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The Brannock Foot-Measuring Device, designed by Charles F. Brannock, 1925
The Brannock Foot-Measuring Device, designed by Charles F. Brannock, 1925
Read all about it above. Just thought it was a strange story about what I always thought was a children’s torture device.
I really didn’t like shopping. Shoes in particular.
Read that part about how manufacturers don’t really follow the device and you’ll know the root of my pain.
1983. The year of the IBM PC XT, the Apple Lisa, Pioneer 10 leaving the solar system, and Hooters opening up shop in Florida. It’s also the birthyear of a 25 year old BSD bug, squashed only a few days ago.A few days ago, Marc Balmer, OpenBSD developer, received an email from an OpenBSD user. The email claimed that SAMBA would crash when serving files off an MS-DOS filesystem. Balmer got into contact with a few SAMBA developers who claimed that SAMBA uses a special workaround in order to function properly on BSD systems: the code for reading directories in all BSDs was flawed.
Note: title references the previous post.
Also, this one is pretty funny (just because it is very strange for a “bug” to live for 25 years. Most “bugs” live much shorter lives (unless they lie in wait to bother you or push out eggs continuously [read link for context]).
It’s that dang starting at zero thing that many people never quite get on computers (yes, I know this is starting at zero in a special case, but it’s still the same concept, as far as jokes go).
25 years of “I think I broked it” and it wasn’t even your fault. And so the machines get smarter.
Duct Tape.
Duct tape is younger than John McCain.
I was happy to see on Wikipedia – the internet’s #1 source of partially-correct information – that duct tape is also known as “duck tape”… which is what I always thought it was called (or, at least, should be called).
And there you have it. McCain is older than duct tape (correct spelling). Duck Tape™; is a brand.
Pirates and robots love duct tape. it keeps things running. It is only good for the soles of a ninjas feet, and even then, only for the hottest of coals.
Robot Pirate Ninja 