You know how Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created Unix on a PDP-7 in 1969? Well around 1971 they upgraded to a PDP-11 with a pair of RK05 disk packs (1.5 megabytes each) for storage.
The /bin vs /usr/bin split (and all the others) is an artifact of this, a 1970's implementation detail that got carried forward for decades by bureaucrats who never question why they're doing things. It stopped making any sense before Linux was ever invented, for multiple reasons:
The 6502 processor from the 1970s is alive once again – and as a proper 40-pin chip in a dual in-line package (DIP) housing, not just as an embedded core. Mouser Electronics has added the 8-bit classic, since modernised by WDC (Western Design Center), to its product range, making it available in the UK for £4.90.
Aufklärung zu ACTA auf Deutsch für #Austria: http://t.co/wXLCYzZx @Vivi_Nefeltari @Negiert @asdfhpsuaidghwa @AnonNewsAUT @AnonAustria RT
oh mann… RT @socialhack: MEP Paul Rübig (ÖVP) erklärt wieso wir #ACTA brauchen. http://t.co/GTEKGvM8
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The music is slow and full, a smoky mid-1960s cinema soundtrack, deployed pristinely, with crackling hip-hop drums setting the pace. It lulls and stirs and feels like one portent of doom after another. If it’s close to anything it’s to Portishead and the other gauzy British trip-hop of the early- to mid-1990s, which traded aggression for atmosphere, and leaned heavily on drama.
On top of music like that, anything shy of full commitment would underwhelm, and over the course of this album, that’s just what happens.
sexy. RT @normative: DARPA-Funded Hacker’s Tiny $50 Spy Computer Hides In Offices, Drops From Drones http://t.co/gnEIUvT1
Alle Lobbies pro ACTA, mit allen Logos in einer Broschüre, die explizit an Politiker gerichtet ist: http://t.co/7rQT4FcE
Lest doch mal den Artikel zur FB Timeline im @ZDF Blog. http://t.co/APfQ7rro Artikel ist sehr gut! Der 1. Kommentar aber noch besser! ;)
Today, Gibson is lanky and somewhat shy, avuncular and slow to speak—more what you would expect from the lapsed science-fiction enthusiast he was in 1972 than the genre-vanquishing hero he has become since the publication of his first novel, the hallucinatory hacker thriller Neuromancer, in 1984. Gibson resists being called a visionary, yet his nine novels constitute as subtle and clarifying a meditation on the transformation of culture by technology as has been written since the beginning of what we now know to call the information age.
Die Agentur hinter @KunsthatRecht ist wenig überraschend eine Lobbyagentur. GÄHN http://t.co/c3ppcQlM
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American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case.
During his recent book tour, he took time to talk about writing nonfiction, his love of cities, and his particular view of the present – all delivered in careful, precise words barely tinted with Southern accent.