State of the Game

[CMDR Sheehy]

Lunar Lander? - That was a long, long, long time ago.

The guidance computer on Apollo 11's Eagle had 24k of ROM and only 1k of RAM with a clock speed of 1Mhz and could multitask. On descent to the Lunar Surface, the computer threw up a 1201 alarm. It had effectively run out of memory. It came up a second time (if memory serves me correctly) before throwing up a 1202 alarm. With 30 seconds of fuel, they had to use another piece of equipment to confirm their height. Then they spotted that the landing area had too many rocks, so Neil switches to manual, maintains height to fly past the boulder field and lands with 2 (IIRC) seconds of fuel left.

The computer was operated by entering verb noun pairs and running them. This was similar to @ULITE offering so I ran with the memory.

 

[Just]

Next guard, I stop and wait for scan, after scan the guard says "I thought the pilots Federation was supposed to be the good guys."


I thought it was interesting, the "comments" from the guards.

They tell things like ths when you have a bounty (fine?) from some other faction / out of guards jurisdiction.

 

[PRORABBIT67]

 

[CMDR Sheehy]

They figured out eventually that someone had left a radar on and the data going into the computer caused, effectively, a memory shortage.

 

[Horse372]

The guidance computer on Apollo 11's Eagle had 24k of ROM and only 1k of RAM with a clock speed of 1Mhz and could multitask. On descent to the Lunar Surface, the computer threw up a 1201 alarm. It had effectively run out of memory. It came up a second time (if memory serves me correctly) before throwing up a 1202 alarm. With 30 seconds of fuel, they had to use another piece of equipment to confirm their height. Then they spotted that the landing area had too many rocks, so Neil switches to manual, maintains height to fly past the boulder field and lands with 2 (IIRC) seconds of fuel left.

The computer was operated by entering verb noun pairs and running them. This was similar to @ULITE offering so I ran with the memory.

 

[The Roofus]

Lol, imagine thinking the moon is real

 

[nemolomen]

The guidance computer on Apollo 11's Eagle had 24k of ROM and only 1k of RAM with a clock speed of 1Mhz and could multitask. On descent to the Lunar Surface, the computer threw up a 1201 alarm. It had effectively run out of memory. It came up a second time (if memory serves me correctly) before throwing up a 1202 alarm. With 30 seconds of fuel, they had to use another piece of equipment to confirm their height. Then they spotted that the landing area had too many rocks, so Neil switches to manual, maintains height to fly past the boulder field and lands with 2 (IIRC) seconds of fuel left.

The computer was operated by entering verb noun pairs and running them. This was similar to @ULITE offering so I ran with the memory.

 

[Bottom Hat]

With 30 seconds of fuel, they had to use another piece of equipment to confirm their height.

I presumed they used a tape measure.

Unless it was google?

 

[Oztig]

Debian? Pah! Try Gentoo and then you can talk about compiling...

I ĺove gentoo, I used to use it a lot. Kernel config and compilation became second nature.
I have to confess that these days, I cant be arsed, I just run lubuntu. I also have osx, for desktop, and windows for playing games, and dev work ( a lot of my clients use .NET, so I have to)

 

[Oztig]

I tried to browse the web with my old Nokia 770 last year and the poor thing got a nervous breakdown

I've got a 21 year old apple cube, all original and working, except HD was replaced with ssd. Internet is unusable now (was really fast in its day). I now use it as my music machine, and internal Web and file share.
Great little machine, and dead quiet.

 

[Oztig]

Fun depends on one's interests.

Monkeying with old hardware is fun for me but very tedious and NOT fun for many.

I've got a working mega ste, which is great for some old games. Xenon 2, anyone?

 

[Horse372]

Bretheren and Sisteren I must take my leave from this um... glorious corner of the interwebs for now but I leave u with good news!

The main casting for the Grizzly Adams remake had been completed:

Mel Gibson was apparently unavailable but Mr. Crowe announce his excitement by phone which he then proceeded to slammed into a desk.

there has been some push back from the bear community online that the bear chosen to play Ben is not truly a grizzly bear only slightly fuzzy with a 5 o'clock shadow.

o7 fly safe

 

[Just]

I only remember from using some Unix/Linux/whaever system while studying IT, that there are two things you should not do intoxicated: recompile kernel and change root password.

 

[Oztig]

View attachment 256721

It looks like life's been good to him so far.

 

[Horse372]

I presumed they used a tape measure.

Unless it was google?

I heard a plumb line.

"10 fathoms to go Capt. Armstrong"

"Thank you" Mister Aldrin

 

[CMDR Sheehy]

I presumed they used a tape measure.

Unless it was google?

It was a backup guidance computer which, for a while, was saying different things to the main guidance computer. But in the end, it worked out okay...

 

[Horse372]

It looks like life's been good to him so far.

I was gonna say the same about Captain and Commander Crowe /s

 

[Just]

The guidance computer on Apollo 11's Eagle had 24k of ROM and only 1k of RAM with a clock speed of 1Mhz and could multitask. On descent to the Lunar Surface, the computer threw up a 1201 alarm. It had effectively run out of memory. It came up a second time (if memory serves me correctly) before throwing up a 1202 alarm. With 30 seconds of fuel, they had to use another piece of equipment to confirm their height. Then they spotted that the landing area had too many rocks, so Neil switches to manual, maintains height to fly past the boulder field and lands with 2 (IIRC) seconds of fuel left.

The computer was operated by entering verb noun pairs and running them. This was similar to @ULITE offering so I ran with the memory.

#nohud
#progamer
#insaneskillz

 

[Boomtrooper]

there are two things you should not do while intoxicated: recompile kernel and change root password.

*and try to fly a T10 through the letterbox to dock....

 

[nemolomen]

*and try to fly a T10 through the letterbox to dock....

Getting the spoiler stuck in the toaster rack?