A supply of tea with milk and sugar would be nice. If it is tea I really like, I like it without milk and sugar. With milk and sugar, any kind of tea is fine. I always bring tea bags
Dennis Ritchie
Truly a brilliant engineer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
Droning on about computer security
Good grief. The US military’s unmanned Predator and Reaper drones are continuing to fly remote missions overseas despite a computer virus that has infected their US-based cockpits. Government officials are still investigating whether the virus is benign, and how it
The multics file system
The design proposed in this paper is ubiquitous. A file is simply an ordered sequence of elements, where an element could be a machine word, a character, or a bit, depending upon the implementation. A user may create, modify or
Fukushima Robot Blog
This from the IEEE is really fascinating. It is the blog of a robot operator in the Fukushima nuclear plants. Some interesting things about controls, robot handling, and durability are discussed. And, big surprise, the competence of the organization that