Gary - the two digit year was born out if the need to conserve memory in early systems - back in the late 70s /early 80s memory was expensive...

Grant - its likely to be Solar EMP rather than Solar Radiation - look up carrington event.

.. and the Sun HAS been behaving in an unpredictable manner this Solar...

Its already Happend once Jeff - the "carrington event" (named after the British astronomer who identified it) was a solar EMP that hit the earth in the 19th century ...

I started out in IT back in 1984 as a Cobol programmer , spent seven years doing that . Moved into Maiframe technical support role looking after , amoungst other...

While the count for the EU referendum was close in percentage terms , by constituency the vast majority in england and wales voted to leave - certainly the "elites" and...

Another day at the Black Mesa IT dept ... Gordon was such a scounger

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I agree that management is likely to have been involved - lets be honest, regardless of where you work (except perhaps the public sector ) if you were responsible...

I think we are more like mechanics than engineers.

Like mechanics we tend to start off with some level of training but the acquire skills on the way. Mechanics have to...

Actually Regan was a state governor before he became president so he had experience of running one of the largest states of the USA with an economy larger than many...

I think Steve is that Gary's point is that the Author of the article was an actor and is now a writer and hasn't acquired any knowlege to qualify him...

Sean Redmond - Obviously you haven't flown an aircraft - take off and landing are the trickiest parts of the art of flying and this hijackers had no intention...

S (cript) KID(dy) Row?

Its Intereating that you raise the battle of the Teutoberg forest as this almost turns the concept of this article on its head - here the genius of a German...

Shouldn't the manual have read SP1 (as in SQl2014) 🙂

Its Simple really - before the rise of state orphanages orphans where often left at Convents to be raised by Nuns. Sometimes the Convents had a door where you could...