Brief History Of Linux (#8) Let's All Holler For Hollerith In 1890 The US Congress Wanted To Extend The Census To Collect Exhaustive Demographic Information On Each Citizen That Could Be Resold To Marketing Companies To Help Pay For The Newly Installed Gold-plated Toilets On Capitol Hill.

punched card:: alt. `punch card' [techspeak] n.obs.
The signature medium of computing's {Stone Age}, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops....
punched card n.obs. [techspeak] (alt. `punch card') The signature medium of computing's Stone Age, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops.
The punched card actually predated computers considerably, originating in 1801 as a control device for mechanical looms....
Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Linus Torvalds SILLYCON VALLEY -- Nearly 130 former system administrators have filed suit against Linus Torvalds in which they claim Linux cost them their jobs.
Recently several companies migrated from Windows to Linux, increasing their productivity but decreasing the need for a large staff of tech workers, prompting a wave of layoffs....
Man Charged With Crashing Windows MOUNTAIN HOME, AR -- Eric Turge
a closet Linux advocate, was arrested yesterday for intentionally crashing his co-worker's Windows box at the offices of the "Roadkill Roundup" newspaper....
Brief History Of Linux (#10) The AnyQuack Computer One electronic machine, Colossus, was used by the British in World War II to decode Nazi transmissions.
The code-breakers were quite successful in their mission, except for the tiny detail that nobody knew how to read German....
aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.
Frequently appended to each installment is a "synposis of preceding chapters" for those who have not read them, but a direr need is a synposis of succeeding chapters for those who do not intend to read _them_....
Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
luser /loo'zr/ n. [common] A user; esp. one who is also a loser.
(luser and loser ar pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT....

Brief History Of Linux (#8) Let's All Holler For Hollerith In 1890 The US Congress Wanted To Extend The Census To Collect Exhaustive Demographic Information On Each Citizen That Could Be Resold To Marketing Companies To Help Pay For The Newly Installed Gold-plated Toilets On Capitol Hill.

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