files from 1991. The main file tree living in/home/win is the one I started on my first DOS machine and has been transferred to Win3.1, W98, Fedora Core, Debian, Kubuntu. Somehow, it's grown in that time from 20 megs to 200G.
I've had 2 drive crashes in that time, the first bare-metal restore was a restore from tape which blew up the first time because the Sony Superstation Windows software would not read the whole file and they no longer supported it... customer service said go to the vendor they originally bought it from and d/l a trial version. The second crash was on Debian, I simply plugged in the backup hard drive and was getting an RMA from Maxtor tech support within 10 minutes.
As for reading 1990s files, all I had to do was figure out how to use the CLI LZH format archive program jhla-utils to decompress the files. Anything I've got from then that's still usable is text files or lotus 123 (clone) spreadsheets I can open from OpenOffice Calc.
Wikipedia says that their only successful nuclear test had a yield estimated 2.4 - 20 kT, with consensus pointing at the low end of the range. Their missile delivery systems are of questionable accuracy. How efficient is the industrial production they'd need to build significant numbers of their bombs and missiles?
Looks like they've got just enough power to kill a bunch of people in a city or two or to slow down an armored division IF the missiles land anywhere around the target.
capture. Some of them have exactly the same kind of trauma US troops have when captured, with the main difference being whose taxpayers paid for the ammo that blew holes in them. These skills will be used to save the lives of POWs, too.
And maybe even your life, lots of military medical personnel stay in medicine when they become civilians.
I use Panavise, a base plus the board holder, and other things can be attached to the base.
Get a good lighted magnifier on a swing arm, the kind where there's a circular light source (fluorescent or ring of LEDs) surrounding the magnifier.
Each will cost around $70, and they're well worth it.
When one is doing printed circuit board soldering, or examining surface mount PCBs, it really helps to be able to see what it is you are working on with a nice, shadowless light. And for the board to be up where you can easily work on it.
doesn't mean drill presses, The tabletop bent as soon as the press was put on it and it became evident that the anchoring bolts would come out in a hurry if anyone bumped into it. I had to add plywood reinforcement to make it safe.
ClamAV for Windows is a great alternative to AVG/Symantec, and it's also, of course, free of charge. I use the Linux version on my Linux boxes and the Windows versions on the Windows boxes I maintain.
the ergonomics of a flat panel virtual keyboard with no resilience sounds great if you either do very little typing or always wanted to experience RSI for yourself.
However, this might have interesting uses for non-typing intensive applications. Imagine this as a substitute for a conventional control panel with the controls where the keyboard used to be and the system schematic on the top display.
How about an RFID built into the steering wheel and a corresponding short-range sensor built into the phone which when activated, shuts down the phone? There are probably several other ways to do this, too. But since I don't really want it done, there's not much incentive for me to work on the problem.
If this gets required, I'm SURE it'll remind people to vote on election day 2012, and President Obama might as well not bother running for re-election. This is going to be the very last straw for a lot of people, I think.
No problems, and apparently, no downside. The netbook is visibly faster, even the spinning cube desktop switching animation spins faster.
Though if there's a problem with running both the hack and the kernel patch at the same time, I hope the word gets around when the kernel with the patch goes into distros.
I assume the AC I was responding to was too young to see it on TV news on a monochrome TV and either failed history or worse, was pretty massively failed by public or private education.
I don't regard 5 seconds from a standing start unacceptable for a program that's part of an office productivity suite. Though running a modern computer (low-end quad core / SSD) probably makes some level of difference as to results.
feature that is far more important than functionality or cost-effectiveness.
Thanks to the Citizens United decision that says that corporations are people with unlimited freedom of speech, M$ can provide MN politicians who supported the bill with unlimited campaign TV ad support.
With a feature like that, who cares if it works? Or if state employees can actually send and receive e-mail or process documents? Or if a "no-bid" contract is a pointer towards government corruption?
