pwshguy (mdowst)

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  • I remember before scrambling they just put blocks that prevented you from going to certain channels. I somehow figured out if you ran the cable box through the VCR first and put it on channel 2 while the TV was still on 3, it would shift all the channels down one. Cinemax was channel 14, which our box just would not go to. But it would go to 13, so doing my little trick teenage me got to watch a lot of skinamax.







  • I feel down a rabbit hole, a few years ago wonder the same thing about C#. Here is what I found.

    • C# was developed in 2000 as a successor to C++. Doubling the ++ to a #.
    • C++ was developed in the early 80s as a successor to C. Adding plus (+) to a name was a common way of indicating it was an enhancement. Also ++ is the incrementing operator for C.
    • C was developed in the early 70s as a successor to the B programming language. C comes after B.
    • B was developed in 1969 and was derived from the BCPL language. Basically, B was a stripped down version of BCPL.
    • BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) was developed in 1967 and was a designed as an simpler version of CPL.
    • CPL (Combined Programming Language) was developed in the early 60s at Cambridge. The original name was “Cambridge Programming Language” but was changed to Combined when it was published jointly with the University of London.



  • That’s pretty similar with what happened with me and the train. Kept getting random drops from a plant. I went out to investigate and everything tested perfect and the network was staying up. That was until a freight train rolled by. Turns out AT&T had run the line by shoving a piece of PVC through the gravel between two cross-ties, then running the cable through it.