Claude Shannon passed away on this day in 2001.
Regarded as the Father of Information Theory, I doubt whether you'll go
through a day without bumping into him: computers, electronics, file
compression, audio sampling, you name it and he was probably behind it.
Please take a moment to remember him.
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server."
http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html (and check the home page whilst you're there)