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| Re: REDO FROM START. I'm pretty sure the original was more accurate; the new version doesn't compute, anyway. But then, it's only annotation. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 21:39, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
| | Broken umbrella with herrings: some kind of antenna? |
| | I still wonder about the beach ball thing that goes parp, though. |
| | --[[User:Confusion|Confusion]] ([[User talk:Confusion|talk]]) 20:18, 27 November 2012 (PST) |
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| Re: GBL and FTB. In some data centers its typical to refer to the rebooting/starting up of a server by using the BRB or Big Red Button, as certain brands of equipment featured a physical Big Red Button on the front panel. - Normally noted down in the logs as something like "Serverxxxx crashed, BRB resolved". Apparently used to make the simple task of flipping a switch sound more technical when questioned by non-IT staff. FTB may also imply the roundworld FPU or floating-point unit, which back in late 80's was an extra chip that could be installed in certain computers to speed up certain types of operation.
| | Amusingly, a prototype computer-like structure has in fact been built which is driven by soldier crabs. It has a long way to go before becoming complex enough to rival conventional PC's, but the idea shows promise. Scuttling crabs powering a low-tech computer... Google on [[http://www.i-programmer.info/news/112-theory/4071-a-crab-based-computer.html|Lucy Black and “A Crab-Based Computer”]] There is also a Java program called "Shellfish".[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 16:33, 14 August 2014 (UTC) |
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| The constant adding of new parts or upgrades could also be a not-so-veiled nod to Moore's law regarding the doubling of CPU performance every 18 months, and that it's common to upgrade PCs piecemeal, by adding or replacing new hardware - especially where IT geeks and gamers are concerned and the original PC started life as a bunch of components waiting to be assembled rather than a branded box from the local PC world.--[[User:Megahurts|Megahurts]] 11:10, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
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| i was just reading science of discworld and encountered High Energy Magic building being shortened to HEM and started wondering if HEX was a abbrivation too or just hex with uppercase letters.
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| :Shades of HAL maybe? --[[User:Megahurts|Megahurts]] 10:08, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
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| Also HEX as the common abbreviation for ''hexadecimal'' and HEX = ''spell'' or ''curse''. No acronym. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 23:51, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
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| == Some facts, possibly annotation material ==
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| A self-aware ant colony appears in Douglas R. Hofstatter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach. This might have been one inspiration for the anthill in a self-aware computer.
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| "Redo from start" was an error given by early BASIC interpreters on the IBM PC (ROM basic, basica) if on an INPUT statement expecting a number one typed something which couldn't be parsed as numbers. --[[Special:Contributions/93.134.82.77|93.134.82.77]] 09:26, 9 February 2011 (CET)
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Broken umbrella with herrings: some kind of antenna?
I still wonder about the beach ball thing that goes parp, though.
--Confusion (talk) 20:18, 27 November 2012 (PST)
Amusingly, a prototype computer-like structure has in fact been built which is driven by soldier crabs. It has a long way to go before becoming complex enough to rival conventional PC's, but the idea shows promise. Scuttling crabs powering a low-tech computer... Google on [Black and “A Crab-Based Computer”] There is also a Java program called "Shellfish".AgProv (talk) 16:33, 14 August 2014 (UTC)