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and parallel ports. Its 9" green which simplifies client-side monochrome screen compared HTML scripting, and has May 8th favorably to the Osborne 1’s tiny produced several other notable 5" display. JavaScript libraries, including Processing.js, Env.js, Sizzle.js, Nevertheless, the press mocked and QUnit. He was also Gary Wang its design – one magazine responsible for Khan Academy's described Kaypro as “producing [Nov 16] online environment for (Wáng Wēi) computers packaged in tin cans”. learning to program. Born: May 8, 1973; However, by mid-1983 the Fuzhou, Fujian, China company was selling more than An interest in art history led to 10,000 units a month, briefly his development of two image Wang founded the Chinese video making it the fifth-largest databases: Ukiyo-e.org which sharing company Tudou.com in computer maker in the world. collects Japanese woodblock Jan. 2005 (a month before Indeed, its rugged design made prints, and “PHAROS Images,” a YouTube [Feb 14] debuted), and it a popular choice in industry. photo archive. the site was officially launched Arthur C. Clarke [Dec 16] also Incorrect reports that he was on April 15, just over a week chose a Kaypro II to write his attacked by a vampire in 2014 before YouTube’s “Me at the 1982 novel “2010: Odyssey refer to the actor John Resig and Zoo” first video was uploaded Two” [April 2]. [April 23]. his role as the goofy town deputy, Kevin Ellis, on the TV On March 12, 2013, Wang show “True Blood”. formed “Light Chaser Animation Studios” to produce animated films targeting the Chinese market, Mother’s Day with the aim of building “The Pixar of China”. By 2016, the Outage company had grown to a May 8, 1988 team of 190, including several veterans from Pixar A broken power cable came in [Feb 3] and DreamWorks contact with a Animation [March 15]. telecommunications line, causing a fire in the main Wang’s first full-time job out switching room at the Hinsdale of college was as a salesman of A Kaypro II. Photo by Autopilot. Central Office of Illinois Bell. apparel snap fasteners. CC BY-SA 4.0. The Hinsdale station was one of The Kaypro II was followed by five hub gateways through Kaypro II Portable several machines marketed with which all Chicago suburban calls variations of the number '2', were switched, processing more May 8, 1982 including the 2X, “II Plus 88”, than 3.5 million calls each day. “New 2”, and “2X MTC”. As a result, cellular services, Kaypro Corporation was started mobile telephones, and beepers by Non-Linear Systems in 1981 Kaypro’s success was one reason were affected by the fire, to develop computers that for Osborne’s decline, aside from compounded by the improbable competed with the then-popular its self-inflicted Osborne Effect fact that each hub operated Osborne 1 [April 3]. Kaypro’s [March 6], but Kaypro was without a backup. chosen niche was rugged, otherwise slow to react to the An alarm at 4:20 pm brought “luggable” CP/M-based [June 22] rise of IBM PC [Aug 12] firefighters to the scene, but machines, pre-loaded with lots compatibility. Compaq [Feb 14] their efforts were hindered by of software. eventually grabbed away most of its market share with its the office’s electrical generators Despite the name, the Kaypro II Portable [Nov 4], which was which continued to produce was the first model to be similar to Kaypro’s CP/M power until they were shut off at released commercially (perhaps luggables but could run MS-DOS. 7:15 pm. Fire departments from named in honor of the Apple II 15 suburbs battled the blaze in [June 5]). high winds and a thunderstorm, before bringing it under control Residing in a somewhat boxy at about 8:30 pm. aluminum case with a keyboard John Resig that snapped onto the front, the Born: May 8, 1984; All phone services in six western II weighed 29 pounds and was New York ??, USA suburbs were cut off, affecting powered by AC only. It used a scores of towns and the O`Hare Zilog Z80 chip [March 9], had Resig is known as the lead International and Midway 64K of RAM, two 5.25-inch developer of the jQuery airports. Some customers were floppy disk drives, and serial JavaScript library [Aug 26] 1 left without services for a were suspiciously few live In 2007, the query did reach month. demos at that event. political circles when Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev In 1989, Illinois Bell announced Problem began to arise as new and Ukrainian President Viktor a $80-million, five-year program features were added more Yushchenko were asked for their to construct a duplicate rapidly than they could be opinions. Nazarbayev mentioned telephone network system, and completed, including most of open-source [Feb 3], while to redesign its fire protection those originally intended for Yushchenko referred to KDE 3 systems. Gershwin. The completion date (although version 3.5 was for the beta was pushed back For more network outages, see current at the time). several times, and the press [Jan 15], [April 13], [April 20], began to smell blood. In 2014, the question mutated [Oct 4]. into “How does one patch KDE 4 In 1996, Apple’s new CEO Gil under OpenBSD?” but again Amelio [Feb 2] put Ellen became outdated when KDE was Hancock in charge of getting the split into three parts Copland Described OS back on track. She instead (Frameworks, Plasma, and decided to cancel the project May 8-12, 1995 Applications), and reached outright in Aug. 1996. This was version 5. Apple's Copland project so late in the development cycle focussed on replacing Mac that CD envelopes had been The three most notable System 7 [May 13] with an OS printed for the developer’s descendants of BSD [March 9] that ran on top of a microkernel release. are FreeBSD [Nov 1], OpenBSD, called Nukernel that could and NetBSD [May 19]. NetBSD A Mac OS 8 was launched on better handle memory and FreeBSD started life in 1993, [July 26] 1997, but was little management and preemptive as derivations of 386BSD [July more than a renamed System multitasking. A second stage, 14], and OpenBSD was forked 7.7. In the meantime, Amelio known as Gershwin, would add from NetBSD in 1995. As a was forced to turn to outside multithreading and other consequence, there’s not much companies for a new OS [Feb 2]. advanced features. difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD, although FreeBSD is probably the more popular. Patching KDE 2 OpenBSD places more emphasis on security, and being as free as under FreeBSD possible. May 8, 2004 ‘Как пропатчить KDE 2 под FreeBSD?’ or ‘How does one patch KDE 2 [Oct 14] under FreeBSD [Nov 1]?’ is a meme [Nov 15] largely confined to Russian and East European Internet culture. The question was posted to the #anime channel of the RusNet IRC network [Aug 16] on this day, and was intended to satirize the disproportionate large Aaron Copland (1962). Photo number of technical by CBS Television. conversations occurring on a channel supposedly focused on Copland relied on the newly anime. defined Common Hardware Reference Platform, or CHRP, It gradually became a popular which was intended to question across many standardize the Mac hardware. Russophone forums, and even In particular, CHRP would be reached the mainstream media able to run other OSes, such as when it became the third most Solaris [Sept 4] and AIX. popular proposed question for an online question-and-answer Inevitably, Copland began to be session with Russian president referred to as System 8/Mac OS Vladimir Putin. Sadly, it wasn't 8, and was a central topic at chosen as an actual question for Apple’s developers conference that versatile everyman. in May 1995. However, there 2 .

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