Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

Here’s some of the things that were going on in the media in the year I was born (1949):

Nobel Prize in Literature: American novelist William Faulkner.
British EDSAC computer stores programs in memory, switches programs.
Network TV established in U.S.
Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize play, Death of a Salesman.
Simone de Beauvoir, The [...]

I love it. 4 iPod Shuffles mounted as a 3.9GB RAID 5 (striped) array. Now that’s real geekdom folks
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