That seems to convert text to base-64. Fortunately, it's easy enough to find one that can deal with hex.
Is that a "circumvention device", too, I wonder?:)
Has he seen the single-handed Dvorak layouts? I'm not sure how much of an effect the missing fingers would have, but it still seems possible that with this, he could type faster than most QWERTY typists do. It would take a fair amount of work to switch, but it could well pay off... See this site for a typing tutor and more information.
It does seem pretty trivial, especially when you consider that the QWERTY layout is utterly stupid. OTOH, the question of "how can we switch to something sane like Dvorak" might be worth asking! Seriously - we have to do something about this or we'll still be using QWERTY in 50 years time! This means getting kids to learn Dvorak instead of QWERTY. (You might say it'll never happen, and you may even be right, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.)
I'm suprised that I've not seen anyone suggest this, but I can imagine a solid-state "cache" for a hard disk being very useful. For small writes (e.g. updating file access times), you needn't spin the disk up at all. When the cache fills above a certain threshold, spin the drive up, and write the data back. While doing really heavy work, the drive would bypass the solid-state cache entirely, so you'd get higher throughput. When doing light work, the disk can stay powered off for hours... and you'd have still high capacity.
Okay, so it doesn't fix the problem that hard disks are quite fragile... but it should still reduce power consumption, and should cost less (at least for the short term).
Actually, seeing as WINE can be faster than Windows NT in some cases, is it theoretically possible that certain Win32 programs will actually run faster when using WINE and LINE?:-)
Of course, you could run LINE using WINE on a Linux box?
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Shouldn't that be CfkRAp1041vYQV$^#EI[ NO CARRIER ]? :)
That seems to convert text to base-64. Fortunately, it's easy enough to find one that can deal with hex. Is that a "circumvention device", too, I wonder? :)
Unfortunately, it can't, but the MSX can run UZIX!
On that basis, I seem to have written ZX Spectrum emulation for QEMU. Oops! :-)
BTW, there's a list of emulators in the comp.sys.sinclair FAQ.
Sorry, that should have been http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Key board#One_hand_versions
Has he seen the single-handed Dvorak layouts? I'm not sure how much of an effect the missing fingers would have, but it still seems possible that with this, he could type faster than most QWERTY typists do. It would take a fair amount of work to switch, but it could well pay off... See this site for a typing tutor and more information.
It does seem pretty trivial, especially when you consider that the QWERTY layout is utterly stupid. OTOH, the question of "how can we switch to something sane like Dvorak" might be worth asking! Seriously - we have to do something about this or we'll still be using QWERTY in 50 years time! This means getting kids to learn Dvorak instead of QWERTY. (You might say it'll never happen, and you may even be right, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.)
I'm suprised that I've not seen anyone suggest this, but I can imagine a solid-state "cache" for a hard disk being very useful. For small writes (e.g. updating file access times), you needn't spin the disk up at all. When the cache fills above a certain threshold, spin the drive up, and write the data back. While doing really heavy work, the drive would bypass the solid-state cache entirely, so you'd get higher throughput. When doing light work, the disk can stay powered off for hours... and you'd have still high capacity.
Okay, so it doesn't fix the problem that hard disks are quite fragile... but it should still reduce power consumption, and should cost less (at least for the short term).
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More tree jokes than you can shake a stick at! You must be barking mad. :)
SMB uses UDP to transfer the actual data, IIRC.
Actually, seeing as WINE can be faster than Windows NT in some cases, is it theoretically possible that certain Win32 programs will actually run faster when using WINE and LINE? :-)
Of course, you could run LINE using WINE on a Linux box?