Comments on: Hurrah for the Lowly BUG http://www.dailywritingtips.com/hurrah-for-the-lowly-bug/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:00:10 -0600 hourly 1 By: spike1 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/hurrah-for-the-lowly-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-115945 spike1 Fri, 01 May 2009 00:10:12 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2125#comment-115945 Also common in briitain... Humbug, a black and white striped mint. Also common in briitain…
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]]> By: t.grillo http://www.dailywritingtips.com/hurrah-for-the-lowly-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-115911 t.grillo Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:59:29 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2125#comment-115911 I saw a funny cartoon once that has always stuck with me. When one person is annoying another you might hear, "Don't bug me, man!" Well, the cartoon was of two bugs. One said to the other, "Don't man me, bug!" I would say it to my kids and they would laugh, however, nobody else has any idea what I mean. I saw a funny cartoon once that has always stuck with me. When one person is annoying another you might hear, “Don’t bug me, man!” Well, the cartoon was of two bugs. One said to the other, “Don’t man me, bug!”
I would say it to my kids and they would laugh, however, nobody else has any idea what I mean.

]]> By: Jeff Wolski http://www.dailywritingtips.com/hurrah-for-the-lowly-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-115786 Jeff Wolski Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:38:19 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2125#comment-115786 Actually, I always thought that a bug in a computer or system came from Admiral Grace copper in the context of one of the earliest vacuum-tube computers. A moth had gotten into the machine and shorted out some electrical terminals. When the moth was removed, she stated the the machine had been "debugged". http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug.htm Thanks, Jeff Actually, I always thought that a bug in a computer or system came from Admiral Grace copper in the context of one of the earliest vacuum-tube computers. A moth had gotten into the machine and shorted out some electrical terminals. When the moth was removed, she stated the the machine had been “debugged”.

http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h.....er_bug.htm

Thanks,
Jeff

]]> By: Al G. http://www.dailywritingtips.com/hurrah-for-the-lowly-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-115779 Al G. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:09:21 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2125#comment-115779 Regarding computers and bugs, here's a more detailed explantion. U.S. Navy Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, who died in 1992, was a pioneer in computer technology. At Harvard one August night in 1945, Hopper and her associates were working on the "granddaddy" of modern computers, the Mark I. "Things were going badly; there was something wrong in one of the circuits of the long glass-enclosed computer," she said. "Finally, someone located the trouble spot and, using ordinary tweezers, removed the problem, a two-inch moth. From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it." When the veracity of her story was later questioned, she said, "I referred them to my 1945 log book, now in the collection of Naval Surface Weapons Center, and they found the remains of that moth taped to the page in question." Regarding computers and bugs, here’s a more detailed explantion. U.S. Navy Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, who died in 1992, was a pioneer in computer technology. At Harvard one August night in 1945, Hopper and her associates were working on the “granddaddy” of modern computers, the Mark I. “Things were going badly; there was something wrong in one of the circuits of the long glass-enclosed computer,” she said. “Finally, someone located the trouble spot and, using ordinary tweezers, removed the problem, a two-inch moth. From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.” When the veracity of her story was later questioned, she said, “I referred them to my 1945 log book, now in the collection of Naval Surface Weapons Center, and they found the remains of that moth taped to the page in question.”

]]> By: Peter http://www.dailywritingtips.com/hurrah-for-the-lowly-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-115607 Peter Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:12:54 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2125#comment-115607 I can live with calling insects "bugs"....but the "bug" from which the term relating to computers descends was a moth. It always seemed strange to me to call a moth a bug. I can live with calling insects “bugs”….but the “bug” from which the term relating to computers descends was a moth. It always seemed strange to me to call a moth a bug.

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