Or if MN has to hire IBM in a few months to clean up the mess, replace M$ with a Google or IBM cloud or Open Source enterprise software, and have IBM help them to hire a shitload of replacement IT workers to replace the ones MN thought it can safely fire over the next few weeks?
Note that Carly "Failorina" Fiorina and Meg Whitman have not been invited to run any public corporatons after each tanked the stock values of the companies they ran. At least Whitman had sense enough to go quietly. Each serves as a director to, IIRC, several corporations. After all, somebody has to support the bloated compensation schemes that pay off CEOs at the expense of their shareholders and employees. But neither will ever run a Fortune 1000 corporation again.
The bad news is that Whitman is running for Governor of California and Failorina for Senator. Both, of course, have teabagger support.
to exclude modern technology from their community.
Mainly because when the residents discover that their real estate values are dropping faster than everyone else's due to
"zero bars" practically everywhere in town, I'm looking forward to hearing their screams of anger.
"People always get the kind of local government they deserve." E.E. "Doc" Smith
NIMBYs who demand services and band together to exclude what is needed to make them available from their
community should get big middle fingers from their service providers.
some time when your car is stuck in the middle of nowhere and there isn't a pay phone you can use within 100 miles.
Or, assuming you've got a mobile phone regardless of your public opinion about cell phones, when you've got an emergency and zero bars.
Or no emergency at all, but a member of your family wanted to add something to your shopping list, a fact you did not
discover until you got home and found out that said family member couldn't get through and as a result, you've got
to hit the road yet again.
Or when you're lost and you can't connect to the Net to access Google Maps.
an Android tablet with IR support and a "learning remote" app and you can toss your individual remotes as quickly as you can load the commands from each into the remote.
generalizes to... a city whose streets were routed at random a few hundred years ago and which was never converted to a more or less standard grid. There are no cities in America that I know of that fit that description.
The real question about the study for you is whether you are buying into the conclusions of a study paid for by Big Oil... or somebody's auto industry.
I think it's fairly obvious that one of the places where a tablet can shine is specifically for device controller UI applications. It's compact and all one has to do to make it control a device is to stick a mini-webserver on it, after which your UI can be simple static webpages plus hardware control/monitor scripts. That's why I bought one (MID-006) directly from China a couple of months ago, to enable me to experiment in this area. Other places where it makes sense is as an e-reader and casual websurfing.
That said, I prefer a netbook for multimedia on the basis that one doesn't have to hold it to view it in place to view it and it has a lot more CPU and GPU horsepower than one can stuff into a tablet with acceptable battery life and size.
People and companies are still trying to figure out where tablets make the most sense, the idea that it will magically replace every other form of computer in the next few years is a non-starter no matter how many IT pundits tell us that It Must Happen.
we go from our homes to bookstores via matter transporter? I don't know what kind of fantasy world you live in, but in the world I live in (suburb underserved by public transit), every trip to a bookstore means driving a car. And if one is buying online, it's more an exception than the rule to use the overnight delivery you're comparing it to.
As opposed to a UPS delivery truck serving 100 plus households per day on computer-optimized routings.
Compare 100 trips to a store by individual vehicles vs one UPS truck's daily deliveries, if your ability to do simple arithmetic is up to it.
in this area, just the only one I know of that's come to this . . . interesting conclusion.
While I agree with you that the press release the original post linked to has no substantial content, frankly, I don't care whether the study was rigged through cherry-picking data or simple incompetence on the part of the researchers. Though I'll be automatically discounting any research from this academic institution in future (their credibility from my POV just dropped to Oral Roberts University level) and I recommend everyone else do the same.
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Estimates of his net worth range from $34-200M. His net worth wasn't remotely close even to the bottom number when he became President.
The real payoffs start for a President when he leaves office.
files from 1991. The main file tree living in /home/win is the one I started on my first DOS machine and has been transferred to Win3.1, W98, Fedora Core, Debian, Kubuntu. Somehow, it's grown in that time from 20 megs to 200G.
