Today in History: January 24
1948 – IBM dedicates the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC). Later the SSEC was put on public display near the company’s Manhattan headquarters so passers-by could watch its operational speed. Before its decommissioning in 1952, the SSEC produced the moon-position tables used for plotting the course of the 1969 Apollo flight to the moon. Source
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1848 – James Marshall finds gold in Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, begins the California gold rush
1908 – Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell publishes “Scouting for Boys” which goes on to become the inspiration for the Scout movement
1935 – 1st canned beer, “Krueger’s Cream Ale,” is sold by American company Krueger Brewing Co.
1940 – “The Grapes of Wrath,” directed by John Ford and based on John Steinbeck’s novel of the same name, is released
1958 – After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion
1984 – Apple Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer (though this may have happened two days earlier on Jan 22)
1986 – Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
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76 AD – Hadrian, Roman Emperor, built a wall
1733 – Benjamin Lincoln, American inventor and statesman, quite a turkey
1917 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor, got out of New York
1941 – Neil Diamond, American singer, big Believer in Caroline
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31 AD – Caligula, Roman Emperor, had a despotic disposition
1965 – Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, never gave up
1993 – Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice, worked hard and suffered heartbreak
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1.14GB - New memory subsystem (not sure of what the purpose is)
2 days ago - Added CPU scheduling functionality (only used to manage memory)
2 days ago - Disabled some old memory subsystems
1 day ago - The system will now show the task log: “CPU/Synchronization: 0x1c0000 (0x1000)” to show a CPU and SYSVOL monitor and to remove the “CPU is not syncing” flag (or reset it). No need to reset OS X when switching to Windows.
The system will now show the task log: “CPU/Synchronization: 0x1c0000 (0x1000)” to show a CPU and SYSVOL monitor and to remove the “CPU is not syncing” flag (or reset it). No need to reset OS X when switching to Windows.
1 days ago - CPU/Synchronization: 0x2f5f0 (0x000001)
1 day ago - Added GPU support
5 days ago - Added CPU scheduling functionality (only used to manage memory)
New hardware
A new kernel and a new kernel/driver were released last time that should make the system a little smoother. If you’d like to upgrade to the new OS, you should read the “Upgrade” section and try this:
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Mouseover: I just think lane markers should follow the local magnetic declination.
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And of course, no Tuesday would be complete without a would you rather question.
Would you rather…
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- vomit on your hero
- have your hero vomit on you
