It is Fedora's policy to close allīug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. This message is a reminder that Fedora 20 is nearing its end of life.Īpproximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintainingĪnd issuing updates for Fedora 20. There could be some warning with it's tooltip describing what may go wrong with such setup. But the non-ASCII warning definitely is a nice idea. I believe CAPS lock warning already works (if not, it's an easy fix of one line in the right. > non-ASCII layout or with caps lock pressed. > Probably warning could be shown conditionally if entering password with > decision and the warning on the LUKS password dialog is quite explanatory as setting different LUKS passwords with different X layouts is user's Nice, that change will probably come with F21. > layout in which they would enter password is english both on X and console. > Looks fine from mine POV if bug 1039185 is also fixed, i.e. > user passwords not add it to LUKS passwords > lot and I believe proper fix would remove this restriction from root and restricting passwords to ASCII-only characters reduces entropy quite a > I'd like to add a few bits of information on this topic: > (In reply to Vratislav Podzimek from comment #7) He was the founder of MiTS, the designer of the Altair 8800 and as close to being the father of the American personal computer as anyone can get.(In reply to Alexey Torkhov from comment #8) Where, again, are all those French computer companies? I say the American personal computer because French readers constantly correct me on this. I never worked for or with him but I met him many times even years after he gave up computers for medicine in his late 30’s. That transition from digital hardware to medicine is key to Ed’s story and I think provides the crux of this column, which is just one of probably dozens of published remembrances of the man.Įd sold MiTS and started medical school less than three years after introducing the Altair 8800. In one sense this could be seen as a logical transition from a dodgy electronic kit company that had almost gone under many times. It was Ed cashing-in to some degree and assuring the financial health of his family. It was a recognition that even in 1978 Ed Roberts was being left behind by computing. It was an amazing experience to visit Ed’s medical practice, which was run with the help of many computers - MiTS computers. More than two decades past the height of his success, Roberts was still using he same hardware and using it well. In addition to Altairs with 8080 processors there were 8088’s, 8086’s, and even Motorola 68000’s. And every one of those was running some medical or back-office application connected to a terminal. Twenty years into his medical career Ed could still program his Altairs in assembler. So it isn’t that he lost his touch for technology. Ed’s was the era of ascii terminal computing. #Lol i dunno ascii windows#Īnd an Apple II (worse still a Macintosh or even a Windows box) was, therefore, his nemesis. Linux might have called him back but by the time it was available Ed wasn’t. Think back a couple columns to that discussion of engineers and their half-lives. Suddenly Ed leaving Albuquerque with a pocketful of money makes a lot of sense. He was two half-lives (75 percent depleted) into his digital career. #Lol i dunno ascii professional#Īnd that’s not sad in any way, because Ed Roberts got to have two careers, two professional adventures, and did a great job with both. Greg wrote, “Many of the designs show signs of inspiration but usually were hampered by silly errors.” As a former MITS customer, I can attest to that.īack in 1976 I worked in a Princeton University lab where we were attempting to use Altair 8800s to control experimental apparatus. We had three of the machines, but never managed to get more than one working at the same time–and sometimes not even one would work reliably. They were flaky, quirky, temperamental beasts, and eventually we gave up on them. I also remember the problems with MITS’s badly designed 4KB dynamic RAM cards, which were so notorious that they gave DRAM a bad reputation (at least in the home computer market) for years thereafter.
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