I've had 2 drive crashes in that time, the first bare-metal restore was a restore from tape which blew up the first time because the Sony Superstation Windows software would not read the whole file and they no longer supported it... customer service said go to the vendor they originally bought it from and d/l a trial version. The second crash was on Debian, I simply plugged in the backup hard drive and was getting an RMA from Maxtor tech support within 10 minutes.
As for reading 1990s files, all I had to do was figure out how to use the CLI LZH format archive program jhla-utils to decompress the files. Anything I've got from then that's still usable is text files or lotus 123 (clone) spreadsheets I can open from OpenOffice Calc.
Wikipedia says that their only successful nuclear test had a yield estimated 2.4 - 20 kT, with consensus pointing at the low end of the range. Their missile delivery systems are of questionable accuracy. How efficient is the industrial production they'd need to build significant numbers of their bombs and missiles?
Looks like they've got just enough power to kill a bunch of people in a city or two or to slow down an armored division IF the missiles land anywhere around the target.
capture. Some of them have exactly the same kind of trauma US troops have when captured, with the main difference being whose taxpayers paid for the ammo that blew holes in them. These skills will be used to save the lives of POWs, too.
And maybe even your life, lots of military medical personnel stay in medicine when they become civilians.
I use Panavise, a base plus the board holder, and other things can be attached to the base.
Get a good lighted magnifier on a swing arm, the kind where there's a circular light source (fluorescent or ring of LEDs) surrounding the magnifier.
Each will cost around $70, and they're well worth it.
When one is doing printed circuit board soldering, or examining surface mount PCBs, it really helps to be able to see what it is you are working on with a nice, shadowless light. And for the board to be up where you can easily work on it.
doesn't mean drill presses, The tabletop bent as soon as the press was put on it and it became evident that the anchoring bolts would come out in a hurry if anyone bumped into it. I had to add plywood reinforcement to make it safe.
ClamAV for Windows is a great alternative to AVG/Symantec, and it's also, of course, free of charge. I use the Linux version on my Linux boxes and the Windows versions on the Windows boxes I maintain.
the ergonomics of a flat panel virtual keyboard with no resilience sounds great if you either do very little typing or always wanted to experience RSI for yourself.
However, this might have interesting uses for non-typing intensive applications. Imagine this as a substitute for a conventional control panel with the controls where the keyboard used to be and the system schematic on the top display.
How about an RFID built into the steering wheel and a corresponding short-range sensor built into the phone which when activated, shuts down the phone? There are probably several other ways to do this, too. But since I don't really want it done, there's not much incentive for me to work on the problem.
If this gets required, I'm SURE it'll remind people to vote on election day 2012, and President Obama might as well not bother running for re-election. This is going to be the very last straw for a lot of people, I think.
No problems, and apparently, no downside. The netbook is visibly faster, even the spinning cube desktop switching animation spins faster.
Though if there's a problem with running both the hack and the kernel patch at the same time, I hope the word gets around when the kernel with the patch goes into distros.
I was in second grade.
I assume the AC I was responding to was too young to see it on TV news on a monochrome TV and either failed history or worse, was pretty massively failed by public or private education.
That was in 1962 when the US and USSR played a game of nuclear chicken.. You really should have stayed awake in your history classes.
I don't regard 5 seconds from a standing start unacceptable for a program that's part of an office productivity suite. Though running a modern computer (low-end quad core / SSD) probably makes some level of difference as to results.
feature that is far more important than functionality or cost-effectiveness.
Thanks to the Citizens United decision that says that corporations are people with unlimited freedom of speech, M$ can provide MN politicians who supported the bill with unlimited campaign TV ad support.
With a feature like that, who cares if it works? Or if state employees can actually send and receive e-mail or process documents? Or if a "no-bid" contract is a pointer towards government corruption?
