Redacted NSA Cold War History Released
Via Bruce Schneier, a redacted version of the NSA’s “American Cryptology during the Cold War, (1945-1989)“ has been released thank to a request from the George Washington Universities National Security...
View ArticleGreat Quote on Early Computing
Found this great quote whilst reading up more about Alan Turing being the first person to really comprehend what a modern computer would be like, a quote by Howard Aiken (of Harvard Mark I fame) in...
View ArticleUK Academic Network JANET to Close Usenet News Service (Updated)
This is a great shame, though probably not that surprising these days, but the UK Joint Academic Network (JANET) is going to pull its Usenet News service on the 31st July 2010. Basically I suspect the...
View ArticleRetronaut: Siege of Leningrad
The ever fantastic “How to be a Retronaut” website has posted a brilliant collection of colour images of modern Leningrad which have been matched to, and partially overlaid with, black & white...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of War
From the Australian War Memorial uploads to the Flickr Commons project. Studio portrait of 1626 Private (Pte) Walter Henry Chibnall, 10th Light Trench Mortar Battery, pictured with his son William...
View ArticleNick Crane’s Britannia and Floating Islands in Snowdonia, Wales
Watched the first episode of Nick Crane’s Britannia, about England and Wales, and was interested to see a section about Snowdonia which implied that William Camden, the Elizabethan author of the...
View ArticleThe Pope, Atheists, Nazis and Reality
So on his official visit to the UK the Pope apparently said: “we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society [...] As we reflect on the...
View ArticleArchaeological Excavation in Little LaTrobe Street, Melbourne ? (Updated)
Anyone know anything about this archaeological dig in progress in Little La Trobe Street in Melbourne, just opposite the RMIT Uni Bookshop ? There’s no signage for it but they seem to be exposing the...
View ArticleTasmania had a Different Class of Bushranger
Lovely little story from the Launceston Examiner, 1851 (bottom left of page 5, so you’ll need to go on one from page 4), courtesy of Trove at the National Library of Australia. BUSHRANGING UNDER ARMS....
View ArticleAugust 1993 “Preliminary Hardware Configuration for a Main Service Linux...
From 1992 through to 1994 I was working at the Computer Unit at the University of Wales (well, wrangled an “Employment Training” position there on my own initiative) as a sysadmin and was running Linux...
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