Very Local News

• The White House was built 200 years ago (1790s) in a large part by slaves.
• There is an ATI ES1000 chip for embedded video motherboards that has no Windows XP driver. It says "server" it its name and by God they mean it. It works fine in Linux, Windows Server 2003 2008. No XP driver. I have no idea about Vista. We don't use it. I had to scrounge up an old PCI card just to get windows to scroll in the same minute you spun the wheel.
• One of the guys at work and I had to run around the different labs today trying to find a machine he could use to run a simulator. it's funny how many hoops you have to jump through to find a box that fits the bill and is not in use by someone else. There are dozens people looking for just the right combination of hardware and software and sharing resources.