Or if MN has to hire IBM in a few months to clean up the mess, replace M$ with a Google or IBM cloud or Open Source enterprise software, and have IBM help them to hire a shitload of replacement IT workers to replace the ones MN thought it can safely fire over the next few weeks?
KDE has had a bottom screen taskbar ever since I started using Linux 4 years ago. I'm looking at my desktop right now, I've got 19 apps on it.
And even with Gnome, if one wants a taskbar on the bottom of the screen, all it takes is drag and drop.
Note that Carly "Failorina" Fiorina and Meg Whitman have not been invited to run any public corporatons after each tanked the stock values of the companies they ran. At least Whitman had sense enough to go quietly. Each serves as a director to, IIRC, several corporations. After all, somebody has to support the bloated compensation schemes that pay off CEOs at the expense of their shareholders and employees. But neither will ever run a Fortune 1000 corporation again.
The bad news is that Whitman is running for Governor of California and Failorina for Senator. Both, of course, have teabagger support.
to exclude modern technology from their community.
Mainly because when the residents discover that their real estate values are dropping faster than everyone else's due to "zero bars" practically everywhere in town, I'm looking forward to hearing their screams of anger.
"People always get the kind of local government they deserve." E.E. "Doc" Smith
NIMBYs who demand services and band together to exclude what is needed to make them available from their community should get big middle fingers from their service providers.
some time when your car is stuck in the middle of nowhere and there isn't a pay phone you can use within 100 miles.
Or, assuming you've got a mobile phone regardless of your public opinion about cell phones, when you've got an emergency and zero bars.
Or no emergency at all, but a member of your family wanted to add something to your shopping list, a fact you did not discover until you got home and found out that said family member couldn't get through and as a result, you've got to hit the road yet again.
Or when you're lost and you can't connect to the Net to access Google Maps.
an Android tablet with IR support and a "learning remote" app and you can toss your individual remotes as quickly as you can load the commands from each into the remote.
generalizes to ... a city whose streets were routed at random a few hundred years ago and which was never converted to a more or less standard grid. There are no cities in America that I know of that fit that description.
... or somebody's auto industry.
The real question about the study for you is whether you are buying into the conclusions of a study paid for by Big Oil
I paid $105 plus shipping for my own generic tablet... which is underpowered. I think a $150 generic tablet would be about right.
I think it's fairly obvious that one of the places where a tablet can shine is specifically for device controller UI applications. It's compact and all one has to do to make it control a device is to stick a mini-webserver on it, after which your UI can be simple static webpages plus hardware control/monitor scripts. That's why I bought one (MID-006) directly from China a couple of months ago, to enable me to experiment in this area. Other places where it makes sense is as an e-reader and casual websurfing.
That said, I prefer a netbook for multimedia on the basis that one doesn't have to hold it to view it in place to view it and it has a lot more CPU and GPU horsepower than one can stuff into a tablet with acceptable battery life and size.
People and companies are still trying to figure out where tablets make the most sense, the idea that it will magically replace every other form of computer in the next few years is a non-starter no matter how many IT pundits tell us that It Must Happen.
we go from our homes to bookstores via matter transporter? I don't know what kind of fantasy world you live in, but in the world I live in (suburb underserved by public transit), every trip to a bookstore means driving a car. And if one is buying online, it's more an exception than the rule to use the overnight delivery you're comparing it to.
As opposed to a UPS delivery truck serving 100 plus households per day on computer-optimized routings.
Compare 100 trips to a store by individual vehicles vs one UPS truck's daily deliveries, if your ability to do simple arithmetic is up to it.
in this area, just the only one I know of that's come to this . . . interesting conclusion.
While I agree with you that the press release the original post linked to has no substantial content, frankly, I don't care whether the study was rigged through cherry-picking data or simple incompetence on the part of the researchers. Though I'll be automatically discounting any research from this academic institution in future (their credibility from my POV just dropped to Oral Roberts University level) and I recommend everyone else do the same.
All I'm curious about is who paid for this study.