky that overheats” running Winders XPat to …

Tactical Nuclear Device
Posts
8/29/11

Back when 300 baud dial-up was new – yeah, that’s a long time ago, all right – we had a “guest” …

Not Prepared
Posts
5/11/10

There is a country, which I will allow to remain nameless, that receives a lot of “off-shoring” of software …

Software Breaks the Hardware
Posts
4/30/10

My first programming job was for the American Express Space Bank at the end of the 1960s. “Space Bank” was a …

Once Upon A Time
Posts
3/24/10

Once upon a time, there were three RTOSes named VRTX, pSOS and VxWorks.

VRTX and pSOS were special because they were written …

The Origin of Attitude
Posts
12/20/08

Rarely, only very rarely, do I teach a group that is close to if not completely indifferent to the topic at hand. …