[Discuss] g5 and video card

Daniel M. German dmgerman at uvic.ca
Thu May 18 12:53:05 PDT 2006



 Adam Parkin twisted the bytes to say:

 Adam> Daniel M. German wrote:
 >> could even add a TV as a 5th one! I feel like Tank in the
 >> Nabuccodonosor.

 Adam> Just to be the uber-geek: it's Nebuchadnezzar, not Nabuccodonosor. =8-p

Darn, and I checked for its spelling. I guess it did not occur to me
that there are several variations in the name and the movie took one.

BTW, Adam, aren't you TAing 265? An interesting point to make to the
students is that even the matrix had an off-by-one bug in the display
when Trinity is breaking in the electrical network. They got the
network scan right, but they just could not count properly :)

dmg



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 Adam> 	-- Noam Chomsky, Red and Black Revolution



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