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This rec.puzzles newsgroup post made me laugh. I don’t read rec.puzzles or newsgroups in general, but this is completely out of place in rec.puzzles. He has stuffed so many technical terms into two paragraphs it’s just laughable. I really don’t know how much truth to what he is saying because I have never heard of a 555 timer, pulse width, write strobe, NAND timer etc. etc. etc…

The early Apple ][ was notorious for that. I evenutally unsoldered
all the sockets and replaced them with high reliability versions.

The one time I had a guine memory failure wasn’t a RAM chip, though.
It was a NAND gate that passed the write strobe to the RAM chips,
so it could read memory but not write it. Obviously, the boot ROM
didn’t get very far. I tracked it down by attaching a 555 timer to
the reset line and slowly increased the pulse width until the address
lines went from stable to unstable. When I checked what opcode was
executing at that momement, it was the first return from subroutine
in the boot code. The gate must have failed due to vibration (output
was floating) because I had just transported the machine in my car
prior to the failure.

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Facebook networks are great way to connect with people in your city, country, area, or topic of interest, and C|net is reporting that Facebook will be discontinuing network pages soon. I have confirmed that this is indeed true as the following message now appears on my facebook account…

Network Pages will be discontinued soon
Facebook will soon be removing Network Pages from the site. Please keep this in mind when communicating with others on the Wall and on the discussion board. You can use Groups to connect with the people around you.

This announcement by Facebook is a little hard to understand but must be a very good reason for it, at least in Facebooks eyes (pun intended:). I’m more than curious to know exactly what the reason is, because it’s hard to imagine why they would remove such a useful and popular feature from their network.

The reason for the change may simply be to consolidate the now separate networks and groups, making the new groups communication system even larger and more powerful. But the skeptic in my says there is something else behind the move but only time will tell.

In the meantime, here’s a Facebook parody from sketch group Idiots Of Ants, definitely worth a look if you need a laugh…

This is a Family Guy Matrix spoof is one of the funniest Family Guy sequences I think I have ever seen. A must see: