Earth is getting a black box
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I bet that this won't survive the next three Windows updates
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I bet that this won't survive the next three Windows updates
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Re: I bet that this won't survive the next three Windows updates
It probably runs on Linux, not Windows...
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Hans
Hans
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Re: I bet that this won't survive the next three Windows updates
You mean that I've spent the past thirty years ... ???
What do these end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it folks know that we don't know?
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Re: I bet that this won't survive the next three Windows updates
either that or a ultra-ltsc-debloated custom made ISO Windows version, - that might just do it.
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Re: I bet that this won't survive the next three Windows updates
"The box will be filled with a mass of storage drives and have internet connectivity, all powered by solar panels on the structure's roof.
Batteries will provide backup power storage.
When the sun is shining, the black box will be downloading scientific data and an algorithm will be gleaning climate-change-related material from the internet."
It is hard to look at this idea without extreme scepticism.
Internet connectivity. Batteries.
Both known for their long-term resilience and problem-free nature over almost no time at all!
Batteries will provide backup power storage.
When the sun is shining, the black box will be downloading scientific data and an algorithm will be gleaning climate-change-related material from the internet."
It is hard to look at this idea without extreme scepticism.
Internet connectivity. Batteries.
Both known for their long-term resilience and problem-free nature over almost no time at all!
John Gray
Venison is quiet deer, and quite dear.
Venison is quiet deer, and quite dear.
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Re: I bet that this won't survive the next three Windows updates
"“No time at all” is measured in nihilliseconds"
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Re: I bet that this won't survive the next three Windows updates
Many a true word spoken in jest.
It seems to me that the simpler an artifact is, the more likely it is to exist and function according to specifications.
I think I would trust a DOS3.1 system to log the temperature every twenty seconds much more than I would trust a Win3.1 system.
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Re: I bet that this won't survive the next three Windows updates
DOS 3.1 was/is the OS for the hundreds of thousands of gray SL760 inventory scanners used by Wal-Mart around the world. If it's good enough for Wal-Mart ...
What was interesting was how we (Telxon) modified it to handle a battery operated environment for a handheld device. And how one unnoticed non-reentrant interrupt routine kept my team pulling it's hair out for months trying to understand how said handhelds would suddenly suicide and overwrite it's entire memory - one hint: the stack fills up from the top of memory down.
What was interesting was how we (Telxon) modified it to handle a battery operated environment for a handheld device. And how one unnoticed non-reentrant interrupt routine kept my team pulling it's hair out for months trying to understand how said handhelds would suddenly suicide and overwrite it's entire memory - one hint: the stack fills up from the top of memory down.
PJ in (usually sunny) FL