The Register: Inside Internet Archive: 10PB+ of storage in a church... oh, and a little fight to preserve truth
"Stopping the powerful changing history, Orwell style"

I was not aware that the Wayback Machine was housed in a church...

This an endurance set up song for when Doug and Co. have to pull an all night-er. The Effect is apparently sticky until morning.
Suitably titled: 'All Night', by Icona Pop

Why are we doing upgrades? What's wrong with using hopelessly out of date software, like EPU does?

Actually, there is an update for the EPU boards, released something like 20 years ago.  I'm a professional Perl programmer, and that DCForum software I tracked down is scary, man.

Cards Against Humanity Bought Border Land to Screw with Trump's Wall Plans

Quote:"Donald Trump is a preposterous golem who is afraid of Mexicans," the website says. "So we’ve purchased a plot of vacant land on the border and retained a law firm specializing in eminent domain to make it as time-consuming and expensive as possible for the wall to get built."

I am putting these one under one thread to avoid opening a bunch of new ones. 

Politico Explains: Net Neutrality

FCC’s latest gift to telcos could leave Americans with worse Internet access

Did Technology Kill the Truth?

How Sinclair compromised the news on an Alabama station it owns to support Roy Moore

The Register: Remember CompuServe forums? They're still around! Also they're about to die

Who here is surprised that they were still in existence?

No reason given, but The Register speculates that it's because they can't be monetized - which, if true, wouldn't surprise me at all.

Peg and I will be in Baltimore from 22 thru 26 November for the Thanksgiving holiday.  While I won't be away from wifi or other Net connectivity, Thanksgiving weekend tends to be very heavy on the family activities, and I may find myself unable to check in on the forums.

I'm spending the day at home so I don't spread my cold to everyone else at the office. I've just made a page on the freebie wiki for a set of poses based on classic artworks (ranging from Classical Greek to 20th-century French, from what I could tell). The thing is, I only recognize roughly a third of them. Can anyone identify any of the ones that I couldn't?

I'm the first to admit that this is a tricky request - the poses have almost zero context remaining. Making images of them with the default figures didn't help, and in a few cases I could only approximate what little there was left as hints for the sources of the poses.

Here are the images, each one numbered. #1 (The Thinker) is in the information box; the others are in the gallery.

Any help with identifying these pastiches would be appreciated.

(I'm thinking that I should recognize #20, but I can't place it... <sigh>)

So, a while back I noticed that if you make a second post (double post) within a certain time frame, the board software will take the second post and append it to the first one.

Since Bob hasn't gotten back to us on this yet, I'm gonna experiment with it here.

Others are welcome to join in.

Amazon is turning The Lord of the Rings into a TV show