16-03-2015, 19:26
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The Invisible Woman
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Re: Sir Terry Pratchett, renowned fantasy author, dies aged 66
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31907768
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A long-running tribute to late fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett is being staged with the help of some of the web's servers.
Many administrators have added an entry to the text sent to every visitor that includes the writer's name.
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In the Discworld novel Going Postal, Sir Terry, who died aged 66 on Thursday, wrote about the way that the murder of an operator of a semaphore tower, John Dearheart, was marked by his colleagues.
His name was included in admin messages (known as overhead) sent around the semaphore or "clacks", network prefixed with three control characters, GNU, that kept it circulating forever.
In a similar way, many net server and website administrators are adding the text "X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett" to the headers their machines share with every computer that requests web pages from them.
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