Dropsafe

Inspired by Michael Jennings’ History of Windows Version Numbers. As a Sun systems admin you had to know all of the below, and be able to translate in both directions, just to do your job. The changeover from SunOS to Solaris numbering was not a good time… Sources Wikipedia [1] [2] and first hand experience.

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users like @LethaJefferso are amongst the reasons I would almost support banning of url-shorteners on twitter # do you remember the days when tinyurls were only 4 characters long? (now == 7) #

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@kurtsauer watching it now, looks great! in reply to kurtsauer # loading 2000 vurls into pymine so i can test pagination and stress it a bit in the morning. #themineproject #

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@jimfinnis http://bit.ly/4v5TYq #

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oy veh> Free Delivery on All Amazon.co.uk Orders This Christmas # @jimfinnis http://bit.ly/GIRfO – Ron "Typewriter" Mingo #

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@nmeth Best wishes! I know what you're going through – http://is.gd/4jDRL http://is.gd/4jE1w – it sucks, but life is far better afterward in reply to nmeth # re: http://is.gd/4jEeG – in theory http:/path/file.ext should go to localhost, no? # Thought for the day: Swarfega should release men's cosmetics. # @nmeth The hairy one only IM's me

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That's another vat of "random vegetable soup". No need to think about food tomorrow. 🙂 # #carterruck #trafigura – greatest similie ever: http://bit.ly/Aj4Iu # @LaureenH nah, cheated with some swiss stuff. in reply to LaureenH #

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latest cut of Mac #chromium has a buggy transparent bookmark toolbar. Oh, poop. # There are perhaps few things in the world more therapeutic than a sledgehammer and a brick wall. In fact, I can't think of any… # #Grauniad gagged from reporting *Parliament proceedings* due to legal gag; Do plaintiffs believe nobody will find

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Gotta love that safe, secure, reliable cloud storage. http://is.gd/4euxb via @adriana872 and @webmink # http://www.oracle.com could really use the Sun firewall-and-web-hosting team. "An error occurred while processing your directive" or whatnot… # What the world needs is an open-source mainframe emulator? http://bit.ly/ia2hi # How not to run a knowledge-worker-based company: http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2009-10-11/ #

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DIY Party Political Speeches: http://www.speechbreaker.co.uk/ # one thing about #themineproject that I'm very proud of: we're re-establishing that Open Source is something you "make", not "vend" #

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Many cryppies will know Hal Finney http://finney.org/~hal/ — but *everyone* who is human should read http://is.gd/44HAm <— READ THIS # @mroesch have you left the UK now? It's gone sunny all of a sudden… 🙂 in reply to mroesch # This is too true, was experiencing it the other day: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet/ – Google is letting

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