:q!

Sep. 10th, 2003 | 03:18 am
mood: touched touched

Bill Joy, best known as co-founder of and chief scientist at Sun, is leaving the company. Joy is the author of the much loved (and equally hated) Vi editor, the C shell, and significant portions of BSD. Joy is also responsible for technologies like Java and Jini.

There's an interesting 1984 interview of Bill Joy.

:w!

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First computer bug

Sep. 10th, 2003 | 01:36 pm
mood: curious curious

Slashdot is running a story about the first computer bug, a moth found trapped in the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator. Readers pointed out that this was the first actual case of a (real) bug being found; the use of the term "bug" predates the incident, going back to as early as 1896.

And which is the most famous bug? My vote: Windows 98 crashes during Gates' Comdex demo :-)

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