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UncleSlackyon France pulls last gold held in US

It was suggested again in 1956 in the context of the Suez crisis:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6261885.stm

UncleSlackyon 21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains

Sadly even Cyber Yugoslavia is no more, it only shows the text "juga.com" now:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220122221632/http://www.juga.c...

http://www.juga.com/

UncleSlackyon 21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains

I don't think it was concern about relative status, more the risk that a reunited Germany could once again become a significant economic/military power that could threaten the stability of Europe.

UncleSlackyon AntiX-26 released with 5 init systems

Note that this provides a 32-bit version of Debian Trixie for those who are interested.

UncleSlackyon The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/

UncleSlackyon Lost Doctor Who episodes found

> the pre-WW2 television broadcasts. Most of these were broadcast in the London area and practically nowhere else. Almost no one had recording equipment back then and they were often broadcast live.

The "Phonovision" recordings made by Baird (which were unplayable at the time) have been recovered:

http://www.tvdawn.com/earliest-tv/

UncleSlackyon U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs

> The braun drain was to the US

I see what you did there...

UncleSlackyon It's not finance, it's your pensions

Private healthcare exists alongside the public system in many places.

UncleSlackyon Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?

Is he?

UncleSlackyon Where did all the starships go?

"The future is socialism or barbarism" (Rosa Luxemburg). I fear we have chosen the latter.

UncleSlackyon Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

The author has updated the site to address this:

"Note: I’ve seen some online chatter about the possibility that the footage shared in this post could be AI generated. Which is pretty depressing, but here we are I suppose. I just wanted to clarify that it is not. It would be pretty daft of me to be knowingly posting AI generated footage on a blog that I’ve worked hard to keep on the up and up. The footage was captured by a CBS news team, and they followed up with an interview of Atari employee (I’ll share that at a later date). Same goes for the images – they’ve been around for a while but clearly were taken at around the same time. The footage was upscaled a little on export from the editing software I used to clip irrelevant parts from. Hope this clarifies – enjoy!"

UncleSlackyon X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

France has a little more than that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_de_dissuasion

UncleSlackyon Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

There was also "Tom's Root Boot" distro that fitted on a floppy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomsrtbt

UncleSlackyon Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

You can force YouTube to use H264 instead (via extensions like H264ify), that should reduce the processing load.

UncleSlackyon Television is 100 years old today

Also this site, which shows how the recorded Phonovision broadcasts were eventually recovered:

http://www.tvdawn.com/earliest-tv/phonovision-experiments-19...

UncleSlackyon Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

Also:

- Monkey Dust

- The Fast Show

UncleSlackyon Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

That probably also explains the (repeated) failure of American Fawlty Towers remakes - Basil Fawlty is a loser, and Americans can't play them convincingly.

UncleSlackyon Sinclair C5

There was a rain cover available, but it was a little...basic:

https://95octane.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sinclair_c5_...

UncleSlackyon How to make a damn website (2024)

Still using Seamonkey Composer here (descendant of Netscape Composer/Kompozer):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey#Composer

UncleSlackyon Xfce is great

There's still Trinity DE if you want an updated KDE 3.5:

https://trinitydesktop.org/

UncleSlackyon Rob Reiner has died

Aren't they a Beatles tribute act?

UncleSlackyon Rob Reiner has died

Anybody want a peanut?

UncleSlackyon The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme

Opera 3.62 seems to be the latest browser available for Win 3.x, though I think Dillo might also be a possibility:

https://computernewb.com/wiki/How_to_browse_the_web_on_very_...

UncleSlackyon Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

Haiku OS:

https://www.haiku-os.org/

UncleSlackyon Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

Also /r/The_Leftorium...

UncleSlackyon Wacky Fun Physics Ideas

The electron-as-trapped photon model goes back a ways, to at least Roger Jennison (one of my old profs):

"What is an electron?": http://gsjournal.net/Science-Journals/Journal%20Reprints-Qua...

More recently, Larry Reed has developed a theory very similar to that mentioned in the article:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364333320_Quantum_W...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390318893_Origin_of...

UncleSlackyon Atlas Shrugged (2024)

"A is sometimes F"

UncleSlackyon The VanDersarl Blériot: a 1911 airplane homebuilt by teenage brothers (2017)

George Cayley would beg to differ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley

(or Leonardo da Vinci, for that matter)

UncleSlackyon I've wanted to play that 'Killer Shark' arcade game briefly seen in 'Jaws'

I'm sure that I used to play this (or something very similar) a lot in the late 70s - I don't remember there being much "background" but the extremely bloody shark graphics were memorable!

UncleSlackyon Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729

TL;DR: When in doubt, update the BIOS before doing anything else.