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They are being replaced by HP ZBook 15s which will run the same mix of Linux distributions and Windows 10.
I wonder how long a W10 update takes to, um, "upload" to the ISS. 
Marc
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Seeing as how the Fail Crater Update took about five hours on my machine, it might follow Skylab before they get everything patched. 
TTFN - Kent
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They still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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Star Trekking
Across the Universe
Boldly going forward
'Cause we can't find reverse
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The atomic clock, invented in 1948, paved the way for GPS It's about time
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Lu believes Microsoft and Google “made the same mistake” of focusing on the phone and PC for voice assistants, instead of a dedicated device. "Hubris is one of the great renewable resources."
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Great quote!
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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Microsoft today announced the release of the open-source .NET Core 2.0, with improved performance, 20,000 more APIs from the .NET Framework world, better cloud debugging and live unit testing. Wasn't that last week? Oh, no that was Standard. Does that mean next week is the release of .NET Menthol 2.0?
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Engineers from the nonprofit say the bot learned enough to beat Dota 2 pros in just two weeks of real-time learning, though in that training period they say it amassed “lifetimes” of experience, likely using a neural network judging by the company’s prior efforts. First they came for the chess players, but I did nothing...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the bot learned enough to beat Dota 2 pros in just two weeks of real-time learning
I write code in lieu of playing games, so...Never heard of it.
Dota 2 - Wikipedia[^]
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6 years ago Erik Meijer and I were talking about how JavaScript is/was an assembly language. Until enough people invest time into it, then "the future" will change to something else
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The main goal of DevOps is quite simple: ship software updates frequently, reliably, and with better quality. I'm going to guess 'dev'. No wait, 'ops'!
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From outside the programming world, programming languages mostly just look like programming languages—a garble of mathematical symbols dotted here and there with isolated English words. Is there a .NET port yet?
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SonicSpy family of apps pose as benign programs. Behind the scenes, they spy on users. "Be seeing you."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Be seeing you."
Here's looking at you, kid!
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It started back in 1998 as an April Fool's Day gag. Written up by Larry Masinter of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), error code 418 — "I'm a teapot" — was nothing more than a poke at the "many bad HTTP extensions that had been proposed". The response was short and stout
More proof you can't trust those Aussies!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: More proof you can't trust those Aussies!
Got to especially keep an eye on those who move to Canada!
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The C++ Core Guidelines can help improve your code and decrease your cost of maintenance by offering a wide range of recommendations: encouraging use of the standard library, avoiding use of unsafe practices whenever possible, maintaining a consistent style, and helping you to enforce reasonable design decisions. Odd. It doesn't seem to like printf.
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When the first manned mission to Mars sets out, it may be on the tail of an atomic rocket engine. "Atomic batteries to power. Turbines to speed."
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Project Orion?
But maybe even just mentioning it would cause so many heads to explode, they could use them instead of the bombs. 
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New York’s ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) has been preserving audiovisual materials since 1985, and a little over a year ago, it partnered with the Internet Archive to bring its Great 78 Project to the public. Ask your grandparents if that sentence doesn't make any sense to you
Yeah, I know. Vinyl's 'cool' again. Still.
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Except they're probably talking about the shellac records. 
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There’s no immediate threat, but as sequencing becomes more commonplace, researchers face security risks. Beware of hackers bearing DNA (that they want to put in your computer)
"No immediate threat". Thanks for that. 
"To make their malware work, the team introduced a vulnerability into a program that’s commonly used to analyze DNA data files." OK, I'm going to hack your computer. Can I get the source files to Windows so I can add a vulnerability?
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New meaning to the phrase "Beware of Greeks bearing Trojans."
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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