Technorama Ep548: Certain Defeat




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Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> Space<br> Space<br> and More Space<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1oL">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * Postcard from Jorge<br> * Postcard from Liisa<br> * Shari E Mosser. Sandwick<br> <br> Long time listener…OK, but not for a while.  Kids make me more of a stealth geek now.<br> Anyway, I run ND’s part of the Letters About Literature contest.  I want to promote it using the Letters song you guys use for feedback. However, my Google Fu is failing me hardcore.<br> Where did you guys find it?<br> <br> * Claudio Miranda<br> <br> Hey fellas!  I’m not dead yet!<br> I hope this makes it to the show tonight.  If not, there’s always next week I guess. Nevertheless, I thought I’d share this one with you guys being the Unix geek/nerd that I am.  Found this one on reddit. It’s a touched up BSD vs System V “Death Star” poster from back in the day when AT&amp;T was suing BSD (aka, Berkeley Software Design).  I’d love to get a full-size version of this bad boy if they ever remake it.<br> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/9sdy0n/bsd_vs_system_v_death_star_poster/">https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/9sdy0n/bsd_vs_system_v_death_star_poster/</a><br> Still listening after all these years (that explains a lot of things…must be the Izerol, lol).<br> OneZeroOne!<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10157237299288455?comment_id=10157237304623455&amp;notif_id=1541288000881977&amp;notif_t=feed_comment">What was the worst horror movie you’ve ever seen?</a><br> <br> On This Day In History for November 7, 2018<br> This is the 311st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 54 days remaining in 2018.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1492, that The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.<br> The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published on this date in 1665.<br> That same date in 1885, The completion of Canada’s first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.<br> November 7, 1908, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.<br> On November 7, 1910, The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.<br> Also on November 7, 1940, In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge’s completion.<br> It was on this date in 1944, that Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.<br> It was also this date in 1967 that US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.<br> Also today in 1991, Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.<br> It was also this date in 1994 that WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world’s first internet radio broadcast.<br> Also on November 7, 1996, NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, Marie Curie, born on this date in 1867.<br> Philip Morrison, American astrophysicist and academic was born on that same date in 1915.<br> New Zealand astronomer and academic, Gerard F. Gilmore, born on this date in 1951.<br> American actor, Christopher Knight is 61 today.<br> American actress, Dana Plato, born on this date in 1964.