[wellylug] Ubuntu boot issue

[Daniel Pittman]

Carl Turney <c.turney at orcon.net.nz> writes:
> Cliff Pratt wrote:
>
>>> What does your partition table look like?
>>>
>> A string of zeros and ones? Sorry couldn't resist the dumb joke...
>
> "You know you've been in computing too long when:
> You always start counting at zero.
> You think 16383 is a nice round number.
> You remember the CLINTs vs WIMPs war.
> You know your IP address but not your home phone number."

I can't help but think you missed the opportunity embedded in:

You remember machines with 9 bit bytes and 36 bit words.

You thought XML was a great idea when it was invented, back in '64.

You know why Multics had more security than anything since.

You worked on a machine with thirty other people -- and 256KB of RAM.

	Daniel
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