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Archive for August 22, 2009

Boy named rail ‘director of fun’

“(news.bbc.co.uk)–A train-mad youngster has landed his dream job as "director of fun" at the [British] National Railway Museum in York.Six-year-old Sam Pointon from Leicester wrote to the museum and applied to replace retiring director Andrew Scott. “ read more

40 years of Unix

“(news.bbc.co.uk)–The computer world is notorious for its obsession with what is new - largely thanks to the relentless engine of Moore’s Law that endlessly presents programmers with more powerful machines. Given such permanent change, anything that survives for more than one generation of processors deserves a nod. Think then what the Unix operating system deserves because in August 2009, it celebrates its 40th anniversary. And it has been in use every year of those four decades and today is getting more attention than ever before. “ read more

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